Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-23
THE BODYlIDENTiFIED
Woman Taken From River Saturday Proves
to Have Been Mrs Shrepler.
Little Daughter Believed to Have
Been sacrificed. Also, and Search
Being Made for Remains.

Dragging the river for the body of little
Louise Shrepler, who is supposed to have
peen drowned by her mother at the time
the latter committed suicide Friday even
ing last, was resumed this morning by the
crew Vi the police boat, under the direction
VI Harpormaster Sutton, but up to late
nour the search had proved to be unavail-
ing.
after the publication in The Star Satur-
aay that the body of an unknown woman
had been found floating in the river and
had oeen removed to the morgue, Mr.. Jo-
sepn Shrepler, dealer in the Center mar
ket' whose home is at No. 31S 18th street
southwest, went to the sixth precinct sta
ton and identified the remains as those of
Mrs Shrepler, who had been missing since
the evening before. He Immediately had
the body removed to his home.
MI Shrepler said his wife had undoubt-
eoly committed suicide while mentally de-
ranged, and that this was caused in part
by intense grief at the separation from
her daughter Mamie, child about fourteen
years of age He added:
1T became necessary to send the girl to
school, and although the mother had been
opposed to letting her leave when the sug-
gestion was first made, she had afterward
apparently seen the wisdom of it and be-
dria Friday evening. We left the house
about O'Clock. The mother expressed
much grief at the parting, and cried for
quite While, but that was only natural,
and did not pay great amount of atten-
ton to it.
Absence Not Unusual.
when I returned home it was nearly .
O'Clock, and my wife was not in the house.
This was not unusual though, as she oc-
casional1y went next door and spent the
night with a neighbor. / supposed she had
felt unusually blue over the absence of
Mamie and had gone to this neighbor for
consolation. My business requires that l
leave home at an early hour in the morn
ing. l generally get my breakfast after 1
reach my place of business Saturday I
arose, as usual, at an early hour and felt
TO concern at my wife's absence, thinking
she would return with the child later in
the day.
"As Saturday is my busiest day. do not
have an opportunity to get home for the
MONDAY meal. 1t was nearly o'clock in
the evening when [ finally got to the house
after the days business. | discovered that
my wife was still absent, as was also my
little girl, and was beginning to feel
alarmed, when some of the neighbors, who
had seen the account of the finding of the
woman's body in The Star, informed me of
the fact. l at once went to the morgue,
and identified the body that of my
wife ~
1t is supposed that when she jumped
overheard Mrs. Shrepler clasped her little
girl in her arms, they were found crossed
on her breast and that the action of the
water released the babe, whose body is sup
posed to be still at the bottom of the river
The time for the funeral of Mrs Shreper
has not been fixed, Mr. Shrepler thinks
the body of the babe will soon be recovered,
in which event the tnterment Of mother and
child will be made together.
Handkerchief Discovered.
The crew Of the police boat have found,
while dragging above the flood gates in the
river, handkerchief belonging to the lit
tie girl. and Harbormaster Sutton is con-
WINGED that Mrs. Shrepler must have made
away with herself and the child at or near
the bathing beach,. The searchers expect
TO find the child, S body in that vicinity dur