Evening journal., 1912-06-17
STABS MAY
BRINCDEATHTO
UNHAPPY PAIR
Ernest Hinderer, Aged Man
JabS Dirk Into Wife Then
Tries Suicide
LEAVES LETTERS ASKING
THAT CHILDREN BE CARED FOR

Swinging a vicious looking dirk
knife. Ernest Hinderer this morning
sank the blade into the abdomen OF
his wife, Pauline Hinderer. at their
home, No 21s Eighth avenue. and
then inflicted a similar wound on
himself. AS a result he is patient
ot the Homeopathic Hospital and his
wife is at the Delaware Hosultal, both
IN q critical condition and with lit
tie hope that the affair may not turn
out to be a murder and a suicide.
some about the house and the cou-
wife is but 33 years, she being his
second wife, Hinderer, it was learn
ed today. had been unusually quar-
relsome for the past few days and his
wife had complained to the police.
Last night ne was more than trouble
sine about the house and the cou-
ple's three children, it is said, left to
spend the night with a neighbcr. This
morning they found their mother
down stairs, in a serious condition,
the result of the wound in her abdo-
men, and in a back room upstairs
their father was lying across a bed
bleeding from a like wound. No time
was lost in summoning the police pa
troll and the Phoenix ambulance and
while the patrol hurried with Hin
derer to the Homeopathic Hospital
the ambulance rushed Mrs. Hinderer
to the Delaware Hospital
Hinderer perhaps premeditated the
crime as he left two letters, addressed
to Max Goetz. pulisher of Lacal An
zieger. a German newspaper, Hinderer
being one of the oldest and best
known Germans in the city. In one
letter he tells of domestic troubles.
In this letter as we'll as in the other,
iHinderer devotes considerable space
to instructions for Frank Stout, spe-
i cial agent of the Society for Preven-
ton of Cruelty to Children, as fol-
lows:
One letter reads.
Dear Friend Max Goetz-I- request
j you TO kindly ask Mr.. Stout, the agent
4 10 obtain for my dear three daughters
4 Lillian. Christina and my dear little
A Elma Hinderer. a good home, also see
n that my property be applied TO their
Il support and protection, for all time.
Hinderer then speaks Of a will
. which is in the care of the Safe, Trust
N and Deposit. Ninth and Market streets
Che probably means the Equitable)
and desires that this be made void. He
makes another will in which he names
y his eldest son by his first wife, Ernest
w. Hinderer. a mail carrier. as his
executor. He concludes this letter by
s stating: please take away from my
A motheT-in-law, Mrs. Cook, my three
children"
The other letter tells more abou
his marital troubles.
4 Both letters we're found in the Hin
derer home by the police and wer
turned over to Mr.. Goetz, who ha'
5 them translated and returned to IN
police department.
The letters were in one envelop
and we're addressed 10 Max Goetz, pr
vate. There was a blood stain on Tn
back of the envelope and it may b
Il that Hinderer did not write eithe
letter until after he had stabbed hi
wife.
Hinderer is we'll known throughou
the city. He lived in the Elevent
Ward for a number of years and wa
employed as a nachinist. His mrs
wife died leaving grown children. h
married again and became the tathe
of three additional children. He TOO
& an active interest in politics and wa
a Republican. Hinderer owner seN
eral properties in the Eleventh war