The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-29
WOOS WIDOW WITH
A REVOLVER AND
TRIES TO END LIFE
Louis Heppe's Love for His Ath'
Ietic Boarding Missus Gets
Him Into Court.
SHOWING PISTOL HE ASKS,
WILL YOU MARRY ME?'
Victoria ScI1nster Slaps His
Face, ScOrning Suit of BOarder
Who Criticised Her Cooking.

Louis Hoppe, who has just about as
pretty a little blond mustache as a
youth of % could be expected to hatch
out, went a wooing on the Smith &
Wesson plan last night, met Tartar
and today was held in default OF $1,000
bail for the grand jury.
Louiss hard luck romance is tear
full. And, if it had not been for the
motherly Mrs Victoria Schuster, a
newly made widow of AZ, whom he
would wed, he believes he would have
killed both her and himself He had
written a note saying that was his in
tention:
Hoppe, a machinist, had been a
boarder with Mrs. Schuster, and when
Schuster died last November and left
his widow with the two-family house
at 40 Kent street on her hands, and
four children, the eldest being 15,
Hoppe felt sorry for his landlady and
offered to marry her.
Mrs. Schuster did not enthuse ovei
his proposal, but Louis was patient
and constant and he sought to wir
the widow by taking the place of {
Spanked Daughter, Criticised Cooking
why, your HONOR she said in tn,
Fourth Precinct Court today.e- "h,
spanked my S-year-old daughtex-arher
she was naughty; he tod my ron:
what they should do and what the.
should not do; he rawhided them--jus
like their father did-and he said h,
would show them who was'bos
"And, worse than that, he com
menced to kick about my cooking, anC
he Said 1 was ON the Fritz as a cook
i could stand all that. because he was
paying me So a week for board. But
when he said l would have to marry
him I said 'no!'"
The widow remained adamant to the
wooing of Louis and yesterday hC
bought a pistol and started target prac-
tise on a tree in a lot in Nineteenth
street until man who tired of the
noise took the gun away from him
Louis got the gun back by promising tc
go home. Then he wrote this note
''If 1 am not loved as I love 1 will bt
tired of life and will end it all; also ]
will end the Widow Schuster."
Leaving this note on his table Louis
went downstairs and called on the
widow.
Proposes with Revolver.
"Am I to be your lawfully welded
husband?" he inquired in impressive
tones.
'You lose,' said the widow jocularly;
take another chance"
''I will lose you," says Louis in fiery
anger, whipping the pistol from his
heaving bosom.
mot on Thursdays says the widow
as she grabbed the weapon and took ii
from Louis. 81 will not be Mrs.
Heppe" She slapped his face, then ca
joled him, petted him, got him to sur
render the extra cartridges and sent
her eldest son out for a policeman.
Plainclothesmen Kaas and Seybold
took Louis TO tho station and then he
felt so sorry that his plans had been
spoiled that he said he would kill him
self anyway-even If he had to hold
his breath.
The police thought these were idle
threats, but later in the night they
found Louis dangling from a cross
bar at the top of his cell He had
tried to hang himself with a long hand
kerchief. Unromantic Doorman Wolf
cut him down before he was one-tenth
dead and watched him the rest of the
night.
While Mrs. Schuster was telling her
story in court today Louis pleaded with
her, again professed his undying love,
told her how good he would be, what
great care he would take of her prop
erty and that without her to brighten
his young life the world would be dark
indeed.
But the widow would not relent; no,
she would even sacrifice Heppe's IS a
week rather than be bothered with
any more of Louis's lovemaking. When
Louis was being led away. after being
held in bail for the grand jury, he wept
like a heartbroken child. ''I will kin
myself! I will kill myself, even if I die
for it!' he cried.