Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-12-06
MRS. ENRICH
TELLS STORY
Describes How Husband Was
Slain Now in N. Y.

SfAab nv" III
Mrs. Horace A. Enrich, whose
husband, the superintendent of a
copper mine, was assassinated on
the night of October IT, at Kysh-
tim, Russia, arrived in New York
1 yesterday on the steamer Kaiserin
Auguste Victoria with her two chill
dren, boy of 2 years and baby
girl eight weeks old. The young
widow, who is only twenty-seven
years old, said that she had been
living in Russia for two years at
Kyshtim, which is about zoo miles
/ from st. Petersburg, at the foot of
the southern range of the Ural
mountains.
ut was a very lonely place." said
Mrs. Enrich, "and the peasants of
the district had bad name for the
/ way they had treated the managers
| of the mines and mills in the dis
trict. We heard stories about rocks
| being thrown at the houses of the
English managers, and / said to my
/ husband that it might come to our
! turn one day. but he only smiled at
my fears and told me not to be
! afraid The local police were not
to be depended upon for protection,
and it was very difficult for us to get
a private watchman. The only time
/ / felt really safe was when com
pany of Cossacks were stationed at
/ IKyshtim, but they got into trouble
with the peasants and were ordered
away.
j II never heard my husband had
any Quarrels with the workmen In
the mine, but he expected every man
to do his duty, and the Russian peas
ants in that part of the country are
livery wild and do not like any one
over them who wants to make them
work.
1 There had been a good deal of
lstealing from the mine. Two sons
Iof the night watehman at the mine
| had been suspected of stealing the
Ihigh-grade ores. They had been ar
rested and discharged shortly be-
| fore my husband WAS shot.
ut was about 1880 o'clock In the
evening when the crime was COM
United. We had finished dinner
and he was lying on the couch In
the dining room reading newspap-
er and ! was sitting at the table sew
ling when there was o loud report
and a heavy charge of buckshot
crashed through the window pane
and my husband fell TO the noor
dead. There had been heavy fall
of snow that day and the police dis
covered footprints in the snow lead
ling from the dining room window to
the woods.
'The youngest son of the night
watchman had been seen to go away
! to the woods with his shotgun, and
when he was arrested on suspicion
of committing the murder he was
asked what he had done with the
gun. He was sullen and replied
that he had sold it to man In the
woods, out could not identity him
or give any satisfactory account OF
his movements, SO he was locked up,
and his father and two elder BROTH
ers were also arrested on suspicion
| OF being implicated In the crime.
"The youngest prisoner was
known to be a hot-headed young
man, and it was believed in Kysh-
tim that he had brooded over the ar
lrest of his two brothers for stealing
from the mines, and had shot my
/ husband in revenge.
1
sian officials were doing In the case
| before | left, but they would not tell
| me anything because they were
afraid 1t might pain me to talk of
my husbands tragic end / wanted
to know, but could find out nothing.
asked to be allowed to bring his
body back to America, but the Rus
sian authorities said that, as three
men were locked up TO await trial
for murder, it would be necessary to
have the body there"
| Mrs. Enrich was met at Quaran-
tine by John NJ Shaw, broker, OF
46 Wall street, New York, who is
her uncle, and with whom she was
living at his home, 471 Park ave-
nue., New York, four years ago,
when she married Mr.. Enrich. She
was formerly Miss Nellie Robinson.
OF Denver, Colo. She was met at
! the pier by her mother and several
friends. Her two little children
have blue eyes and golden hair, and
formed pleasing picture as they
lay asleep on white cushions in the
steamers cabin while their mother
was waiting on the pier for her bag
gage to be collected and examined.
Mr.. Shaw said that he had reeeiv-
ed communications through the
State Department at Washington
that the Investigation was being
carried on by the Russian author
Titles, and the perpetrators of the
crime would be punished.
MI. Enrich was an electrical min
eralogist, and until he went to Rus
sia two years ago had been in the
employ of the American Smeitfng
and Refining Company In this city.
He was thIrty-two years old.