The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-17
STARTLING TRAGEDY ENACTED LAST
NIGHT IN THE HONOLULU HOTEL
Small Sorekeeper Seeks Revenge for Dseron After Ineec
uaIly Pleading for Return to
Ills Home

wall and the blood bubbled from hia
lips and all the wall above him was
spattered with it, and In his fall he had
swept down the ornaments which had
hung there and they lay under him.
The woman was beside him on her face.
In deshabille as though she had been
aroused from bed to receive him. Her
clothes lay scattered about the room.
The door which led onto the veranda
was securely fastened with q chair
back under the knob, as though she
feared that someone might enter by Il
against her will. The revolver lay be-
side the man within reach OF his hand,
as If 1t had but just fallen from it.
A glance was enough for Mcdowell
and he rushed to the telephone and
summoned the police and told briefly
of the tragedy which had occurred. In
(, a few moments the patrol wagon was
at hand with detail of officers. After
a single look at the situation 1t was
seen that both the victims must be re-
moved for treatment IL either were to-
live and they were placed upon stretch
ers and taken to the Queens Hospital
as rapidly as possible. With them went
the old man who was found in the room
with thet two. for he Vowed that he.
} would not be separated from his daugh-
: ter, crying out when the officers wish
, ed to take him to the Police station
that the woman was his daughter, that
he would go where she went and they
should not take him away from her.
{ At the hospital it was discovered very
quickly that both Ste.gemann and his
wife were very seriously wounded. DR..
Emerson ascertained that the man had
a wound IN the right side Of the fore
a head where bullet had evidently en-
g tered and at the back of the head just
/, level with the lobe of the left ear was
a protuberlance which seemed to show
= the location of the bullet. An examin-
n alton of Mrs. Steigemann showed two
: wounds in her back on the right side.
y One Of these was badly powder-burned
showing that the weapon had been held
close to her body, while the other which
e was a little higher and nearer to the
e spinal column was not 80 severely
burned, Above the left breast was d
ragged wound and from this So
calibre bullet fell as the woman was
undressed.
The man bled frightfully and his con-
dition was such that 1t seemed impossi-
BILE that he should live for more than a
few moments, while the womanss case
was less desperate, for she suffered but
little pain and lay in sort of lethargy
on the receiving table, looking occasion
ally wide-eyed and frightened to the
;couch where her husband lay moaning
and crying out, his face scarcely recog.
nizable from blood and the discolora.
tion due to internal hemorrhage.
Beside the woman stood the old mar
who called himself her father. He helt
her hand lovingly and spoke to hel
softly at intervals In German, tellinf
her to keep UP her courage and tha
she would be all right. When the doc
tors took her into the operating room
the disconsolate old man wished to fol
low but he was refused and he stoot
in the hall all through the time hi
daughter was upon the operating tabl
and fearless and dry-eyed waited TO
the result.
MY daughter could not live with tina
man, her husband" he said, 'he treat
ed her had. he did. and she was soini
to get a divorce from him as soon a
she could. A week ago think 1t wa
she left him and she went to hv
with this other fellow, know not hi
name. never heard her tell It, Bu
tonight her man, this man Steigemann
came to me and said must come wit
him to see her. didn't want to go 70
I knew she would not come with him
but he said I must go with him an
help him to get his wife back, for tn
sake of his little children.
$50 closed up my store and we wen
up to the place where she had been stay
ling with this other fellow. We went I
her door for her husband knew jus
where to find her and knocked. Sh
asked who was there and said that
wanted to come In. She started to ope1
the door and then I said that her nun
lband wished to talk to her. Al MS
she refused but finally she let us ~
Her husband talked to her for ION
time and urged her with tears In n,
ewes to come back to her home flnai flnai
Iv she said that she would come oac
in the morning but that he must
away for tonight They did not guar
rel. but Steigemann got up and wa
goirg to leave
II had opened the door and was go