New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-30
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NEWS IRON THE SUBURBS.
DIsoUE TELLS HOW HE KILLED HIS WIFE
INSANITY CLAIMED BY WITNESSES AND COUNSEL

THE PRIsoNEKs STORY.
The trial OF George H. Disque for the mi"hed YES
wife at Hoboken. on October was ne Over and Term
terdAy. The Hudson County Court Oi OJe beinc
ner was nled during the day mthy M ~ aver untfl
present The defendant "a impassive as han he
bs mother was called to testify IN HIS behalf wnen no
buried his face In a handkerchief ana apparently hnr
some tears Several witnesses were intfoduGc ~; ryta
tHat D.ono had abured under the deason that his WHO
unfaIthful to him and that ne hAu accnsed
that subject Ii shown that he had Ialsoy ~ In
his brother and two brotnersln-law OF having helu m
proper relations with his wife. ,,, ct vas
Inc prisoner then told MS stoty. iie nn,e yas INV
thirty years old last February Minnie pS9uo Which
vile don't remember the day OK Tue hu1 Trosdar
went out, called on lriend where hau IVY s,,ain
beer came back and had my dinner "si' o uS
the stairs saw man In the stlng ROOM a., onung
the door he came toward me ny WIG INV man was She
said that he agent or the Pruheu 'lai io a. ha
ance Company asked her what she was uoluk ~ I'll, e
and sno that she had gone la there 10 oon
the books 7 said to her, You ne you ,.ifnoi
and threw IL at me took OF my coat shoes and trousers
and lay down the lounge because whnteu tnsI
to sleep" The witness shown the Oloodsta I
trou rs and said that he hal them that daJ.
He resumed: I've quarreled again anu suu ' ard
keep quiet told her that she was dong Wr s st
into the and came out again with the kno. gu
had It npfted in her right hand II to strike me os
lay upon the sofa aud l caught it. In the struggle W.
both fell took mold Of both her hands anu we
OF the lounge to the floor. non know what "a ,
after that. DID not strike her Win Inc Ahio VI" NV
ct-Attorney Winfield put the prisoner through
severe crosse Examination and got him soncwhat 900"
fused although when lie was particularly hatu PuL"r
he fell back on the statement that lie ala not
He did not recO-ct that when lie went 10 tno Poiou
fat,on he said that had his wife and cut ner
gooi" lie could not expain why he did not speak TO
the man he claimed have seen coming OUT Vi s
room Councillors Day aud Garretson summeu VI loI nc
defence the latter making the closing argument lhel
held that the evidence did not show any preme @
and that the prisoner had been made temporarily
by ais decisions about his wifes unfathiuness with
wore nothing but deusons They argued tnaJ II Dspuo
guilty OF ything mere thau mau5laugnter ~
nothing greater than murder In the seC'n,
degree and that owing 70 tho hpSehro Va
ar
malice lie could not he convicted or muIuor III t
first degree District Attorney Winfield maze stonS
argument for the prose eutOn holding That the deiohu
ant was either guilty OF murder III the nf't
that he was nnocent. At one time he hed the ehtsuy
monogram of Mrs Dlsqes body In front Of the prison
err. q, e. and hurled invectivrs him which made MIN
vince Judge Knapp Will deliver his charge TINS moIp-
ing md tho caso VIII then he gwen " the Jury.