New-York tribune., 1900-08-09
TRAGEDY AT ROCKAWAY.
MAN KILLS BRoTHER-IN-LAw, WOUNDS
FATHER AND SHOOTS HIMSELF.

The shooting was done the piazza of the Hol-
land House. at Rockaway Beach.
The shooting followed family quarrel. and
took place in full view OF many persons at
tracted by the quarrel. The man with the re-
volver in turning the weapon upon himself
shortened his life only little. for he is suffer-
ing from consumption in an advanced stage.
Stein lived at No $50 East Seventy seventh
st. The elder Rabiner lives with his family at
No 317 East Seventy-ninth-st. Stein married
a sister OF the man who killed him.
Jacob Rabiner and Stein and their families
have been staying for the summer at the Hol-
land House. near Holland Station, Rockaway
Beach Joseph Rabiner had not been with
them From what can be gathered from MEM
hers Of the family, and also from the angry in
terchange of words before the shooting. the
younger Rabiner had written TO his father re-
peatedly for money. The appeals were not an
swered, and no money sent TO him. 1t is
alleged the young man had made vague threats
that he would do something desperate unless his
demands for money were acceeded to.
JOSEPH DEMANDS MONEY
Young Rabiner went to Rockaway Beach yes
terday afternoon reaching Holland Station
about 5 o'clock, and from there he went at
once to the Holland House. The members OF
the Rabiner and Stein families were sitting on
the veranda of the hotel. Joseph renewed his
demands for money. The father refused on the
ground that he had exceeded allowance
given him. and must wait until the time came
for another payment. There was an angry in
terchange of words between the father and
son. and then the son made motion as II 10
attack the father.
Stein sprang up to prevent any violence, and
stepped between father and son. As he did so
Joseph took step back. and whipping out re-
volver fred The nnuzzle was only few inches
from STEMS head. and the bullet crashed
through his skull and ploughed through hls
brain. He fell with groan, and was dead mo-
ment later when his body was raised from the
floor As Stein fell Joseph Rabiner stepped
closer TO his father, and, pointing the revolver
at his father, again fired. The elder man was
in the act Of rising. The bullet entered his
neck and another, fired instantly. grazed his
cheek AS the father fell backward upon the
body of his son-in-law the son fired fourth
shot This was directed at his own left breast
and then he sent a fifth bullet into his mouth.
He fell near the others.
The greatest excitement prevailed. The wom-
en- on the veranda had begun to scream at the
first display of the revolver. By the time the
shooting was through most of them were either
hysterical or unconscious Men were stunned,
and several of them also tainted. Others rushed
forward to end the tragedy but it took less than
a minute to accomplish it ALL and the first man
to reach the spot was several seconds too late.
A big crowd collected. A train which was stand
ing at the station emptied of its load of
passengers in an instant. Many saw the shoot
ing from the ground.
MUCH WORK FOR THE POLICE.
Captain Kreuscher. with the entire reserve
squad of police and as many men as he could
call in from patrol, hurried to the Holland
House. All the policemen who reached the hotel
we're needed to hold the crowd in check.
During the excitement thieves entered the
hotel and. it is said. secured considerable booty
in rooms from which guests had rushed to the
veranda.
The wounded father and son were carried into
the hotel. Doctors were summoned but could
do little except advise the removal Of both TO a
hospital The doctor examined Stein and said
death must have been instantaneous. the bull
let must have torn both lobes OF the brain.
The revolver used was a .32-calibre, five cham
bered weapon The doctors who examined the
wounded men at the beach said it seemed I'M
possible that the son could live. but that there
a chance for the father
The wounded men were taken by train to
Long Island City. There an ambulance took
them to St. Johns Hospital
FATHERS WOUNDS NOT DANGEROUS.
The father was the first taken into the oper-
muscles over the shoulder and passed into the
neck. The probe showed that instead of taking
inward course the bullet ploughed through
the flesh and touched no vital point. The
wound in the cheek was even less serious, it
was superficial.
The murderer's wound is fatal. He is bleed
ing internally. He was told he must die. He
said he knew It, and was glad.
He made ante-mortem statement, in which
he said that he suffering from consumption
father
He had been placed in st. Joseph's Hospital by
his father. He had entered that institution in
February. but did not like 1t and left it, He
had informed his father Of his intention to leave
His father then had made allowance of $6 a
week for him. He found he could not live on
this. and had asked his father for more On
Friday, when he had made the request
he had received no decided answer. He had
then made up his mind to kill himself and
made preparations to shoot himself. but decided
to wait and make one more appeal for money
He had gone 10 Rockaway and received de-
cided refusal He mad then begun to shoot and
had been beside himself with anger He had
not meant to shoot his bTother-in-law who had
got in the way as he fired at his father He
was sorry he shot his brother-in-law and also
sorry he had shot his father but was glad he
had shot himself and was glad the doctors told
him emust die. He hoped he would not linger
long
When still at Rockaway Rabiner recognized
the police captain and showed that the murder
of his father was preneditated. He had drawn
up paper stating the trouble between him and
his father and reciting what he claimed to he
the wrongs he had suffered at the hands OF his
father 1t also asked that his aunt Mrs s
Benson. of No. ia East hundred and six
teenth-st.. be informed of what he had done The
pistol appears TO be new.
One OF the notes addressed to the father
reads:
and had four. hemorrhages last week / must 't be
take taken Ca care m Of AID win not 60 to a hospital
selves unconscious and ignorant of how am