Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-19 | Page 1 | A Trafedy on the Steamer Eider

A Trafedy on the Steamer Elder NEW YORK April 18When the steamship steam-ship Eider swung out from the pier in Ho tboken this afternoon several of the creW were swabbing up big pools of blood in the steerage A double tragedy was enacted there hal an hour before Phillip Ohnacker had killed Mrs Catharine Barith and then sent a bullet crashing through his own weak brain Two children are left in Germany to mourn the death of the woman She has a husband there but it i not at all likely he will shed tears over her taking off because she left him and her children to cone here with Ohnocker The suicide was a soldier stationed at the mines and yielding to the persistent pleading of the woman came with her to this country where they lived a man and wife They lived on a farm near this city and the woman tiring of her lover neglected him in many ways and finally announced her intention of returning home Ohnocker A tried to change her purpose and followed her to the dock to renew his pleadings He had no money to buy a ticket to accompany accom-pany her and driven to desperation said should not go For a reply she walked aboard the steamship and into the steerage You shall not leave he said unless we go together and drawing a revolver freda fred-a bullet into her brain He instantly turned the weapon on himself and in a moment both lay dead together