New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-25
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE
AN INSANE MANS BLOODY DEEDS.

AN INSANE MANS BBOODl
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN AN ORCHARDS; ii
MENT-HoUsE-IHE RESULT OF AAAiA0 'A'>-
oUsY OF HIS WIFE.
Loud cries for help uttered by woman on VIZ 1no
first floor of the rear tenement-house at NO. loo VI
cbard-st created much excitement among inmates
of the building at n. n. yesterday. Inc sniall
ward in front of the house was soon hilea
with men women and children / he screams pro
ceeded from front room on level with the yaru'
and some of the men present forced open the wnuo"
blinds and looked in. They saw Martin hoerniein'
n German ffty-three years old, and his wife, Mary,
about the same age. both bleeding from wounds III
the neck The woman stood near one OF the
windows In defensive attitude while
her husband sat on chair near the door, BLOOD
had been spattered about the bare floor and upon
the scanty furniture in the room. Both Hoernlen
and his wife were fully dressed
boy was sent TO the Eldridge Street Police
Station with information of the oc-
currenee and Sergeant Chrystie ordered some
officers to 90 to tie house. When the
policemen arrived, the door leading to Hoern-
ein's rooms was broken open. and the injured
couple were taken to the police station stretchers
They both were able to talk with difficulty. Mrs.
Hoernlein said that her husband had quarreled
will her without cause and had cut her throat with
razor He then had cut his own throat. The
woman had lost considerable blood from a deep
cash on the left side Of her neck but the wound did
not seem TO be dangerous The cash in her bus
bands throat was directly below the chin. He was
very weak from loss of blood, and a surgeon who
was called in to see him said the wound probably
would prove fatal Hoernlen saidthat his wife had
cut him. and had also cut herself. The policemen
had found a bloody razor in the bedroom, adjoining
the room in which HOernlem and his wife were
ran rl<a M N bedroom
also. The wounded couple were sent 10 the Cham
beers Street Hospital, where the husband repeated
his assertion that the wife had used the razor.
Information was soon obtained by the police,
showing that HOernleln Insane, and that he had
attempt ed 10 kill his wife and himself while labor
ing under violent attack OF dellrium he man
was born in saxony. and was educated as
physician lie came TO America ABOUT
twenty-six years ago. and was married
from whom he afterward obtained divorce.
He had a son by his first marriage, Charles Hocrn-
lem, who is now employed by the american Match
Company, i'll the Waltnam Building IN Bond-st
About nineteen years ago HOe'nleln returned 10
Germany for a short time and was married To bis
present wife. lie atterward became Lutheran
clergyman and had charge of a small congregation
at holland. Erie County, n. \. While he was
preaching III Holland his house was burned down
and he found near the house with his hands tied
behind his back. He claimed that robbers nld ued
him and then had set ire 70 the place, but lac was
tried and convicted OF arson, IL being proved on the
trial that he mad set hre 10 the mousse
TO get the insurance money He was sentenced
10 spend seven years III the Auburn State Prison,
but after serving about four years he was pro-
nOunced insane and was sent 10 Insane asylum.
His wife and son, who were Living at NO. IDA
ClntOn-st., took INN home on December -. 1851,
but he behaved 20 badly that they had hun KEPT on
W ards Islaad for several weeks. Mrs. HoernleIn
went out TO 90 washing nearly every
day. Her husband jealous o,
her and often followed her about from place to
place watching her. He tined poison his SOD and
wife about Two months ago by putting alum anu
arsen.c IN the tea. HIS conduct became 50 Violent
that the landlord of the house AZ NO. 1O4 Gin on
ST., refused to let him remain there any longer.
4 he rooms at No. lO6 Orchard-st. were hired on
j uly /, ana Mrs. HOcrnleln went there with her
husband while her son remained IN ClIntOn-st. Al
though he is a maniac HOemieIn conducted HIM
sell SO well after going 10 the Orcnard-St. house
tnaJ the other uLIaGes of the building believed nun
TO be a sane man until yesterday