New-York tribune., 1905-02-06
KILLS WOMAN IN HOTEL.
SAYS SHE RUINED HIN.
Murderer Had Three Pistols
Beaten by Witnesses of Crime.

Mrs. Louise Schroeder shot and killed in
stanty in the Hotel Monogram, Sd-ave ana 'stl-st'
early yesterday by Emil Bollinger, who was in
tured in a desperate effort TO escape. Bol1nger,
who is engineer and janitor at the Good samaritan
Dlspensary. Essex and Broome sts. had been sepa-
rated from his wife He attributed his ruin TO the
woman he killed.
Bollinger had arranged TO meet the woman IN a
hotel in 3d-ave. Not finding her there, he went to
The Hotel Monogram where she was sitting In
back drinking with two men. AT midnight
the party went upstairs to the dining room Bal
linger seated himself in another part of the dining
room. and for hours drank and watched the
woman and men,
Just before o'clock. when they made ready TO
go. Bollnger went TO their table. His lips moved
though he saying something. but no one
in the room heard word. Tnen Bollinger drew
a revolver and fired at the
The bullet lodged in her neck passing through
the throat. With cry. she staggered toward the
door. Boinger fired again. the second bullet pierc
ing her heart
Bollinger threw the revolver into an adjoining
room and made a dash for the stairs. Thomas
Sullivan. the hotel proprietor. had upstairs at
the first shot fired and reached the top of the
stairs when the half dozen men in the room threw
themselves on Bollinger. His head and body
injured by the blows they rained on him. In try
ing to go down the stairs leading of the hotel
ne pitched forward headforemost and landed
the feet of Patrolman Dent of the East 67th-st.
station. who had heard the pistol saots
Unaware OF the woman's death, he had a call
sent to the Presbyterian Hospital for an ambu-
lance to take the nsensble Ballnger TO the hos
pital When he learned OF the tragedy he had DR.
COOK take the woman's body the hospital in
the same ambulance. "
When Bollinser searched two more revolvers
Were found.
Patroman Van Twistern, who guarded Bouinger
at the hospital. said that the prisoner told him
ne mad known the woman Intimately for several
years and that she had ruined me- BoIlinger
said he had given the woman money TO 90 to
renewed her acquaintance with him. The prisoner
SAID he was formerly tailor. but that all his
money went to, the woman and that he separated
from his wife. 80 =
Mrs: Bollinger who lives at No. III West 5Sd-st
with her mother, said that two years ago on ac-
count OF her husbands infatuation for the woman
she LETT hm: \ year ago he went West to buy a
farm and left $3.50 deposit there. He sent the
woman. whom she knew as Louisa Adams, for the
back to this city with it, refused TO give il to
Bollnger. She declared that the Adams woman
served sentence OF six months in connection with
an assault made on fourteen-year-old girl at a
hotel at Long Island City. She was accused of
inveigling the girl to the place
Edward Shredder. Of No. 6l0 Broadway, last night
said the woman never had any right to use his
name, although at times she claimed to be his wife
He denied that he had married her She had been
He last saw her home four months ago. Several
times she had tried TO do him bodily harm. Once
she attacked him with glass and almost severed
his upper lip
Last August she went to his home and demanded
that his father and mother recognize her as their
daughter-in-law. She had a bottle of carbolic acid
and threatened to burn him.