The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-04
JEALoUSwOMANSDEATH
n BULLET IN THE 4 HIT EyDs MRS.
sCHUERMANN,s MISERY.
There HAD Been No Happiness FOR Her since
Her Husband Met Mrs. n1oasberGer-sohuer-
mann Under Arrest. but Mrs. Bchuer-

There HAD Been No Happiness Tor Her since
Her Husband Met Mrs. MoasberEer-sohuer-
mann Under Arrest. but Mrs. schuer-
mann Ia Believed to Have KILLED Herself.
Until hor husband Henry met Mrs. Moss
berger Mrs. Lizzie Schuermann of Secauous was
comparatively happy. Since that time, which
10 about two years ago. she quarrelled con-
~tinuaily with her husband. cowhided Mrs. Moss-
berger once, and punched her with her fists an
other time.
Now sho is dead with a bullet in her brain.
Perhaps her husband killed her, but 1t is more
likely that she killed herself.
The Schuermanns live In q little square
frame cottage on the Paterson plank road. The
house Is on the right hand, and 10 tho FIRST one
you pass when you enter Secaucus OH the trolley
cars. Schuermann is q florist, and about the
dwelling are glass houses in which no raises
flowers for the market.
Yesterday morning ho sent for the North Der
gen township police, which consists of Capt
Buchmiller and Sergeant George Englebrecht,
and told them that his wife had shot herself
early In the morning.
He and his wife, he said, had not quarrelled
since Sunday weok and on Monday night they
wore on tho best Of torms. He had boon painting
his house and during the evening ho was at
work putting the finishing touches on the
kitchen. His wife went upstairs to bed about
10 o'clock that night. She slept In q back room.
He usually occupied the front room on tho same
floor, but as tho front room had boon freshly
painted, he made up q bed in the kitchen down.
stairs and went to bed about an hour after his
wife.
At q quarter after 5 yesterday morning he
was awakened by tho barking Of q little dog
which was in the kitchen with him. Then he
heard moaning upstairs. He ran up and found
his wife lying in bed. bleeding from a wound in
her right temple. A revolver lay on the bed at
her side about six inches from her right hand.
He raised her up in his arms and asked her why
d died. nH He said said hath That he 0h had heard II no u shot, al a
though It must have been the explosion OF tho
pistol that, aroused the dog. AS soon as he real
Capt. Buchmiller found everything at the
tilted Coroner areenleaf, who told him to hold
S~chuermann in custody until County Physician
Ssd deeided p %h ehSer' seSS seT oenn' should SoSn BE- S eom,
mitted to await the result Of an inquest
S%chuermann was not taken to Jail. but was
Up to seven years ago the Schuermanns kept
flower shop in Hoboken.. At that time Schuer;
began to raise flowers. A couple Of years ago
the Mossbergers moved into the house across
the road. Sc%huermann's infatuation for Mrs;
finally Mossberger left his wife. Mrs. schuer-
mann became wildly jealous. One night, sus-
berger, she went over and got Mrs. Mossberger
out in the front yard and thrashed her with a
Mossberger moved to Union Hill. Last spring
Mrs. Schuermann followed her and Schuermann
to the Weehawken ferryhouse and there
punched her rivals face.
Schuermann said yesterday that his wife had
often threatened to commit suicide, and had
once bought a pistol, which he had found and
thrown away. Since then she told him she had
got another pistol, but he had not been able to
find II. He said that she had given no sign Of
meaning to commit 0uiCide before she went to
bed on Monday night, but had seemed to be in q
moro than usually good humor.