The evening world., 1908-03-16
JAP
SHOOTS WOMAN
AND DIES BY ACID
Waiter Fires Five Times az
Cook Ele Wooed, After
Breaking Into Flat.
IGNORES HER HUSBAND,
Oriental'S Frenzied Act Com
mitted While Rival IS
in Rooms.
HER HUSBAND.

Crazed with love Tor Wnlte "oliah
who refused his attentions, Frank kito,
a young japanese cook. shot her five
times to-day and then killed himself with
ca rbolic acid The fact that the woman
was marri;d made no difference to the
ardent Oriental, nor did the presence of
her husband at the time OF the tragedy
deter him. Fortunately none OF the bull
lets he fred did any serious injury.
Elizabeth Holz, a big, buxom waitress.
and the wife Of Max Holz. a bartender.
is the victim OF the too ardent affection
OF the Jap. She is in Bellevue Hospital
and her injuries are not dangerous.
Up 10 a short time ago Kito was a
cook In a restaurant at One Hundred
and Thlrty-third street and Broadway
Mrs. HOLY worked there as a waitress
She is twenty-three years old. blonde
and pink. and the Jap fell madlv in
al v,hing to do with him. put his at
tentions We're so persistent and violent
that she left the restaurant. Kito
In Kcl,ler's boarding house. at No. S25
East Nineteenth street
Kito sneaked into the house at 10
o'clock to-day and made his way to the
room occupied by the Holzes. He
knocked on tho door and the woman
opened 1t. When she saw him she
slammed the door shut and locked it.
Kito hurled himself at the door. It
broke into splinters and he landed in a
heap on the floor OF the room. Jumping
to his feet with the agility of a monkey
he drew a revolver and began to shoot
at the woman.
He shot five tines. as fast as he could
pull the trigger One of the bullets
penetrated her chest; Another struck
her right shoulder. Two were imbediei
in her right arm and another hit her
left hand.
The valiant Holz. who was attired
only in trousers. shirt and socks,
ducknd for the door the moment the
Jap entered. ran downstairs and into
Slevins saloon. NJ Nineteenth stree
and Second avenue. He shouted that a
man had killed his wife and was run
ming away.
Mrs. Holz followed her husband. her
wounds not impeding her powers OF
locomotion At the street door of the
house she met Detectives Cahen and
Cahill, OF the East Twenty second
street station. who had heard the shots.
They ran up the steps to her room on
the third floor.
Planned Death Of Both.
Through the shattered door tbey COW
the Jap on the floor writhing in agony.
The air was heavy with the fumes OF
carbolic acid and bottle that had con-
taned the poison lay on the floor. Kito
died before an ambulance which the
detectives summoned from Bellevue
Hospital reached the scene.
! Mrs. Holz was hurried to the hospital
where her wounds were found to be
superficial. She will be out in a few
| days.
clutched in his left hand. Kito had
TWO notes. which he had written to
explain his act One was addressed to
his brother, H. Kito, care of +. T.
Gaines, No II East Fifty-fourth street.
and read:
| Il am very sorry I make this trouble,
She good girl always. She good to me
and we engage to marry for love. She
change mind and cannot marry. II
cannot have her, nobody else have her
! | very sorry TO YOU. Please take care
! my body, My best regards to friends.
! Good-by, dear bro ner FRANK"
! Another note was addressed TO Miss
! Betty Wolf, care OF II. KooGklnd. M.
West Eighty-ninth street. Miss Wolf
Is a friend of Mrs Holz, and Kito had
| met her at the restaurant.
| ''Lissy Holz she is good girl, but she
is fooling too much Miss Betty, YOU
know how / treat to her. She treat me
so hard my heart BUST over I cannot
eat. l cannot sleep. cannot work.
cannot keep my life. better kill her
and me. Please inform to her mother.
Good-by.
"LISSY AND FRANK KITO."
Mrs, Hole says that Kito came to New
York from San Francisco. where he
conducted a restaurant, about a year
ago. He told her he was mixed up In
tho. Mayor sehmits.Issus scandals and
u to leave