The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-19
Dead Are Leo Spiege1 and A. Go1dstein. SHR0UDED IN MYSTERY IS MURDER OF TWO RUSSIANS Wife of Spiegd Cries Out in
 Puzzling Mysteries. Onheers swnrmed to Scene at Lake and Watts Streets Last Night, Hut Distrust Robbery stery
 Told by woman--stin
 Probing.

Weitering in an eyer-srowing pool of blood. with their feet toward the door resting on the top of a toy wagon Leo Spiegel and A. Goldstein,s Russian Jews, the one dead and the other slow ly dying of pistol shot wounds, were Found at 10 o'clock last night by the police. who had been summoned to the corner of Lake and Watts streets by a negro. Jim Afford. The negro had heard the shots and was the first 10 reach the scene of the tragedy.
 Patrolmen Patrick and Thorne were hurriediy despatched to the scene of the trouble.-an Police Captain Miles smith. reached over the telephone. joined them in few minutes.
 The tragedy occurred in a small cot. tage where Speigel and his wife con. ducted . little corner store. The men were shot in the presence of Mrs. Spai- gel. Deep mystery surrounds the trag. edy, the identity of the murderer nos lice.
 When the police arrived a single lamp was burning on u little oil cloth covered table. its rays streamed d. rectiy over the forms of the men as they lay with their feet to the door. The husband of the woman was dead HIS eyes stared up. his mouth waA open. and Q little riii of blood was oozing from the point of his chin where bullet had entered. The feet vera wide apart. but his arms lay beside him. the fingers of his hands half closed, but the left hand was bloody. ftis Ieft side was soaked in blood from the wound in his back. or from another wound.
 Beside him and touching him. the otners lay. hoarsely breathing spas- medically, his left temple swollen ana the skin broken where the bullet thak entered by his ear had emerged. oc- casionally his feet would fwitch ana he would bend hia knees. Woman Hys9erteah
 The woman was walking about mcaninE. her eyes fastening them selves fntentiy upon everyone whA spoke. At intervals her sobblnR fn- creased to scream and she threw her. self to the floor crying and stretchlne. out her arms to her husband, Wfth her fingers digging into her checks si,e gazed intentiy at him and screauied: I'm scaredi I'm scared!" Then she calmed herself little and spoke to
 When the body of the dying visitor was placed on a bed cloth she hroka out In n paroxysm of screams and ran from the living room to the store af- ter those who carried the unconscious form.
 OH thc thDle Dealoe the lamp were two full glasses of tea with slices of lemon in them. glass jar of sugar stood on the table. Some papers, a bottle of ink and a school reader Iay beside the glasses and on the corner of the table was the skin of a pared apple.
 The police are wondering who ate the apple and who was to drink the tea. The woman said the tea was for the men. and that the three of them had eaten the apple, and that all were studying the school book.
 She refused to allow the body of her husband to be covered or moved.
 T want my sister % see him that way!" she walled when covering the body was suggested.
 Tn the corner os the room away from the table and a stove, stood a bed with the coverlets disordered and piled over it. sofa was at the foot of the. bed with three pillows on 1t.
 On first entering the house Mrs. Spiegel was found to be in a hysterieai condition, and it was with the great est difflculty that she onnld hA made Co