Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-19
WIFE OF D|ETZj
DRAWN into THE
MURDER CHARGE
Harness Maker N am e i
Nurnberg, With Woman.
Has Name on Court Blot
ter, Showing Completely.

Chicago, April 1S.--Mrs. Augusta
Dfetz, widow Of Geo. Dietz, tailor.
who We beaten to death with ham
mer at his home In Aldine avenue last
Monday, and Geo. Nurnberg, owner Of
q harness shop, today were formally
booked on charges of murder.
The complaints charge Mrs. Dietz
and Nurnberg with numbering the
woman's husband by assaulting him
with hammer. It was planned to dx
the bail Of the prisoners this afternoon.
The preliminary hearing probably will
be continued until after the coroner's
inquest which Is to be resumed on
April "a.
Will Flight Arrest Of Clients.
Counsel for Mrs. Dietz and Nurn-
berg were, expected to fight any at
tempt to carry out the recommends
tion of the coroner's jury and formally
charge them with murder.
After the coroner had recommended
that Mrs. Dietz and Nurnberg be ar
rested, Attorneys Robert r. Grove and
Charles v. Barrett, represented Mrs.
Dietz and Harvey Strickler, counsel for
Nurnberg and Coroner Hoffman agreed
Mrs. Dietz and Nurnberg we're to be
given their liberty under police sur
veillance until this afternoon when
they were to be booked" on charge
of murder and released on bonds OF
$4,000 each pending the outcome Of the
inquest which was continued until
April "a.
Rumors were current, however, that
the attorneys would demand that Mrs.
tDietz and Nurnberg be released on
their, own recognizance, The attorneys
|contended last evening that the cor:
oner had no power to recommend the
arrest OF their clients before all the
evidence had been introduced.
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At the coroner's inquest yesterday
1t was testified that Nurnburg,
harness maker, and Mrs. Dietz, had en-
gagged In a liason for some months.
Dietz was aware Of this, as was the
harness makers wife, who had had
her husband watched by detectives
who, among other things, had tapped
telephone wires and listened to al
legged conversations between Nurn-
burg and Mrs. Dietz. Two months ago
Mrs. Dietz consulted a lawyer about
obtaining divorce, but was dis
suaded Nurnberg and Mrs. Dietz, ac-
cording to testimony, spent part Of the
day preceding the murder at Highland
park together.
The testimony showed further that
on the night of the murder Mrs. Dietz
did not occupy her bed, as she is said
to have told the police; that she was
fully dressed when she gave the alarm
to the police and wore her wig and
corsets, which she has never been
known to do SO early in the morning
and that when the officers arrived
they found the milk bottle outside the
door, although Mrs. Dietz is said to
have told the police that she found
the body of her husband after bring
ing in the bottle.
Detective Haas, who shadowed Nurn-
berg at the request of Mrs. Nurnberg,
and who testified at the inquest, was
ready to repeat his evidence at the
hearing scheduled for this afternoon
According to his story one Of his
operatives cut in on telephone con-
versation between Nurnberg and Mrs.
Dietz a few days before the murder.
Mrs. Dietz, he said, asked Nurnberg il
he had "that package"
"Yes," he quoted Nurnberg as reply
ing. Don't talk any more; everything
is all right"
It is the contention Of the police that
the package referred to was a ham
mer. A stone mason's hammer,
swathed in a kerchief, was used to
slay the tailor while he slept.