The evening world., 1903-01-06
H%unnemeter. aPretty
Harlem Girl. Dies Of
Poison, and the Belief Is
that Her Father Muir.
dered Her.
HE ENDS HIS oWN LIFE.
When the Police Tried to Notify
Him of Tragedy at His Home
He Was Dying from Pts
toI Shot-He Was a Drug
Fiend-He Had Left His Wife.

Jennie Hunnemeter, a pretty Girl. was
found lead from poison In her home,
No. as East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street, to-day. A few hours later
her father. John. was found with a bull
let In his brain in Tyrrell's printing es-
Establishment, No. 1919 F@:on street,
where he was employed. He was taken
TO the Hudson Street House of Relief,
where he died.
The father and the girl rented the
apartment they lived in from John C.
Campbell. the owner of the house. about
six months ago. He Informed Mr..
Campbell at the tine that he had sep
arated from his wife, who lived with
his four other children at 2246 Second
avenue. Both father and daughter
seemed TO entertain the greatest affec-
ton for each other.
Found Dead I'm Her Bed.
About 0 o'clock to-day Mr.. Campbell
went to the apartment. The door was
open and he walked in. When he
O@ShSA Gh~ SUITS pSSASOAh ~ LOunu ItCE'
stretched IN bed. At FIRST IN thought
She vas asleep. but upon going close
10 the bed discovered that she was dead.
On a. little table by the bed was an
empty bromo-seltzer bottle.
Or. Donovan. OF the Harlem HospGtai.
was summoned. He said she had been
poisoned. but an autopsy would be neces-s
sary TO determine the mature of the
poison. .
The sergeant of the East One Hundred
n Twenty-sixth street station called
I'D the father to notify him of his
daughters death. Mr., Tyrrell went to
the phone and told the sergeant tina
hardly five minutes before Hunnometer,
or Charles Henry. as he had known him
for twenty years, a been found un-
conscious behind the elevator with a
bullet wound in his head.
Father Missing Since SATURDAY..
1T was learned at the Fulton street
printing establishment that Hunnemetsr
had not been seen since saturday until
he was found, dying behind the elevator
shaft. Mr.. Tyrrcll said that the man
had worked there under the name OF
Henry and was always very close
about his personal affairs, but
had spoken OF separating from his wife
about six months ago. Mr.. Tyrrell said
that often people would call up on the
telephone asking for Hunnemeter and
Henry would answer the call.
Cant. McCiusky, ex-Chief OF the De-
tective Bureau. who is now In command
Of the East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street station. took charge of the
investigation into the girls death, and
after taking possession, of the little blue
bromo-seltzcr bottle announcer that she
had died from some. poison and had been
He SAID that he had learned
that HunneDster had both morphine
and arsenic In his poasetsion and that
he was very skiIfnl a. preparing the
drugs.
Mr.. Campbell landlord Of ti,s One
Hundred and rwsnty-Sikth street house,
before going TO the HunneYetSrs ro6mS
to-day found a letter Written By tho
Ofsths dead GIRL IN Nhieh he
said;
Don't wake Jennie this morning. she
is no feeling weli. Let her sleep."
ner,s Physician o'Hanion. went 70 de
girls house 40 Investigate the cause OF
her death, said. when he returned, that
Il was bis belief that the 6ather had
poisoned his daughter and had then
committed suicide.
Mothet Hears the News.
Mrs. Hunnemeter was notified of her
daughters death by Mr.. Campbaii ana
went 70 the Iast One Hundred and
Marge OF her effects. When Abe ar
rived at the house she WA Uniformed
that her husband had died IN (he hoe-
pitai, She exhibited little emotion.
She said she was married to Hume
meter twenty years ago. She has M
chtIdren living Hunnsmeter. she said.
and a year ago ne left her after thev
had duarrelled about his habit. ~
yennie, who, was eighteen years ola
and next 70 The eldest o. me seven Gull
dren, went with her father. Mrs. Hum
nametsr said that they FURNISHED a VERY
a " Harlem-ehe dld not
the a~ddreaS-where they lfvSd
six weeks ego. when the GffI aud- |
denly sold al the furniture. Then thsv
moved 70 the One HUNDRED and Twen1y.
siKfh street blouse.
Nrs. Hunnsmsl q said mat on Christ