New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-15
SHOT DOWN IN HIS SLEEP.
A sO,1NAMBJLIST ENTERED KREUGER'S
ROOMS, AND WAS KILLED.
THE LATTER MIsrooK HIM FOR A BURGLAR AND
,.,,r,. THE INTRUDER DID NOT HEED HIS
WARNING KREUGER FIRED-wlFE


WITNESSED THE TRAGEDY
,,.o,a,a q Bavaran, twenty-threc
Ia was shot and instantly killed AT
.s,oor Yesterday morning by John kreuser' "
Corr,on saloonkeeper. The tragedy occurred III
,xreupers apartments. over MS Pia'c Vi 49,,
q, No 12ss Gates-ave.. and at the "ihe '
was fired Kreuger though Me'sche'e I
burglar Metschele was bakeI oue r.ao,,
~, ~ srnnloyment for a long time y"
60. he called on Henry Kutntze, frieho WIN
IL, -, tho third floor Of the Gates-aNe. auu' .'''
>1a.sche,e had been drinking but was SUI
enough 10 behave himself. the TWO "e' ..
two hints Of beer. which was purcn"u
,reuper's saloon. At 10 O'Clock Me'sc"e'e 49,,
80 ,osvs the apartments. when kuentze ih'"eu
" '' ovar night He went to bed IN
- .aor roor, about 1890 o'clock. wheh 'ie ies'
-, The Kuentze family retired There Is "
tension off the saloon, on the srouii' nv, 1t,
4. uscd as a meeting-room ana known "9 ,|
Hail About / o'clock kreuger c'oseu ~ sa a
.,ooa ond went 10 his apartments on 'he HUI
Paoe ,I, ,,. had already gone to bed. and was
-, pefore retiring Kreuger placed Sio' ia
I'm. ,rdar his pillow the receipts iro'" "
store together with a revolver ne - 80
yaistcoat with his gold watch anu '"" -,
tho hack of a chair near MS oeu' INC a
.rhicb xreuger and his wife slept was d rear o"o'
,oou;ng ont ON the extension lie was So'" :"
sound sleep - o,,oLerad
.ho,, o'clock the saloonkeeper was awaNe'e"
NV hearing the noise Of some person opei'''s on' ~,
w. windows and by the dim light III 'ie 'o
n. MAJ, clad only In his shirt and drawers cn d,o
- ,brnuph The open window SelZlilH ~ - dnn,,
KTeuger shouted 70 the man 70 SI no answer to the
wcrds of warning. and the man ,,ar shonted TO
stowiv toward The bed. Again hrtu TT, liz aim
~ Intruder to stop. ana then nc ~ ,,a,echcle
inc nv urate the bullet having struck MetaS',V M
" IN middle OF the chest, ana glance -, I, is
,r,as,hnna 10 the left piercing the ma H., fei
thought. Metschele uttered no cry Gi pam 2~
forward on his face. dying iiista 49, ont If he'd TO
t.11 has si
,r cor hcp Then for the first nme ne MI. M a.,
car -0 vri,nessed the tragedy as ne tuilieu an"
saw her sitting up in bed Inc ,nires before
yzed with fright. and 1t was SOM ,,snr ran up-
80 1ras able TO make cutlery. hIsuSeI ,bhe
siie 20 The Kreuize apartments ana aroused she
Family He told kreutze thdt ne iiau To-, win
burglar Kreutze FASTENED do"hi TIA hen rec req
ognized the body as that OF y9uS frend he ex-
God, Kreuger, you have Kiieo NY i'e'D
Grer ran TO the Hamburg-ave. police station
here he told of the tragedy and surrendefed MN
self Detective Dunn, with i I'M I'D "a ken to
men went 10 the house and had the p9rs T Tnemger
the station house They also arrested MIS- hreueer
aas AZ is said to have been somnambuist
~, mil this was learned by the police they were
Inclined TO think that the murdered man had so h
10 the APARTMENTS to rob them kreutZe tolo ' h
Tetschele ,s open when he went TO bed; ana IL -
Believed that he got up in the night and g9ine a 10
the window topPled out 70 .ne Tindinp himself on
the shed 1t thought that the man openeuh
GERS window and entered the bedroom, NOT ,snd ne
Window after gaining the room. the police ray, Is
sufficient evidence that he was not BENT OH
for by DOING this he tut off his escape Ieutze
ia tRe noice that he had known the DEAD man
t too three Years and far as ne knew he Vas
honest and had never been III trouoie III n,a In
wv Gates avenue Police Court the woman was
a ahe and Kreugcr released on 5000 BAIL