New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-20
RECORD OF DARK CRIMES.
KuJING HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF.

KILLING HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
crpNAu CARPENTER BEATS HIS wIFE's BRAINS
oUr CUTS HIS OWN THROAT, AND THEN HANGS
HIMSELF $3.50
At the Fitty-frst Street Police Station htt'e'
meanly dressed German woman applied yesterday
forenoon at halfpast IL o'clock for help totake ner
husband to the hospital The woman was Mrs.
Felix. wife of Wenzel Felix, German carpenter
who lived in hovel in lane leading back from
No $50 East Forty -eighth-st. Her husband sho
said had been unable to be about since he was H.
iured by falling from heuse in One-hundred-and-
ffth-st, near Sixtb-ave., where he was working as
n carpenter For while after the accident ne ,i"u
lain in the Ninety-ninth Street Hospital ana hau
then been moved to his home wherehe had been ho"
more than twelve weeks without getting p''Vei'
Sergeant Picket sent Policeman Gleason W 'n0
house with the wOmanto SEQ II eVerylnlns vac 90
represented He found the man lying III oou -
one of the two small rooms that were cohtiihcu ~
the howell. The couple lived evidently III great
poverty. Except the bed, heavy WOODEN enc cue,
and small stove with long pipe, there was ii''O
in the ROOM Returning to the station the poloou,'"
reported that he womaus story was correct anu =
sick-wagon was summoned from Bellevue rioSpi'"''
Before If had arrived Policeman DAVIS. pGtrolling
his post at Second-ave and Forty-ninth-st, was ac
cosfed l,v an excited man, who said that, looking
Wenzel Felix lived in Buckley's alley" he had
soon tbe carDenter hanging from the stoveppe, MS
foce covered with blood The policeman fastened
IN tIo house: the door was locked, and he kicked II
in JTpon the floor half lay, half kneit veneer
Felix. his head held up by rope-a piece Oh Z"
lothesne-the end of which was tied TO the Stove
nine 1t was twisted twice about ms neck anu ""S
boIf hidden IN a deep cash that had severed the
vindn,pe and the muscles of the throat Leaning
forward upon the rope with all ms weight the car
penter had bled death. for stTanghng was out vi
the question, the windpipe being cut quite III t"o'
A bloody razor lay at hls feet. AS the Policeman
having surveyed this scene from the dooI, loon
ston into the room to cut the rope he still an
other body on the floor beside the bed. IL stlrie"
with a convulsive movement once, and lmmedlateiy
law still The body was q wOman's, covered with
blood and with clothes torn and dlsaTanged.
closer examination showed that she had been muir
| derad Her head was beaten in with huge wooden
ruallet q carpenters tool that had been Hung under
| the he'd the woman's brains and blood bespattered
the ROOM and all there was III lt,ron the peu anu
| highly coored picture of the Lords supper that
hing over it to the body OF the man that ilN neaf
| That the husband had murdered MS we couiu
| NOT he doubted that the struggle had Decn ueSS-
nerate but brief was seen in the agolzed attltuIe
and disarranged clothing OF the won u, on ny
floor at her feet the policeman found cunIheu WIN
many pins stuck in it, the groundwork OF pltce
| Of tbread-oce That was the wOman's work; win
| If she supported her sick husband .
| Catharine Michael, seeing the policeman. came
from the opposite side of the street where she ived
and Locked mt the bodies, after lew preliminary
| shrieks with great camness. Inc dead Woman WOMAN
was Catharine Felix. she said the man was elztl
| Felix. and she was his sister. He was miller IN
| Germany whence he emigrated to TINS country SIX
| months ago with his wife. and here took mp inc
trade of n carpenter He worked at That untiI ne
fell and was after that unable 10 40 any tnlhg OK
cent occasionally TO creep outdoors to the nearest
| Ctnp for ia
spent all he earned and much of ms wlfes money
| far rum SIZE was taread-lace worker, ana IN inc
old country had laid mp a ntile fortune, healS
| They were married some en- months ago, and the
woman was soon 10 become q mother All hei
| money had gone 10 buy drink for her husband ana
on SUNDAY they had only seven cents IN inc housf.
n was then that the wife determined at least to
see her husband cared for in the hospital anu yes
terday morning went to car out her purpose iitr
motive seems to have been misunderstood ny her
husband. They bad not liVed hapPiIy losetiTTI; i
hirn and in his icalous rage had become 80 violent
| once that she had IN self-protecton caused MS
arrest. They had quarrellcd yesterday morning
sick as he was ana when tlle carpenter 81" Ms 10
| return with policeman he apparently thought tnat
| She had again complained OF ms conduct. lie lay
| sullenly still in the presence OF tie fclnan.
When the latter left the house. Mrs teIG went 10
the grocery store TO buy pail OF coal Her sister
IN. Jaw her return with it, Net fifteen minutes
later the murder was discovered. In the meantime
not a shrek or a single sound had beeb eard 10 uIS-
turb the quiet OF the street. From the wounds upon
her headlt seemed that the murderer mp upHh Slie
delenceess woman from behind aAu struck hef
down; then fnIshed his work with IN iury ana
streug h of a mailman. The husband as twenty
seven wears old the wife twenty-sIx.
Amid much excitement IN the neighborhooh late
| in The afternoon the bodies were removed to the
! Morgue, and Coroner Knox took charge OF the IN
| quest