People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Tragedy at Allentown, Pa. [ARTICLE]

Tragedy at Allentown, Pa.

Allentown, Pa., March 10. —Fidel Tritschler, aged 34 years, a prominent baker and a member of Select council of this city, murdered his wife this morning and then fired two bullets into his own brain. He can not recover. Tritschler evidently shot his wife while she slept, as her body was found lying ir. bed. For more than a week Tritschler had been suffering from insomnia, and it is thought he committed the murder while temporarily insane. The couple had been married less than six months and were to all appearances perfectly happy.