The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-08-15
Oar Netc York Letter.


hIEEp 80 DIE ToGETHER-A WORD FROM
TIE CITY OF CHURCHEs-A. HUNGRY
CHILD KTEKED TO DEATH EoR STEALING
4 LoAFO RREAD--THE BREEZE THAT u
NEWSPAPE ER REPORTER RAIsED-GoSStP
THEATRICAL, SANITARY, AND OTHER
WISE.
From Our Special Correspondent
New York, Aug, Il, 1873.
\ .sTteANqE STORY ISDEEB. ";
coroner Herman made an informal 1nYeS-
tlgation on Saturday relati ve TO the supposed
suicide of John Frederic Muncks, aged p,
Who is alleged TO have shot himself through
The head, on Friday night, in presence of his
uncle, Charles kughstds Muncks, and Hat
tie, the wife of the latter, who was. also inysr
terious-y Y wounded at the same tilres Gi,st
who, having deserted her aged hushflFt.
Was hVlng in improper intimacy with tie
nepAeE at 49 Ludlow street, where the fatal
scene occufretl,.i, On Friday night the uncle
went 10 the house; in 'f.pdlQw street to ar
range with his wife for proceedings for 4
divorce, as he says, but to forcibly remove
her, according to her version of the affatf.
Upon entering he found the wife and nephe'g
FSing upon the outside of the bed fnhy
dressed They immediately sprang to their
heet, lnd pricing rey+0lvcrs at their own
breasts, thre-tehed to shoot themselves II lie
did not retire frpm the room. He refused,
ana while ne was trying to disarm his wife
her pistol exploded, shooting her thfough
the tteShy part of the left breast, inHlcting
painful but not dangerous wound. The
nehhew, thinking his par1moiir fatally
wounded, then shot himself through the
heart. The wife, however, alleged that the
shooting of herself had been accidental, and
that the nephew's fatal wound was selE-
inflicted. She also identified the pistal; rs
having heen bought by the Hephew with
they having oiSned FL fa SP @ssPons 5er sS shg sad
TO R!N themselves if Muuclls should molest
them Beth Muncks and his wife were dis
charged from custody.
LES 1IsERABLEs IN BROOKLYN
Daniel DoughertY, fifteen years Of age,
and pehfding at 50 Partition street, South
BROOKLYN, attempted to steal 9: loaf of; bread
yesterday afternoon from tie wagon 'nf
Henry Dohrs who keeps bakery at I39
Partition street. ,;Dohr caught him in the
act knocked him dowp and kicked Fin
about the he;id and on tie stomach until he
was insenSible.,.. When the boy became CON
sci0us he crawled away to the ward of mn
iron foundry at the corner of Walnut. and
Ferris streets, where he lay for ,soT1e hours
unable to move. His moaDS attracted tile
attention of an officer Of the Third sub:
Precinct, who CARRIED kim home. Dohr
was then arrested and locked up TO await
the result OF the injuries inflicted. The
physicians saythe boy cannot recover.
ceINTERvIEwISG AND ITa RESULTS. .
Few things in this world will kick no Z
bigger row than when Zones, in CONVERSE
ton with Il newspapet &" Interviewer" "
speaks his mind freely as regards Brown.
Brown. ordinarily comes back at Jones in
print and then the fun gets lively. But il
often 'hapIeIs that the party of the second
part woTfd Have done we'll to have abstaiped
from rushing into print. a case in point Is
just now pointing the moral TO this kind IF
common sense reasoning. Mr. Shepard
Homans is jnst now the talk of the town,
but, aS eyerybod and his wife may not
know who the aforesaid party is, and why
he ehouid be the talk of the tQwn, we rise 10
explain. HOmans was formerly Actuary of
the Mutual Life Corr pany of this city, and
was discharged from that Office in 1871, un-
der circumstances W hich made him then the
theme for a nine days gossip in the life in-
surance world, inasmuch as he was dis
missed for anfaithfulness, Incompetence
obstinacy, iulpracUibility, and inSubordina.
ton Ia string of powerful adjectives, .htsif
of which, in the war times, would have
caused him to be shot. In this case lie was
luckp+-he was only drummed .CEt of the
service. 1t seems recently that the Presi=
dent of the Mutual Life was.put under the
pump by that artless and gentle creature
known rs n newspaper reporter, and said
reporter interviewed the President as to the
facts connected with Homans' dismissal
from the service of the. company, with the
result given above. OF course the inter-
viewer could not keep so luscious an item TO
himself, and he blurted it out III his paper.
Heretofore out of consideration for Ho-
fhans; tAe matter had been kept rather
quiet but as soon as the facts took air the
trouble. cGfnnenced. Homan's Card "
vent the ROUNDS of the metropolitan press,
and the reply Of the Mutual followed, and
the testimony adduced by the latter has sent
HOmans up higher than the Graphic balloon
will be! apt to go, and he will st8'y mp longer
thin Professor Wise will care TO do. All of
which proves that when Jones has been in
terviewed, and he has had his say about
Brown and when it happens that his story
corresponds with fac r, the best thing Brown
can do is to silently stand it,
The Health Board, happily, are alive to
the faet that the Staten Island shore IS fire.
quently strewh With the bodies of dead
horses worked up on the Narrow's beach.
So are the Staten Islanders alive to the fact,
as, indeed, they could hardly avoid being.
Miss Ebtia, the actress, Mrs. General
Lander (.teSA DavenportJ, and Mr.. Beeks,
the we'll known actor, arrived from Europe
last night in the steamship Italy, of the Ma
tional line. 20.
miss Alice Cary IS in london studying
the chief contralto part iA the new opera,
Miss CLARA Eonse and hr5tffn pFfa
ma, has ireturned to her country seat on the
Hudson; - e 81,
X dreS=fnal5er up town was Mortified yes
terday to dfscover two skeletons in the cell
lar of the house. They were subsequently
identified the property of physician
who had formerly occupied the premises.
IT, CA
GoLpEN ANp SILVER JELLY CAKE.-
Golden Cake.-Take the yoke of eight eggs,
well beaten, add one cnp white sugar one
half cup of butter, ore-half cup Of sweet