New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-13
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A CHEMISTS DESPERATE DEEDS.

HE ENDS HIS LIFE AFTER KILLING his Boy AND
BADLY woUNDING HIS WIFE.
| A short, thin and paralytic old man, having bu
one eye. shambled up to the door OF the broWh-
stone house at No. 124 East Seventy-first-st, be-
tween Lexington and Fourth aves., shortly Deioreo
o'clock last evening and rang the bell. lie was
Isaac d. Edrehi, a chemist, doing business al NO.
227 Greenwich-st A servant admitted MN ana
he said he wished to see his wife, He was told that
she was in the basement and he went down the
stairs He asked his wife If she would come and
live with him. She refused and he drew revol~
yer of the bulldog patten of fortyve calibre. She
started up the stairs and he fired at
her, the bullet striking her IN the lower
part of the back close to the spine. lie
then turned and placing the muzzle OF the
revolver to the ear Of his six-yearsold boy, John,
and fired again. The boy fell to the floor with
bullet IN his BRAIN.
Edrehi then went into the street and ran around
through Lexington-ave and down seventieth-st.
| When halfway between Second and Third aves.,
Policeman Cornish, of the Twenty-eighth Precinct,
who was in civilians clothes, saw him place the
revolver to his head. A report foowedand Cornish
ran across the street just in time to catch him. lie
fell dead in the policemans arms. The body was
taken to the Presbyterian Hospital and placed in
the dead house.
EDRgm's HoUsEKErPER's STORY.
The house where Edrehi lived is a fve-story fiat
No. 261 East Seyenty-iirst-st., on the northwest
corner of Second-aye. and Seventy-6rst-st. lie
lived in the first fat On the floor above him lived
a woman who acted as his housekeeper. She was
greatly agitated when she heard of the tragedy. My
GOdw she exclaimed, "that sweet little boy dead
and he dead and the wife shot! l cannot realize,
i'll" and the tears stroamed down her face rs she
told how that afternoon she had caresscd the little
child She told some facts about the dead man and
his family. He was siXty-fOur years OF age; had
been IlyIng IN the mouse since last yeefhioeT r ls
wife was iorty-two years OF age. B0th hau Deeh
married before. By hls nfst Wle he nad
three. children; one daughter married
aud living in Jersey City, a son married and
living in Brooklyn, and a son whom he
called Jimmy" twenty-One years OK age,
who used to =, assist his father; Mrs; Mrs:
EdTehs relations lived at the house, No.. IA East
Nnety-frst-st. Here was a married sister Mrs.
Gaywood, a married daughter Mrs. Farrell, and an
unmarried daughter, age fourteen. Mrs. hdTebi
used to spend her time between the two houses, but
was mos5 frequently found at the house OF her sis
ter. She woud occasionally call at her husbands
rooms in the evening and return to her
his despondent moods. lie did not at al like his
wifes relations, but was devoted to his wife, al
though she was only occasionally his companion;
He supplied her iayishy with money. lie ldOllzed
his boy. His wlles relatives wanted her to
leave him and. take the boy with. her
.ince dead, had managed to Get possession Of
the boy aud had hidden him somewhere in
New-JcTsey. The Old man was in constant
fear that his boy would be taken
from him. This woman, he told lis housekeeper,
was perfect devil Ol the rest of his wiIes re-
lations lie had not much better Op!n-
ion lie ntimated that some OF
them had amas~ed money by, keep
ing houses Of questionable resort The mar
rage of his wife's daughter, he said had been
forced. One of his ,wiies sisters ki.ta had had
become exasperatcd with him and bitten INN
on tho arm a week ago. With his wife
and his wlfes relations, the Old man did not enjoy
much domestic happiness. The foundations for If
were not well laid. He told his housekeeper
that he had been married to his. wife only
last December. though he had been living with her
seven years. He had expressed a hope however,
that by next June he and his wife and child might
live together somewhere out of the reach
of her relatives Bat this evidently
only leetug hope. "IIe has been acting strangely
lately" said the housekeepcr only, week ago he
said, wearily, | sometimes think III PIt myself and
nv child 10 Sleep" She did not think he would
carry ont his threat so soon.