Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-20
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a BROKEk KILLED IN NEW YORk.
Surveyor UonklaDes Err..A
from the West to Reclaim His Err1ng
Sisesr-The Fatal Quarrel m
Ase Apaxtmeats.
The neighborhood Of Twenty. third and
Eighth avenue, Now York, was thrown
into state of great excitement Monday
evening by the report that . murder had
been committed 10 the Paris Hat at No.
341 West Twenty Third street. Investiga.
tiou proved the truth of the report. The
murderer is Geo. w. Conkling, . United
States surveyor on the government sur
veys in Nevada, and he shot and killed
William q. Haverstiok, the seducer Of
his sister.
The New York papers of to-day have
lengthy accounts of the affair from which
We make extended reprint as some of the
parties to the tragedy are we'll known in
Emma Conkling Uhler, was married in
Glenn Uhler, then q broker in California,
but formerly of Lebanon, this state. They
came East, and Uhler went into partner
ship with Haverstick. Two years ago
Haverstick seduced Mrs. Uhler, who was
the mother of two children, and she de-
serted them and her husband. The busi-
ness partnership was dissolved and Haver-
stick and Mrs. Uhler lived at several
places as brother and sister until last sum:
mer when they hired the apartment in the
Paris flats and fitted it up luxuri0usly.
Other tenants in the house considered
them an odd couple, and few days ago
some of them sent note to the agent of
the property, asking him to request Hav-
erstick and the woman to leave the flats,
as it was apparent they were not married,
although they made themselves known as
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Haverstick. Mean.
time Mr.. Uhler has maintained close
custody of his children, watchful against
the threatened attempts of their faithless
mother to obtain possession of them. He
has likewise kept himself informed of all
the movements of her and her paramount
Her family, one of great respectability,
has been plunged into grief and shame at
her misconduct, and last February her
brother George w. Conkling, 81 years old,
attached to the government field survey,
in actual service in Nevada, with head
quarters at Reno, came east resolved on
dissolviDg the shameful alliance. On Feb.
% he came to New York from Washing.
ton, and yesterday he was guest at the
Leland house. Soon after he arrived in
New York, he found his sister and spoke
earnestly to her of her folly, and told her
that he thought it possible that her hus-
band would be reconclled to her if she
would leave Havestick and go West for a
time. She declared that a reconciliation
would be distasteful to her, and
that she and her husband could
never forget what had occurred. He
would be unable to repel the thoughts of
the past, and she on her side would not be
submissive if her sin was recalled to her.
Conkling was compelled to abandon his
scheme to reunite them and he labored
earnestly to separate her from Haver-
stick and take her West with him. He
found that she was infatuated with her
betrayer, but his pleadings made her
waver, and few days ago he succeeded
in inducing her to promise that she would
leave Haverstick. It was agreed that she
should go to q hotel last night, and that
to-day she should accompany her brother
to Montana. Conkling prepared for the
journey, and about 9 O'clock last evening
went to the Paris flats to take his sister
away. 1t had been arranged that she was
to send Haverstick away on some pretext,
so that Conkling should not meet him, and
that he should be ignorant of the scheme
of separation. But the woman's intatua-
tion for her paramOur vanquished her
good resolutions, and when Conkling en-
tered the apartment he was confronted by
Haverstick, who saluted him ironically,
and Conkling knew by his manner that
the plot had been betrayed. COnkling is
n ho~ ros~ hoi xusk1,
an incipient red mustache, and not the
equal in physique of Haverstick, who was
tall, strong, swarthy man, about 80
years Of age.
Conkling was not, however, cowed. He
said that he had come to take his sister
away and that he meant that she should
leave the house. Haverstick swore that
neither she nor any Of her belongings
should 20. The woman wavered between
her affection for her brother and her fatal
infatuation and tried to calm both men,
but they became violently exasperated
and when Conkling boldly arraigned
Haverstick for his villainy, the latter's
temper burst bounds, and seizing Dres-
den china image on the mantel-piece of
the front parlor in which they were quar-.
reling, he hurled it at Conkling who,
with the quickness of a man who had
carried his life in his hand on the frontier,
clapped his hand to his hip and drew his
revolver, cooked. Haverstick's wrath
must have blinded him, for he seized the
companion image of the one he had thrown
and was in the act of throwing it at his
adversary when pistol shot rang out and
Haverstick fell, shot in the centre of the
body, just below the ribs. Conkling
dropped his weapon, hastily left the
apartment, pushing aside his sister, who
was frantic with apprehension and re-
morse, and walking to the Grand opera
house, sought Officer J. w. Mantle, of the
Sixteenth precinct, and said to him:
Officer, desire to surrender myself.
I have shot man down there, and I guess
he's going to die."
The policeman called up another officer
and sent him to the Paris flats, took Conk-
ling to the West Twentieth-street police
station, and informed Capt. McElwain of
the affair. He and Detectives Cairns and
Campbell went Immediately to Mr.. Hav.
erstick's apartment. Meanwhile. Mrs.
Uhler had summoned the janitor and told
him to send for a physician. The first to
come was DR.. Thomas F. Healy. of No.
329 West Twenty third street. He found
Haverstick in q state of collapse on the
floor of the front parlor. Stimulants were
and DR.. Healy asked the
wounded man, i" Are you shot?'' He re-
piled, "a young man shot me. He
pointed to his breast, and tried to