Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-03
BLOODY WORK.
julius Levy Shoots His Wife
Through the Lungs and then
Commits Suicide.
A Case of Domestic InFeIIcIty.

AT D oclock on yesterday afternoon
Julius Levy shot bis wife, Hannah Levy,
through the back and left lung and then
blew out his own brains with a large
sized Smith & WessOn pistol, at their
residence, No. 433 Main street, a little
cottage Immediately south of the street.
car stables, near Beal street. Family
troubles we're the cause Of the tragedy.
A few months since Levy intermarried
with Hannah Grey, nee Hannah Hey
man. Some years ago she intermarried
with, and separated from, her cousin,
julius Heymsn. Then she intermarried
with police captain Barney Grey, she be-
lieving that Heyman was dead. Barney
Grey died, and some time afterward she
intermarried with Julius Levy. The lat.
ter learned that Heyman was alive and
residing at Philadelphia, and conse-
quently the marriage between Grey and
Hannah Heymsn aud that between him
levy and her we're illegal and ysid.
The pair did rot get along we'll together,
and i,carreled continually about prep
erty, she having a little millinery estab-
lishment on Main street, a few doors
north of Beal street, and had some
other property, Levy a few days since
filed a bill for divorce in the Chancery
Court, yet since that time both parties
lived in the cottage on Main street, occu.
plying, however, different apartments.
Last evening Levy visited his home and
was in i'll humor in consequence Of an
attachment on the goodsin the millinery
store having been sworn out by his wife
and the store closed up.
THE SHOOTING.
be asked for a cup Of coffee OF the
colored servant, and just then Mrs.
Levy came into the d~ining-room from
her bed chamber in front. Levy re-
marked, "You think you will get that
property, but you are mistaken" and
then he suddenly drew his pistol and
commenced shooting at her. AS she
turned and fed toward the door which
leads to the bed room, one ball entered
her back near the shoulder.blade and
passed through her lungs. She fell
and Levy fred two more shots at her,
one of the bullets passing through
her dress near the shoulder, the other
bullet missing her. Levy now thought
that he had killed her, and turning the
muzzle Of the pistol to his W head
pulled the trigger. The ball entered his
head just above his right eye, and went
crashing through his brain. The servant
girl had run out and her screams at
tracted q number Of people. Mr.. Gabay,
who has a rag and paper store adjacent,
ran in just in time to see Levy fall to the
floor. He lay on his back with the PTS.
tol firmly clasped in his right hand, and
without speaking a word. died in a few
seconds. Mrs. Levy was carried to her
room, where her wound was dressed by
DR.. Rogers. 1t was a CHASTITY sight;
pools Of blood lay around the dining
room, and beneath the head Of the un-
fortunate suicide a big pool of clotted
blood could be seen.
Later 10 the evening the coroner held
an inquest upon the body, and the jury
returned a verdict Of death by a pistol
shot, inflicted by his own hand"
We have stated hat Levy and his wife
lived unhsppily together, and that a row
about property was progressing both in
and out of the courts. Mr.. Levy had
been drinking considerably during the
week, and acted in rather o strange mar.
ner. Certainly reason must have been
dethroned from the causes above men.
toned, aud this dethrohement Of reason
led him to attempt the life of his wife
and to kill himself.
At noon to-day Mrs. Levy was still
alive but vas suffering intensely. Her
attending physicians have but little hope
Of her recovery, but as to this but little
can be learned for several days yet
Should she live for ten days she may
pull through and recover