The sun., 1910-03-14
KILLS SONS, FIRES HIS HOUSE
MAD FATHER THEN ENDS MS
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IIerman %. NSStIs. washington Heishts
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sheets HIS TIVE Rsys Drfrre suicide
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Herman a. Moritz. a rc,ir-,! rel' estate
man Of University Heights. shot andki.io1
his two SINS last night. -"' 'ir' to cts
home az 22IO Aqu,S.uct av.uTe and then
killed himself Borough President Cyrl1
&. Miller. a Trisnd % Moritz and guardian
Of the Moritz children. said that the father
had been melancholy since the death os
his first wife. four years agp.
Mr.. Moritz's HON. - hear Issd stnsss
and not far from the buiniags of the
New York University. II Is three story
frame structure. Mr.. Morits lived there
three years ago In Mount Vernon. and
his two sons. George. II years old. and
Walter. -. The family kept one servant.
Yesterday Afternoon while the family
was at dinner Mr. Moritz remarked that
the weather was fine and sugg, sted to his
wife that she 20 out to Englewood TO visls
friends whom she had Expressed a dosirs
90 So. She was reluctant To leave ths
houss because Of her husbands condi-
ton. although there never had been any
reason TO believe that ho would become
violent. He urged her 60 g" .nd -is
finally consented. saying that she would
return in the evening
When ~ had said Eood-by 90 bis wife
Mr.. MoritE went into the library with hiP
two sons. The servant. Augusta Fischer.
went into the library when she had tbs
dishes out Of the way and asked Mr..
Moritz IL he objected to a friend Of hers,
a servant next door. coming over 20 tho
house to spend the afternoon with ber In
the kitchen.
Mr.. Moritz assentsd. but a momene
later called the maid back and told hsr
she had better 90 over TO the other house
instsads The maid went across the yard
an she was bid.
OF the incidents that followed there
are no witnesses. The three persons
who took part in them are dead.
The first intimation Of trouble got
outside of the house when Mr. MoPits
himself. dishsvellsd aud excited 60 tfs
point Of madness. ran into th" str'ot and
At Is7d street encountered a wp lehman.
PAsqIlale CAmarelli. shouting 20 the
| Italian that his hOuss was afire. Morris
ran back into his home and slammed tho
I front door shut. Policemen lax and
Conway OF the HiRhbFidge station s@w
the watchman turn in ths alarm aal raa
to the house.
! The front door was locked Thsy
broke IL down Just inside. lying acT5os
4 the hallway was the body Of Mcritz. There
was a wound under his chin where 10
| had poked a revolver into the fi,.sh. tiltsd
il upwari and fired. The revolver. 4
five shooter. lay on the hoor beside his
hand Only one chamber was empty.
shells lay On the ioor. Apparently Moritk
had reloaded after doing part of his
work.
Smoke was sitting up through the foo'-
! ing Of the hallway. The policemen found
an open doVrway which led to the cellar
Under the stairway a heap Of shavings
aud rubbish was burning briskly. IL took
only a few minutes "a stamp out tho firo
and to cool the soorching woodwork Of
the stairway with few pals Of water
Then the msn saw a boy lying 10
one side and a few feet away in thu
shadow. They thought he had bssn
! overcome by the smoke and carried him
I UP TO the street In tho light they saw
that he had bosn shot through tho heart
] \ 8eCuuu Duilrt NouAiu was bta1
! hack of his head
f, by this time tine servant was back In
the house. Although hysterical. she
told the policemen that there ought 20
he another hoy in the house. She said
their father was demented.
They found the body OF the older boy
in a closet on the second floor. Prom
rhe position Of the body IL appeared thas
the boy had taken refuge IN the closss.
which was on his sleeping room. and that
the door had been opened and the boy
had been shot there. his back 70 the
wall and escape cut on
The body Of this boy. George. oon-
tained three bullet wounds. One was
close TO the temple. one showed that tho
heart had been pierced and the third was
in the abdomsn.
Either Of the bullets In the head would
have caused immediate death. and tho
police could only conclude that the other
| two shots had been fred while the boy
NV dead or dying on the closet floor.
The boys clothing was almost torn
from his body. A deep gash on the head
showed where be had been struck with
the revolver.
Ilabout the room from which the closss
| opaned there were signs OF q struggle.
Furniture had bsen overturned and rugs
had bsen swept into heaps. The door vac
aCarred where the man and the boy had
fought against it. or where the man had
pounded in his efforts 20 break 10 down
when the boy took refuge within.
The upper drawer in tho wardrobe In
Mr.. Moriss's sleeping parrtnent had been
pulled out on the floor and its coneenfs
scattcred The servant said that IN this
drawer Mr. Moritz kept his revolver.
! Mrs. Moritz returned while the police
men we're az the house a few minutes
after the bodies had been found. She
tainted and was carried 20 a neigh bor'S.
Mr.. Miller was summoned and he took
! charge OF the house and of the bodies.
Mr. Miller said that Moritz was about
A. wears old The man. ne said. was vel
a. 10 and his Investments were making