New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-14
FACTS LEARNED ABOUT HER HISTORY.

HER MARRIAGE WITH sCHwARTz-HEB MOTHERS
cAREER-ANDRE IN A CRITICAL CONDITION..
In back room of an undertakers shop IN
Thrdaye yesterday lay the body OF Jennie H. Almcy,
the young woman who Tuesday shot her lover and
killed herself On the box containing the body lit
tie bunch Of nlies-cf-the-valley sent with the
request that they should be placed at Mss Almeys
neck. Hundreds Of people, including many children,
looked at the dead girl in the evening The undertaken
said that he did not know whether the burial would take
place to-day or tomorrow. 1t viii probably be in Wood
lawn Cemetery. Coroner Kennedy has granted certif-
cate OF death without holding autopsy.
Miss Long, who occupied a at No.
Ill East Twenty-hfth-st, next to Miss
Almey's, said that the girl came TO
board with her in March last bringing letters OF
mendaton from wealthy family uptown who had known
her for several She spoke in terms of praise of her
friend She said that Miss Amey wrote to Mr.. Andre last
week asking him to his coming marriage to the
Becke family, with whom he was then living. He replied
that he had money and asked her to wait until spring.
His letter began my Dearest Jennie" and closed
with fondest love, Vic"
Police Captain Gunner went to Miss Almeys room and
took possession Of her effects The letter written by
her to her lover Captain Gunner refuses make public
I'll Andre dies He said that the couple went to minister's
house on December "a TO be married. In answer 70
questions the girl said that she had been divorced from
Mr.. Schwartz, whom she forced to marry by her
lnVestlgaJOn as 10 the truth OF ncF
statement the wedding was postponed. About three
weeks ago Andr promised to have the ceremony per
formed but he did not fulfil his promise. On February
he took Miss Amy to the Union Square Hotel to dinner
and saw her on the following day.
The friends OF Andri denied that he had acted unfairly
in his treatment of Miss Amey. He had become engaged
to her before he knew Of her former marriage and divorce
and when he learned that she had been divorced he
decided to break the engagement His subsequent en-
gagement to Miss Beckel denied. N. Franko, the
weknOwn yioinist, said that he had know Andre in
Berlin. He Is granddaughter OF Major Andre, OF Revo-
utoDary nfamy, and grandson Of General Crofton, OF
the English army. On Sunday Andre accompanied Miss
BecSel to the ITALIA Theatre, and later dned with Mr.
Frankie.
At the hospital late night said that Andre
was IN critical condition He had hemInorhage IN the
afternoon that weakened him. Little hope OF his recov
cry was expressed The secretary of Rufus Hatch called
70 o1er ann any assistance possible. Carl schurL ALSO
called but did got see him. The young man had pre-
sented letters OF introduction to Mr.. Hatch and Mr.
The tragedy the subject of much comment among
ter where the dead girl passed her earlier
years. Her mother, Mrs. Almey, first appeared
Mr., Almey was IN California John Davis game con-
Stable at East Chester was one OF Mrs. Ameys nus
twenty Years S a5 % Snv then ' cdHssred Of the
mother, two daughters and About fourteen years
ago they moved from East Chester TO Willamsbrdge
where Mr.. Davis married her and lived with her for
several years lone night said Davis, Il came nome
When Jennie was about fifteen years OLD she married
man named Schwartz. She separated from him soon
Within few months of the time she was
married she in Bellevue Hospital, think, where she
was treated for insanity caused by epepte fits She
Of a very violent temper"
Miss Emma Hyde was schoolmate of the dead girl at
Williamsbridge. She said: Jennie had violent
temper when she was girl At school | renem-
Der she attempted to throw the teacher out
OF the widow She smart and quick TO learn. She
left school when she thirteen years old and little
later she married to schwartz, brake
on the New-Haven Railroad. She lived with him
only "A few weeks She in the Bloomingdae Asylum
about six months. She came back to William sbrldge
but unable to agree with Davis and went back TO
NewYOrk. She back several times, but didn't
stay. The last time saw her was in september last
when met her at the Williamsbridge station. she
accompanied by tall, dark compile Kioned man VINO
introduced TO DR.. Knight her intended
husband She said she had been living in Chicago and
expected go back. think the address Dr. Knights
card West Fftyf0urth-st. She said then that MI
Almey alive in California"
"Tall Hyde, said, "There something mysterious
the way Jennie appeared. Her mother said that she
had been found by policeman and given TO ner. MIS-
Almey kept sort OF liquor store ana
John Davis was her barkeeper. After Almey ceased
sending money to her she married John Jamison. She
fell with him and married John Davis. After she left
Davis she back to Jamson again and lived with him
until she died. The last heard Of Schwartz, Jennie
husband, he in Sing Sing for ro5ong the Harlem
Railroad.