The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-19
CHAPTER VII.
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GoptRReht, 1898, BY Cosmopolitan News
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CopSFieht. 1898. BY .Cosmopolitan News
NEW YORK, March 19.-The last
Of his business associates to see
Frederick schneider alive was Mr..
Kinderman. who gave him 2 check
Tor $1,000.
There are conflicting stories about
1ust where Frederick Schneider
actually was between 4:3o and $50
that fatal afternoon.
Mrs. Buzzi claims that he left the
apartment at about Sis o'clock. A
workman claims to have looked up
from punching his time card at ,
just Is his employer drove by the
workman thinks Schneider was
alone.
Recognized Mrs. Buzzi.
A confectioner who knows Mrs.
Buxzl very well says he saw her
drive past his store in Schneider's
ear just before o'clock. He thinks
she was alone. But the curtains Of
the car were drawn because Of the
rain, 50 he cannot be certain. He
says he recognized her through the
windshield. He once lived in the
same apartment house with her
while she was still the wife of Buzzi,
and knows her features well.
shortly after o'clock Nicholas
Fuelner, q farmer whose house Is
parallel with Sound View avenue,
but about three blocks inland, was
startled by an explosion. He looked
mp from the hay he was gathering
and saw q touring car gradually
conaing to 4 stop. It travelled about
200 feet before coming to q halt.
Thinking the noise had been back
fire, he bent over his hay again.
The car was close clrtained as q
shield again the drizzle. and when It
stopped II was about two feet from
the CIasson Point trolley tracks on
Sound View avenue, its nose pointed
toward Classon Point. A snow bank
separated the car from the sidewalk.
There Is no other habitakion but
Fueln6 b hoSteein the neighhOrfo0d
except the Elaeson Point Military
Academy. 4 quarter Of d mile away.
30 Fuelner's view was unobstructed.
Saw Woman Leave Car.
When Fuelner looked up again he
saw q woman about ten feet from
the car walking rapidly away from
Il.
Her hands pressed deep into the
slit pockets in front Of her fur
cOllared cape, her head lowered, she
picked her way across the snow
bank and started down the side.
walk in the direction of the Clas-
son Point After she had walked
about a block, she turned and
glanced back at the car. Then she
continued to walk At the end Of
other brief look at the automobile.
Fuelner thought She was going to
take the trolley to the ferry. But
when the trolley came along and
stopped, she did not get on. In-
stead, she waited for one going In
the opposite direction and boarded
#.
From the deserted automobile
came the barking Of dogs.
Dead Man Sat at Wheel.
The motorman and conductor Of
q Sound View avenue trolley re.
membered passing the Schneider
automobile on their trip to Classon
Point ferry at 500 o'clock. They
noticed nothing unusual about II.
But IL Fuelner's timing of the shots
he heard is correct, dead man sat
ut the wheel and his murderess was
making her way from the scene OF
the crime, leaving not as much as
q finger print on the pistol by
which she could be traced.
On their return trip this motor.
man and conductor were hailed by
O woman about two blocks nearer
the ferry than where the automo-
bile stood. This was about $40
o'clock. She was blonde. of medium
height and build, with a bright
colored hat and a dark cape with
q light fur collar. They noticed
her because she was good looking
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