Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-15
GEIssLER's BODY IS
 CLAIMED BY HIS WIFE

The body of Bernard B. Geissler, the chaufeur who shot and killed Mrs. Ar thur E. De Cordova of New York in Stonmgton on Monday and then commit tea suicide, was claimed late Wednesday, oy ms wife, Mrs. Anita Geissler, of New ork' who called at an undertakers es- tapllshment where the body has been held. The body was sent to New York Wednesday night by train.
 Had Presentment of Husbands Dea+t
 When first informed of the shooting Irs. Gelssler is reported to have display ca considerable emotion After being calmed, somewhat, however, she said thai she had expected something of the sort 10 happen, and that she had had a pre- sentiment that her husbands death was near. ~
 She is 2S years of age and married Geissler in February, 1917, after a very speedy courtship, and stated that her husband had been in the employ of the De Cordova's for five years. and had spent the summers with the family at the Hotel GrlsWold at Eastern Point She said that she had noticed a change in her husband when he came home Ias Labor Day and told of his staying out late at nights, and spending all of his money. When she remonstrated with him ne threatened her with bodily injury Once, on June 5, last, she said that he struck her and knocked her down. Twc days after that he left her and she heard no more from him until June 2s when he called her on the telephone an6 told her that he was going to New Ton don with the De Cordova family Sincf | that time she had heard nothing frorr him except a short note and a check fol /, Sl2.50 which she received last Sunday. | It developed that on June 10 last, shs | had her husband brought before Magis trate Koenig in the domestic relation. court in New York city seeking an al loWance pending trial of a suit for sen aratfon on the ground of cruelty, and : weekly allowance of s125O had beer granted to her. It was a check for tn: amount that she received from GeissIe last Sunday. It also has been develope, that an effort on the part of the court t reconcile the couple failed. Mrs. Geissle was willing but her husband refused saying T can't tell you why, but I can not live with her"
 Mrs. De Cordova was formerly Flor ence Mabel Williams daughter of Alfre
 Williams, retired wholesale slov. deale ] of Germantown, Pa.
 Benjamin H. Hewitt. prosecuting at torney of the town of Stoning:1n, ha
 harbored the theory that the murder wa | lO0-----A-NNSNa SOAAtN ing some good motive for shooting Mir. 1 DeCordoya followed the Mercer car t i the lonely part of the North road, an while she and her chauffeur were talk
 ing and laughing. had shot them botf Last night, after spending the entire da in Investigating the affair, he stated tha
 he was convinced that the affairs was a stated in the coroner's verdict-"murde
 and suicide by Geissler, with motive UT known"
 The actual motive for the shooting re
 mains a mystery. There is no doub
 however that Geissler had contemplate
 the shooting for he had been heard b
 several of his fellow chauffeurs to sa that he would soon have his name in tn
 papers, and only a few days ago, he
 reported to have been out in the. field
 the rear of the Griswold hotel, practit
 ing shooting with a revolver. Of lat
 he had been morose and gloomy, and
 chauffeur who occupied a seat across th table from him in the side hall of tf Griswold hotel where the chauffeurs fc the hotel guests dine, stated that for tf past week or so Geissler had eaten lit
 or nothing, and that he had been brood ,, ing about something or other.