The evening world., 1902-11-17
SHOT
IN STRANGE WAY
John Sievers, Jr., Found Fatally
Wounded in Stable of Daniel
MaIIet, Unable to Tell Who
Fired.
TALK OF RELIGIOUS QUARREL

John sievers. jr.. coachman for Daniel
MalIet. a publisher, was mysteriously
shot and probably fatally wounded to-
day in the stable al Mr.. Mallet's resi-
dence at No. $40 Ocean avenue. Brook
Ign.
The shot may have been fred by .
burglar, but the police are ~lnvesti-
eating along other lines.
Sievers, who is tw~enty-seven wears
old. rose at $40 o'clock this morning
as was his custom. and at 6 o'clock
the cook. Pauline wasllawski, saw him
In the stable. At, Z o'clock she went %
the stable to call him to breakfast end
round him sitting at a desk there. lean
Ing over 1t, and blood trlcklIng to the
floor.
Arouslng the household and notifying
Ihe police. the cook assisted in taking
the wounded man into the house He
was dazed and weak and could NOT toll
a clear story of what had hannen.d
was: ""he
passed a window which was open.
az ieelinS a %draught 1 thought 1 wouId
ieturn and close 1t. AS 1 turned 7 "a N,
uaiA OBJECT crouching In the eorper
was not yet daylight and L could NOT
and uIstihctly. l took only one s,en
anu there was a flash and a LII step
%hhu teIt an aWtul pain. 800 hoLse
fnrtbashn and sat down. l could 20 NJ
ty '' aos5tty Vas taken to the Kings coun-
mat the bullet had entereS Louhu
aoiy prove fatal. "ouiu proc
C2roner tIaherty was notified and
went TO the hospital to take the nsnpa
ante-mortem statement, He man .
OntlI wy months ago Sieyers was
cSaGnman for ex-Meyor Schieren. About
said to have resulted between her relas
ives, who were Catholics and wished
her body buried in consecrated RronnJ
n himself who insisted on an inter.
Mr.. Mallet and his brothsr-ip.Iaw
BENJAMIN F. Rowland, are certain tbsi
Sievers was shot by a man from outs
in, walt for him. They are equally eeE.
tain that the man who fired the Shot
was an assassin and not a BURGLAR. '
w Tns fS %as f foan G on tRR is'SI nj or other
ylnces them that Sievers did not a6oot
himself. The window contains nine
small Dsnes Of glass The centre one
ga NAN Nv ASF 80 DAOhNl dA IN nv n
bullet. 1t was not broken last night
The bullet wound In Sievers's chest ind.
Gates that Sieyers was STOPPING to Close
the window when he was shot nv Snmc
one outside Of the stable. ~
Mr.. Mallet, whose residence IL ona NJ
tho handsomest in the Flatbush section
of Brooklyn. Is proprietor of the Hard.
ware Manufacturers Magazine. He
said;
"sievers was as good a servant as INV
family could wish. He had told me OF
his recent troubles and seemed Rreat III
annoyed when old that some OF Tia
persons with whom he had quarrelled
had rented the plot of ground next Ia
wher his wife was buried, In Green
wood Cemetery, and that they Intended
burying there the body OF another
Last summer at Isllp, he had a very
fierce auarroi with one of his WIZ
relatives, and he told me II was so
serious that II was n wonder eltheT
came pack alive. This is not a case Of
| attempted suicide. 1t is not the work
OF a burglar. That shot was fired by
some one who was a bitter enemy and
| who sought revenge"
Mr.. Rowland expressed a similar
Mrs. William Gibson, OF No. All Nine
tenth street. Brooklyn. a sister of
ut is Impossible that my brother
John could have committed suicide.
He had no enemies but some Of his
| wife's relatives, with one OF whom he
qull relied about a month ago, and came
! blows. / DO not know where they live"
The pS..ce made an effort to locate
them during the day, but were unsuc-
cessful.