The Rutland Daily Globe

The Providence Murder and Suicide.

The Providence papers bring some additional details to those published in THE GLOBE, of the murder and attempted suicide there on Thursday evening. Pahler, after being taken to the hospital, did not appear to be in pain, with the exception of occasional spasms, but lay quietly on the floor as if dead. He bled very little at the mouth. In his spasms, which appeared to be caused by mental rather than physical agony, he would call upon "Mary" in agonizing tones, but said nothing else except when first arrested, when he spoke to a friend, asking for Mary, was told that she was dead, said he had shot her: that she wanted to go to a convent and he did not want her to. Whether or not she did intend to go to a convent is not known outside the members of her own family, but it is known that both were in the habit of teasing each other by remarks about going away, which those who heard them considered but "chaffing," and took no notice of, and it may be this was only a method of her teasing him. Frederick Pahler, as stated, was a German, aged 25 years, a decorative painter by trade, and had been at work for a fresco painter on Tower street. A curious incident connected with this sad affair is told by Pahler's friends. On his birthday, which occurred recently, Mary made him several presents, among which was a beautiful cross of flowers. Upon seeing this cross, Mr. Steffelin, who was present, remarked, "I don't want to see that cross; it is a coffin; it is a sign of death." To this Pahler replied, in a jocose manner, "Well, if I die you can put it on my coffin." Mr. Steffelin reiterated his remark, and seemed to be very much affected at the sight of the cross, but nothing further was said about it, and Pahler, who appeared much pleased with it took it to his room. An interview Friday forenoon with the mother of the girl, Mary Bose, reveals some additional particulars. The girl was seventeen years of last month, and her acquaintance with the murderer was formed in August last at a German ball. Since that time they had been frequently together and a few weeks ago he had solicited her hand in marriage from her mother. The latter, however, refused at first, but subsequently inferring from what she had seen of him that he might revenge himself in some way, she told him to wait; that her daughter was too young to marry yet. At the same time, Mary was engaged to marry a young man in Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio. The marriage was to take place in February, and she was to go to Pomeroy. Doubtless she told him she was going into a convent, and this provoked him to the murderous deed. The affair has caused intense excitement there, especially among the German population. Pahler died Friday evening.