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February 27th, 1923.

Frederick Schneider, wealthy Bronx contractor,

was shot to death in his automobile

late yesterday afternoon at a lonely spot on Seaview Avenue.

Thirty detectives are hunting for a woman who hurried away from the automobile as it stopped with a dead man's hand on the wheel.

Two other women, one of whom he had lived with for ten years and the

other his real wife, with whom he had remained on friendly terms although they were separated,

are aiding the police in their search for the woman supposed to have killed him.

Schneider was sitting at the driver's wheel when his body was discovered, with his right hand in his coat pocket and his left hand hanging over the wheel.

At the time the shots were fired, it is now believed, the murderer was in the tenow of the car.

Dr. K. Sellers-K. Sellers-K. Cunard said yesterday that the bullet in the back of the head had been fired from a distance and that the

person who did the shooting probably was sitting on the back seat and leaning forward.

The other wound through the right ear was a contact wound, so that second shot, Dr. Conard

believes, was fired with a revolver pressed against the man's head.

An early theory that Schneider might have committed suicide was destroyed by the physical evidence.

District Attorney Edward Glennon announced last night that the authorities unquestionably were dealing with a murder.

Admittedly it was one of baffling circumstances, the slayer having

picked a deserted spot and having avoided any living witnesses to the actual crime, except two

chowdogs, Hulu and Zulu, Schneider's inseparable companions who are barking over the body

when police reached the car.

Robbers were eliminated when a bankbook in which a large sum and currency and checks were found

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