The sun., 1897-11-02
SUICIDEFOLLOwS MURDER.
ERNEsT lrBYER SHOOTS HIS SWEET
HEART AND HIMsEJF.
AFTER Wiilisg Her tn the Wouse where she Wss
Servant re weut te 1zis Homo and shet
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Ernest Meyer. a German. % years old, who
lodged at 30& East Seventy y-fourth street, shot
and killed last night hissweothoart, Kato Merit
Fos, 20 years old, servant in tho employ of
Ernest Ceriax OF 219 East Seventy frat stro1t.
Tho murder was committed In the basement OF
the house in which Mr.. Ceriax lives. After kill
ing the girl Meyer went straight to his homo,
and, lying down on his bed, put ono Of tho two
bullets remaining in the revolver through his
brain He died instantly.
Little 10 known of the dead girl. Last Au-
gust Mrs. Ceriax advertised in German news
paper for q servant, and the girl, who gave her
namo as Kate Mertgos, applied for the place.
she was unable to furnish references, but Mrs.
Ceriax was favorably impressed with her and
resolved to keep her.
During the first month Of tho girls stay a
man visited her frequently. Mr.. Cerinx OBJ
jected to tho mans visits until the girl told him
that he was her brother No members Of the
family ever saw tho man except Mrs. Ceriax.
She said he was about % years old and good
looking. After her employer objected to the
strangers visits tho girl didn't ALLOW him 10
come in tho house at all. She would talk to
him: in the.doorway when he Called but mover
for any great length of time.
week ago the girl went to Mr.. Ccr,ax and
told him that tho man who called on her 30 fire.
quently was not her brother, as she had said at
FIRST. but her husband. He was constantly de-
manding money Of her, she said, and she wanted
her employer to advise her what to do about
tho matter. Mr.. Ceriax advised her to cult tho
man entirely, and she said she would.
Last Tuesday night the man called, and after
he had been in the areaway about FIVE minutes
there were sounds Of struggle. and the girl
ran upstairs and told Mrs. Ceriax that her hus.
band had attempted to strangle her. She was
advised to COMPLAIN to the police. but said she
guessed she wouldn't
Shortly after o'clock last nisht Mrs Cerlax,
her two children, and her sister-in.law. Mathilda
Cerax. while seated in their dining room. hoard
three pistol shots in the basement. The shots
were followed by a loud scream, ;;and then there
Lhe house, in which the family live was for.
merly dwelling house, but has been converted
ground floor. and also occupies the basement.
The front Of the basement is used as cellar. A
hHl leads into into tS rear room, which if used a.
email hall which leads into a bedroom, which
w9s %S occupied yv by the ser servant. sd ,..,
There were two bullet wounds in the right side
room % M out to the kitchen and through the nall to
the door opening into the cellar. The shooting,
IL Is Den0Vod, occurred at this door. Inc girl
was trying to keep the man out, but he was too
strong for her. and, after forcing the door back,
John Cody. who lives in the upper part Of the
house, was going up tho steps just as the shots
were fred moment later he saw man run
out of the basement and disappear In the direo-
tion of Second avenue. Cody summoned Po-
licemen Kelly and Allen, and they notified the
Coroner's office.
Half dozen detectives were about to start
out from the station house when word came
from 304 East Seventy fourth street that a
man named Ernest Meyer had committed sui.
eide there. Meyer had q room in the fiat Of
Mrs Katherine Schramm at that address. 40.
cording to Mrs. Schramm he came homo at
1880 o'clock greatly excited, and went straight
TO his room. A few moments later there was a
pistol shot. and when Mrs. Schramm went to
see what had happened she found Meyer dead
on the bed, bullet wound in his head.
Tho pistol, with one unexploded cartridge
left in IL, was on the floor.
Mrs. Schramm told tho police that Meyer
had been keeping company with young Ger
man girl, and that he had had her at tho fiat
on Saturday evening. He told Mrs. Schramm
that tho woman was his wife. Mrs. Schramm
was taken to tho Seventy first street house
where she identified tho dead girl ss the one
whom she had seen with Meyer on Saturday.
Meyer was beer bother and worked at Sey.
enty-frst street and First avenue. Accord.
ing to Charles Arms, who works in the same
place, he told him that he had been intimate
with tho Mertges girl for over Q year, and that
they had had o child, which died two months
after jta birth