The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-06
MURDER TO Be RID OF WOMAN
".HRS. SCHROEDER" SHOT DEAD
IN RiINES Law HOTEL.
Bollinger. Who Killed Her and Carried
Three Reyolyers. Says she'd Hounded
Tin-Man she'd Claimed as Hus-
band Denies That They We're Married.


Iiini-Man she'd Claimed as Hus-
band Denies That They We're Married.
middle-aged man, stockily built and OF
I medium height, with long sandy mustache
and bald head, entered the low ceillnged
dining room on the second floor OF Tom
Sullivan's Raines law hotel. the Monogram,
at Second avenue and Seventy ninth street,
at $50 o'clock yesterday morning.
In the room at the time were seven other
persons, all men except two. One OF the
women, perhaps 25 years old, was tall
blonde, well dressed and rather good looking.
She was sitting at a table near the centre
Of the room with two men.
The newcomer looked at her and slipped
into seat at a table near the door, at which
Henry Wenke Of 1895 Avenue A was sitting.
The girls back was toward the bald headed
man at first He watched her SO closely
and seemed SO nervous that Wenke noticed
his peculiar manner. Wenke does not re-
member whether the stranger had anything
10 drink or not.
He had been at the table probably an
hour when he arose quietly and walked
over to the table where the young woman
was sitting She did not seem to be startled
when she saw him. hut drew away when he
leaned over and started to say something
to her The men at the table could not
here what his remarks were.
He persisted in his effort to talk to the
girl and she jumped up and ran to another
table. where nobody was sitting. The bald
headed man followed her and sat down
opposite her. She drew away again, re-
firing TO another table in corner OF the
room.
The man sat alone for some time. his eyes
fastened on the girl. The CIR. herself
appeared 10 be indifferent. Others in the
room laughed; they thought 1t was good
joke. Finally the man moved TO seat
opposite the girl, leaned over and started
10 address her again. She jumped up and
drew away further into the corner. The
man, too. sprang to his feet. took a revolver
from his hip pocket and fired three times
al the girl.
The first shot hit her In the right shoulder;
the second pierced her heart and the third
went wide She screamed and staggered
toward the door.
The bald headed man fired again, but
missed and was pressing the trigger for
the fifth shot when Edward Fenlmore OF
337 East Eightieth street, one Of the men
in the place, grappled with him and
wrenched the revolver away. II fell TO
the floor and they struggled out over the
body Of the girl 70 the hallway and rolled
down the stairs
The girl died before she reached the
Presbyterian Hospital The murderer WAS
unconscious when he was picked up at the
bottom OF the stairs and had an ugly scalp
wound He also was taken to the Presby-
terian Hospital He will recover
When he was revived the man told the
police that he was Emil Bollinger engineer
and janitor at the Good Samaritan Dis
pensary at Broome and Essex streets,
and that the woman was Mrs; Louise
Schroeder. Her maiden name he said, |
was Adams, and her family lived in Astoria. |
A man who said that he was relative of |
the girl called at the East Sixty-seventh !
street police station and, refusing TO tell |
his name said that he would communicate !
with the family At late hour last night |
the body was still unclaimed at the hospital. |
b, sides the revolver with which he COM |
mitted the crime. Bollinger had another |
revolver and an old fashioned short barrel |
pistol OF the Derr1nger type, both loaded. |
The butt of the latter was so arranged |
that IL could be used as metal knuckies. |
IL also was loaded.
Bollinger refused to make any statement |
TO Coroner Schoer, but he told a police
man that he had killed the woman because |
she had put him on the bum She was. |
he said, in love with him, and had bounded |
him for a long time. He did not care for
her, he said
He had known her for six or seven years
After she was married Bollinger said, he
continued 10 meet her until about six months
ago. when he made up his mind that he
would get rid Of her
He says that he gave her money and ehe
went 10 Denver, Col. but that she returned
a short time ago and on Saturday tele-
phoned him to meet her at the Monogram
Hotel He had made up his mind that
he would have to do something 10 nd him
self Of her. His own wife, he said, had left
him some time ago and was living with
her mother
Mrs. Bollinger was found at Iii West
Fifty-third street last night, She said
that her husband met the Adams woman
several years ago. Mrs Boinger dis
covered his infatuation for her two years
ago and left him.
A year ago. she said Emil went west
to buy farm and left $3.50 as a deposit
on the purchase. He never took the prop
erty, but sent the Adams woman for the
money about six months ago understand
she came back 10 this city and refused to
give him the money. | would not be sur
prised If it was on account Of this that he
shot her
George Schroeder. who Bollinger said.
was the husband OF the young woman,
is a sign painter living at elo Broadway.
Astoria. He denied last night that the
woman was his wife. He said that she
came to him once and set up the claim that
she was his common law wife. When he
refused TO acknowledge the claim she
attempted to kill herself by taking car
bolic acid.
Sullivan, the proprietor Of the hotel in
which the murder was committed. insisted
last night that the couple arrived at the
hotel together at II o'clock on Saturday
night and registered as John and Mary
Frank Second avenue and Thirteth street"
They retired to their room. Sullivan says,
and came down into the dining room early
in the morning.
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