Birmingham state herald., 1896-10-30
HAYWARD CRIME OUTDONE 
 Unsuspecting Wife Shot by Her
 Mercenary Husband AS THEY WERE OUT DRIVING His Simulated Grief Was Entirely Too Frantic
 to Be Genuine. CLAIMED ASSAULT BY HlGHWAYMEN And That His Wife Was Shot as She Tried to Hand Out Her Watch-Missing
 Articles and Telltale Re-
 volver Found.
CLAIMED ASSAULT BY HlGHwAYMEl

Norristown, Pa., Oct. 29.-A murder unparalleled in the annals of crime in Montgomery county was committed ear ly last evening on public road in UppeA Marion township, near Bridgeport. En- ma Kaiser, the young wife of Charles O. Kaiser, Jr., was shot down as she rode along with her husband who an hour later was receiving the condolence of friends, but who today stands accused of the crime.
 The first information of the tragedy was received when Kaiser drove into Bridgeport with the body of his wife be- side him. The only witness of the crime was the alleged murderer himself, and the only details to be had were gleaned from him first by Frank s. Mancil of the Farmers hotel and later by the police.
 MT. Mancil, accompanied by his daugh- ter, was driving to Norrstown, and when he reached point on the road skirting w. P. David's farm, near the Trenton cutoff railroad, he saw Kaiser circling wildly about in the road and shoutlng Murder! Help!"
 In a carriage standing in the road lay Mrs. Kaiser dead. Alighting from his ve- hicle Mr. Mancil listened to Kaser's story of highway robbery and the shooting Of himself and wife. Kaiser appeared to be frenzied with agony, and MT. Mancil suggested that probably the woman was only unconscious, and that the best thing to do was to drive to the office of phy- sician. Kaiser was finally persuaded to drive ahead of MT ManciPs team to the office of pr. Mann in Bridgeport. Kaiser propped the body between his shoulder and the carriage curtain, the blood streaming from the wound and clotting on his coat The body was carried into al. o,,6 if floor exposed a ghastly wound in the left temple Kaiser twice fainted.
 Kaiser said that his wife was shot as she was drawing her watch chain over her head to hand it to the bandit, ana that he raised his arm and received a bullet near the shoulder tnat was iiilehu- Cd for his head.
 The police doubted the story, and be- gan an investigation, and this morning Chief of Police eRodenbaugh, coroner Kurtz and MT. Mancil recovered the ai- legged stolen articles
 From inmates of the boarding house where the couple lived 1t was learned that Kaiser and his wife carried Jolnt insurance of $10,000 on their ives, the policies being so written that the death of either would make the other the oene- ficiary, and that several weeks ago kai- ser and his wife each executed VIII making the other executor and sole lega- tee Kaiser is "A years of age ana ms wife was 32.
 The couple came here from Lancaster on June 1, having previously lived in All toona. Mrs. Kaisers maiden name was Emma P Rule, her father being George Rule of Penn Village, Lancaster county.
 The officers this morning found the al- legged stolen articles secreted along a fence near the scene of the shooting. A mans gold watch and a revolver with two empty chambers and purse con- taining- s5 and supposed to have belonged to Mrs. Kaiser were found. Kaiser is at his boarding house in the custody of detective.