The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-03-30
KILLED THEM ALL.
a Wife's Love Of Dancing Makes Her
Husband Commit
TERRIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
Mortally Wounded, the Wife Fights
for Her Child, but the Fren-
zied Husband Kills Child
and Himself.

Maddened by Jealousy and stung by
bitter words Of reproaeh, Christian
Kirschofer, a Williamsburg, n. ".
hotel keeper, shot and mortally
wounded his young wife, slew his
four-year-old son and took his own:
life Wednesday. The tragedy was.
the end Of martial history Of FIVE:
years, beginning with Kischofer's
elopement with the woman he killed
Wednesday and who was then his
wife's niece. After the death of his
wife be married the niece.
Residents in the neighborhood Of,
Kent avenue and South First street
were startled by a succession Of pistol
shots in the second story of Kirschofs,
er'S Hotel, at No. 965 Kent avenue,
about 1890 a. m. Wednesday. The
shrieks Of ''Murder!m "Policew in a.
woman's voice, brought Policeman
F'allon, Of the Sixtieth Precinct;
George Ehnenn, a citizen, and Fire
man George Mulligan, who rushed up
stairs, burst in the door Of the apart
ment in time to see the murderer fire
shot inth his own head.
The policeman grappled with the:
man, who, although wounded to:
death, still struggled sayagely to fire
upon the intruders. AS the revolver
was Wrenched from the maniac,s
hand, he fell to the floor and expired 8
The room resembled shameless,
On the floor, near the door leading;
into the rear room, lay the murdeFer'Ss
little son, gasping in the throesIof
death. Swooning, at the window,
which the wounded mother had raised:
in her frantic efforts to escape her.
doom, hung the body Of Mrs. Kirsch-s
offer, with blood streaming from a
wound under the chin.
The police officer picked up the;
child and FASTENED with him into the
street in search Of medical aid. But
the little fellow expired before an am
bulance from the Eastern District
Hospital arrived. His fathers bullet
had pierced his brain.
Meanwhile Ehnenn and Mu1igan-
carried the wounded woman DOWN
stairs, and into a neighboring store
She did not regain consciousness, but
murmered the name Of her little boys
When partly revived by Ambulance
Surgeon Shanks she prayed them to-
save her baby. So
The crime was undoubtedly premed-
itated and carefully planned. Kirsch-
offer was insanely jealous Of his wife,
She mad youth andTosy cheeks, and
was but twenty-six years old. He was
forty. he objected to her gayety,.
and protested against her attend
ance at dances. She went over to-
Elizabethport on Monday night to at
tend a masquerade. The husband OBJ
jected, but the young wife had pre-
pared a costume. and she went, de-
spite protests, to the home Of her
cousin, Michael Ma1tz, with whose
family she attended the ball.
Mrs. Kirschofer did not return home
until nine o'clock Tuesday morning.
The husband met her with furious
anger. a bitter quarrel followed dur
ing which dishes were thrown by
both.
Having exhausted stheir passion,
husband and wife went. about their
several duties in connection with their:
restaurant; the man going upstairs,
donning bis best clothes and then
hurrying to the butcher shop whele
be bought a lot Of meat. he next
bought a pistol, which be loaded.
From the gun shop Kirschofer
went into the saloon kept by his life
long friend, Frederick Bertz, at the
corner of Wythe avenue and South
First street. Here he drank deeply,
announcing that it was TIE last glass
of liquor be would ever swallow in this
world.
Arrived at his home the man called
his wife and child into the sleeping
rooms Of the family on the second
floor, locked the door and deliberately
murdered them. He threw the wo-
man upon the bed in the front room
and fred the weapon into her throat,:
the ball passing through the chin and
into the bones Of the head. The wo-
man appears to nave struggled wildly
for her child's life, for she broke away,
and running to the window farthest
from the bed, threw up the lower sash
and shrieked for help. Aid came too
late tor as the woman ran the husband
put bullet in the boys head.