The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-19
TERRIBLE DOUBLE MURDER.
Negro Cuts Throat Of Wife and Her
Father,

Schulter q negro barber cut his wife's
throat with razor at his home, 407
North Fifth street at $40 o'clock
Sunday afternoon and then turned the
terrible weapon upon his aged father
fnIaw, Henry Williams. Both of the
victims of Schulter's mania died al
most instantly. The little home was
converted into a shambles, 1t was a
grewsome sight that greeted the
neighbors who rushed in. The front
porch and the front room where the
deed was committed were literally
sloppy with blood.
After cutting and killing his wife
and his fatherin-law, Schulter walked
INTO the yard and stood for awhile
on the south side of the house where
he was found by patrolman Charles
Mitchell Schulter made no resist.
ance and was soon in jail The bodies
were removed to an undertaking es-
tabEshment where they were held for
a coroner's inquest which was held
Sunday night The verdict of the cor
oners jury was that Henry Williams
and Ida Schulter came to their death
at the hands of William Schulter, and
charged Schulter with murder in the
first degree.
Schulter was arraigned before JUS
tice ]. T. Stockton at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning He was taken quietly
to the Justices chambers handcuffed
to Deputy Sheriff King and guarded
by Sheriff Sapp.
The proceedings before Justice
Stockton were brief. Emmett G.. An
derson, prosecuting attorney, read the
information of Coroner Davis charging
Schulter with murder in the first de-
gree in the matter of Ida Schulter.
I'VE have no desire to take advan-
tage of you" said Mr. Anderson, and
if you wish preliminary examination
where you can have an attorney you
may SO say
Mr. Anderson explained to the agi-
tated negro that the proceeding was
merely formal and Schulter waived
preliminary examination. After lis
tening to the reading of the informa-
tion charginb him with the murder OF
Henry Williams, Schulter was taken
back to jail.
To the editor and a representative
of the Times, Schulter gave his YER
sion of the horrible affair shortly be-
fore his appearance in Justice Stock
tons court. o
The negro was pitiably agitated.
When asked why he killed his wife
and his father-in-law Schulter said
that if he had been at himself he
would never have committed the deed.
81 told my wife l was going down
town and asked her for two dollars
that she had She said that l was
not to go down town and she would
not give me the money. We had
some words. Perhaps used a swear
word. Then her father came in and
began to beat me with crutch and
1 began to cut. l was putting the
razor in the bureau drawer in the
front room when the trouble began.
1 always take razor home with me
Saturday night in order to shave Mon
day morning"
who did you cut first?" was the
next question put to Schulter.
II don't know, couldn't say" was
Schulter's reply. Il simply went
crazy. don't know whom l cut first,
how badly had cut them or whether
they were dead or not was not
drunk at the time. There are bruises
on my arms from pap's crutch. He
was stronger than l even if he did
have rheumatism.
Schulter said that his father lived
In Leredo, Texas, that sister lived
in st. Louis and that he had brother
in San Antonio, but stated that he had
not heard from them in long time.
He told the story of his arrest saying
that he waited quietly in the yard un-
til officer Mitchell came.
Neighbors however tell an entirely
different story from that given out by
schulter. A representative of the
Times visited the scene of the killing
Monday morning and learned from eye
witnesses the details of the shocking
tragedy.
BERTHE Davenport, Colored woman
who lives at 400 North Fifth street,
said that her attentions were attract
ed by Ida Schulter running out on the
porch and screaming for an officer
Then the wounded woman slowly
sank to the porch floor falling with
her head in the doorway. Schulter
ran out of the house and crept under
the rear room.
Almost instantly Uncle Henry VIII
Hams staggered to the north end OF
the porch and feel at his daughters
feet.
Rev. G. w. Newton, pastor OF the
Colored Baptist church, who lives at
4a5 North Fifth street, reached the
couple before they died. Rev New
ton says that the woman lived fifteen
or twenty minutes after gaining the
porch, but that her father, who was
terribly mutilated, died before his
daughter expired
The alarm was given by BERTHE Dav-
export, but the police were really not
ffied by Clifford Read, who happened
to be in the vicinity. Another import
ant fact developed Monday morning
when Ellen Davenport, colored, who
lives at All North Fifth, informed a
representative of the Times that on
Sunday morning she had heard Schulz
ter say that he intended to kill Aunt
Julie Williams, his wife's mother, II
- ala .,ot ,,,it IxfotxfnQ nm trouble.