New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-28
SIX FOUND SLAIN
IN FARM HOUSE
ON LONELY ROAD
Farmer, Wife, Daughter,
SOn-in-LaW and Two
Employees Shot.

New Brunswick, y. J.. Nov. 27.-
Samuel Weitzmann. a well-to-do farm
er, his wife, daughter and son-in-law
were found tonight murdered in their
home, a lonely farmhouse three miles
from here, on Georges Road.
The entire family and two farm
hands, whose bodies also lay in the
house, had been shot to death. The
authorities believe that the murders
were committed by one Of the farm
hands, who took his own life after he
had killed everybody in the house. 1t IS
believed that the crime was committed
last Wednesday night.
No motive for the murders has been
discovered although it appears that
one of the farm hands had had a
quarrel with The son-in-law.
The dead are;
Samuel weitzmsnu. fits years old
sara wei,zmann Ais wife
David Kigncr twenty eight years old son-in-i law
Mn Beatrice Riguer. twenty Four years Old his
wife
Two farm hands. one apparently Polish. the other
Hungarian. unknown.
That the murders were not disclosed
until tonight was due to the remote
ness Of the Weitzmann farmhouse. II
is located in a lonely crossroad, quar-
ter Of mile back from the Cranbury
turnpike.
We tzmann, a prosperous farmer, had
been accustomed to deliver milk to Jo-
seph Wildgoose in New Brunswick. To-
day an employe Of Wildgoose notified a
neiphbor near the Weitzmann home
that no milk had been delivered since
last Tuesday morning. The neighbor,
going over TO the Weitzmann farm, no.
ticed an absence of life about the erst-
while busy place. W. Z. Florance,
Prosecutor Of Middlesex County, was
notified by telephone. He hurried John
r. Ferguson, detective, to the scene.
The Weitzmann house is large one
story frame building. The rooms are
divided by a central hallway. Fer
guson broke open the front door. In
a bedroom on the right side Of the hall
he found the bodies of Weitzmann and
his wife. who had been shot III the
head. apparently while they slept
There was 10 evidence there Of strug-
gle.
The detective walked over into the
rooms on the other side of the hall. IN
q bedroom there he found the body OF
Mrs. kigner, who also had been shot
while she slept.
The door to a rear room was locked
from the inside. Going outside, Fer
guson broke open a window ana
cravlcd in. He found there the bodies
Of three men-the two farmhands and
KiCner II was the evidence here that
gave the authorities clews as 20 the
probable solution of the mystery.
One of the farmhands died while he
yvas kneeling on top of his bed. He
was ehot in the back Of the head. He
had apparently started to pray, and
had wrapped himself in bedclothec
while shots were being fired at him.
On the floor lay the body Of Kigner. In
another bed was the body Of the other
farmland, who, the authorities say, did
all the shooting. He had covered him
self with bedclothes. In his right hand
was a revolver.
The Identities Of the farmhands are
unknown 70 any of the neighbors,
said Prosecutor W. Edwin Florance.
"The man in whose hand the revolver
was found had been employed by Weitz-
mann only one month.
"What the motive for the murders
was is unknown 20 US. The evidence
shows that probably on Wednesday
night the farmland first killed the
farmer and his wife; then, sneakinG
into Kigner's room, killed The letter's
wife. Kigncr himself evidently got up
and followed the murderer INTO the
yrar room. Once in there the murderer
hot and killed Kigner, locked the door,
thcn shot his fellow workman and
snally killed himself. We shall make
cvery effort 70 learn who the 'arm-
hand was and what was his motive for
the crime"