The daily gazette., 1883-06-11
SHOT HIS YOUNG WIFE.
AN INDIANA MANS TERRIBLE
CRIME.
A TRENTON WIFE's AWFUL DEATH
A DrunkeU Deed Of 9 Young Husband in
vinceDnos, INDIA Startling Record Of
Crime.

vTNcENNEs, IND, June10. 0.-Charles Pol
lack went home last night In state of in
intoxicstion and took the life Of his beauti-
full young wife, to whom he was but re-
Gently welded, aud q few minutes after
wards killed himself When Pollack reached
home after an evening spent in hard drink
ing, his mother opened the door to let him
IN and he threw bis arms around her neck
and kissed her atfectionately and, with
much emotion, said:
Good bye, mamma; / am going away"
and then he went to the bedside of his aged
father, who was asleep, and awoke him,
saying: "Good bye, father; / am going
away" But the old gentleman, having
been addressed that way by his son many
times before, took no heed, and told his son
TO 20 of 10 bed and quit his foolishness
Pollack proceeded up stairs and went to bed
with his wife. He talked to her very affec-
tonateiy, and embraced and kissed her. He
had been in bed perhaps ten minutes when
Mrs. Ross, sister of Charley and who was
in the room just across the hall, heard Mrs.
Pollack say in frightened tones;
"Oh, Charley, don't, don't do it." and
then came instantly the report of re-
volver, and Mrs. Pollark rushed into the
hall with a terrific scream aud fell to the
floor Before Mrs. Ross could reach her
brothers bedside second shot was fired.
She saw her brother had killed himself and
going to Mrs. Pollaek found her lying in q
pool of blood and breathing her last. Pol
lack shot his wife while she lay in his arms,
as the first shot he fired passed through the
1eshy part of one of his arms and pene-
trated her head. He then placed the re-
volver to his side and shot himself
Neither ever spoke word, both dying
with scarcely groan. Mrs. Pollack was
but eighteen years old and was one of the
most beautiful and amiable women in the
city. Pollack loved her very much and
talked constantly of her beauty, her sweet
ness, her gentleness and her devotion to
him.
Suicide seems to be q mania with the chill
| dren of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pollack, one
of their sons having twice tried to hang him
self, one to shoot himself and one to bleed
himself to death. Another, a daughter, at
| tempted suicide by poison.
DRUNKEN HUSBANDS MAD ACT.
BURLINGTON, N. j., June 10.-The wife
of Theodore Clare, a dissolute carpenter
| here, died last night under peculiarly pain
full circumstances. On Monday night, April
| 16, Glare came home, between 10 and IL
o'clock, drunk. The wife was sewing, and
| a kerosene lamp was on the table by which
she sat, while their little daughter was play
| ing on the floor at her mothers feet. Glare
| came In, pulled OH his coat, and, either
recklessly or designedly, knocked the lamp
from the table into his wife's lap. The oil
was spilled into her lap and over her cloth
ing, fell upon the floor, was broken, and the
garments of the mother and daughter were
in flames in an instant Both were terribly
burned. The child has partially recovered,
but the poor mother, after terrible strug-
gle of nearly two months, died last night.
Glare was drunk yesterday, and could he
have been readily found, would have been
| locked up, He was arrested at the time
when the burning Of his wife and child oc-
| CURED, but the former insisted that she did
| not think he meant to burn her, and, as she
persisted in her statement, Mayor Rigg re-
| iuctantly consented to discharge Glare, after
| imposing a nominal fine for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct.
SHOT By POSTAL THIEF.
| CHATTANOOGA, TENN, June 10.-Robert
| Lee, of Collinsville, Ala, was arrested at
| this place on Friday by a Post Office De-
partment detective for stealing $500 worth
of postage stamps. While being conveyed
back to Alabama he jumped through a win
dow of the car and made his escape. Yes
terday he was seen by Post Office Inspector
Frey In the mountains near Boyd's Switch,
Ala, who attempted to arrest him. Lee
drew revolver and shot the Inspectors S
horse dead. He also shot the officer
through the thigh, inflicting a painful
wound. and then escaped.