Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-26
TRAGEDIES MAR DAY
Christmas Joy Is Turned to
Sorrow in Many Homes.
DIES WITH DOLL IN ARMS
Oil Stove Explosion Sets Fire to
Child's Bedroom.
MURDERS WIFE AND SELF
Jealous Husband Smashes House.
hold Furniture Before Commit
ting the Double Crime.
DIES WITH DOLL IN ARMS
MURDERS WIFE AND SELF

NEW YORK, December 26.-Seven-
year-old Lena Trenkler, whose home
is little frame cottage at Hoffman
boulevard and Trotting Course lane
Elmhurst, L. l.. worn out with the ex-
element Of Christmas early last even
| ing. kissed her grandmother, who is
| ninety-one years old, goodnight, and
was put to bed in her room on the
| second floor.
Her eyes were half closed as she
tumbled into her little bed. with a new
| doll clasped tightly in her arms. In a
| moment she was asleep. That was
about o'clock.
A few minutes later the oil stove in
her room exploded, sending the blazing
| fluid in a shower about the room. Some
| Of it fell on the face and hair OF the
sleeping child and her dolly. The ex-
plosion awakened Lena. She shrieked
with pain and fright, but before she
| could stir the flames had suffocated
| her.
Rescuers Bafaed by Flames.
The mother and four older children,
who were on the first floor, heard the
explosion, followed by the girls cry.
but by the time they reached the stair
| way the fire had spread to it and cut
of that avenue Of rescue. Upstairs
they could hear the feeble cries Of the
aged grandmother, who was on the top
moor.
At this moment Patrolman Fettig of
| the Elmhurst station burst in the front
door He dashed through the flames up
to the second floor, but was halted at
| the door Of the child's room by a bar
rier Of fire which made entrance I'M
He then went to the floor above. and
seizing old Mrs. Trenkler in his arms
carried her to safety. Then the hremen
arrived and soon extinguished the
They found the burned body of little
Lena in her bed, the doll still IN her
arms, but burned almost to a cinder.
Double Tragedy Of Christmas.
Suicide and murder marked the Christ
| mas Of Michael Rose. who lived at 24s
East cd street. After a jealous quarrel
he shot his wife, a bride of q few months
and then killed himself. He was dead
when the rooms were entered by those
who heard the shots. The wife died last
evening in Bellevue Hospital
old. married the woman he shot yester-
day three months ago. She was about
his own age, but looked younger and
was rather prepossessing. Hdru lucK
seemed to follow the wedding. accolone
ton he had held as Waterman shortly
after the marriage and seemed unable to
get another one.
According to neighbors, the man was
been heard to accuse his wife on that &C.
count. Christmas eve the couple had q
quarrel that lasted far into the night
and was renewed before daylight. They
went out yesterdey morning ana were s
were at it when they returned about IL
o'clock.
Pleaded for Her Life.
Tenement house ethics provide for no
interference in family quarrels, but the
one between the Roses became so noisy
that several persons went to the door
and asked them to be quiet and let those
who had some reason for enjoying Christ
mas do SO in peace.
Rose told them to mind their own
business. Then he closed and locked the
door, and the next thing the neighbors
heard was smashing of forniture. Mrs.
Rose shrieked as piece after piece OF fur
niture in the poorly furnished apartment
was splintered against sthe wall or the
stove.
The neighbors then heard Mrs. Rose
cry; Don't shoot me; for Gods sake
don't! Put it down.
This was followed by three shots. Mrs.
Green, the janitress. was among those
who rushed to the fiat after the shots
had been fired. She entered with pass
key Mrs. Rose was lying on the floor
dressed for the street. There was a bull
let wound in her neck and one In her
back Rose was lying on q lounge with
a bullet wound in the right temple. The
man was dead.
His body was taken to the morgue, and
she was hurried to Bellevue.
Christmas Visitor Is Lost.
| Mrs. John Karan Of Binghamton, N.
~. had arranged that her mother. Mrs.
Mary Foltinek, should arrive from Hun
gary in time to celebrate Christmas
with the family.
! Mrs. Foltinek arrived in the second
cabin OF the Red Star liner Vaderland
among 1000 immigrants on Ellis Island,
and the Christmas celebration in Bing-
hamton was spoiled.
| Meanwhile her daughter became al
most frantic with anxiety. Mrs. Fol-
timex. sixty-two years old, came to this
country with friends who were going
to see her through to Binghamton, but
| became separated from them.
| Mrs. -Foltinek. bewildered among so
| many strangers. did not tell her trou-
/
relatives in Binghamton.
| Her daughter wired the steamship
company but could get no satisfactory
reply. Her husband came here yester-
day and found his mother-in-law. He
took her to Binghamton this morning.
! Explosion at a Dance.
GREENsBURG, Pa, December 90
Three persons are dead, eight are in dan
ger of death from their Injuries and TON
more are in the Westmoreland Hospital
with painful burns as the penalty either
for somebody's carelessness or some
bOdy's vengeance while miners were hold
/ ing a Christmas celebration at keystone
Shaft near here.
The accident occurred at the home of
Michael Wilding while he was enter
tanning q party of twenty-five men and
women. 1t is believed that one of the