The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-03-07
Tragedy Enacted in Base
ment of Home at Red
Bank, N. J.
CONFESSION OF MURDER
Woman Shows No Remorse
Over Deed.

RED BANK, N. j., March Mrs.
Christine Stobel found her 16year-
old daughter Rosa, lying on the floor
of the basement of their home here
today, a newborn babe in her arms.
She returned upstairs, procured a
revolver, and going back to the base
ment, according to a signed confess
sion Prosecutor John j. Quinn said
she made to him, shot her daughter
to death.
The shooting took place about a
half an hour after the child was
born. The mother, officers who ar
rested her and the prosecutor said,
showed no sign of hysteria and said
she killed the daughter, whose baby
was born out of wedlock, deliberately.
officers said they learned that re-
Gently the mother and daughter had
quarre1ed because of Rosa's friend
ship for a man whose name the Of
ficers have not yet revealed.
Last night, the quarrel had be-
come acute and there had been vio-
lent argument between the mother
and daughter, and in the presence
of two other children, Joseph and
Christine.
went to bed and a little later Rosa
had gone to the basement. When
she failed to return upstairs, officers
said Mrs. Stobel told them, the
mother went to the basement in
search Of her daughter. There she
found Rosa, lying on the cement floor
folding in her arms the new born
babe.
Fired Three Shots
Mrs. Stobel, acdbrding to the state
ment she made, Immediately re-
turned upstairs, went to the dining
room and took .32 calibre revolver
from a sideboard drawer. Return
ing to the basement, Mrs. Stobel,
the officers said, stood over her
daughter and fired three shots into
her body.
Hearing the shots, Joseph, Rosa's
1S-year-old brother, ran to the base
nent where he found his mother
standing over the body Of his sister.
He disarmed his mother, removed
the three empty shells from the
chamber Of the revolver and buried
the weapon in the yard behind the
house.
Fourteen-year-o Christine, Rosa's
sister, led Mrs. Stobel upstairs and
when neighbors, attracted by the
excitement, arrived, was sitting with
her in the kitchen of the home.
Going to the basement, neighbors
found Rosa dead, still folding in her
arms the body Of her child. The
babe had died at birth or soon there
after. Uncertain as to the circum-
stances Of the baby's death an autop-
sy will be performed, officers be-
lieving it possible that it might have
been killed by one Of the bullets
which ended the mothers life.
Waits for Police
Neighbors called police and when
they arrived, found Mrs. Stobel still
in the kitchen of her home, awaiting
arrest, her two children with her.
She was taken to the Monmouth
County Jail at Freehold, N. j., where,
in her cell, she signed a statement
Of what had transpired.
Joseph and Christine were held as
material witnesses under $4,000 bail
each, while the mother was held on
a murder charge, without bail.
Joseph led the police back to the
rest, showed them where he had
buried the revolver, and helped Off
crs recover it. He also said that
after he had buried the revolver he
had summoned an undertaken, who
had not yet arrived when the officers
came,