The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-24
TWO DEAD BY THE RIVER.
THE MAN KILLED HIS CHILD LOVE
AND HIMSELF.

Know why tho RunawRys Wanted to Die.
The bodies OF John Lindauer. ciRarmaker.
and josie EnRel. tho 15-year-old daughter Of
Lindauers next door neighbor. were found
under q tree near the east bank Of tho Harlem
River at 150th street. yesterday morning at
| daylight. They were lying side by side. The
girls hands held her waist open so that her
left breast was bare. Just above the blood
stained cheap lace OF her chemise was dark
bullet hole. One OF the hands that held the
waist was black with powder stains. The girls
light jacket was folded under her head. and
her straw hat with its silk bow and eagle
feather lay beside her. Under II was her
pooketbook. 1t was empty. Over the mans
heart his shirt was burned in an irregular hole.
HE left hand lay on a cheap revolver by his
| side.
Lindauer left his wife and three children and
went away with Josie Engel from her homo at
1893 First avenue nearly two weeks ago. Their
growing liking for each other had caused
auarrols between the Lindauers and the Engols.
| and between John tindauer and his wife.
The very day before he went away, Mrs.
Llndauer. whose work In tn cigar factory was
more regular and moro profitable than her
| husbands, bought him a fine blue suit OF
clothes as bribe to spend less time talking
| to Josie. His body. as 1t lay beside Josie's on
the river bank. was dressed IN that suit The
about the factories on First avenue. between
Einety-sixth street and Ninety-ninth street,
which was all In q Torment when the man
and the girl disappeared. renewed It's
excitement yesterday. There was UGH head
wagging and exchange OF congratulations
among the mothers of the colony over the
well-being OF their own daughters and the oon-
| stancy OF their husbands. But no one could
| make any satisfactory guess as TO tho place
-
| since they disappeared, nor could any one suE
| Rest reasonable explanation Of their desire to
die. Both had done wrong. it was said yes,
| what Of it2 Neither had been an angel before.
| Everybody knew. Their money was gone.
yes-both knew the cigarmaking trade well:
there were many factories 1T must have been
that they were crazy"
| When Policeman Griffin. who found the
bodies. went to the Lindauers' homo. he found
that his news seemed to wound the widows
pride moro than 1t Rreved her. She kept up
brave face, looked at the tintype photograph OF
Lndauer and Josie which had been found in
Lindauer's pocket. and had furnished. with the
address It bore. the clue to the identity OF the
| lovers, and said with hardly break in her
| voice:
Yes. that Is my husband: and she-she Is
| the devil"
The address that had aided the officer was
scrawled on the back Of the tintype. Once the
| policeman had reached the neighborhood
everyone directed him to Mrs. Lindauer. He
| told her this and she WINGED. He let her read
q note which had been found Ia her husbands
! waistcoat pocket. 1t was almost illeRible and
many OF the words were mis-spelled. Ny
| Dear Wife," II ran. Il am sorry for what have
done. To my loving wife. I am going to end
| all my trouble. Have done 30. Good-by all.
and take good care OF all the children. You
| will End me In the park at the Ninety-si1th
street entrance. Your husband. John"
| The foregoing was written In ink. A last
| sentence had been crossed out with a pencil
| and q penoilled postscript was written across
the back OF tho sheet. Il am sorry for what
have DONE" II said; Il was crying for my
| children ell the time"
that. Lindauer was q hulking stupid faced
follow who had done little but live by her labor
| in the seven years they had been married.
| But he was thoroughly fond Of his children
| He beat h0r sometimes in the last three
months but he was mover rough with them
| She broke down and DRIED. Griffin crossed the
| hall and told the Engels what had become Of
Josie. Whom they had exhausted their first
wild outbursts OF grief and anger sufficiently
| to 60 over and revile Mrs Lindauer for her
| husbands wickedness. they found tho widow
perfectly In control of herself. She had ar
| ranged to stay away from the factory for the
| day and had sent her brother Mark out to
| make arrangements with an undertaken for Q
| decent burial for her husband. Other visitors
| found her busy. moving the furniture around
cleaning and sweeping. as IL she were prepar-
ing to begin her homo life over again. She
| told every ono how happy she and her hus-
band had been when thoy married. He was II
years old and she was1S.
IL lnp h,,kh ~, u
with her until tho last few weeks. since the
Engel girl had taken to srendine all her time
In their rooms. She had asked the Engels to
keep Josie at home. but they wouldn't Perhaps
| they wero satisfied now. She went to Yonkers
with the children on the anniversary Of her
wedding. Aug. 10. and she suspected some
thing when her husband wouldn't go with
them. She gave him some money and bought
him suit OF clothes ana a pair Of russell shoes,
and made up her mind that he wouldn' do any
thing worry wrong after that She did not see
him again. As she talked she dug at tho floor
with the broom as II to drive his very memory
out OF the place.
Jose's mother sat with her head In her arm
and cried the whole day through. except when
she went to the door to answer questions. She
told everyone the same story Josie was q
good girl. she said. and was always q
good girl until she took to running across
tho hall They had lived opposite the
Lindauers for three years and Josie
had always gone over there a good deal
But lately since Josie began to wear lona
dresses and to do her hair up 1t had not seemed
to her mother suitable that she should be In
the other fat so much. talking with a married
man. She was taller than her mother. and
looked I've years older than she really was
They had asked Mrs. Lindauor to keep the CIR
out OF the other fiat. and had told her that she
spoiled her husband by not making him sup
port the family and by giving him fne clothel
to make love to young girls in. But Mrs
Lindauer did not take their advice kindly. Per
haps she was satisfied now.
On Sunday. Aug. Is. Josie wanted to 60 to
cigar mRkerS' picnic at Astoria She boggot
SO hard that her mother let her 60. giving he
half q dollar-six cents for ferry fares. ter
cents for car fares. and nineteen cents for sod
water and ice cream; this last her mother ex
planned. to give the girl no excuse 70
making the acquaintance Of a strange younI
! man who would treat her. Her brothe
went to tho picnic but did not see Josie there