New-York tribune., 1900-09-19
WOMAN WITH A DEAD NAN.
GOLDSMITH FOUND IN A HALLWAY AND
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED.

Phflfp Christ a grocer was leaving his home. AZ
No ~ West Forty-frst-st-- 70 90 70 work early
yesterday when he saw and woman lying IN
the hallway the foot OF the stairs~ The nan
was dead having G s1vere scalp wound. from
which blood oOzing No money or 5eWelry
found him By the police OF the West
Thtrty-seventh-st- station The woman told ths
police she was Pauline EIchele and that the nan.
Christopher Eichele, her husband They dld
not 1--we together. Eichele's home was with his
daughter Kate. twenty-five years Old. az No 5l6
West Forty-seventh-st- When her father did not
return Monday night Kate went 20 her married
sister Mrs Anna Filhstrand. No. 554 West Fifreth-
ST. There they found.
The sisters said that their father gold
smith He received 50 a week and paid On
Monday night II his custom 70 bring home
gold chains worth between so and 800 each night
and work them The daughters were both gold
smiths and aided kim.
When told who was found with their father the
girls at once said It was OF foul play They
said that Eichee's wife died about year aso. and
a few months later hs married Pauline Wiglans
forty years old who used 20 DO washing for them
Eichele became acquainted with her through her
nephew, Jake" Cook truck driver who had q
room with the EIcheIes- When she married
she told Eichele according 20 the sisters, that her
husband dead. but the sisters said Il was
found later that her husband was living. and that
she frequently went 70 see him. and that she also
saw many other mem Frequent G1arrels occurred
IN consequence. and about the time o1 one OF them
some chains worth SO were taken II was later
found that the wouan's righlfuI husband had
pawned them Two weeks ago the woman put
out OF the house as Eichele found her n company
with another man upon his return Al that time
she told EiCheIe that he would De k1leC some night
and would never know what struck him
The sisters said that Cook got into trouble re-
Gently ana committed suicide and was buried last
Sunday
The woman Pauline Eschele was arrested
shortly after 10 o'clock The police found that
her story damaging They are
looking for Wiglan, the wOuau's first husband
The police know that she had al least one husband
before EiChele. and think she had tVo- Captain
COOney, OF the West Ihtrry-SeveDr1-sr- station
thinks that IL is OF homicide owing 20 the
fact that there IS deep cash on E-lc1e-eS fore
head, made, evidently, cy some sharp instrument
This is the rve1ry-tLir- homicide case II the pre-
cincr in nineteen months
Mrs. EiChels was later taken the West Side
Court and aTraigned- She vas reminded 20 the
custody OF the Coroner BY AIazlStra-e Mott The
dead mans silver watch ard Cnaiu were found IN
her possession There was also a pockerbOOk con-
tanning ten dollar bill she said she lasr saw her
husband AZ II o'clock. when he left her and went
out OF the house She then Went 70 bad
EicheIe employed By the jeVelry firm ot
AIOis Cohl & Co. Nos I and 5 Maiden Lana
The foreman said he had worked there for twenty
years. and was considered q steady suplOye-
He usually drew his wages on Monday. but for
reason he drew them lsSL week Saturday.
Coroner yucca committed Mrs Eic1es 20 ths
TOnnbs pending inquest