New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-03
SELEAOOUSED or MURDER.
AN OLD TAILOR DIES IN A QUARREL WITH HIS SON
THE YOUNG MAN CHARGES HIMSELF WITH
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A STORY THAT THE POLICE DO NOT CREDIT
AN OLD TAILOR DIES IN QUARREL WITH HIS son
THE YOUNG MAN CHARGES HIMSELF WITH
sTRANGLING HIS FATHER
The presence of n coroner at No. 1915 Monroe-st
was demanded yesterday afternoon by the police of
the Seventh Precinct to hold an inquest on Francis
Weillgman age htty-eight, tailor. who, the brief
announcement sent by the police said, had been
killed by his son Henry this p m" Henry Weilg-
man was prisoner at the Madison Street Station,
selt-accused OF the murder Despite his confession
and his acknowledged bad character there is some
doubt as to the correctness of his statement, espe-
cialy as the young man was in state closely Dor
dering upon deiirium tremens.
The Wegnan family consisted of four persons
father, mother and two sons, of whom one the only
sber member of the family, is employed in a Divi-
sion-st pawnshop. The other three were IN a state
who is twenty-three years old, has been arrested
and sent to BlackwePs Island more than once for
theft and drunkenness. The father had at one time
been cutter in the employ OF Brooks Brothers. hut
was ruined by drink. His wife also drank The
family are said to be of Danish descent, but the
found employment in Brooklyn clothing store of
late when he was not drunk, but for more than a
family was ordered to leave its rooms the second
iloor OF the hye-story tenement house No 1875 Mon
roe-st, as 1t had not paid its rent. The Weiiigmans
begantO move their scanty effects but finding the
labor too burdensome, Mrs: Weiligman on Tuesday
sent for jnnkman and sold him all their belong
ings for $40 With this sum she went away to call
upon friends uptown. The tailor and his youngest
son finding themselves alone and without the means
to obtain more rum, qnarrelcd all day That night
they slept on the bare boards of the room from
which the junkman had removed all the furniture
Yesterday morning Henry Weiligman was dis
patched to Brooklyn to collect $50 that was due the
tailor. lie returned empty-handed, and the quar-
relling was renewed. No sound of q struggle was
heard but at O'Clock, Mrs. DAILY, who lived or the
first floor, was accosted by Henry Wegman, who
wanf so% Tfhs ed as
woman, in cOnsternation sent for the janitor Mr.
Brady, who ran into the tailor's room and found
HIM dead on the floor with cloth wrapped around
ms neck. Starting after the son he overlook him at
the corner of the next street and asked him where
the o wa" 1o soahg 10 Ino romeo station" answered
stIanged HIM with string" The two went to-
gether to the station, where the young man re-
peated his statements. He, said that lie wanted
money which his father could or would not give
him and in the quarrel that followed he strangled
his father with rope. The young man was taken
to the Essex Market Court and committed bv
Justice Flammer to await examination and the
Coroners inquest In the Court he was seized with
illness that resembled the early stages of delirium
tremens.
The police do not believe that Wegman killed
his father. There was no rope around the tailOr's
neck and no mark of one or any evidence of !,
struggle. The old had had stroke of
paralysis, and ii is not improbable that In the quar-
rel with his son he had a fresh attack and died.
The Authorization of the would be easily ac-
counted for by his condition.