The New York herald., 1922-05-31
KILLS WIFE AND SON
AND STABS HIMSELF
Slaughter House Worker Then
Drops Penknife and Flees
From Apartment.
DYING, ADMITS CRIME
He and Wife, Both Married
Before, Had Quarreled Over
Their Children.
DYING, ADMITS CRIME

George Krumpet OF S3S East Forty
fifth street, stable man in a First
avenue slaughter house. killed his wife
and his seven-year-old son last night at
IL o'clock by slashing their throats with
silver handled penknife. Leaving the
body of his son In a bedroom and that
of his wife lying across the threshold
of the bedroom Krumpet went into the
kitchen and stabbed himself in the
throat.
Staggering back into the living room
Of his apartment Krumpet threw the
penlknife on the table and left the apart
ment. He reached the head of the
stairs and started down, but was met by
Detectives Andrews. Walsh. Culhane,
Prantner and Clark Of the East Fifty
first street station. who had been patrol
Ing the district in an automobile and
had been called by neighbors. Krumpet
tried 10 get back into his rooms when
he saw the detectives coming up the
stairs. but he fell to the floor
The detectives carried him into the
house and put him into a chair. while a
policeman sent for an ambulance from
Flower Hospital Krurnpet tried to talk
to the detectives. apparently wanting
to tell them what he had done, but he
was not able to speak loud enough for
them to hear. Finally Detective An
drews picked up the penknife and said ::
"Did you do this? Did you kill these
people?"
Krumpet nodded his head yes.
With this knife?' asked the detec-
tive.
krumpet nodded affirmatively.
The penknife is only an ordinary
pocket affair with two or three inch
blade. But Krumpet Is big man and
powerful. and he slashed the throats OF
his victims with such force that he
almost decapitated them. The surgeon
from Flower Hospital said that they
had died almost instantly. Krumpet
himself was sent 10 the Bellevue Hos
pital. where it was said that he was
terribly weak from loss OF blood and
that he had virtually no chance of re-
covery. He was still alive at 2 o'clock
this morning, however, but had not re-
gained sufficient strength to be ques-
toned.
No one witnessed the actual murder
and the attempted suicide, but the story
OF what led up to the killing was told
TO the police by Charles Kicker of 426
ried a daughter of Mrs. Krumpet by a
previous marriage, and he and his wife
visited the krumpets last night He
told the police that krumpet and his
wife began quarreling, as he had heard
them do on other occasions over their
respective children, both having beer
married before and both having chill.
dren other than the issue OF their pres
ent marriage.
Kicker said that the quarrel became
so violent that IL became embarrassing
| and he and his wife left before II
o'clock At that time all of the Krumpe
children except the seven-year-old son
william. were out. William had gone &c
bed and was asleep in front bedroom
Apparently after the Rickers left the
quarrel centered itself on William. who
according TO the police. had frequently
shown a greater love for his mother
than for his father. The police theory
OF the crime is that Krumpet started
into the bedroom to kill his son and
was met by his wife, who blocked his
way at the threshold.