New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-23
Found After Acid Had
Been Thrown in Her
Husbands Face.
POLICE SEEKING
MISSING LANDLORD
Body Is in Front Room"
Card to Suspects
Wife Says.

In a closet Of a vacant apartment on
the second floor Of 80 West Twenty
ninth Street detectives found yester-
day afternoon the body Of Lille West
camp, twenty-five years old, strangled
to death. She was the common law
wife of John Schalapin, into whose face
muriatic acid was thrown on Monday
evening as he entered his apartment
on the floor above.
A postcard from Alois Hauswitzer,
Of 3l9 West Twenty ninth Street, to
his wife caused the detectives to search
the house. She received it yesterday
noon. Written in German, it said:
There is nothing in the newspapers
yet. am guilty. Ny life is ruined
| hope our baby gets better pleasure
during its life than ] and that yod will
be happy with the baby. Don't use my
name any more. The body is in the
front room. Show this to the police"
Hauswitzer leased the houses at $40
and 3l9 and rented furnished rooms
About six weeks ago Schalapin and his
wife took the apartment on the third
floor rear of 80
The landlord lived with his invalid
Wifi, his thirteen-months-o old baby anc
a sister-in-law in 319. He became in
fatuated with the Schalapin woman. ac-
cording to Police Inspector Faurot,
soon after she and Schalapin became
his tenants. Hauswitzer often slept in
a vacant ballroom in 80, telling the
tenants it was because his baby was i'll.
Two Men Had Quarrel.
About week ago Hauswitzer and
Schalapin had violent quarrel. as d
result of which the latter decided to
give up his rooms Monday. That morn
ing tenants heard sounds of quarrel
in the Schalapin apartment, and the
landlords voice was recognized. The
quarrel was renewed early Monday af
ternoon, when Schalapin, who is an in
terror decorator, was at work. The loud
words were cut short by a woman's
scream.
An expressman called to move the
furniture at o'clock HauswtLer met
him at the door and told him 1t had
already gone.
Schalapn returned home about 3
o'clock. AS he opened his apartment
door some one in the semi darkness
threw the glass OF acid in his face. lie
fell writhing to the floor. When the
police were called the apartment was
empty, but one OF the tenants said that
Hauswitzer, costless, had run TO the
street TO call a policeman.
Badly burned and blinded by the acid, I
Schalpain was taken TO Bellevue. He
called continually for his wife, asking
why she did not come.
Hauswtzer could not be found, and |
detectives looked for him throughout /
Monday night.
The postcard to Mrs. Hauswitzer was /
mailed in New York early yesterday I
morning, inclosed in an envelope. She /
gave the card TO the police.
Woman's Body Found.
When the door Of the secondfoor /
vacant apartment and the large square
closet in the front room had been
broken down by Inspectors Crag and
Faurot and Detectives O'Connell. |
Cooper and Noonan, the body of the
murdered woman was found on the
floor. A handkerchief had been forced
into her mouth, and yellow silk sock.
wit. which she had apparently been
strangled, was tied about her neck.
Three cuts, on her right temple had
Photographs Of the murdered woman,