New-York tribune., 1905-01-30
JILTED MAN A SUICIDE.
SHOOTS WOMAN FIRST.
She Not Expected to L'ce-Nes'
.Suitor Faints Near Body.

George Frehart, twenty-five years old, Of NO.
"a West lSth-st, Bayonne,o n. j.. in the hall
way of the five story flathouse at NO III East
| 51st-st last night fred four shots at MISS
Annie Pophusen, and with the htth sent ouAet
! into his own brain. Miss Pophusen was wound
ed in the mouth left side of the neck lett cheeK
and left arm. She was taken to Flower Hospital
where it was said she had only slight chance
for recovery.
She had been engaged to marry Frenart. Inc
engagement was broken, and. after making sew
eraI attempts to win her back. he carried OUT MS
threat 10 shoot her and Kill himself.
Miss Pophusen lived with her aunt Mrs. Fred
erick Pophusen. and her cousin Mollie on the
ton floor. She had lived for several years in
Bavonue and there had met Frehart He was
a German, six feet one inch tall. Two years ago
they parted and Miss PophUsen came here to
become 4 saieswoman in Bloomingdale's depart
ment store She had not seen Frehart in over
a year, and had new suitor, George Fleischer.
OF No. 221 East 51th-st, when about two weeks
ago she met Frehart while she was going 20 the
office of DR.. II. o. Goetchires, of No l3O East
54th-st He begged ner to take him back. She
refused. and he told her that he would meet her
before long.
And YOU be ready to die he told her.
you've ruined my life and disglaced
I'll kill YOU for it II I go to the chair. No,
won't go to the chair. I'll go With YOU al the
same time"
Miss Pophusen tore herself from his grasp and
when she reached her physicians office she was
hystericaI. She told the doctor what Frehart
had said lie advised her TO keep sharp look
out for Frehart, and to ask the police for pro-
lection. She agreed TO do that but after talk
ing ii over with her aunt and cousin decided to
keep the affair secret.
About s o'clock last night Miss Pophusen
dressed herself and told her aunt she was going
out with Mr.. Flescher. She heard the bell ring
and. thinking Mr. Fleischer at the door,
hurried it,
Miss Anna Luckett, of No. % West 11th-st.
who had been visiting a friend in the house.
followed Miss Pophusen She was two fights
behind her when the latter reached the hallway
Miss Luckett said she heard man growl out an
OATH heard Miss Pophusen's half smothered
scream, and then five shots.
When Miss Luckett reached the door she saw
Frehart lying in pool of his own blood. few
feet away lay Miss Pophusen, half conscious,
and making feeble efforts to get to the door
Miss Luckett's screams and the shots, and a
few minutes later, the appearance of the injured
woman's aunt and cousin, who added their cries
for help, aroused the house and in a few min
utes the neig9lborhood.
half block away, and Sergeant Meehan turned
out with his reserves. He needed them all, for
when he got TO the house several hundred ex-
cited men and women were surging about and
had crowded even into the hall. Miss Pophusen
carried to the rear of the hallway and
was able to tell who Frehart was.
Dr. Dominick hurried her 10 Flower Hospital
| She was at once put on the operating table, but
the surgeons shook their heads. They would try
TO her life, they said, but feared their ef-
/ forts would be in vain.
One of the first 10 arrive after the shooting
! was Mr.. Fleischer. He heard that somebody
had been shot, and, knowing that his sweetheart
had been threatened, he fought like a madman
| TO get through the crowd When he saw that
his suspicion was confirmed he fell in a faint.
Friends carried him to the Office of DR.. Goetchius
and later he was taken home DR.. Goetchius
had TO spend hour with the aunt and cousin,
as they declared they would end their lives.
Coroner Goldenkranz warned the police not to
remove Frehart's body until he got there. An
hour passed before his arrival. and in the mean
time the police had to fight with the morbid
crowd.
The coroner found two letters IN Frehart's
clothing One addressed to Frederick Cune
No. q West 1Sth-st.. Hoboken. In it Frehart
announced his intention TO kill Miss PophUsen
and told where he had on deposit S175, which
he directed Cune to get and bury him.
FOR I VIII kill myself he wrote, as 1 do
not mean TO die in the chair" The second let
ter ITO Whom 1t May Concern" Coroner
Goldenkranz would not give the text OF that or
the first letter, but said that in the second the
writer said Miss Pophusen had ruined and dis
ran. II will die the same day. I cannot stand
it. Ny money is gone and for her. and she has
thrown me over