The New York herald., 1922-11-28
SHOOTS HIS FIANCEE
| AND IS SLAIN WHILE
| MENACING ANOTHER
John j. Leitch Sends Bullet
Into Brain of Rose
Sandrisser.
SHOTGUN ENDS FLIGHT
Husband of Girls Friend
Says Rejected Man Threat
ened Wife.
FIGHTS OFF WOMAN
e
Slayer Is in Automobile When
Full Charge Enters His
Breast.
FIGHTS OFF WOMAN

Special Dispatch to THE NEw York HERALD.
HUNTINGTON, l.. l., Nov. 27-John
Leitch. aged 30 of Northport, was shot
and killed tonight a few minutes
after he had shot his sweetheart, Rose
Sandrisser, II. Leitch was killed by
Edgar Scudder, an electrician, in
whose home the girl was living. The
girl was taken to Huntington Hos
pital, where it was said that she could
live only "a few hours at most, as the
brain.
Miss Sandrisser, who was employed
in dress factory in New York ave-
me, left her home at Huntington street
and Purcill avenue a week ago after
quarrel with her sister and went to
live with Scudder and his wife in
Spring street. She was engaged to be
married, she told the Scudders, to
Leitch. who came from Northport fire.
quently in his automobile to visit her.
Leitch and the girl went riding last
night in his automobile. When she re-
turned she told Mrs. Scudder that they
had quarreled and that he was to come
back tonight and get his ring. The
girl went to work as usual to-day, and
early tonight Leltch drove up in front
Of the Scudder home and got out. He
and the girl went into the living room
and were there alone.
Shot in His Automobile.
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heard pistol shot. She ran In from
the next room, where she had been read
ing. and saw Miss Sandrisser lying on
the floor with blood coming from a
wound squarelyi between her eyes
Leitch came toward her with the re-
volver in his hand and tried to pass her
to get to the kitchen window. He threat
ened to kill her, but she flung herself In
front Of him and struck his right arm.
The revolver went off again, and then
Leitch brushed her aside and went out
the door.
Scudder came running down stairs
with his double barreled shotgun and
reached the room just as Leitch was get
ting into his automobile. He ran outside
and fired one barrel into the air over
the car in an attempt to make Leitch
stop.
Instead of stopping and obeying Scud-
der's command to surrender Leitch
stepped on the gas and began to circle
the house. for some reason evidently
hesitating to drive away. Scudder said
he called on him again to stop and that
Leitch fired at him. Scudder then let
go the other barrel and the charge struck
Leitch in the chest. The automobile
came to a stop within a few feet and
Leitch fel! dead across the steering
wheel.
Fired in SeIf-Defense.
Scudder gave himself up to Detective
Bert Walker and Deputy Sheriff Charles
wenzell Miss Sandrisser was attended
by DIR. w. C. Pendill and taken to the
hospital He said she could not pos
sibly live. as part of her brain had been
destroyed. Coroner Moore of Bay Shore
was notified and was on his way to
Huntington at IL o'clock tonight.
Coroner w. d. Gibson of this place Is
out of town on his vacation.
Scudder is 35 years old and has two
children. He Is employed by the J. A.
Palmer Electric Company in this city.
He said after his arrest that he had
shot Leitch in. self-defense when the
,lstter fred at him once and threatened
his life. He said he knew little Of the