Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-08
NURSE KILLS DOCTOR
Lures With False Sick Call and
Stays With Bullet.
SAYS HE WRONGED HER
Ambushes Man in Vestibule and
Fires Without Warning.
SHOT PIERCES HIS HEART
Woman Gives Revolver to Policeman
and Says She Took Law Into
Her Own Hands.
SAYS HE WRONGED HER
SHOT PIERCEs HIS HEART

NEW YORK. June S-Dr. Martin W.
Auspitz graduate Of Heidelberg Cniver-
sity and Bellevue. who with DR.. Philip L.
HiItenstein kept sanitariun at LA
East 93d street, was shot and killed last
night in the vestibule of the house 131
IVES; 13Jth street by Sarah Koten. once
employed by him as trained nurse. He
was forty years old and married. He had
been practicing in this city for the last
ten years.
Miss koten is a Russian and received
her training as a nurse in that country.
She lived at ia West l35th street. just
across the way from the scene OF the
killing.
The Staying of DIR. Auspitz was delb-
erately planned. The woman confessed
TO Coroner Hamburger that she had killed
the physician. and said she had done ii
in revenge for an attack he had made on
her.
Miss koten left her boarding place at
10 O'Clock yesterday morning and went
10 public telephone station. She called
up the sanitarium and asked that DIR.
Auspitz be sent 10 131 West 135th street.
Dr. Hirtenstein answered the telephone
and told her that DR.. AuspitZ would not
he able. to answer the call until some
time during the afternoon. The woman
replied that that was all right.
Waits for Victim.
Soon after the noon hour the woman
again left her boarding place, but she
did not go far. She carried n small black
handbag. and with 1t in her lap she sat
on the stoop of the house where she
boarded to watch the house across the
street. The afternoon wore away, the
woman sitting. silent. watching. The
street Is Well lighted, and as dusk came
she found she could make out the faces
or people pa. sing on the sidewalk oppo-
site.
With the falling of night came the man
she was waiting for. He started up the
steps of the house al No. l31. The wom-
an hurried across the street. unclaspinR
the mouth of the bag she carried.
DR.. Auspitz had just got in the vestibuie
OF the house and was fumbling for the
bell when the outer doors OF glass open ed
behind him and Miss Koten entered He
turned and faced her. and the woman,
leveling her pistol at his heart, fired.
The physician tumbled to the floor Of the
vestfbule. Leaning over the body, his
slayer held the revolver close to his head
and fired again. The second bullet went
vein.
Admits Shooting Man.
The two shots echoed loudly. and were
heard for d block on either side OF the
house. Miss Koten stepped out Of the
doorway anl. with the revolver still in
her right nd. sat down on the stoop and
waited for a policeman
Traffic Policeman jeremiah Perkins.
who lives at 201 West 135th street was
the first to arrive. He was In plain
clothes
What's the trouble?' he asked.
WHO are you?" demanded the woman
in return
I'm a policeman. Give me that re-
volver."
Il don't believe it,
Just then Policeman Reuschier OF tho
West 125th street station, In uniform
came up. The woman handed him the
revolver and offered to go with him to
the station.
One of the men sent in a call for an
ambulance. and DR.. Ross of the Harlem
Hospital responded. He examined DR..
Auspitz's body and said that the man was
dead. A patrol wagon had been called.
Into this the body was put and on the
front seat with the driver the prisoner
was placed
The woman said that she had been in
this country for two years, and that she
was twenty-five years old. She went to
work in DR.. Auspitz's sanitarium last No
vember. She left the place April % She
said she had had DR.. Auspitz taken before
the court of general sessions on q charge
of assault. but that he had been cleared
of the charge by false testimony.
Sarah koten presented most detected
appearance when she was arraigned in
police court today. far different from
the defiant young woman who surrendered
herself TO the police last night. She was
weeping when she entered the room in
charge of court officer and sobbed in
cessantly she stood on the bridge She
was renanded to the coroner, who will
hold an inquest.