Year: 1875

An inexpIlcabe double murder and suicide occurred
early yesterday morning in the two story frame
nent house No. 374 West Fifty third street. A
aamed Myer Meuser shot his vile and child, and then
putting the pistol TO his own head, he fired, causing
wound which resulted his death yesterday afternoon
lbout four o'clock.


The family Of Meuser occupied two rooms on the sec
pnd floor He hard working, sober man, IN
the employ OF the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Children. Between four and nVe
O'Clock yesterday morning a man named Flynn, who
lives with his wife the apartment at the rear OF heu
ser's bedroom heard some noises which he describes
s'suspiciousn and awoke his wife, who heard the
sound OF groans emanating from heusers bedroom
After trying Mcuser's door and finding 1t locked he
called oficcr Brady OF the Twenty second precinct
who assisted young girl living in the house TO enter
Meuser's bedroom by window over the bed. As
the child let herself down the inside OF the dark
room she touched Mcuser who groaned. This fright
ened the GIRL who at ran to the front room door
and unlocked IT, letting the officer and others with
light When they entered the bedroom


PRIGnTPUL SIGHT


presented itself Meuser lay the bed next the wall
with wound on the right side of his head. Near his
light hand, two inches from his fingers lay seven bar
,rled revolver with FIVE barrels discharged Next to
him lay his wife, with two ugly wounds, IN the





and at the front OF the bed their daughter Carrie,
little child about three years old, lay dead from ps
tol bullet which had lodged in her right eye The man
and his wife we're unconscious The bed was covered
with blood and all tho victims of the awful
crime were bleeding DR.. S. N Manley, being Called
suer examining the wounded persons, pronounced the
wounds OF heuser and his wife fatal. Officer Brady
procured ambulance, and In it Mr.. and Mrs Meuser
we're removed TO the Reception Hospital in Ninety
ninth street.


Coroner Croker notified, and, together with his
Ieputy, Dr. MacWhnnie proceeded to the hospital in
knfpa ahln tal1 ctata
mcnt When they arrived there the patients
still in a comatose state. Meuser could be roused
but by slight shaking his wife was seen TO try to
make effort to speak. One side of her face com
petey paralyzed, or when she made attempt to
talk all the movement OF her mouth was on one side
Of IT.


The Coroner afterward went to No 346 West Fifty
third street TO try to ascertain some facts connected
with the When ho reached there and was shown
the rooms in which the unfortunate family had lived
he saw nothing that Indicated else than extreme
poverty The floors were bare the chairs old and
broken a miserable the front room and
on a ricketty table stood the remains of the
last nights supper, which evidently, had been
very respectable looking man came in and
stated to DR.. Macwhinne that he brother
Of the who had, up to that time, resided in those
He said that his brother had married, about
four years ago much against tho wishes Of his parents
md relatives the woman whom he had that morning
Ired TO assassnatc and since that marriage had been
ostracsed from the society OF these relatives. He
seemed very much affected by his brothers. untimcly
tccease.


Meuser since his marriage has adopted the name of
Munroe S Minister and has registered and voted under
that name.


Julia Erringer told Officer Brady that Meuser seemed
always dissatisfied with his wifes treatment of him,
that he complained that she not sufficiently
nnectionate toward him. On the other hand, the
inmates OF the house wherein they lived
are high in their praise of Mrs Meuser,
saying that she q devoted wife and
altogether admirable woman Meuser was the janitor
of the building occupied by the Society for the Pre-
vention OF Cruelty to Children, and was often called
upon to act as interpreter, he being able to
verse in FIVE or six different tongues. lie consd-
cred by those who knew HIM a rather eccentric
character but always did his duty satisfactorily TO bis
employers


Julia Errngcr says she has seen him several
easons with the pistol which found on the bed.
and has heard him say that he would shoot himself
some day.


Mrs Mcuser was alive last evening at nine O'Clock,
but that time 1T thought that she could not
vive many hours. Coroner Croker has charge of the