MARRIAGE CEREMONY WHICH TOOK PLACE AN HOUR BEFORE THE MURDER.
MURDERING MINA MULLER IN THE WOODS NORTH OF WEEHAWKEN.
At about half-past 9 the prisoner’s wife arrived at the station with her boy, who was crying bitterly. She asked why her husband had been arrested, and why the trunks had been taken away. When asked what his name was, she replied, “Martin Kenkouwski,” and added that they had been married ten years ago in Alsace, and had only been in this country a little more than half a year. Her husband was a mason and kalsominer. When asked if he had been at home regularly lately, she said he had been away about ten days in the beginning of the month.
“Do you know,” asked the interpreter (the woman and her husband spoke in German), “that he married another woman, and killed her?”
“I don’t believe it,” she replied firmly, while the boy cried more loudly than before. “I don’t believe it!” she reiterated. “Let me see him! Don’t cry my child” (turning to the boy), “or you will make me weep. Don’t cry!” Here her voice faltered, and she burst into tears.
She was then led to the cell. Here a heart-rending scene occurred. She threw herself with her child against the grating, sobbing and calling for her husband. He was far back in the cell, and when he heard her and the child, he shrieked from out of the darkness:
“Katrina! Katrina! Merciful Heavens! My child! My child! Great God, are you here!”