The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-10
KILLS WOMAN hi HGDPURSUED
> CLEVELAND MAN COMES TO NEW
YORK AND DOES MURDER.

Arrested. He Says He Meant Only % wound
FHis Former Partners WlRe. WhO Mad
Spurned HIs Persistent Atsentl0Os-He
kEas VIE and -Four Children in OhAO
Mrs. Dora StieveI. 81 years old. the wife
OF IsadOr Stlevel. q clothing cutter. Of
90 Myrtle avenue. Brooklyn. was shot
and instantly killed yesterday by Joseph
Schmulvitz OF Cleveland. whose attentions
she had repealed for several years. He
was arrested.
Schmulvitz. who 10 IS years old. irst met
tho woman when she and her husband and
their two children. Julius and Father. now
sand 7 years old. lived In Boston. SckmuI-
vitz and Stievel Won Into q partnership meat
business and while 30 engaged SOhmulvits
began 20 pay attention to his partners
wife. Mrs. Stievel did not encourage tho
man and, becoming alarmed at his per-
sistence. she told her husband. Stievel
dissolved the partnership and with his
family went to SAndusky. Ohio. Schmul-
vitS followed them to that town and tried
% see Mrs. Stievcl. He also wrote love
letters to her. but she ignored them.
In order to get rid of the man the Stievels
moved TO Philadelphia. and they had been
there only a few months when Schmulvits
learned where they we're n renewed his
advances 20 Mrs. Stievel. IL was then
that the family moved to Brooklyn.
Sohmulvitz went to Cleveland. Recently
he found out that the Stievels were In
Brooklyn and by following Stievel from
his place Of employment in Houston street
to his home ne learned where they lived.
II was alleged that he resumed his love
letter writing to Mrs. StieVel md held out
Inducements to her to leave her husband
and marry him. Mrs. Stievel burned the
letters.
Yesterday morning Schmulvitz waited
near the large apartment house in which
the Stievels live until he saw Stievel going
away. Then he found the iaDitOr OF tho
house and asked him where the Stievels
lived. He was directed TO the second floor
rear.
Mrs. Stievel and her two children we're
seated at the breakfast table and a neighbor
Mrs. Mary kassenbaum. was in the room
SOhmulvitz quietly opened the hall door
and as he stepped into the kitchen he drew
a u calibre revolver M without saying a
word he began to shoot at MRS. Stievel.
Her back was turned to the man. The
Lrst bullet passed close to tho head Of Mrs
k~assenbaum n lodged in the wall.
SchmulvItz hred a second time and the
bullet entered MRS. Suevel's back on the
left side and went through the heart. she
lell dead.
The murderer ran from the house pur-
sued by MRS. h~assenbaum, who screamed
for help. A large crowd followed Schmul-
vitz along Myrtle avenue TO thrOop avenue.
where he threw away the revolver. two
young men. Alexander GOlofstein Of 2l7
vernon avenue and William hrietzman,
who lives at z54 Stockholm street. overlook
SchmulVItZ and held HIM until Policemen
Minneman and Shutter Of the Vernon avenue
station appeared. before they took charge
IT the murderer he had been roughly
handled by the crowd. Ambulance Sur
xeun Goou, who was from the
Cumberland Street Hospital. pronounced
Mrs. StIevel dead.
Schmulvit1 was taken TO the police
station under a strong guard and when
questioned by Capt. Hughes he simply said
nat Mrs. StIevel had ruined his ME and
that he did not intend TO kill her. He
added hat he had a wife and four children
IN Cleveland. but that he loved Mrs. Stievel
and had frequently sent money to her.
Schmulvitz was taken later to the Man
haitian VEN police court, where he said
hat he meant only to shoot mrs. Stievel IN
The leg or arm. The court attendants said
rhe man acted queer" He was committed
by magistrate Ohellly to avail the action
Of the Coroner.