San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-10
DEPLORABLE TRAGEDY.
A SUICIDE AND ALMOST A
MURDER.
Adam Kopp Shoots AT Fritz Baermann,
thinks He has Killed Him And
Takes dis Own Lite.

One man dead ana anOlner WIN Ills
body filed with No. s bird shot is the
result of dispute over strip of land
three feet wide and 100 feet long ON
Sherman street. Adam Kopp is the
dead man and Fritz Baermann is the
man whose body was punctured with
the shot.
Baermann and Kopp own adjoining
property on Sherman street, Baer-
manu's property being situated AT Nos.
80 and 312 and KOpp's property being
Nc. 314.
Baermann lives at $40 and rents the
other house between himself and the
Kopp residence to a man named hra-
mer. Kopp and Kramer had some
trouble last Saturday evening which
was the first chapter in the tragedy.
Kramer had Kopp arrested and he
was fined ten dollars in Recorders
court by Mayor Callaghan yesterday
morning for using abusive language,
Mr.. Baermann testifying against
KOpp.
This angered KoDp and he went
from Recorders court to Miller's bar
Der shop near the Sunset depot where
he got a shave and told Mr.. Miller
that he was going home and kill
Baermann after which he would put
an end to his own existence.
Mr.. Miller, thinking it was only
fit of anger at the time, did not pay
any attention to it until he heard five
shots in the direction OF KOpp's res
idence about $40 o'clock in the after
noon, when he told officer Gates what
Kopp had said to him.
Upon leaving the barber shop at IL
O'Clock Kopp went home and ate his
dinner, after which he took a No. II
shot gun and loaded
both barrels with No. s bird shot and
also loaded up a thirty-eight calibre
American bull dog pistol, both of which
he took out into the back yard about
2:45 o'clock with him, laying them
down on the railing of the fence
where they We're hidden from view
from the other side.
He then called Mr.. Baermann, who
came out on his rear gallery to see
what he wanted. When KOpp saw
him called to him to come over to his
place Mr.. Baermann started and had
hardly reached his fence when Kopp
poked the muzzle of his gun over the
fence and fired at him, the load TAX
ing effect in the right side of his face
and breast.
Mr. Baermann then turned to run
into the house when KOpp pulled the
trigger to the other barrel also send
ing that load into the left side of Mr..
Baermann's face and body.
Thinking he had completed his job
he had started to do-put Baermann
out of the way-KOpp picked up the
revolver, placed it to his temple and
fired three times, all the bullets TAX
ing effect within an inch of each 9th
er which killed him Immediately.
BY this time Mrs. hopp, who was
washing in the kitchen, ran out and
found her husband dead. Persons at
tracted by the shooting, also began to
arrive, the first being Otto Smith, of
| sol Camden street, Police Officer
Gates, who was on the beat not far
away and a Light reporter. \ sheet
was spread over Kopp's remains and
they We're left lying where they fell,
alongside the fence, until viewed by
the coroner after witch the were pre-
pared for burial by the undertaken.
Mr. Baermann was carried into his
house, where a physician attended
him, None of the shot went deeper
than the skin and they were easily
extracted without any severe pain
He is now resting easily and will re,
cover all right. Nevertheless his race
and body were very thickly peppered
with the small particles.
Mrs, Kopp when seen by Officer
Gates and Light reporter was too
distracted to say anything regarding
the origin of the. trouble, but Mr.
Baermann made a statement which
was attested as being correct, by thu
neighbors.