The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-31
EFFECTIVE HELD AS HIS WIFE IS
 SLAIN IN OFFICE
Private Sleuth Says Two Men Shot Her, But Gun is
 Found Hidden.

New York, Aug. S1.- Eighth street. vas crowded at 6 o'clock last night with honaeward-pound workers when the reports of several revolver shots sounded from the office of samuel Leftner,s private detective agency at the top of the high stoop building al B East Eighth street, not far from Mercer street, and only Q little more than 3 block from Broadway. A bullet flew through the plate glass window. in 1ront of Leitner's offtEe, sTnaking g. sroa1l, round ho1e, fron& which long cracks shot upward toward the cor ners of the window. v a
 Men ran up the long stairs from the street and rushed into the office, where they came on Leitner holding a wo- man in his arms. At sight of them he shouted:
 Someone shot my wife. She's dead. Telephone for the police.
 Bert Meyers of g past. nth street, who had hun sfEoEh hs @Szfa4 her truck ing stand across the street. raced up to Broadway, where ne found Traffic Policernan smith. The policeman ran enough to call an ambuIance,- and presently pr Adahoney arrived from St. Vincentss hospital. He found that two bullets had struck Mrs I+eitner in the right breast, two in the left, and one In the right hand She was dead 7
  arrived with Inspector Cray, Acting ] Captain Deevy of the Mercer street station and fnger-print experts They found IT men and women, who had crowded into the smal office, and de- ta1ned all of these long enough to take i their names and addresses before driv- i ing them ont of the office Then they { duestioned Leitner.
 Empty Revolver Found.
 He declared that two men wearing gray caps had entered the office, mllr- dered his wife, and fled to the street Later, however, a revolver containing i six empty shells was found showed out of sight beneath the tin. apron of an unused chimney opening where a stove ] pipe might fit in and Leitner was in vitsd to NpalaGe heas2 qsart ters, " here he I avs ao ! Pectps EaurOt in
 Leitner said his home was at I, 21 lForty-frst Street. Borough Park, Broek1yn and he had five children, the eldest Q years old and the young I est g months, although his wife, Ss- rah was only 27 years old He did not tell anything of his home life. but N6afIon Sweet, a servant nployed by said that h11sl5a lse ana fe had quar- rellea lee She had been with them. This had grown worse ir the last two weeks, the girl said, and only last Thursday night she said IseiEner had driven his wife from the house at midnight clad only in hel nightdress NeighBors took her 1T and later bersuaded Leitner to let hel E return, thegirl said.I The quarelIing did not cease, however. said the ser. want. and heard Mrs. Leitner say
 Now you have gone the limit. Tn going to exposeyou and your method. to the police
 She said I.eitner and his. wife had left the house together yesterda, nlornf1lg for on Mondays Wednes days ana Fridays Mrs LeHner went ts the German Hospital for treatnen for Threatened nervous break down I.eitner, In his talk to the police, men z tioned this and said also his wife hat been hunting for new quarters ant had called 1astfevening for him to es