The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-10-19

BILE that he should live for more than
few moments. while the woman's case
was less desperate, for she suffered but
little pain and lay In sort OF iethargy
on the receiving table, looking occasion
ally wlde-eyed and frightened to the
couch where her husband lay moaning
and crying out, his face scarcely recog-
nizable from blood and the discolora-
ton due to internal hemorrhnge.
Beside the woman stood the old man
who called himself her father. He held
her hand lovingly and spoke to her
softly at intervals in German. telling
her to keep up. her courage and that
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 stood
In the hall all through the time his
daughter was upon the operating table
and fearless and dry-eyed waited for
the result.
my daughter could not live with that
man, her husband" he said. "he treat
ed her had he did. and she was going
to get divorce from him as soon as
she could. A week ago I think II was
she left him and she went to live
with this other fellow. I know not his
name, I never heard her tell 1t. But
tonight her man. this man Stelgemann.
ing out. so my back was toward him,
when heard some shots. / don't know
how many. 1 turned quick and see
my daughter fall. and then her husband
he fall too. I cried for help. and then
the officers come"
You are sure that Stelgemann shot
10,
II don't know. I only saw them fall
It all happened so quick that did not
know whether he did or not. 1t was
all over before I could turn around. 7
don't even know how many times he
fired"
While Mrs. Steigemann lay on the
table in the receiving room at the hos
pital dramatic scene occurred. She
had evinced no curiosity and no feel
Ing for her husband. who lay almost
within reach, groaning and evidently
close to death. But as her eyes roved
about the room she caught a glimpse
through the open window Of two figures
on the veranda looking in. The woman
strove to raise herself but sank back
with groan.
"Oh, Mr.. Strauss! Mr.. Strauss!" she
ry, want to see him. get him for me-"
Strauss replied to her in French urg-
Ing her to answer him In that tongue.
mo, no." she went on eagerly, still
in English. get my friend Berry. Tell
him to come to me. He lives on Hotel
street next to where the Young build
ing stood, in that row of cottages there.
They will tell you about him there; tell
him to come quick"
Then Mr.. Eckhardt closed the window
and the woman sank into lethargy
from which she did not awaken until
she was taken to the operating room,
where Doctors Cooper. Mcdonald and
Emerson probed unsuccessfully for the
bullet which still remained in the body.
They found that the two shots had
seriously injured the woman internally
but whether the wounds would result
fatally could not be ascertained. She
seemed to be suffering little pain, save
when she was moved. and after endeav-
oring In vain to find the bullet, the
doctors judged 1t best to give up the
search.
The prologue to the tragedy has been
short one.
In August Steigemann went to San
Francisco, leaving his wife in charge of
the little shop which the couple conduct
ed on King street. just Eva of the store
Of w. w. Dimond & Co. He made a bus
mess trip and his wife during his absence
lived at their little home.
Upon his return he met his wife, but
there had come a marked change in the
display of her affection for him. Former
Is they We're a loving couple and with
their two children had lived happily to-
Gether. She was distant and showed
tendency to keep apart from him. He
wondered at her strange action, for they
had been married several years, both
coming from the land of the Jewish race
he from Jerusalem and she from Jaffa
He asked her why this change in her
once loving disposition toward him came
about.
Then came the truth.
She did not desire to live longer with
him. She would remain apart. For what
reason?
And then came the cruellest blow the
husband had ever dreamed of In all their
married bliss. The answer came straight
from her lips, and without blush of
shame, that she had been living with a
man in his absence. For this reason she
asked him to get divorce from her.
The husband came from her presence
staggered by the story of infideity which
she had related. He went back to her
and begged her not to take the step which
she had pointed out was the one she most
desired.
He told her of his love for her and their
children and brought before her minds
eye the tenets of the Jewish religion which
forbade such n course being taken. He
told her that II she would return 10 him
he would condone her fault and make 1t
thing of the past.
Then II was she turned upon him and
said that man was not man who would
ecndone sin such as she had committed.
Again and again the husband attempted
to effect n reconciliation. but II was OF no
avail. She spurned his proffers OF love
and fidelity and vowed that she had made
up her mind to be delivered from him and
could not be turned from her purpose
One night last week two well -known at-
torneys were walking up Nuuanu street
and Mt the corner OF Nuuanu and Kultui
they met man dressed only in a pair OF
trousers and an undershirt. He was wild
eyed and In state OF excitement. II was
Steigemann.
lie knew the attorneys and wildly asked
how many years a man would get In pris-