The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-08


her had killed his wife and Then conn
katherine fell FIRST. then recovered
herself and ran from, the house ir
which she WAS the sole iivinr oeai-
rant. Half dressed she did not stop
until she reached the liomc qf her SIS
Ter. Mrs. Florence sesslcr, is4 Spring
field avenue. Before Mrs, s;essicr touif
reach the Drehor home. Wjllia1l Hilton
had called to deliver coal ana, finding
the lack door, from which The child
bad fled. open. and getting no response.
he entered and also Witnessed the awful
spectacle.
Hiltou had called the Fourth Precinct
police on the telephone and a patrol
wagon with Policemen Benz. Schmidt.
Heinrich and Schroeder, hurried to the
house.
QunrrelIed often.
Little Katherine told the police that
her father and stepmother were quar-
reling when she went to bed last night,
and that the last thing she heard was
threat by her stepmother to 20 to
the Fourth Precinct police station to-
day and make complaint against
Dreler They wene still auarreling
The police found evidences OF a. ter
rife struggle The woman vas lying
near an overturned table Her body
was partially disrobed. as though She
had been preparing 10 retire. Twice
she had been shot. and both times
from the back. as though she had been
fleeing from her murderer when tho
bullets We're sent after her.
the back of her body and came out Of
the right breast. After sustaining this
wound there are indications that she
tried to fee and had a struggle with the
man to open door into the hail.
1t was after she was wounded at
least once that the woman struggled
about that and other rooms in an effort
to escape. for there was blood every
where She was in the centre of the
kitchen and probably standing when
she received the instantly fatal shot in
the back of the head. She dropped
where she stood, apparently.
Quickly Shot Himself.
The man had then quickly shot him
self, for nothing had been done TO right
the wreekage of furniture. Seating
himself on the floor so that his body
was agaist the decreasing OF the adj
Joining room he sent a bullet into his
own head. back of the right ear Death
had been so instantaneous that he did
not have time to loosen his hold on the
revolver and it was still tightly gripped
in his hand when the police came.
Dreher and his wife mad each heen
married twice before they narrled each
otter BY his first wife Dreher had bad
seven children, of whom the eldest,
was Mrs Sessler and the youngest
Katherine.
Mrs Dreher had never had any chill
dren. She was Mrs Pauline Skinner
when she was married to. Dreher in
august 1907. Relatives and aeighbors
said that their quarreling reached such
an acute stage last August that MIS-
Dreher entered a complaint against her
husband at the Fourth Precinct Station
and he was summoned before Judge
Herr. in the Fourth Precinct Police
Court
At that time his wife charged him
with abusing her and the judge repri-
manded and cautioned him
auarreIIed Continuously.
Katherine was not greatly impressed
by the quarrel between her father and
stepmother, which started yesterday
morning, continued all day and ter
minated in the ghastly tragedy. It was
but an incident TO her, but she did hear
her stepmother threaten to make an
other complaint against her father in
/ the police court today.
It is believed that mthis threat SO
angered Dreher that the double killing
/ followed Just when the shots were
/ fired is not known. Katherine does not
know what time she retired. A woman
living in the fat downstairs thinks
she heard a shot fred at about 10
O'Clock, but she is not certain. It
might have been the sound of pistol
shot. but at the time she paid little
attention to it and only recalled the
fact when the tragedy was discovered
today.