The sun., 1901-10-24
KILLED WOMAN AND HIMSELP.
QUEER MURDER AND SUICIDE
WITH a MOTIVE LACKING.

r..p,e Dead IN Q Third Avenue Hsts,
Both shet In the Night-Man's .
Driver and Respeetsb,e. woman TN
,drntined-Gricf ef stricsen Parents.
AlInan about u years old and . woman
.o,svhat older asked for 4 room for thu
,ght In a Raine- law hotel at Third avenue
and Seventy y-dIth street early on Tuesday
evening. He looked like q laborer. She
~ore spectAclee and had the appearance
n, n school teacher. Both evidently were
Cornans The clerk entered their names
IN the hotel book ~ Emil Schillnger and
~ife. Soon after tho couple had been
shown up to a corner room they called
for two glasses Of lemon soda. The house
keeper. who slept In the next room with
her little daughter. heard them chatting
and laughing till late In the night.
AZ o'clock yesterday afternoon the
chamberr1aid reported that no ono an
.wered when she knocked At tho room door
MAJ Lndenlan. the hotel proprietor, look
ing through the trsnsoni. saw that both
Law dead on the floor In a pool Of blood.
Roth bodies we're cold. The woman lay
With her head Ia the mans lap. Near his
ol,stretched right arm lay a nav revolver
with four empty shells In H. The man
had a wound In the temple and both were
-ounded In the breast. Tho man had
taken OF coat, waistcoat and collar. Tho
woman was fully dressed. Tho bed had
NJ, been slept In.
ON a table near the window was q pile
Of Sven letters, neatly addressed and
enclosad In sealed and stamped envelopes
One vas addressed to Matthias schillinger
of go East Seventy-eighth street. To
tina, address Police Captain Brown sent a
toliceman and he soon returned with an
Old German tinrmith.
-Mv SOM cried the old man when he
caught sight Of the bodies on the floor. and
he tainted
The dead youth the old man said when
he revived, wac his only son, butchers
driver BY trade and boy Of excellent repu-
tatiou Not the slightest clue 20 the
womans identity had been found up till
midnight. although four detectives had
tried all the evening T. learn who she was
Tho letters were turned over unopened
20 the Coroner. The bodies were sent 10
the Morgue
81 the Schilingers the old man and his
wife were seated opposite each other al
round table Between them lay opened an
old-fashioned German Bible and the tearu
were streaming down the wrinkled cheeks
Of the old couple. Outside AZ open-air
Tammany meeting. with all lite accom-
panying noise. was making the night hid
eous, but the bcreavod father and mother
did no, seem TO hear "
They told how their son had left them
Early on Monday morning saving that he
was going "a Boston TO look for a job. They
did not suspect anything at all until the
policemen arrived, and even then they
were far from guessing the truth. He
spoke only English and they nothing but
German. so ths all he could do was TO
bring the father along And the old ma n
had not the slightest forewarning Of wha
had happened until he saw his dead son
in the hotel room.
A curious circumst ance In the case IL
that Ia young Schillnger'- pocket was
found n new gold watch with fob chain.
when II was shown 20 his sisie or In the police
station she exclaimed: That's not my
brothers watch!- Apparently he had
bought II after he left home on Monday
Al that time he had s<5 In his possession
and of this sum only 81 - was left when
he Wa found dead
The fact that no one heard the shooting
4 accounted for by supposing that Schil-
lnger had chosen a moment when an ele-
Vaicd train was PASSING TO shoe; the woman
ard aftcrward himself