Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-27
BOY KILLS FATHER AND
WOUNDS SMALL SISTER
Driven From Home to Shift for
Himself, He Seeks
Revenge.

NEW YORK. August 2T.-An OPP
pressive silence hung over the lit
tie group in the dining room OF Frank
Allgeier, a saloon keeper of ia Wyckoff
avenue, Williamsburg, where Allgeier.
his wife, Celia, their sixteen-year-old son.
Joseph. and their daughter. Margaret,
fourteen years old. were seated at the
supper table in their home above the sa-
loon. Most oppressive of all was the 81
lence of little Margaret.
A week ago her father had turned her
brother, Frank. jr.. eighteen years old.
whose favorite companion she was. out
Of their home to shift for himself. The
father and son had auarreled because the
boy. In the capacity of bartender for his
father, gave away drinks To all his rois-
ferrous friends whenever the elder All
geier was not i'm. Frank went away, but
Thursday night he met his uncle, Joseph
Allgeiers on the street near his home and
announced that he would get his father
and do him up. This threat had been
borne back to the boys home.
Fires Three Shots at Victim.
Suddenly, while the supper was still
being served, the rear door of the fiat
was pushed open, and a moment later
the figure Of the disownd son doomed in
the doorway of the dining room. The
little girl gave a cry of alarm. but the
father, rising angrily. stepped toward his
son and ordered him out OF the house.
I'm going they heard the boy say,
but first | want to settle a little mat
ter
The little girl sprang from her chair
with cry Of fear. but her father ordered
her not to move. and he himself walked
over to the intruder TO put him out.
In moment the boy had whipped out a
revolver, and. leveIing 1t at his father,
fired two shots. Both Of the bullets
struck Allgeier in the stomach and he
sank with a cry to the floor.
The little girl rushed to the side of the
fallen man. and spreading her arms pro-
tectingly over him, begged her brother
not to shoot again.
Quick. quick. frankie. go away" she
pleaded. PLEASE hurry away
But the revolver in the boys hand was
still leveled at the father. and before he
could turn II aside he had fired again
This time he missed the father, but a
cry Of pain came from the girl and she
sank in a heap over her fathers body
Frantic at the thought that he had shot
his sister, the boy f1ourished his revolver
1t Of the two remaining shots. which
lodged in the walls Then he turned to
escape.
Boy Is Overpowered.
His mother and younger brother how
ever, who till then had been spellbound i'm
their chairs by the rapid happenings they
had witnessed. recovered their senses and
the use of their limbs by this time and
rushed after him. They overlook him and
overpowered him just as neighbors, at
tracted by the sound OF the shots, came
piling into the fat.
moment later Policemen Hart and
Haubenreich of the Hamburg avenue sta
ton reached the place and arrested young
Allgeier. Then they called an ambulance
from the German Hospital DIR. Menger.
who came In ii, found the elder Allgeier
unconscious and said he would probably
die. The girl had been shot in the right
foot, and the bullet lodged in the bone in
such a way that ii could not he extracted.
She was taken to the hospital with her
father. and there il was found neces-
sary to amputate the foot.
To Lieut.. Rochester in the Hamburg
avenue station young Allgeier. according
to the police, admitted that he had done
the shooting.
He was always nagging at me-" he
said. land I grew sick and tired OF IL.
I'm the oldest child in the family. and I
couldn't stand always being called down
before the younger ones. I'm only sorry
that shot my little pet.