New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-04


AND INABILITY TO WORK HAD
TURNED HIS BRAIN.
., c-aru. n small shopkeeper AT No. 10 Nor
murdered two of his children Yesterday
'o .a,,v wounded third and inflicted wounds on
NV nv that will probably prove fatal The chill
h'i a-s Ella FIVE years old, John, seven years
ore" ,ne baby Frank eighteen months old
~. end Frank dead. Tie amer and the hoy
- are in ST Vincenrs Hospital.
crsmm IS a man about fifty years old MS vic
- d about fifteen years his Junior. and Is
e. NJ more than ordinary good looks WINE
w." n,shand worked as n paver she looked after
Nv" grocery store which the couple started
,,,,e AGO Recently Gramm has been ahioted
rheumatism and was unable to work. This made
49,. aesnondent and for four or hVe weeks MS Wlie
,,ced that he acted strangely. Yesterday morn
~ ne complained about the rooms IN when theN
Ne, and told his wife that they would have 10
ave At his suggestion she agreed 10 so out ana
~ ,o- new place and a friend. Mrs. Corneha
,Srscher OF No 444 West Thirty promised
- look after the children unti the mother re-
Mrned ,.
ossad without incident. After dinner. however
Us Doerscher heard Gramm calling To her 10
King the children and come down to him IN the
80 When she had done so he asked her 20 miro
-. store for a couple OF hours. remarkins ! am
ceiling badly and Will take s.eep. Will pun me
cbne-en 10 sleep 100. for they would make 100
much trouble down here
ue went upstairs with the little ones. AFTER ASK
the - be called at o'clock II ne did not awake
A, that hour Mrs. Doerscher raped on the ceiling
:, tho store She got no response. and ran UP
the stairs and tried the door. Receiving no an
suer she went downstairs again. just then hn-
ward another SON. twelve years old ana MS S's'e''
Mamie ten years Old who We're at schoo'' re-
.r-nea home Mrs Doerscher told the boy 10 CLIMB
AND vi
oor,e down a minute later. his face as pale as a
ghost. and saic. ,, Y-uo
and johnnie and Frank are lying on the pen' anu
they don't move. ,,o
Mrs poerscher ran 10 the quarters o. Engine
connanv No "a next door. and told them tha'
something terrible had happened Fire captain
Cuerin who Is IN command there, sent couple Oh
his men with her. and they forced the ooo'' f'''a
the little girl lay dead on a bed IN the rear 'e"-
room three horrible gsshes In her Skull '"9iu
hare the chNd's brain. In the room adjoining 'no
,e,bs- Inv unconscious with frghtfu. cash IN his
throat Beside him lay a stained bread knife On
the bed a few yards away. was the deau o"uH -
the baby Frank the little head crushed H. e''
IDENTIFY by a blow from an axe heslue Nun anu
almost dead. was his brother John' MS hea'
eashed IN three places. The rooms were horrible
sight .
As quickly as possible an ambulance was caHeo'
and the father and child were taken 10 the nos
,,,al The police then took charge Of the nat anu
driving back the crowd OF excited people MO ''e
street began an investigation. On tame IN 'he
bedroom lay an axe. which had been useu 10
butcher the children Under II was note written
in German Of which the following Is a translation:
To all who know Because Captain "ueri,
has been intimate with my Wife which discoVeieo
on March j. GIere II breaks of) He told me that
he mad a bigger pull than did with her 20 20
Smmons IN Hudson-st., the second mouse lic on.
barrow st, where you can mo oui moro H"o"'
CAPTAIN Guerin. He deserves 70 be nuns
believe he has family. Now ne can ha.e NJ.
hut nv children. never. Her frl"nu AT no. 49,
West Thirty-nrst-st Is no better ihan she.
Mrs Gramm returned nome soon after the amhu-
lance had returned 10 the hospital. She said My
husband never drank and We never quarrelled. lie
had been sorely tried with rheumatism. and MS
mind must have been gone. He never appeared
1ealous and ! cannot understand what ne means
when he makes that horrible accusation. II -
cruelty taise. -.
Captain (iuerin who is a married man, with seV-
eral 9rown-up children emphaticaIiy dtnled tne
accusation IL the letter. ana those VINO hao
known Ciramm all declared that the idea was a
silly fancy originating only In his oisordered MIND
The neighbors ali say that Mrs Gramin Is a re,
spectacle har1-working wife, and apparently q
well cared for and the family appeared 20 have J
II needed. ,
At the hospital late last night II was said that
the father and his were both stu alive but
there was practically no chance Of recovery FOR
cit