Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-27
Barred HER BREAST 70 DIE.
A Fifteen Year-0ld Eloping Wife
Consents to Be Killed

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BY THE BIGAMOUS HUSBAND OF
WHOM HER INFATUATION HAD
LED HER TO DESERT HOME
AND PARENTS, THOUGH SHE
KNEW THE MAN LEFT WIFE
AND CHILDREN BEHIND-AF-
TER A BULLET HAD BEEN
SENT THROUGH HER YOUNG,
TRUSTING HEART, THE VIII
LIAM SHOT HIMSELF DEAD
A STRANGE NOTE TO THE DE-
SERTED WIFE.
NEW YORK, August 26.-Josephine
Engel, Is years old, lay on the grass in
a lot at River. Avenue and One Hundred
and Fiftieth street, at midnight, and
tore away the bosom of her dress so
that John Iandauer might shoot truer.
He sent a bullet through her heart,
the powder burning her breast and the
small hand that held the facing of her
waist aside. Then Landauer turned
the pistol to himself, firing a second
fatal shot.
Patrolman Griffin of the Morrisania
police station, found themA They had
lain there all night, with the moon
shining down upon them. The lonely
spot was the last scene in an elope-
ment which had taken place ten days
before-in which the man had desert
ed his family and the girl her father
and mother.
LETTER OFyFAREWELL
The bodies soon were taken to the
Morrisania station. A letter was
found in the pocket of the mans coat.
1t was written with blue pencil, in a
hand that had trembled. 1t read:
ITO No. 1893 First Avenue, between
Ninety-seventh and Ninety-eighth
streets:
my Loving Wife, am going to end
all my trouble. l am very sorry for
what | have done. | was crying for
my wife and children all the time.
You will find me at the Park, at Nine
ty-siXth street entrance.
'sYour Loving Husband,
JOHN"
With this note as a guide the police
had little difficulty in finding the ''lov-
ing wife" Detectives went to the adj
dress indicated. They first found
Gregory Moser, a. liquor dealer, at No.
1891 First Avenue. The detectives de-
scribed the bodies to Moser, and he
said without hesitation:
"They must be John Landauer and
Josephine Engel."
And so it turned out they were.
Frederick Engle, the father of the girl
who is cigar maker living at No
1893 First avenue, was sent for. First
they showed him the body of the man.
John Landauer," said the father,
CURLY. Then, as if still cherishing a
hope that the body concealed in the
turned mutely to the, policeman, who
led him to the rough box and lifted
the cloth that covered the face.
FROM TEARS TO CURSES.
'My girl; my girl" sobbed the faith
er. and threw himself across the coffin,
sobbing pitifully.
After a few minutes he thought OF
the man laying there dead, and, lifting
himself erect. he poured forth tor
rent of curses on the murderer of his
little girl. Then again he would turn
to tenderness at the sight OF his daugh-
ter's face.
81 never thought they were more
than friends" said he. She was only
a child, you know. Only little while
ago, such a little while, she was our
baby, and now look at her. And then
he would sob afresh. fShe was as
young in many things as children
many years her Junior, and good
, girl, too, such good girl, until this
rascal came along.
us it true that this man Landauer
had made love to your little grip
some one asked the father to-day.
81 do not know" he replied, his tears
gushing afresh. 81 never thought that
they were ever anything more than
friends. Landauer would frequently
make her little presents and seemed to
be very fond of her, but she was only a
child, you see. and not at all woman.
Landauer was cigarmaker, and liy-
ed with his wife and children on the
same floor with the Engels in No. 1898
First Avenue which is a big tenement
house. The wife was not unprepared
| for the news of her husbands death.
| She had not seen him since a week
ago Sunday, when she went to Yonkers
| to visit some friends, taking the child
| rem along and leaving the husband be-
hind.
Josephine Enge1 had told her parents
on the same day that she was going to
call on a girl friend and then go to a
| picnic in Astoria.
| DID NOT HAVE A COPPER.
| 1t is not doubted that the two went off
| together on that day and had lived to-
| gether since that time. When found,
| there was not a penny of money be-
| tween them, and, no doubt, utter pow
erty helped to bring an end to their
tragedy.
'Landauer always was to be seen
J with the child one of the neighbors
| said yesterday. "He seemed to be in
| fatuated with her, and she with him. y
Mrs. Lsandauer will be the greatest
| sufferer from the crime. She is left
with three children to support. She
| has been working in one of the big
cigar factories of the neighborhod since
| her husbands disappearance. She
| earns 81 a week.
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