The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-31

hunting. She had been more than usually nervous. hesaid. and had Kept calling to him, Hurry up, Sam, want to go hoTne.''
 Wife Near His Desk.
 He said he had ben at. work at his desk while his wife walked uneasi1y up and down beside the desk. Lett ner's office is at the, left as one enters the building. A door gives into e small space shut off from the rest of the office by p wooden railing, in which there is a gate. This gate is. closed to an iron grille that crosses. the width Of the office and shuts Lett ner and his desk into a small space by thew indoW. There is a door in this, also giving into the i1closed space be- hind the wooden railing, and at the ether end is another door in a tall wooden petition shutting off the rear of the big room. Leitner's quarters occupy only half of the front space, 9 glass partition extending from floor to ceiling shutting him off from the quarters of the New r York and Brook lyn Window Cleaning Company, whose. office is entered only from the rear room.
 backed against the grille. so that it's top. shuts off his view of the outer office when he Is seated at it though the floor on which it stands Is e1eVat- ed a foot above the general floor. It was on this platform that Mrs. tLeitner walked up and down in front of the door in the grille, which was open. l Leitner said the shots came so fast 1 that the two men were already hur- rying from the office even when he l sprang up from his seat at sthe desk. He caught his wife as she fell. He lowered her to the floor, he l said. and ran through the door and | gate. out the front door of his office and to the top of the stoop. Below men and women, but nowhere did he catch sight of men in gray caps. He 1 ran back. and then the crowd from the sidewalk surged in. Others came downstairs from offices higher up in the building. but no one had seen two men such as Leitner de scribed.
 Saw No One Leave Building Meyer and John Belmont of 12E Second avenue and Theodore Miller of. e81 Washington avenue, the Bronx who ran over with Meyer, said they l had seen no one descend the stairs after hearing the reports of the ashots. and said they had not ever seen Leitner come to the door an6 look up and down the street. Coroner Feinberg with Deputy
 
 Assistant District Attorney Skinner l took charge of the investigation. fThs s coroner said the bullets had beer .l fired veryf close to Mrs Leitner; fo1 there were powder marks on her Jeff l hand and her underwaist showed marks also. Her outer waist wa. i.b1ack and the marks were not so dis 4 tinct.s It was the bullet that strucl I her right hand that afterward passed ! through the wind owl and the coronel said the shots had been fred sc close to the woman that probabls she had raised her hand to grasp tho sl pistol.
 Leftner said he had been threatened l frequently by friends of thieves hs had prosecuted and suggested the murder had resulted from some Q. these. He could give no description of the men he said he had seen. how II ever.
 Inspector Cray said he arrested I4eitner in 1902 on charge Of pick ing pockets. but Leitner was dis charged. Cray said that seven year Ei ago Leitner's picture was removed sf from the Rog1des' Gallery