The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-21
SHOT BY AN ANGRY HUSBAND
GEORGE III. GOERING KILLED IN
HIGHWOOD LAST EVENING.

Vengeance and Then Gave Himself UP
to the Polics-Both Men Worked at
wincheste,,.-Yanz Held on the
Charge of Murder.
Hiehwood that usually quiet suburb
of New Haven, was thrown into a state
of excitement late yesterday afternoon
by the killing of George H. Goering'
machinist employed at Winehesters s. pv
George YAM of No. 50 Goodrich street
a we'll known resident of HlgfWooa
The tragedy was the outcome of a long
chapter of domestic intidelity on the
part of a wife and jealousy on the part
of a wronged husband, according to the
stories of the neighbors and the inform
alton secured by the police last night
1t was about o'clock yesterday after
noon when George YAM, a good-looklng
and intelligent young man, walked lh'o
the Dixwell avenue police station and
announced to Sergeant Tighe, at the
desk there, that he had just killed
man and desired to surrender himself
He stated that he had killed George II.
Goering in Highwood, but further than
that would have nothing to say. lie
was sent down to police headquarters
and locked up and Sergeant Tlghe went
to Highwood to investigate.
Both Goering and Yanz worked at the
Winchester Repeating Arms factory
and had been fast friends for a number
of years. Goering was frequent call
er at Yanz's home on Goodrich street,
and lately Yanz had noticed that his
wife and Goering appeared to be on
very intimate terms and he saw some
things that caused him to suspect his
wife's fidelity to him. Yesterday after
noon shortly after o'clock he noticed
that Goering had left the factory, and,
suspecting at once that he had gone to
visit Mrs. Yanz, Yanz left the shop and
went home.
At the house he ascertained from his
mother-in-la Mrs. Margaret shay,
who lived with him. that he wife was
in the back yard. From this point on
stories differ, but according to evidence
secured by the police last night, 4anz
taking a small rife, went to the back
yard and there in the grove about three
hundred feet back of the house he
caught his wife and Goering in a COM
promising situation. Goering jumped
up and started to run when he caught
sight Of Yanz, and the latter pulled up
his gun and. taking quick aim. fired
Goering was looking back when the
shot was fired and the ball, u 22-calibre
long struck him in the mouth He
dropped to the ground at once, and
Yanz, running up to him, found him
unconscious and blood pouring from his
mouth. Mrs. Yanz had run toward
the house when she saw her husband
approaching with the gun and had near
ly reached the back door when the shot
was fired
Yanz pulled out his handkerchief and
wiped the blood from Goering's mouth
and then ran to the house to get some
water When he returned to the pros
trate man the latter was dead, having
expired within two or three minutes at
ter the bullet struck him.
The scene of the tragedy Is near the
Highwood terminus of the Shelton ave-
nue. trolley line. and YAM. after seeing
that Goering was dead. boarded a car
which was Just starting toward the city
ana went 10 t1e tOjtt Sldtibiit w iiVlt lrC
gave himself UP. The car on which he
came into the city was in charge OF
| Conductor W. p. Rogers and Motor
man Condor. Conductor Rogers was
interviewed by a representative Of the
Journal and Courier last night and said
that at $50 o'clock, while his car was
waiting for time at the Highwood ter
minus Yanz came up to the car appar-
| entity much excited and told him that
he had Just killed Goering. He said
| that he had just reached the house on
| his return from work when he thought
| he heard his wife scream in the back
ward. He said that he looked out and
saw her standing some distance back of
| the house in the embrace of a man
| whose arms were about her neck He
| told the conductor that he had read so
| much about women being assaulted
| that he thought that his wife was the
victim Of such an affair, and grabbing
up his rife he ran out the back door,
| AS he did so the man ran and he said
| that then he pulled up the gun and
| fred, not intending to kill the man, He
asked Conductor Rogers advice as to
| what he should do and the conductor
advised him to give himself UP to the
police. Yanz then boarded the car and
| rode as far as the office of DR.. Norton
| r. Hotchkiss at 150 Shelton avenue,
| where Conductor Rogers said he alight-
| ed to have the doctor go out and see IL
| he could do anything for Goering. Af-
| ter leaving the Doctors office he walked
I to the police station, He had at first
| intended to go to police headquarters,
| but the conductor told him that he
could give himself up at the DiXwell
avenue station just as we'll While the
car was waiting at the terminus, and
| while YAM was talking there to the
| conductor some women, who live in the
| neighbOrhood came UP to the car and
| asked if the men had heard about a
man having Just been killed in the
woods near the end of the line. This
seemed to increase Yanz's nervousness
| and neither he nor the conductor vouch-
safed any information to the curious
| women.
The rifle from which the fatal shot
was fired is a new 1900 model 22-calibre
| Winchester, and It, with a box nearly
| after the shooting in a clump of bushes
! near the scene of the tragedy, where
Yanz had thrown it when he went to get
some water for Goering. The body Of
the victim was removed last evening tc
the home Of his father, George Goering
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