The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-18
VICTIM OF men.
Mrs. Klippert Deserted by
Her Husband and Perse-
cuted by a Suitor Kill
ed Herself.
FOUND BY HER SON DEAD
A Note Said She Was Tired Of
Life and the Detection
OF Friends.

! Inc thlTd suicide reported from the
Sixth police precinct this week is that of
Mrs. Annie Klippert, who was found yes
terday morning dead in the dining room
of her home, No. 1s9 Congress street. She
was sitting at her dining table with her
head resting on her folded arms. In her
mouth was the end of a portion of the
| rubber tube that had connected a gas
burner of the chandelier above with gas
lamp.
The suicide was not reported to the
police at the time and was accidentally
discovered by Policeman Bunnell late last
| night.
The lifeless body of the unfortunate wo-
man was found by her adopted son.
Charles. On the table beside her was a
note written in German, saying that she
was tired of living because her friends had
deserted her
There are two other theories as to the
cause that led her to take her life She
was handsome blonde woman of forty
years, with blue eyes and large statu-
esque figure A year ago last June she
was apparently living happily with her
husband They were both theatrical wig
makers and had built up lucrative busi-
| ness. At that time her husband persuaded
her to go to Europe on visit to his re-
lations, telling her what nice people they
were and what a good time she would
4 nave. She went to Europe and spent sew
eral months. On her return she was
amazed to find that her husband had gone
| off with another woman, had sold out the
| business they had built up and had even
sold their furniture. After her first spell
of grief subsided, with the aid of friends
| the plucky woman started in business as
| a wig maker al me. She had been sue
| cessful, lived comfortably and there is
| quite neat sum of money in bank to her
! credit. She went to work in the shop
| with her son Charles and a girl yesterday
| morning. She appeared troubled, but not
! so much so as to occasion any alarm.
About nine O'Clock she went up stairs.
j Charles had occasion to consult her about
| some work and going up stairs to the
dining room found her dead.
Some time ago she applied for decree
| of divorce on a ground of desertion At
| tentions had been paid her by a man
] who now lives in Brooklyn. She discev-
cred that this man was married She
| refused to receive his attentions after
| that On Thursday Mrs Klippert appear
| ed in the Second Criminal Court and
| asked for a warrant for the arrest of
| this man for threatening her with bodily
| harm. She stated at the time that he
| had been annoying her and threatening
to kill her if she did not marry him.
! The warrant was issued and given to
Policeman Bunnell to serve Bunnell
/ thought he might find the man at Mrs
! Klippert's house last night and it was
| while inquiring for him that he discov-
cred that Mrs. Klippert had committed
suicide.
| That she killed herself because Ter
friends had deserted her did not seem
correct, as friends were visiting the house
| all the morning. She was one of the most
i popular members of the Algemina Staber
Kasse. One of the woman's close friends
said that notwithstanding Mrs. Klippert
! expected a decree of divorce on August
%, she will still hoping and expecting his
return. and the expressed opinion that
grief over the failure of her husband to
| return that led her to take her life. This
friend knew nothing at the time of the
| warrant for the Brooklyn mans arrest.
Nothing is known of the whereabouts of
the dead womans husband. Her funeral
will take place from her late home Mon
day afternoon.
The name of the Brooklyn man referred
to in the story is Carl Stinzel, No. 80
Garnet street
There seems to be a general local epi-
demic of suicides. Four cases have been
reported in the past month. Three of
them We're girls and one middfe-aged
woman. Besides the case of Mrs. Kqippert
reported yesterday, an account of which
Is found in today's paper, those of Lizzie
ltF'ftten. Agnes Kastenschmidt and Lydia
Jensen are recalled Lizzie Fitten, do
mestic in the employ of the family of
George Cranmer. of No. 55S Newark ave-
nue. on July 10 drank carbo1ic acid She
left a note saying she was tired of living
as she was friendless and no one would
miss her
Pretty sixteen year old Agnes Kasten-
schmidt, of Palisade avenue, on Friday of
last week killed hersef because the par
ents of her seventeen year old lover object
ed to their marriage. She wrote letters
asking the forgiveness of her father and
her lover for her deed but tore them up
just before she took her life by inhaling
gas through gas tube taken from a gas
stove and adjusted to a gas burner in her
bedroom. The bits of paper were picked
out of a coal scuttle and pasted together
Lydia Jensen, eighteen years old, Of No.
1853 Columbia avenue, a forewoman en-
ployed in the Hills silk mill in Summit
avenue. dressed herself at noon on We'd
nesday last, saying she was going to visit
New York. Her dead body was found in
a storage room on the second floor of her
home with an empty bottle that had con-
tanned carbolic acid lying near by, and
Io.a - l.-.
leaving directions for her burial. Her
death is supposed to be due to family
troubles.
PoLIcEMAN'S BADGE LOST.