New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-02
HE WAS BENT ON KILLING
A BROOKLYN NAN TRIED TO EXTERMI-
NATE A WHOLE FAMILY.
MURDERED ONE PERSON AND WOUNDED THREE
OTHERS. ONE MORTALLY- WIFE AND
HER RELATIVES THE vICTIMs-TWO
PISTOLS USED AT ONCE. AND
SEVEN SHOTS FIRED

HER RELATIVES THE vGCTTMs-TWo
PISTOLS USED AT ONCE. AND
SEVEN SHOTS FIRED.
John l. Schmtt, twenty-five years old, son of
John Schmitt a tailor. Of No loo Ewen-st.
Brooklyn, attempted to extermnate whole
family at No 100 Ewen-st. at 630 o'clock last
evening and succeeded in killing his mother in
law, Mrs. Anna Wild. forty-six years old; NOR
tally woundng his brOther-n-law, Nicholas
Wild twenty-five years DID, wounding his wife
Carrie twenty five years old. twice In the hip;
putting a bullet into the thigh Of his sister-in-
law. Pauline Wild, twenty years DID, and wind
ing UP his bloody orgy by firing Wild shot at
his year old infant The shooting, which oc-
Cured at the home Of his wifes parents. was
brought about by his wife's refusal to live with
him.
Last October Mrs Schmtt left her hus-
band They had been living together at NO. lpo
Graham-ave She returned to her mother
home Several times Schmitt had made inefrect-
ual appeals for her to return. Yesterday after
noon he visited the house and again asked that
his wife grant his request He received the same
old refusal. and went away. At $50 o'clock he
returned The whole family were together IN
one room, which is in comfortably furnished
fiat In the Ewen-st. house His sister Pauline,
was holding his young baby With great deter
, mination and bluntness he again demanded that
his wife accompany him. When the answer Of
refusal came he pulled out two revolvers and
Immediately opened fire 1t is not known just
who was hit first. but when the police entered
the smoke-filled apartments they found the four
people lying in pools OF blood on the floor and
the baby rolling around between PROSTATE bodies
crying pteOusly.
After doing his bloody work Schmitt coolly
pocketed his revOlvers and started TO escape.
The firing had attracted the attention of Fred
erick ROesch and a grocer named Ibert, who
live near by They met Schmtt at the entrance
to the fiat and he, seeing that they were likely
to detan him, broke into a torrent Of oaths
and started to attack them Roesch grapped
with Schmitt and soon the two men were strug-
Cling on the sidewalk Then Ibert came up, and
Schmltt was soon overpOwered. and pinned fast
to the walk under his captors. and there held
until the police arrived.
While Schmitt was being taken 10 the police
station. ambulances were summoned from the
Eastern District hospitals. When the doctors
arrived they found that Mrs Wild had been
killed almost instantly, the shot going into her
mouth and passing out tt4'ugh the base Of the
brain Nicholas Wild was unconscious, ana the
two women were In about the same condition
from loss of blood. Nicholas Wild and his sis
ters were taken 10 st. GATHERINGS Hospital.
Coroner Delap was summoned, and took the
ante-mortem statement Of the wounded man,
who ii was feared would not live through the
night The friends OF the family came In, and
after partly strengthening up the room, took
care of the baby
Schmitt is a slightly built and wiry-looking
man At the station the two revovers were
taken away from him. one Of them being almost
covered with blood Seven shots in all had been
fred and a number Of loaded cartridges were
found in the mans pockets. Schmitts father
r, rs a tailoring establishment in Ewen-st, and
employs from fifteen 70 twenty girls, and Is SAID
To have a comfortable fortune. Carrie Wild was
one Of the girls In the tailor shop when the son
OF the proprietor married her Young SchmitL
after setting up housekeeping at No. 100 era
ham-ave. frequently took his wife to the
fathers home 1t was said last night that
Schmitt's family treated his wife with con-
siderable contempt. and it was for this reason
that she left him last October