New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-06
POISON PEN LIE
DRIVES MOTHER
TODIE WITH SON
Takes Child TO Hotel
Writes Farewell, Then
Turns on Gas.
HUSBAND ACCUSED
IN ANONYMOUS NOTE
All Could Have Been Explained
lie Says-Woman Carefully
Planned Deaths.

poison pen" letter led Mrs. Car.
r schmidt 20 end her life and that OF
Ter six.year-old son Carl by gas
her six.vear-old son Carl by gas in the
Hotel wellington Yesterday.
One letter in a woman's handwrit-
.-~. told Of unfaithfulaess on the par
.t The father md husband. Near IT,
.. ,ac dresser. was another letter on.
addressed bon scaled envelope ana
...or i. German was 81 reference
tbc alleged uria.tbfulncss Of 'a'
husband rie note contained the far
.,oIl o. rricf-stricken woman. Both
.ccor8irr 90 Coroner Patrick j. Eior-
dan. were the answers TO the double
death The anonymous letter was
.tanped sept. 80 .. m. sta
ton y"
The contents OF the letters the Cor
ooer refused 10 divulge. The one By
Mrs. Schmidt. in German. had been
landed 20 the husband TO read. "Why
I'D she do this before she came TO see
mo-" he said. weeping. "All could have
..ca satisfactorily explained"
ln refusing 10 make the contents OF
tic letters public the Coroner SAID
The DE has done enough damage al
ready. II is awful what lying tongue
can do"
Mrs. Schmidt went 10 the Wellington
H,tcl. Seventh Avenue and Fifty-sixth
street about II O'Clock on Monday
night. With her was her boy Carl He
carried a small air rife. Their only
baggage was hand satchel. The
woman applied for a suite Of rooms and
a parlor and bedroom we're assigned to
her. She gave instructions that she
Gid not want to be called in the morn
ing.
Il am just getting back to the city
after tedious train ride, and do not
want to be disturbed she said.
Death Carefully Planned.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morning
,.r.r guests of the hotel on the same
door complained of the smell OF gas
is,yrence smith. manager, with Leon
ars Long. the engineer, traced the gas
odor 10 the rooms occupied by Mrs
crbr,id. No answer came 20 their
.,ockine on the door. A pass Key
moved that the hall door was bolted
rom the inside Entrance was then
raiued 10 the room by means OF ledge
on the front Of the building.
The door Of the bedroom adjoining
tbe narlor was opened. and on the beds
uera found the bodies. The mother
Was lying face downward with her out-
stretched arm resting over her cnlid
Lo6v. There Was q sr2u@ on ths h"t
face. snd in his right hand he he'c Inc
little air rife
window were stuffed with towels ana
clothing Three gas jets OF the chan
dclier were turned on.
ON the dresser were several letters.
The ono which Is alleged to have
crused the woman's act was open, u
evidently having been read before she
wrote her final message. others Wit
zen 20 her by her husband mad been
carefully put into envelopes.
Mr.. Schmidt. who came 70 identity
tho bodies. said ~ present he is not
regularly employed, but has desk room
in the Office Of the National Manufsc-
t.ring Company IN the Woolworth
Since the war" he said, business
has been very poor. We were living at
West Sixty-fourth Street. IN the
ilarperly Hall apartments, but because
of business conditions we decided that
~ would be cheaper 10 put our furni-
'urc In storage and for my wife and
-
10 Woodvcrest Farm, Shohola, Penn"
last spring, and for all J knew they
were still there.
81 had a room in the Circle Hotel, IN
Columbus Circle. and have been send
ing money 90 my wife and child. In ad.
dition to earning small sums at odd
times | have been receiving small re-
mittances from Hamburg
Act Mystihes Husband.
schmidt met his wife eleven years
aro. when he was employed By the Sa
vov Trust Company. $50 Broadway. The
frm went into liquidation in 1911, ne
said. after which he sold aeroplaneS.
Do went with his wife 10 Mexico and
.o'd many Of the machines 90 Madero.
I'm 1913 the Schmidts went 20 Ger
many, but after a year returned. lie
then engaged in the general merchan-
disc trade
Mrs Schmidt was about thirty-fvc
years old She has two brothers, Drs.
Wilhelm T. and Bernard Stern, who live
in Brooklyn.
The last time he saw his wife,
schmidt told the Coroner. was three
weeks ago. when he visited her a.
Noodycrest Farm. She seemed happy
thcn
Both bodies were still warm when
Dr. Frank Smith arrived.
10 WAS late last night before the
bodies were removed 10 an undertake
Ing establishment. though the Coroner's
Office had received word OF the deaths
shortly after 10 o'clock In the morning
coroner Riordsn came At 1920.
N you do not register YOU cannot
enroll II you do not enroll YOU cannot
toic in the primaries next year. Reg