The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-23
DISCARDED LOVER STAYS.
INDREAs 1rALINIAK KEEPS HIS
VOW TO KILL MRS. KlfETE.

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Early yesterday morning Andreas Maliniak
carried out his threat to kill Mrs. Annie KmetE.
To do It ho broke into the home Of Michael
Kmetz at 81 Broomo street, Newark, by cut
ting a pane Of glass from the back window, and,
passing through the hall and barroom, got
access TO tho bedroom through the kitchen,
which opens on the barroom. In the bedroom,
which Is simply furnished, i've persons were
sleeping. Mrs. Kmetz occupied one bed with
her husband and an infant seven months old.
Little Michael Kmetz, aged 2, and his sister
Annie, aged 3. slept In another bed. A bureau,
. trunk, and two chairs took up the remaining
space, leaving little room to move around. The
murderer shot Mrs. Kmetz in tho left breast
after awakening her and as shc rose from the
bod. The bullet penetrated her heart and
must have killed her instantly. Then he fed
from tho room, pursued by her husband, who
sprang from tho bed an instant after the shot
was fred.
Maliniak turned as he ran through the pas
sage leading from the barroom. and discharged
another shot at Kmetz, but missed him, and
the ball was imbedded in a partition.
Maliniak smashed a window with his elbow
rs he was running through the hall. and the
crash following the two pistol shots aroused
Mrs. TOTE, a ncighbor, who saw him spring
out OF a window and run through the yard. In
his first attempt to scale a fence at the rear Of
the yard the murderer fell to the ground. but
up quickly and went over the fence
and reached Prince street. By this time the
whole neighborhood was aroused, and Kmetz,
who had put on his trousers, was at the saloon
door shouting "Police." and Murder"
The neighborhood Is inhabited mostly by
Poles and Russians, and when the first police
man arrived he found Kmets surrounded by a
jabbering crowd. Patrolman Martin was the
first TO arrive. He knew Of Kmetz's recent
troubles with his wife and instantly suspected
that kmetz had killed her. SEEKING the man,
Martin dragged him into the bedroom, where he
found the woman lying dead upon the bed with
one root on the floor and the other hanging
kmetz oyer to the Fourth precinct police sta
ton and reported the crime. Acting Lieut..
1 yo- wh9 was at the desk, sent meSsengers
koerber. Meanwhile other officers had
reached the house and Roundsman Ryan took
Join his father at the station. The detectives
questioned the neighbors and from q Mrs. Kuntz-
lach. who lives in the house. they learned that
she saw a man standing on q key at the rear
Of kmctz's place at 2:3o in the morning, cut
ting out q pane OF glass. She said that she wac
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returned a few minutes later the man was gone
and the pane OF glass removed.
Jackes and koerber concluded thht the MUIR
der was Maliniak.s work. and they began a
search for him. They went among his haunts
and were tod eyerywheret that he had not been
shot Mrs. Kmetz he would be found dead
somewhere, as he had told almost everybody he
intended to shoot her and then kill himself.
The detectives heard that Maliniak was in
sprinstield avenue between irvington and Hi.
ton. They started for that place at noon, and an
hSpF later were ere airSs!ed to the house %pas Of Carl
the house and found Maiiniak sitting at a
table and evidently detected. He sprsng up
saw ss 1H sh eH!'f pispeis f peinted anu an his sf sesa. "n Bsie nc
two Jackes ran his hand into Maliniak's pocket
aha !o tSeS Out band % fa.ioI bim rev SosF5s fdiig \ i traIisI
car, and lodged their prisoner in a cell at the
Fourth precinct station. On the way down
looking at his handouts. Then he suddenly
said;
Annie Kmetz, amt iti"
He was not answered: and a moment later
No" said one OF the detectives. and then
"she wrecked my life. I said I'd fix her. and
now l have done it. They were ali asleep
when ] got in last night, and ! tried to make 4
her last sleep. Now am content, and l don't
Maiiniak was arraigned before Judge Schalk
late yesterday afternoon upon the charge OF
murder. He was cautioned, as usual, by the
Judge. but persisted in saying that he had been
intimate with the woman for five years, that
he shot her In her sleep. and then fired a second
shot to scare her husband. He was commit
ted to jail and kmetz was released upon $500
bail.
The boy Michael is utterly useless as a wit
ness, because he cannot concentrate his mind
upon anything and answers questions just as
anybody suggests, in framing a question.
The murderer, his victim, and the husband
are al slavs. Ky1etz leases the building in
which he has the barroom and rents out the
upper floors. He Is said to be quite prosper
Gus. Maliniak had been infatuated with Mrs.
KmetZ for several years and has written many
threatening letters, which indicate that she had
once returned his affection, hut had thrown
him over. Husband and wife had repeated
9uarrels about him, and last Saturday Mrs.
kmetz took two OF her child On and left home.
she did II more to escape Maliniak than her
Kill her. On Tuesday her husband got a tnle-
gram from Brooklyn saying that the baby was
dead and asking him to come quickly. He
paid no attention to II, and late that night his
wife entered the barroom with the two children
and erected a reconciliation with her husband.
Malinfak, who is 81 years old, got acquainted
with Mrs. Kmetz in the barroom five years ago
wife and children back to Hungary on Mrs.
Rmetz's account. A few weeks ago Kmetz
paid him $50 for work he had done around the
house and, drove him out. Then he began to
write the threatening letters, and, as told in THE
sun on Wednesday last, betrayed the woman
TO her husband In q letter In which he threat
ened TO wreck her life. Mrs. kmetz was %
years DID, stout and fair. Her husband Is 81.