Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-23
JEALOUS, SHOOTS
W|FE'S PARTNER
AFTER QUARREL
Mrs. Stuckle Is Happy
Husband Is Held
by Court.
SHE AND VICTIM HAVE
HOTEL IN MONTCLAIR
"He Deserves It," She Says,
"for He Often Threatened
My Life"

For shooting his wife's business
partner Frederick w. Stuckle, 81
years old, of PlainAeld, was held with
out bail by Recorder Yost in Mont
clair today,
His victim, Samuel r. ,Aulsbach,
who is part owner of the fashionable
Mountain House, Montclair, is in
critical condition at the Mountainside
Hospital.
Mrs Stuckle, who is Aulsbach's
partner in the hotel business, is pros
trated because of the serious nature
Of his injuries. but is entirely un-
concerned about the charge hanging
over her husbands head.
HE deserves it," she snapped vim
dictively, when told that Stuckle had
been held without bail. in the year
and half we have been separated
he has sent me one threatening letter
after another.
First he threatened my life. Then,
when 1 went into business with Mr.
Aulsbach and came here to the
Mountain House, he included my
partner in his promised revenge"
Ausbach was shot last night by
Stuckle at the hotel, after a three
cornered wordy fight about an un-
paid bill, due New York furniture
concern.
Jealousy the Cause.
Jealousy was the real cause of the
shooting. Stuckle wanted his wife
to return to him, and had sworn re-
! peatedly in his letters, so she as
serted today, to shoot her if she did
not dissolve her partnership with
Aulsbach.
David Forsythe, a furniture dealer,
tried to levy on the hotel yesterday
| afternoon for an unpaid bill of Mrs.
Stuckle. When he found the hotel
was held in Aulsbach's name he
made a demand upon Stuckle him
! self for the money.
| Stickle went to the hotel shortly
before 9 O'Clock last night and was
met by his wife in the main hallway
| of the place.
IT want to see Aulsbach," he be-
gan angrily.
you're in no mood to see anyone
now" his wife warned.
"Tell him to come here" thundered
Stuckle, reaching into his overcoat
pocket where new .38-calibre re-
volver was lying ready for use.
| Aulsbach heard the last sentence
and went into the hall to find out
what the trouble was. His clerk.
Thomas A. Burns, accompanied
him.
Demands Payment.
Are you going to pay that bill?"
demanded Stuckle, brandishing the
sheet of paper in the hotel mans
face
rs it any of your business?"
retorted Ausbach. Get out of here!'
Stuckle pulled out the revolver
Then Aulsbach and Burns turned and
| fled through the hall and out OF
| back door, Stuckle in pursuit.
The first shot Stuckle fired whizzed
so close to Burns that the clerk
jumped to one side, tripped and fell.
Stuckle sped past him, and at High
land and Bloomfield avenues shot
again at Ausbach, hitting him in the
neck
The shooting aroused the fashion
able section of Montclair w. Roy
Stempfel and Coleman Wynne, Of
Newark, and E. B. Brown, of Phila-
delphia, who were passing the hotel
in an automobile, jumped out and
closed in on Stuckle.
Fights Desperately.
He fought desperately. Three more
shots were fired into the ground be-
fore he was disarmed.
He and Burns were both arrested
the clerk as a material witness. When
Stuckle was held without bail today
to await the outcome of Aulsoach's
injuries it was brought out that the
bullet touched the victims spinal
cord This may cause paralysis, even
| il Aulsbach RECEIVERS.
Aulsbach, besides being part owner
| of the hotel, has an intelligence Office
at 65S Sixth avenue, New York city.