The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-13
CRAYON ARTISTS TRAGEDY:
HE PUTS A BULLEr ~ MS DRAIN
AND MS WIPE TAXES MORPHINE.
She wanted 60 FOLLOW Her 10y. she Said
barely q Chance TO ~Liys-TheJ Had
Bcen Married ONLY Three DAYS. and Had
hpent the IIma CsIebrAtinR the Wedding.

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Bcen Married Only Three DAYS. and Had
spent the lime CsiebratinE the wedding.
Paul stiebler. a MAKER Of crayon portraits
and lightning sketch man on tho vaudeville
stage. committed suicide yesterday afternoon
NJ his home, 30 West i34th street. by shooting
himself In the head with n revolver. Ills
wife, when she discovered her husbands death,
attempted TO Kill herself by swallowing NOR
phinc, but was taken to the Harlem Hospital
and may recover.
Suebler formerly lived In West Twenty-eighth
street. About ten weeks ago he met Margaret
Mary Kuhn. q girl OF IN. Two weeks later.
they furnished up d nve-room fiat on the ground
floor OF 30 vest i34th street and lived together
there without going through the formally
OF a marriage. The neIghbors In the house
say that two weeks ago the couple began To
quarrel, the woman complaining that the man
would notkeep his promise to marry her.
Last Monday Stiebler and the girl went to
the City Hall and were married by Alderman
Kenny At tho City Hall, they met Walter p.
Thiemick, who had known Stiebler in SchleswiR,
Germany He told Stiebler that he was pennl-
less and in hard luck generally, and Stlebler
invited him to come and live with him. THE
mick accepted the invitation Ever since, all
three spent their tiinn In drinking 10 celebrate
the wedding Yesterday Stiebler went To work
for the first time for several days. lie worked
on a portrait, but soon tired and lay doWn on
the bed in the second room or the nat Mrs.
Stlebier was working In the kitchen and lhle-
mick was reading In the dining room,
Suddenly there was a pistol shot IN me pea
room. 1hiemick seemed too frightened 10
move. Mrs Stiebler ran into the bedroom
and there saw her husband dead. a bullet WOuhu
In his temple The pistol lay on NE Ded Dei
eide him. Mrs Stiebler gave one scream ana
then walked into the front room. There she
/ found two postal cards on the centre table.
She addressed them TO whom 1t may CON
cern." and then wrote q short note, In Ter
man on the back Of each. In one she wrote
that she thought 1t best TO join her boy ia
deDh and M he had killed himself by shoot
ing, morphine seemed 10 be the sweetest way
for her 20 reach him. On the other card she
wrote directions for the disposal Of their saw
ings In the bank and some or the properly
in tho house. Then she went back into me
bedroom. and lying down on the bed beside
her husband in a pool 81 blood, waited Tor
/ tho morphine 10 work
front door of the house Detectives Hawkins
and Carter Of the East l2jth street station nap
pened 10 be on the block working on robbery
case, They heard the pistol shot, saw tie crowd
gather and ran up to Investigate. Assisted by
the janitor they forced open the door leading
into the dining room There they found This
fright. shaking like a leaf and unable TO articu-
late a sound The detectives went past him
into the bedroom and saw ne couple on tne
lived, and sufmising from her coniitlon that
she had used morphine they placed her on a
couch in the parlor, and. having sent a call to
Harlem Hospital for an ambulance, began TO
slap the woman in the face TO keep her awake.
She opened her ewes and began TO cry.
Wont YOU let me dle?' she asked. NJ
boy has shot himself and | want to die so that
| can ba with him
When Dr,. Slevin and Levy arrived from
Harlem Hospital, they said that Stiebler had
killed himself instantly by shooting himself
In the temple They tried 20 use the stomach
pump on Mrs. stiebler, but shestrugsled against
Them and the two policemen were forced TO
assist the doctors. The doctors said that she
had taken about ten grains OF the poison. AT
the hospital at midnight, II was said that there
was Just a bare hope that she might recover.
Mrs. Stiebier prOfessed That she knew OF no
cause why her husband should kill himself.
Thiemick, when he recovered from hts fright,
said the same thing The nelghbors said that
since the couple had been married the Quarrels
between them had ceased. The only. reason
offered for tho suicide was that Stiebler was
respondent from drink. Thiemick said that
Stiebler's father had been a Judge inSchleswi0
and well 10 do. Stiebler was fairly prosperous
The fat was nicely Furnished and the bank book
10 which Mrs. Stieblcr referred in her note on
the postal card showed q balance OF more than
$500 in Stieblers favor.