The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-22


The Woman Says She Thinks the
Man Was August Lutter, Whom
the Affair.
Mrs. Jennie Fitkin was shot down in
the door Of her home, 1902 Eie ehteenth ave-
nue. southeast at $50 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, by an unknown but suspected
assassin, who rendered her a peace offer
ing of a box of beautiful red roses, as
he did SO drawing a revolver from his
oVercoat pocket and firing three shots at
the defenseless woman before she could
even reach her hand out TO take the box.
One bullet cut through her scalp, inf1ict-
ing a flesh wound, and she turned back
into the house, when the second bullet
struck her in the back below the left
shoulder, piercing the lung, while the
third bullet went wild, imbedding Itself in
the wall
Ernest D. Macdonald, 1860 Seventeenth
avenue southeast, janitor of the Tuttle
school, was passing the house, which
stands on a corner, when he heard the
three shots, and saw a man run down
tfon Of the st. Paul & Duluth railroad
tracks, too quickly for pursuit DIS. Tup-
per and Erdmann were summoned and
dressed Mrs. Fitkin's wounds, after which
she was removed to the city hospital in
the ambulance. From the first the ply
sicians held out no hope of recovery to
the bereaved husband, stating that the
ball entering her back had
PIERCED THE LUNG
and caused an internal hemorrhage which
could not be stopped.
Superintendent of Police DOYLE and De-
tect1Yes Lawrence and Howard We're on
the scene Immediately after the shooting
and Mrs. Fitkin was able to make a
statement to them. She declined to say
positively, but she said she thought the
man who shot her was August Lutter,
a German. whom she met last spring
while visiting a friend named Swanson,
at Mora, Mimi, where Lutter was clerk
ing In hotel. She had his photograph,
and stated that he had attempted to In
duce her to run away from her husband,
ana mad called on her once last spring at
her Minneapolis home. She knew nothing
of Lutter's present whereabouts, and had
not seen him since last spring until YES
terday, when, she feels quite sure. she
saw him standing at the corner of Wash
ington and Hennepin avenues as she
boarded a Como interurban car to re-
turn to her home, between and o'clock
The man who came to the door and who
shot her, she said, had the same general
appearance. 1t is upon this clew that
the superintendent and his men are work
ing, and upon the one furnished by the
po1 OF fresh. red roses which the mur-
derer cropped as he fired. The box con-
tanning the roses bore a label indicating
that they had been purchased from c.
A. Smith, the florist 500 Nicollet avenue
Mrs. F1tkin is twenty-eight years of age.
small in stature, and with dark hair and
eyes Her home, where her parents live.
is at Mason City, 10. Frank w Fitkin
her husband, is a sWitchman on the St
Paul & Duluth railroad The couple had
no children, and have resided in Mime
apohs since a year ago last September
Ihey were married five years ago at
Waterloo To-, Fitkin's home Their mar
1tIs 1teo me- they say, has been a happy one.
1hey occupy the second floor of the housa
at 1OO2, the first floor being occuniad hI-
Eli Taylor and family
JEALOUSY THE ROUTINE
When Supt. Doyle and Detectives law
renee and Howard arrived and gainej an
insight into the peculiar affair II r,as
plainly evident to them that robbery was
not lhe motive for the crime and but one
ol1ef motive could exist and that ZEAL
ousy. The three closely questioned Mrs
FItkin as she lay on the floor and milf
1nately she gave them Lutter's name and
told of his infatuation for her and her
suspicion that it was him.
But why should I say such q Terrible
thing when l don't know it, she moaned
Il may be going to die and l don't want
to say for sure 1T was him" Then. az
best as she was able, she told her story:
was down to the doctors today" she
said, and hal no quarrel with any cne,
/ don know, it may be him His noroa
is August Lutter. 1 may be going to die
and | don't want to say for su It was
him. have not seen him lately to recog-
nize him. What makes me think it was
him is because [ thought | saw him C
l got on the street car when I CANA
home. l thought it was him and spoke
had not seen him for some time. I went
20 Lr. Mary Damons on Sixth and Mic.
ollet, then I went to Donaldson's; went
to the five and ten-cent store and took
car at Voegeli's and came home I got
home about o'clock I thought I saw
him standing In front of Voegeli's when I
came over
BOX IN HIS HAND.
when [ saw him this afternoon he had
Oh dark overcoat and dark stiff hat. 7
cont know what color | couldn't saw
how long have known him. 1t seems he
said Here's d box l never reached ont
to take it; just stood surprised because
he hadn't runs the bell or asked to see
any one. He took his right hand out of his
overcoat pocket and l heard a report and
turned and the next one struck me in
the back and then 1 crawled to the kitch-
EN-. But l couldn't recognize his voice
If could I'd tell YOU"
Fitkin himself is a man about thirty
years of age and when ques stoned by the
detectives stated that he knew Llitter and
he brought them a picture of Lutter in
the uniform of a German officer He said
that Mrs. Fitkin met Lutter while she
was visiting a friend named Swanson at
Mora and that when she came came back
she had told him something about Ldtter
One evening last spring a man came to
the house about 1880, whom Fitkin says
he recognized as Lutter and asked to see
Mrs. Fitlin He was invited into the
house and Fitkin says he and his wife
were just preparing for bed and that he
cs me down and tcld Lutter he couldn't
see her as she was getting ready for he'd