Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-12

fired and as the sound of the shot
came to my ears he fell to the ground,
few feet away from the woman.
''I ran UP at once and saw that both
were alive. then turned and ran to
South Nineteenth street and South
Orange avenue, where there is drug
store. I told the druggist what had
happened and told him to call up the
Fourth Precinct police and also to get
doctor there at once.
when / got back to the scene of
the shooting q crowd had collected
and all the people living on the oppo-
site side of the street from the ceme-
terry seemed to have come out. No
doctor came, but the police got there
very quickly with the patrol wagon.
They told me that the man was dead,
but the woman was living"
BY the time the police patrol arrived
Wacker and his wife lay in pools of
blood that spread to the edge. where
tbs higher turf held it, The wounds
of the suicide and his victim bore a
striking resemblance. Both had bull
let wounds in the right temple and
the path of either bullet was down.
ward until the bullet lodged at the
base of the brain. There was hardly
the deviation of an in-h in the course
of the two bullets, that in the wife's
head fired from beside her and that
| the suicide used to kill himself.
The motive for the murder and
suicide would appear, from the let
| ter, to have been jealousy, but the
stories told by neighbors and friends
of the dead woman indicate another
possible cause. When they parted
Mrs. Wacker announced as her rea-
son alleged cruel treatment by her
husband.
Wacker was thirty years old and
Mrs. Wackef twenty-nine
| Since the estrangement Wacker
had been living with his moth
er, Mrs. M. Wacker, and his
brother in-law, Edward Bonnet, who
| is a policeman attached to the Fifth
Precinct. at the latter's residence,
607 South Twentieth street. Mrs.
Wacker is FRUSTRATED by the tragedy
and has had q series of fainting spells
since the news first came to her
about $3.50 o'clock last night.
you are breaking my heart" she
| said again and again to her daugh-
ter and another son, and she appears
to be unable to realize what Is going
on about her. Her daughter, Mrs
Bonnet. although suffering from the
shock herself, attends her mother
constantly, bringing her out of eacf
of her fainting FITS with prompt ap'
plications of homely remedies.
Mrs. Marlin, who Is also mentioned
in the letter. Is a sister of Conrad
/ Abendschoen. She explained thai
Mrs. Rose Wacker, whose nader
name was Heinrich, had come to theil
parents home when she was littls
girl and an orphan. At that time two
brothers Of the dead woman wers
taken care of by other friends, A
sister. Lillian, was taken into AZ
orphan asylum. Rose went to liv'
with the Abendschoens.
ever since. when Rose was II
trouble, she used to come to US,
Mrs. Maffin said. She lived her
about seven years before she wa
married to Joseph Wacker. That wa
nine years ago. She worked in BAN
berger's ever since her marriage an,
supported her husband He was al
! invalid, and at one time he was In
hospital, and all the time Rose KEEP
| the home going. He had tubercula
bones and they made him PRACTICAL,
cripple"
, The Heinrich mentioned in the let
! ter as beneficiary is the son of Sc
bastian Heinrich, one Of the deal
woman's brothers. Another brotho
J lives In New. York.
II According to neiEhborB Of tn
| | Wacl<efs in the aNartment house. a
) = b11 South Seventeenth street, row