The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-01
SAYS THEY'LL KILL HIM
Youth Asks Protection From
Wrath Of Brothers Of
Dead Sweetheart.

Eighteen-year-old Helena Hecht, of Io-
boken, drank carbolic acid at her home,
No. S19 Madison street, on Monday be-
cause, it was announced, her parents OBJ
jected to the man she loved and desired
for a husband. She died in st. Mary's
Hospital the same day, requesting that
the identity of her lover be not made
public. Considerable secrecy was MAIN
tanned in connection with the young wom-
ans suicide until yesterday, when the
young man for whom she was supposed to
have died appeared before Justice George
Seymour seeking protection from her two
brothers, who, he said, had vowed to kill
him. The youth is Robert Kleimandt,
twenty-one years old, until yesterday jun
ior partner of the American Aluminium
Novelty Company, composed of Livings-
ton & Kleinandt, No. 313 Clinton street.
Kleimandt is extremely youthful in APP
pearance and the story of the shattered
hopes and gloomy prospects resulting
from the rash conduct of his loved one,
he told between sobs.
1.-THE suicide of Helena Heckt has af-
fected me so much that have trans
ferred all my business interests to my
partner and will go to sea- he said. Il
followed seafaring life from the time I
was fourteen until year ago. when l
came to Hoboken and started in busi-
ness with Livingston. It's now about
nine months since met poor Helena at
sociable and began an acquaintance
with her that soon grew into love. I
called at her parents home frequently
and my intentions to her were known to
all of her people. We made each other
A 1at 7 CHI ,ad
on her wrist when she died.
II don't know why her brothers should
bear me any malice. They know that
loved her and could not in any way have
been responsible for her death. We at
tended dance together Saturday night
and parted from each other feeling very
happy I asked her that night to name
the day of our wedding. She said she
would be eighteen years old on the four
teenth of July next, and that she would
like to be married on that day above all
others. 1 did not see her agains until
Monday morning when she came to me
crying and said she was going away on
visit. When she bade me goodbye / be-
came frightened and emplored her to let
me know her trouble. She replied that
she would be soon free from trouble.
Then she frightened up and left me.
Il was attending meeting of an or
ganization down town when the report of
her death reached me in the evening.
Her two brothers, Frederick and Rudolph,
l was told, were looking for me and
threatening my life for having caused her
death. Fifteen members of the club per-
sisted in accompanying me to the parents
home where the body lay. / was entering
the house when the brothers grabbed me
and started in to become rough. My
friends pulled me away from them and
1 withdrew from the place feeling so
ashamed that such a scene should be
enacted SO near to where poor Helena
body was that l had to cry.
The brothers have been looking for re
since. They threaten to kill me the first
opportunity that comes along. am go-
ing to leave Hoboken in a week or two
In the meantime I wish to seek protec-
tion. z
Justice Seymour has issued summonses
for the appearance Of the brothers before
him this evening He intends to put them
under bonds to keep the peace with
Ixleimandt for sixty days If the declara-
tions made prove true.