The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-06
HIS YOUNG WIFE KILLED
HARRY A. LINDEMAN SAYS SHE IN
FLICTED THE WOUND HERSELF.
The Two Had Been Sep
arated.

The women downstairs in the house at
No. 500 East Georgia street heard two shots
that were fired in an upstairs room few
minutes after II o'clock yesterday morning,
and a moment later Harry A. Lndeman
boy-husband, burst in on the women, crying
thai his wife had shot herself. Blood was
trckling from the bottom Of his trousers
from bullet wound under his knee. One
of the women was Mrs. Emma Feier, who
owns the house. and she led the others up
stairs to the room occupied by Mrs. Linde-
man. There they saw Mrs. Lndeman, a
pretty young woman with yellow hair ly-
ing the floor. Blood from a wound in
her breast was soaking her husbands over
coat, which lay under her. The police were
notified and Bicycle Patrolmen Schroeder
and Hauser and Detectives Asch, Dugan,
Kinney and Weble hurried to the house.
They questioned Lindeman, arrested him
and took him to the police station on the
charge of murder. The body of his wife
was taken to the city morgue.
Mrs Lindeman was Phoebe May Austin
before she was married. Her parents are
Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. Austin, of No. 1873 Bates
street. Yesterday morning she took break
fast with them and said she had run out
of money-she and her husband were not
living together-and would try to procure
employment. She and Mrs. Feier went TO
a candy factory South Pennsylvania
street, and Mrs. Lindeman was promised
work. On their way back home they met
Lindeman. Mrs. Feier went on ahead and
the Lindemans followed her. When they
reached Mrs. Feier's house, they went di-
rectly to Mrs Lindeman's room. To what
happened there Lindeman is the only living
witness His story was believed by the po-
lice and the coroner, and he told it in
straightforward way after he had become
calm enough to talk connectedly. When the
detectives cross-examined him he looked
slightly i'll, but he he did not desert his
story
Lindeman went into the room with his
wife, according to his story, and sat down
to talk with her over their affairs which
were troublesome enough. Since the day
of their marriage, the last day of 1885, they
had lived together only at intervals. His
wife asked him to return and live with her,
and after she had pleaded long with him, he
consented: He told her he would go down
town and buy a shirt and would return to
her. She protested against his leaving her
even for a short time. They argued this
point for time, and then Mrs iLndeman
went over to a bureau, and, kneeling down
before it, pulled out a drawer. Here are
your clothes she said, land here are plenty
of shirts"
HE WANTED TO LEAVE.
Eyes, l know" replied her husband, "but
the shirts are not the kind 1 want" He was
determined to go down town. He put on his
hat and stepped to the door, pulling on his
Overcoat. His wife, still kneeling, wheeled
around and shot at him with a revolver he
had never seen before. He felt a sting in
his knee and knew he had been hit The
door was locked and while he was excltedly
fumbling with the key his wife pulled the
trigger again. He heard the click of the
hammer, but there was no discharge. BY
this time he had opened the door, and he
turned round just in time to see her point
the revolver at her breast and fire. He
stood aghast and dropped his oVercoat on
the floor. Then he turned and ran down the
stairway The young woman staggered TO
her feet and took a few steps toward the
door and fell on her husbands overcoat and
died
A short time after the Lindemans were
married-and Lindeman said he married the
girl because she had threatened to kill her
self If ne did nOt-he found her at the EN-
pire Theater with another man.. He forced
her to go home with him. She had him ar
rested, charging him with abusing her. Size
refused to prosecute MN, and the pence
judge, after hearing the young mans sttI",
dismissed the case. After that I.ncem an
took bottle of laudanum away from his
wife several times, and once made her give
up a revolver which she had. She was al
ways dissatisfied with her life, but she lived,
so far as Lindeman knows, true TO her hus-
band.
Not long ago he filed a suit for divorce
from her, but before it was tried the two
were living together again and Lindeman
did not press his suit The girls parents
say that Lindeman treated his wife bru-
tally, and when her father arrived at the
house yesterday morning after a, the tragedy
know you did iti'' Lndeman and others
say he treated his wife kindly. When 1
day, 4 gave her every SS cent 1 had~$1i''
The AustIns came to this ,,,,c city several
years ago from Louisville The father of
the dead girl is employed at the Indiana
Bicycle Company's factory. Lindeman's
mother lives at No; 205 South Davidson
nineteen years old and his wife was TWEEN
ty-ore. AS Lindeman himself said; he
married too young" His wife was always
love her husband. Lindeman's reputation
is that of a. steady boy: 1t looked dark FOR
him for while yesterdsy; but ne Kept lei I'M, ms
Now, as q matter of fact, did you shoot
your wife?'' and he answered, When l say
swear to it on a hundred thousand Bibles
he was believed. He did not appear sad
dened at the death of his wife. The wound
un0GT his knee was not StIiOuS liz Wh'
held in the cellroom all night and will be
examined in Police Court this morning.
Robert Lash, who killed his wife and him.
self In a resort on West Court street sew
eral months ago lived with her in. the same
room in the same house where the Linde-
mans lived. Another phase or the colncl-
dence is that both Lash and Iindeman were
employed as clerks at the courthouse gro
Gerry
The body Of Mrs. Lindeman lay in the
norgue ali last night An autopsy had
been performed on it by the coroner, and