The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-08
BUTCHERED BY A R0BBER?
KRoNMAN,s WIFE FOUND DYING IN
HER APARTMENT


Might Have Got in by the window. !
Nathan Kronman. a fruit commission dealer
at 1913 Reade street and POI Chambers street. !
returned from business to his home in the
apastment house at 266 West 35th street last
evening shortly before o'clock. and. as he
SAYS. unlocked the door Of his apartment on
the third floor and tried to open it. Some
obstruction prevented an opening wider
than two or three inches. Using much
greater force. Kronman steadily pushed
the door in far enough to see the body OF his
wife, Annie lying on the floor Of the apartment
hallway. The head was against the door
and the feet were in the doorway
OF n closet in which was kept tho lee box.
Mrs kronman's head and face we're horribly
cut and pool OF blood was on the carpet near
tho head.
Kronman ran out into the main hall and
shouted for help. Irving Schooley who lives
on the first floor. came up. Kronman cried
out to him.
My wife has been killed My poor Annie
has been murdered! For Gods sake help mer
The two men picked up the woman and
carried her into the dining room Policeman
Lane and Detective Duane were called in.
deep enough to expose the brain in one place.
There was another cash on the left cheek. cX-
tending from the cheek bone to tho chin. while
the right side or the face was blackened as IL
by bruises. The woman was removed to the
hospital but the doctor said that she could live
but short time
|. A hasty examination of the apartment showed
that it had been ransacked by thieves. On the
| floor OF the hall. near where Mrs. kronnans
body was found, was small Ratchet which had
| heen used by the Kronmans to chop ice with.
On this Ratchet was some coagulatcd blood.
| but there hardly seemed to the police to be
| enough blood to Justify tho conclusion that all
| the wounds found on the woman's head and face
had been inflicted with it. At the extreme end OF
| the kronman's hall. is Mrs Kronman's bed
| room In it Is one window looking toward the
| east On a level with the sill ofths window is the
! roof Of tenement next door to the east Of the
! house in which the kronmRns lived. The space
| between the apartment house and the tene-
| ment is only about five feet. The window in
| the bedroom was up. Marks were found on
| the window sill, but tho police were not n i
| certain last night whether these marks W, "a
| paint stains or blood stains 1t would have
| been an easy matter for n man to step from the
roof of the tenement into the window OF the
| Kronman apartment.
| In Mrs Kronman's bedroom was bureau
| the contents OF whose drawers had been
! emptied on the floor On the floor also was
| Mrs. Kronmans pocket-book. II was empty,
although her husband says that there was
!
| when he left home yesterday morning.
| Mrs. Kronman took charge OF what money they
| kept in the house and paid the household bills.
| Mrs. kronmans Iewe.ry was gone. She owned
| a pair OF diamond ear rings. each stone. kron-
man saysweighing about four karats. She had
| other diamonds also he says. which he had re-
Gently given her. All these. and her watch. were
| missing. No other rooms in the house were in
disorder but blood stains were found on the car
| a NO int b.,h bod "A
| hall
After Mrs. Kronman had been removed to
| the hospital kronman was asked by the police
! to go around to the West Thirty seventh stree
| station, where he was closely questioned by
| Acting Captain Cooney. Kronman said that
1 he left home as usual about y 80 O'clock yes
/ terday morning. He remained at one OF his
two stores all day and did not See his wife un-
| til he returned home last evening. He told
| about crying for help and about Schooley and
other neIGhhors responding. Schooey corrob-
| Grated so much OF Kronman's story as con-
nected him with the finding OF the woman. and
other neighbors said that Mr. and Mrs Kron-
| man had never been known to quarrel. The
police Were satisfied that Kronman was telling
straight story. but he was detained never
| theless, at the station house
| All the detectives from the West Thirty
| Seventh street station and detectives Sullivan
| ana heln from DeduQudfteTS were detailed on
the case From what they could learn. the last
person to see Mrs. Kronman before she was
injured was Giuseppe Cancotti. dealer In ice.
| at 254 West Thirty fifth street. Ciancotti
| served the kronmans. as we'll as others in the
| house. with ice. He told the police that he sent
up piece Of ice to the kronman apartment on
the dumb-walter at 100 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Mrs. Kronman opened the door
leading from the dun -waitor to her kitchen.
and called down to the Italian that he need not
| leave any ice to-day
The daughter OF one OF the tenants said that
last February Mrs. kronan had notified the
Gas Company that she wished gas range put
in to her kitchen.
| When her bell rang few moments later. she
paid no attention to it. and after few m in utes.
sha saw from her window the two men walk
out of the main entrance to the house. 60 to the
corner and turn down Eighth avenue.
The day after that genuine gasnian called
| told her his business and did the work she
wanted done. Mrs Kronman told him OF the
visit OF the man the day before and OF what he
told her The gasman said that it was peculiar
because the company had not received her
letter until the morning Of the day he called
He told Mrs. Kronman that somebody had
evidently been imposing upon her.
About ten o'clock last night Kronman asked
Acting Captain Cooney to be allowed to go to
the hospital to see his wife. His request was
granted and he went to tho hospital in charge
OF "a detective, He saw his vile but she was
still unconscious. During the evening the de-
tectives had been working hard on the case
and by the time Kronman returned to the sta
tion house. at about IL O'Clock. they had some
questions to ask him. One of the detectives
had seen some OF Kronmans employees and
they said that their employer had not been n
either Of his stores all the afternoon. kron-
man was questioned about this and he
admitted that the statement was true. He said
that in his excitement at finding his wife as he
had found her. he had probably forgotten that
| he had been away from his place OF business.
lie then told the police that he had spent the
afternoon playing casino with friends. He
| told where he was playing, but the police
would not give the address last evening Alter
that. Acting Captain Cooney told kronman that
he would have to detan him, and the man was
| person.
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