New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-02-08
THREE MORE MURDERS
A JEALOUS MAN MURDERS HIS WIFE

JEALOUS MAN MUhDEho nIO 1T
Mary Hoy, age 30, was shot in the neck and
MORALLY wounded by her husband, Charles Hoy age 49,
at No 6io East Thirteenthst night. Hoy is gas
stoker by trade five years past has worked for
the Manhattan las Company. In December last he was
offered better wages II he would go to work In gas
house at Cincinnati and at once accepting the 0ner no
went 20 that city.
After weeks stay he his wife, without inclo
sing any money, and asked her TO join him at Cincinnati
Il. No letter came in reply from tho wife, and Boy be-
came distrustfu that his wife had abandoned him. He
at last determined to return TO this city and arrived
here Thursday last. "A he passing through
Chathams he stopped the guDsmith shop OF George
Smith and bought onebarreled pistols for 49, ana
also powder and bullets. He then went to the house Of
his father in the lower part Of Mulbeyst and there
remained all night.
At $50 p. m.yesterday. he entered his home, back
room the third floor of the tenementhouse No. 649
East Thrteenthst As he opened tho door his wife
started forward oyfuly to meet him. He greeted her
roughly and told her to shut and lock the door She
obeyed him and on turninglround him standing in
front OF her holding pistol in his right hand almost on
a level with her face.
He instantly pulled the trigger OF the pistol and one
Of the two bullets with which 1t was loaded entered the
woman's neck and passed almost through. The other
bullet entering the right breast passed through the
upper edge OF the right lung struck the shoulder blade
aud glanced upward lodging under the skin at the back
Of the neck.
Mrs Hoy fell upon the floor. and her husband fed
from the room. A hoy passing through the hall
way OF the building at the moment, and hearing the
report OF the pistol and seeing Hoy running down the
stairs pursued him into the street and shouted MUIR
der" Officer Mayer OF the Eleventh Precinct Police
heard the boys shout and followed Hoy, who ran with
great speed down Avenue G.
The officer after the fugitive, but was not able 10
catch him until sixthst was reached. Here the police
man grasped Hoy by the and compelled him to sur
render Hoy taken the Houstonst Station-house
and locked up until his crime could be asceralned In
few minutes the boy who had caused Hoys arrest en-
tered the statonhouse and told Capt Murphy that the
prisoner had murdered his wife
Captain Murphy ordered officers TO get stretcher,
and he then proceeded with them to HoY's home The
officers there found Mrs. Hoy PROSTATE upsn the floor
The wounds in her neck bleeding prousely and she
was very weak from loss OF blood She placed upon
the stretcher and taken to the staton-hOuse.
Capt Murphy had Hoy brought from hs cell and
placed before the stetcher upon which lay the wounded
woman Mrs Hoy raised her hand and pointing toward
her husband said, Oh you murderer you starved mo-
and now you have murdered me-" In reply to Capt Muir
phys questions Mrs Hoy sad that 1t was her husband
who had shot her. she thought he had intended to
do So namuch as he had threatened osfor year past
Dr. Toal was summoned, and succeeded In extracting
the bullets from Mrs Hoys wounds DIR. TOa said that
there was only very little hope Of her recovery, and
ordered her removal TO Bellevue Hospital Capt Muir
phy searched Hoy's room, and found the two pistols
secreted in the water OF washtub. the back OF the
room. Hoy stated Capt. Murphy that the shooting
was entirely accidental.
Hoy was born Ireland and married his wife IN
Charley Lancashire England oct IS, 1882 She is
Englishwoman. They have had six children, four OF
whom are living The youngest child is only months
old