New-York tribune., 1912-04-30
STAYS WIFE, PLANS TO
HIDE CRIME; KILLS SELF.
Sunday in Rooms with Body
Breaks ViOIiniSt'S Nerve. and
He Uses Revolver and Rope.
"MY TURN NEXT" NOTE SAYS
Adds She Made His Life Unbear-
able, but He Will Escape Elec-
trio Chair-Turns Mother
from Door, Then Dies.

Some time i'm the early hours of Satur
day morning-Coroner Feinberg places
the time at about . o'clock-Alhert DE-
Brahms, "ioinlst who has played IN
the cafes and restaurants Of New York
Paris and Ostcnd. in q moment of jeal-
Gus rage crept up behind his young wife
as she was about to take her bath, twist
ed a towel about her neck and strangled
her to death.
He left her body in the bathroom
What he did between the time of the
crime and Saturday noon, when he was
seen by others in the apartment house
at No. 229 West 35th street where they
Iiyed is merely a matter Of conjecture.
II Is known that on Saturday after
noon. about y O'Clock, he returned TO the
apartment house with a bag filled with
MASTER of raris. He met Mrs. juliet
Gressier. who lived opposite him on tht
sixth floor as he was about to step int
the elevator. and in response TO ques-
tion from her said:
Il have plaster Of paris in this bag
and am going 30 I'll up the mouse holes
i'm my apartment with It
Saws His Wife Had Gone Away.
How IS Mrs de Brahms" asked Mrs
Gresser.
"She is we'll" replied De Brahms. she
has gone away"
Mrs. Grcssicr went out into the street
and To the negro elevator boy De Brahms
volunteered the information That ms
wife had gone away and that she mad
ordered n trunk. which would he de-
livcred Monday morning.
Il was this trunk that led 10 the dlS-
cnycrv of the murder and led 10 the
suicide Of De Brahms. Letters found IN
,hc apartment showed he had planned to
take his life at least an hour before TIE
trunk was delivered yesterday morning
at 1915 o'clock.
he Rrahms ordered the trunk from
.od street house Saturday aftern"oh
tIo asked that il he delivered at once
and when told that was impoSS'p'''
agreed 10 pay for IT on condition tha' u
ho delivered Yesterday morning
After paying for the trunk ne 'e'''
,,borod I, Bustanoby's restaurant III
sath street. whore he vas emPIoSeu "'
first violin, that he would not Dc '"e''
that night
Saturday night. the police believe De
prohms spent with the body OF MS VIC
,.,o,, law upou the marble floor oi the
,h roor the color of the very nlarpie
,s.Ir The face discolored because Oh
,he strangIlation. he had partly co'e'eo
with the plaster Of paris. ana the "re'''
,d ,hiyhs had likewise been treated in
the same manner.
M.ant TO Put Body in Trunk.
mi, counIod with the fact that Nd
had ordered rather big ana "e".'
,rnrk made the police believe that ne
had intended To pack the bohy III 'ne
.runk encasing II in plaster OF Pa' 10
and shin Il TO some distant point one
80 his own trunks was almost paoNo'
If, all that a man might require OIL
long tourney, which led the police 'o oe
ueve Il was his first intention to escape
But many things happened between
Saturday afternoon and yesterday morn
ing which led him to change his mihu
rbe first we're the events of Sunday
evening at the Bustanoby cafe, where "'
p,aved as though nothing had nap
pened.
After he greeted his leader, Maurice
Continued on third page, fourth coium"'
! A,oost,ra BItters lust what you need t'
tome up the system I'm the Sprins'--AuN'