The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-13

his own statement to the police, He
then stepped to the door between the
two rooms and saw his wife kneeling
IN prayer. He commanded her to get
up and go into the kitchen. She beg
ged piteously for her life by saying:
For s Gods sake don't kill me. Spare
me for the sake Of our only child"
Begins Firing al Wife
Lackner. according to Biernack.
stared blankly at his wife for a few
moments. while she again faced the
cructhx and moved her lips in prayer.
The jealous husband then began FIR
Ing rapidly. The first bullet inflicted
a flesh wound In one of her arms. She
arose from her knees and tried to es-
cape. Three more shots at close range
rang out sharply. All passed through
brain. She fell to the floor and while
PROSTATE. Lackner- fred another bull
let into her left breast.
Standing calmly over the dead body
Lackner grtmly surveyed the result of
his desperate deed. The woman's life
blood was streaming slowly over the
bare floor. He went to the kitchen
secured mop and attempted to ef-
face some Of the marks Of his terrible
crime. His next thought, he says, was
to escape from the scene of death.
Running into ahllway Lackner Sc
cured wraps from small cupboard
and placed them around the infant,
which had been awakened and was
sobbing piteously for its mother. With
the child in his arms Lackner ran
from the house. He. evaded the ques-
tions of neighbors as he dashed up
Long alley into Madison avenue and
from there to the home of Mrs. Anna
Grimm. Here he deposited the infant
on couch and ran to the top floor
of the house, after saying he had
shot his wife and was going to kill
himself. Ia
Is Soon Captured
The first intimation that murder had
been committed was when Biernack
ran to On apartment across the hall
and informed Mrs. Alice Schmidt, The
alarm was soon sounded in the neigh.
borhood and Mounted Policemen Jas
Gallagher and J.. c. Costo took up the
chase. Through the snow they traced
Lackner up to the Third street house
Here Officer Gallagher captured him
while he was attempting to reload the
revolver with the Intention of com.
mitting suicide. The reason Lacknel
was not successful In self destruction
was due to the fact that he did not
understand the mechanism of the wea.
pom and could not break" 1t to ex.
tract the discharged shells.
To Captain Cappe and Inspecto,
Ford and Plalnclothesmen Feeney and
Calhoun the prisoner said he had kill.
ed his wife because she was enamor.
ed of his friend Biernack and had
refused to return to Philadelphia and
live with him. Biernack admitted tc
the police that he had come to this city
from Philadelphia at the same time al
Mrs. l.ackner but had been nothing
more than a boarder while quartered
in the northside apartments.
In his statement Lackner said fur.
ther he had purchased the revolver
with which he did the killing yester.
day morning for So. He said he had
stolen the money from Biernack te
make the purchase. Lackner is 81
years old and was born in Austria
having resided in Philadelphia for the
past six years. He said his Wife.
maiden name was Stephanie Schultz
and that her relatives live in Phila.
delphia. Lackner's statement that he
had stolen the money from BiernacE
was corrohorated BY the latter, who
said Lackner. took 81.