Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-15
KILLED At A WINDOW
Wealthy Real Estate Man Muir
dered in Gotham.
BIG CIGAR ONLY CLUE
Man Could Only Say Before Dying
Stout Man Did It.
REPORT OF FAMILY QUARRELS
Police Are Investigating-Body Was
Found at the Foot of the
Fire Escape.
REPORT OF FAMILY QUARREL.

NEW YORK, April ia fat. black
cigar, larger than the average, supposed
to have been dropped by murderer in his
flight, is the only apparent clue. If 1T can
be considered such, to the killing Of
George ]. Schanbacher. a wealthy real
estate dealer, who was found dying in his
home at 3O7 East 44th street early yester-
day morning. and who was dead a few
hours later in Flower Hospital Nothing
was taken BY the burglar. If burglar it
was.
There was a shout and a pistol shot. and
when the family, aroused from their sum-
bers. rushed in they found Mr.. Schanbach-
er standing in his night clothes looking
blankly at an open window. Blood was
flowing from wound In his stomach and
a dark stain showed upon his night clothes.
"A man shot me. He was short and stout
and-dark, very dark whispered the
wounded man as his wife and sons gather
ed about him. He could say no more and
was assisted to couch. Whether he
meant the man was dark or referred to the
darkness of the room is not known. He
was too weak to explain further There
light in the room except for the
dim rays which came through the open
door from a gas jet turned low in the ktch-
en- nearby.
All the Stories Agree.
But the open window was there and a
fire escape outside. 1t seemed to tell the
story of the murderer's flight after that
one shot was fired. Such is the story told
by the family of the murdered man. story
in which the police have been able to pick
no flaw in spite of a day mainly in having
the stories OF every one of the nine Schan-
bacher children and of the wife told over
and over again and compared with the
other.
The cigar was found by Frederick Schan-
bacher, one of the sons when daylight
came and the rear yard was searched. 1t
lay just under the fire escape. as though
it had fallen from the pocket of a man in
great haste. scrambling down the Iron lad
der. 1t had no band, and was such q cigar
man would have bought in saloon.
There are no smokers in the Schanbacher
family.
When the Schanbacher lad took the cigar
to the East 5lst street station and offered
it to the house sergeant, he says the SER
geant exclaimed:
This is no evidence. Take It and smoke
1t yourself" But the lad insisted that 1t
be taken. He left ii there
Mr.. Schumacher was looked upon as one
of the weaithiest men in the nefghborhood
He owned the apartment house in which he
lived, also one on East I'D street. His
greatest money-making system, however
was to rent entire blocks OF apartment
houses and tenements and sublet them as
apartments. At one time he rented Guinea
row." on 45th street. He also rented all
the houses in the block In which he lived,
between LIST and I'd avenues He usually
collected his rents Saturday and deposited
them in the bank on the following Monday.
This was known to- every one I'm the neigh
borhood.
Dead Man Suffered From Asthma
But last Friday Schanbacher was I'll He
was chronic sufferer from asthma. Satur-