The record-union., 1899-12-30
sTENBERG STANDS BY Her.
WILL NOT TESTIFY AGAINST
HIS WIFE.
Says She Didn't Mean to Shoot
Him-Testimony,a at the
Examinati0n.

A1m-Iest1mOnys AZ tAo
Examination.
The preliminary examination OF LIZ
xie Sternberg, who, on the 9TH inst,
shot her husband in the face, and VINO
was arrested and charged with assault
to murder, was conducted in the CITY
Justices Court yesterday. Attorney a.
J. Bruner appeared for the defendant,
and City Attorney De Ligne presented
the case for the people. Justice Andef-
son will til morning determine Whetn-
err Or not. woman shall be held to
answer
r. H. Walker was the first witness
called. He knew the defendant, Lizzie
Sternberg, and her husband, E. O..
Sternberg. Witness was at Sternberg's
paint shop on December 9th. He heard
a pistol shot and went in to investigate.
When he got inside the building, Mr..
and Mrs Sternberg were struggling for
the possession of a pistol. Sternberg
was standing over his wife and both
had hold of the weapon. Sternberg was
bleeding from the mouth and had a
pistol shot wound in the right side OF
his face. Witness got possession of the
pistol, with the assistance of officer
Pennish, who came in while the parties
were struggling. Witness could not
recollect whether Mrs. Sternberg said
anything about the shooting. Sternberg
was unable to talk. Witness stayed in
the place till the patrol wagon arrived.
After the witness handed the pistol to
Officer Pennish, Mrs. Sternberg again
\ 81 noe
session of it. Witness was the first
person to enter the shop after the
shooting.
e William C. Heintz, a sign painter, was
next called. He knew both Mr.. and
Mrs. Sternberg, and saw both of them
about o'clock p. m. on December
9th. Witness was working for Stern
berg and Mrs. Sternberg came into the
front of the shop and asked where her
husband was. She went into the
rear of the shop, found her husband,
and there was some loud talk between
them. Then a customer came in and
witness called Sternberg, who came in
and took an order. A laundry driver
came in and Sternberg told him to
wait until he got some soiled linen Tor
him. He then stepped into the back
of the shop, behind the partition, and
almost Immediately he heard shot
fired. He thought the shot was in an
adjoining building and ran outside.
Mrs. Sternberg, witness said, seemed
nervous when she talked with him. He
felt certain that there had been no
. talk between Mr.. and Mrs. Sternberg
after the former went to the rear part
OF the shop for clothing for the laundry
man, though he thought he would not
have heard it had there been any.
After witness went back into the
shop, and about three minutes after
the shooting, Sternberg came into the
front part of the shop and said: II
think I'm a goner."
City Physician H. L. Nichols, who
attended Sternberg at the Receiving
and testified concerning the condition
of the wound. The ball entered the
right side of the face, shattered the
jaw, went through the tongue, struck
the left jaw and glanced down, lodging
in the muscles of the neck near the
j. root of the tongue. Witness dressed the
Z wound.
S. A. Douglas, who conducts barber
shop in the room adjoining that used
by Sternberg as a paint shop, said he
heard the shot fired. 1t sounded as
though it was in the back part of his
or Sternberg's place. Witness went out
ion the sidewalk and then into Stern
berg's shop. He saw both Mr.. and Mrs
Sternberg. The former had blood on
his face. Witness said he was excited
and recollected very little that hap
pened.
Witness said he had seen and talked
with Mrs. Sternberg on Christmas Day.
s but that he did not speak with her
concerning the case. Mrs. Sternberg
said she was sorry about the trouble.
;. He told her he did not want to hear
her trouble. She commenced to tell
her troubles, but he stopped her.
George Kline, bartender, was next
: called. He went into Sternberg's shop
! after the shooting. Mrs. Sternberg was
sitting on a bench. Witness asked her
what she had done, and she began cry.
{ ing afresh
Police Officer Pennish testified that
he went into Sternberg's shop after the
shooting. Mrs. Sternberg, her husband
and Mr.. Walker were struggling to get
possession of a pistol. Witness got the
pistol. He held Mrs. Sternbergs hand
and Walker took the pistol After
Walker got the pistol Mrs. Sternberg
tried to get it away from him, but was
unsuccessful.
+, After witness got the pistol from the
woman he asked her what she wanted
with it. She said she wanted to kill
herself. Witness asked Mrs. Sternbers
why she shot her husband, and she
said they had had trouble for five
months and that she could stand it no
:. longer. After she had been taken to
the police station she asked Chief Ash
to let her have the pistol, that she
wanted to kill herself. She said she
had done all in her power to make her
husband happy. but that he had stayed
out late at night and was not kind to
her, and that she had decided to kill him
and then kill herself She said she shot
him.
Witness said that Mrs. Sternberg APP
.peared to be greatly excited, but that
she talked nationally enough.
). Acting Chief of Police Ash was called