Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 11

) B THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1927, ; ; 1Y LS 3 HLDREN | MDSEFATTREE Enraged Suitor Invades Girls’ Home, Armed Like Arsenal, Ea. . for Slaughter. SEATTLE, Wash., December 36— The coroner’'s office today tried to learn something of the history of Imil Neuriter, a ferryboat operator, who yesterday invaded the home of D. C. Engel, a woodworker, with three pistols just as the celebration of Christmas day was starting, slew three of Engel's children and killed himselt. Helen Engel, sixteen years old, sis- ter of the victims, sald that the slayer made Tove to her last spring, shot at her when she repelled his advances, and afterward wrote let- ters threatening to kill her and her family. Neouriter was waiting in a shed in the rear of the house when Engel the father, stepped out of a back door. Fngel told Coroner W. H. Corson Neu- riter pointed two pistols at him, and ordered hin back into the house, locking the door after they had en- 1ered. According to ' Engel's statement, Anna FEngel, seventeen years old, rushed into the room and jumped be- tween the two, and Neuriter started shooting. Anna was the first to fall. Then Neuriter ran into the living room, where Lily, three years old. was holding a doll she had taken from the Christmas tree. He killed the child with one shot, and then en- tered an adjoining room and killed Hans, eleven years old, and himself. Mr. and Mrs. Engel and two other children escaped from the house un- injured. Letters found in Neuriter's pocket mentfoned supposed troubles with Engel, but did not reveal specifically the cause. A half-filled bottle of whisky was found in his pocket. EDITOR BRAINERD DIES AT HIS HOME IN SEATTLE Newspaper Writer of Note and Long-Time Leader in Pub- lic Affairs. Pr the Associated Press. SEATTLE, Wash,, December 26.— Erastus Brainerd, formerly editor of the Post-Intelligencer, and long a lcader in public life in this state, died yesterday. Mr. Brainerd, who be- came editor of the Post-Intelligencer in 1900 and retired from that position in 1911, has been in failing health, but his friends were not aware that death was near. Mr. Brainerd was born in Middle- town, Conn., in 1855, and graduated from Harvard University. He was appointed curator of engravings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1876. After two years at that post he traveled two years in Europe, and then turned to newspaper work. He was connected with the editorial stafts of the Times and the World, in New York; the Press in Philadelphia and the Constitution in Atlanta. He was editor-in-chief of the Star in Atlanta, the News in Philadelphia, and the Press-Times and the Post- Intelligencer in Seattle. Mr. Brainerd declined appointment as governor of Idaho, offered him by ident Arthur. He was land com- ioner of this state from 1893 to Brainerd was the author of the ery of Great Artists,” a photo- hical and descriptive work in | five volumes, and of a history of Alaska and Klondike. Mrs. Brainerd has been visiting in Richmand, Va., but is expected here this week for the funeral service. There are two daughters. Mrs. Henry R. Wahoske of Great Falls, Mont., and Miss Eliza- beth Brainerd of New York city. Mr. Brainerd was a former presi- dent of the Washington Soclety of the American Revolution, dnd was active in the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the American Genetic Association. YANKS FETE CHILDREN. 900 Small Germans Guests of Doughboys on Rhine Watch. Br the Associated Press, COBLENZ, December 26. — Nine hundred children were the guests of the American forcés at a huge Christ- mas tree celebration yesterday. The trae was erected in the Clemens Plats and was beautifully decorated. The children, led by school teachers, wers presented with packages containing warm clothing, candy and toys. The Sth_Infantry Band furnished music. Rhineland Post, No. 700, Veterans of Forelgn Wars, fed 500 orphans at one of the biggest restaurants in Coblenz. The American Legion was host to 300. The machine gunners of the 8th cele- brated Christmas by taking care of IShrenbrelstein chiidren. The money left over from the Christmas fund, amounting to about 2,000,000 marks, wiil be used to purchase milk for chil- dren and invalids in Coblenz. TEN PER CENT RAISE GIVEN. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., December 26.— The Brooside cotton mills here have announced a voluntary increase of 10 per cent in wages, affectirg 1,600 em- ployes. ¥ 12th and F Sts. 15th and G Sts. 1784 Columbla Road Open 9:15 A.M. Close 6 P.M. 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