The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
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Double 1t,I : Duty. Done + BY
Franz. Wolf S: Ready B. j..
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Sent His + Murderous Soul. ! to:
f Join That: "ot. His. i: Z. +
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The Same: Weapon Rnde1 the: Lvs}s..
of Mrs: sprinzaik and Her: 3. 80
t.. II II 4 :. Lover: - r : ,. "

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The body:of Frapz IEolf,= W hoe ended his.
life by: his own hand r"ewas; discovered: in d
lodging ii ouse al 82l i Howard: street early
yesterday m orning.:: T hus: ended the Sec
ond act of the murder tragedy of Satur-
day. afternoon, In =: : " hich. Mrs.. Marie:
Sprinznik:of: 9t8=:M0nt GONE cry street was
the first yictiln.s.: III: :.:c : =:
ClutchedIn the hand: of he. dead man
Wolf was a vicious, blood stain.ed>revolver
of a cheap p. patte Tn am d IN. his:Tight tempIe
was an ugly: powder burn t: bull let:% wotrnd.
There :::no doubt, that.s::th same
weapon ended oth::liyes, for: there were
two empty. and recently discharged
cartridge shells in the cylinder : The
murderer and *<hfs victim now lie side by.
side in the Morgue. IT, =: =, :. -
The story of.the assassination Of Mrs.
Sprinznik is still fresh in the minds of the
public. About 6 o'clock Saturday evening
the woman,s body was discovered lying on
the floor of her. kitchen. at 918 MUntgon-
cry streer with a bullet hole in her left
eye. The man, Wolf, with whom she had
been living, was nowhere to be found,
although the detectives searched through
all bis familiar haunts to fnd him. He
had been seen to leave the house early
i'll; the afternoon, and all that could be
learned of the lives of the couple caused
The finger OF suspicion to. be pointed at
Wolf. O..
= Mrs. Sprinznik was the wife of tailor,
Franz SprinZnik, who lives at 622 Cay
street, but six months ago the couple
separated because OF the husbands suS-
picions o. Wolf. Wolf was then en-
ploved at the boraX works in Alameda.
He ana the woman at once took apart
ments in the little threeroom cottage
where the uniaithtul wife's life came to
such violently sudden end. q:
The first efforts OF 'Detectiv Dillon,
. Crockett. Reynolds and Wren was to look
for cause Tor the murder, which they
We've. not long in finding. The guilty
couple did not live as happily together as
they expected. 1t was said, TOO, that
o. Wolf was insanely jealous of the atten-
tions- OF John Scheier; baker, to Mrs
" Sprinznik. o..
:. About ten, days ago Wolf said to. Mrs
Hawkins:' :"If Mrs. SprinZnik proves un-
true TO me and has. anything 10 do with
Schleier L wi kill her and kill myself.
W olf used to hauntthe Bakers Home, on
Clay street. watching Schleier, and the
probabllity:ls IS that he became convinced
that his suspicious were correct and car
ried his threat int effect
31o'clock Saturday evening, nearly
an h0ur.after the mur;ie- of Mrs. SprinZ
u K mad deei. discovered, Wolf went TO a
j. Berwith' lod 9ing house and hired: {
Ioom:' :@He was no T. seen. again until 9:3(
O'Clock Yesterday morning, at winch
LourNo Martin entered the. room to make
upIhe bed. The dead man presented {
ghastlv sight IS he lay across the bed.
o cne' n the house knew the man anC
the roprietor called the Coroners Dep
. uies.% All the papers By which he coul,