Evening journal., 1896-09-24
IILLED ONE HE LOVED
William J. Koerner Shoots His
Sweetheart.
.E WAS IGNORANT OF HIS oR1ME.

lung to His Neck After She Had Re-
ceived Her Death wound-Crowds of
shoppers Witness the Affair on a Crowd
ed New York Thoroughfare.
NEW YORK, Sept 24.-William J.
[<oernor, "a years old, newspaper artist
4 md humorlst, who had taken 40 grains of
5)henacetine for headache, shot and killed
he girl that he loved, Rose A. Redgate, a
] ltenographer, Of 245 Prospect place, Brook
2yn, In front of the Metropolitan taberna-
1e, in Seventh avenue, near Fourteenth
treet, at 6:1O o'clock last evening.
koerner does not even now know that
s he girl that he shot died an hour later in
5 he New York hospital, and the police do
3 bot know yet whether his demeaner is the
esult of premeditation insanity or the
& fleets of the drug
a Policeman Fowler of the West Twen-
s ieth street station was on duty at the
northeast corner of Seventh avenue and
fourteenth street at the time. He was
e tartled by three pistol shots in rapid sue
& ession The sidewalk to the south was
rowded with clerks and shoppers going
& o their homes. In the crowd in front of
& he tabernacle he saw q commotion and
leard a woman scream. As he ran across
+ he Street the crowd made way and stood
pack to give plenty of room to a young
woman who had her arms about the neck
( II struggling man. He swayed and
made efforts to free himself, but the wom-
N clung tenaciously. Then she cried out,
4 Oh, am killedw
Some one in the crowd shouted: "Iook
,ut for him, officer He has the revolver
8 n his right handw
a Fowler seized the man about the arms
rom behind. The woman released her
lold, and all three fell TO the pavement.
s The crowd penned them in, aud whom
i Fowler pulled himself out his uniform
vas covered with blood. The man and
8oman both lay quite still In the right
ide Of the woman's face there was a
sgound from 32 caliber revolver bullet
Another had entered her breast and gone
clear through the lung. The third shot
lad gone wide of the mark.
Taken to n Drug Store.
The man also was unconscious, and q
iasty examination did not show whether
pr not he was wounded. With the assist
a.nce of bystanders they were both carried
y o nearby drug store and an ambulance
summoned from Bellevue hospital. On
he way there the woman died. She was
feet inches tall, had dark complexion
md was pretty. She was neatly, but not
n &sxpensively dressed in a brown tailor
Hmade frook and wore black hat and nc
Xiewelry. A card in her poclSetbook showed
that she was Rosie A. Redgate, and on il
was the address, "No. 159 Washington
ozark, Brooklyn" where she formerly
lived. Koerner, her slayer later told hei
tcorreot address and said that she was EN-
Nployed as stenographer by wadebar 6
Guthrie, expert accountants in PIN
street
In the hospital it was speedily discover
ed that Koerner was suffering from tn
effects of some drug, and the stomacl
8pump was brought into use. After tina
land when artificial respiration had bee
tried he slowly reeainod consciousness.
MS possession was letter no hal
written to his landlady, Mrs. Charles Pen
'.noyer, Of 275 Carlton avenue, that plainl
showed his infatuation for the woman h
had killed and as clearly showed his in
#tention Of committing suicide. 1t was
letter that showed diseased Imagination
and disconnected ideas.