New-York tribune., 1908-06-08
NURSE KILLS DOCTOR
SHOOTS HIN IN STREET.
t0uid Not Get Justice an Court,
She. Tells Coroner.

Df' Martin W. Auspitz who with Dr. Philip s
r1irtenstein conducted a sanatorium at No 151
East sSd street. was shot and instantly killed
os Sarah koten trained nurse who was for
merry employed at the sanatorium as he was
answering fictitious professional call which
hao neen sent to his office by the woman After
ne shooting the woman was arrested and taken
10 tle west 10th street station. where she ad-
mitted shooting the physician
are You the murderer of that MANI" asked
coroner Hamburger, pointing to the body of DR.
Auspltz as it lay on the station house floor.
ne Is my murderer, coroner" she replied
According to the story told to the coroner by
'he woman, who lived with family named
Sinkelstein at No. 124 West 135th street. right
across from where the murder was committed
she came TO this country from Russia about two
years ago. and went to work in the sanatoriun
last November During December she alleges
she was assaulted by the physician and left his
employ April 81
On May 20 DR.. Auspitz was arraigned in Spe-
clal Sessions a charge Of criminal assault
preferred by her. He brought forward two men
who alleged that her character was not good
and the case against the physician was dis
missed.
SENT CALL TO DOCTOR.
According to members of the family where she
lived. Miss Koten left the house about 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. 1t about II o'clock that
woman called up DR.. Auspitzs office and told
Louis Rosenhem. brother in-law of the phys-
clan. who answered the telephone, that an Ital-
ian, whose name she gave, living at No. 131 West
135th street wanted to see the doctor at once.
The name sounded familiar to Rosenheim, and
he told DR.. Auspitz of the call when he returned.
The latter was busy all yesterday afternoon,
and il until I o'clock that he able
TO answer the call.
After sending the call it seems that the woman
returned to her home and the steps
waiting for the arrival of the physician Several
persons saw her during the afternoon, but there
was nothing suspicious in her actions. AS Dr.
Auspitz turned into 155th street from Lenox
avenue the him and crossed the
street. II the physician her he made no
sign, and reaching No 131 he walked up the
steps, with the woman at his heels. He turned,
and as he did so the woman drawing a revolver
from black bag she carried, fired one shot. 1t
struck him over the heart. He fell in the vesti-
bue, and she, with the smoking weapon in her
hand, walked down the steps. a crowded both
street crosstown car was passing, and the motor
man, attracted by the shot stopped his car in
front of the place.
FIRED SECOND SHOT AT MAN.
hundred panicstricken passengers gazed at
the woman. but not of them made move
toward her. AS she reached the bottom of the
steps she stopped, and, retracing her steps. vent
to the side of the fallen and fired another
shot into his throat. severing the jugular VEIN
Then she walked down and sat on the curbstone
An immense crowd had gathered, but she paid
no attention to them until Patrolman Perkins, of
the Sd Precinct, who lives across the street, ran
over in his shirt sleeves and said:
You have done all the mischief you can; give
me that gum
II will give it only to policeman, she said
Il am a policeman" said Perkins. but as he
was in citizens clothes she did not believe him.
AS Perkins edged his way toward her to
wrest away the weapon Bicycle Patrolman
Rochelle up at full speed on his machine
and the woman, seeing him in uniform, walked
toward him and handed the revolver to him.
AS the policeman attempted to take her back
to the scene of the murder to await the arrival
of the patrol wagon Miss Koten resisted, and
they hurried her to nearby store. An ambu
lance had been summoned from the Harlem
Hospital and on its arrival DR.. Ross said that
DR.. Auspitz had died instantly. The victims body
and the prisoner were taken to the West 10th
street police station. where the woman was
cross-examined. She freely admitted her crime,
saying: 81 could not get Justice in the courts,
and felt that l must take the law in my own
hands. He ruined in his own home. I'm
all alone in the world. My father is dead. My
mother is dead. And-and-the father of my
child unborn is dead
CORONER TO SEE SANATORIUM
Then the woman told Coroner Hamburger of
some things that she said happened in the sana-
torilm which the coroner said he would in
vestigate Immediately.
DR. Hirtenstein. who had been sent for, was
soon on the scene When Miss Koten him
she showed her first emotion.
He is another of the murderers" she cried.
and sprang to seize the physician by the throat
DR. Hirtenstein tried to escape but would not
have succeeded had not Patrolman Harry White
by sheer strength held the woman against a
wall.
There was another scene when Mrs. Ausptz |
was told of her husbands death. The police |
would not allow her to his body, and she |
became hysterical. She had to be taken from |
the station house b. force.
DR.. Auspitz came to this country from Austria, |
where he received his degree ten years ago. He |
was an inferno at Bellevue. He had been mar |
ried seven years. but had no children.
Dr EnIINn |