The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-21
ADOLPH NEWMANN'S DEATH
ONTHE DAY HIS LIFE PULTCEES WE'RE
10 BE TRANSFERRED.

| ONTHE DAY HIS LIFE PULTCLES WERE
10 BE TRANSFERRED.
How 1t Came That His Wife was sus-
pectea OF Poisoning HIm.-A Story
of Domestic Misery and Ddath.
The sudden death of Adolph Newman
al his house on Union street, Union Hill,
has been the one morsel of gossip the good
old danes of that region have discussed
during the past fortnight. There were cir
cumstances surrounding the death that led
to the suspicion that Mrs Newman had
poisoned her husband, and County Physi-
clan Converse deemed them of sufficient
importance to make an investigation and
an autopsy necessary.
Newman was an old time resident of
Union Hill. He had been warned for
twenty years or more before his DEATH
Two sons and daughter girl is eigh-
teen years of age the boys are younger
survive him. The household had been an
unusually happy one. He had good
business as a manufacturer of pocket
books, lived comfortably and provided
nicely tor his family. He treated his wife
with the greatest consideration. and she
had her eye, to all appearances, Always on
his welfare, even to the extent OF hunting
him out, in rain or sunshine, when he spent
too much of the evening at the Penockle
party in Mrs. Muller's saloon, to take him
to his bed for rest. She is forty years old
now, and time has left its footprints upon
her beauty. But, II spite of fading charms,
she fell recently under her husbands sus-
picions A month or SO before his death,
he told his confidential friends that
a young silk weaver visited her
during his absence, and that he
found them, on his unexpected re-
turn home one night, in suspicious posi-
tions in the parlor. Some of the neighbors
say they have noticed cross-eyed youth
go to the house occasionally, and that the
wife entertained him. Others say that she
was above suspicion, however, and that the
cross eyed sick weaver went to SEE the
daughter. Singularly enough, no one
knows the cross eyed man name. WAetner
the youth was q sutton of the daughter or
the surreptitious visitor of the woman, it
was of him that Newman complained He
s i'd that when he surprised his wife and
her friend he upsraided her, and there was
the liveliest domestic scene that particular
household had ever known. The result of
it all was that, not long afterward, Mrs.
Newman was found unconscious on the
stoop. bottle of poison was within reach,
and it was explained that she had attempted
suicide She had taken some noxious drug
into her system, either Intentionally or
otherwise, and the physicians who were
summoned to attend her hal little hope
of saving her life They succeeded, how
ever, in pumping the poison GU and she
is still alive.
Domest'c broils were frequent thereafter
Newman charged upon his wife, and she
retaliated with spirit. He was connected
with q number of German and benefit or
carnations. He had an insurance of 81, 600
on his life in the Knights of Honor. He
was Knight himself With Union Lodge
D. o. H., of which he was also a member,
he had little insurance of between $500
and $500. He Was connected with one or
two other benefit societies, and altogether
he had, in these, life assurances amounting
to So 900. He is said to have had POLICIES
in life insurance companies in New York as
we'll. In all instances the policies were
for the benefit of his wife.
When she fell under the ban of his dis
pleasure, he wrote to the officers of the
several societies and insurance companies
asking that the policies be SO altered as to
make the moneys due under them payable
at his death to his children instead of his
wife. Yesterday two weeks ago was the
date fixed for the changing of the policies.
During the nj ght previous LIE complained
of feeling badly, and on the very morning
on which the trasfers were to have been
mad he sudleLly ..xpiress. 10 II al said
t.at lie refused to "a, fJ3d ~, IA 81 y iils
wife; aud when his dea h VAS lu..de known
the wLciu coinmuni .ipci TO lhs con-
cl9sion that he had bee poisoned ~ his
wife TO ensure the isuraace moneys. rhe
Benefit Societies Gallo upon DR.. Converse
Tor all investigation. He directed that the
funeral be delayed, anal, with the all of
number eff North Hudson County plysi-
,ians made post-ulorte.n examination OF
the remains DR.. Horace Lynch, of Grand
street, this city, had visited the store in
which Newman Was working few days
before his death. Newman was then
con planning aud DR.. Lynch prescribed l,r
him. After his death DR.. Lynch gaze
permit for burial in which heart disease
was set out as tho cause of deeth. DR.
Conyerse's post-mortem showed the truth
of DIR. Lynch's diagnosis. Newman had
died OF heart disease, and Dr. Converse
gave a new certificate of burial, and the
body has since boon inferred.
There is still vast deal feeling among
the Society friends of Mr.. Newman
over the payment of the insurance money.
It grows out of the belief that if Mrs.
Newman hated her husband as he alleged
before his death, she should not have the
benefits, and out of suspicion, that, even
if he did die from natural causes, his do
mestic misery aggravated his symptoms
and FASTENED his death. Union Lodge, D.
o. H., is to hold q meeting this week to
consider what should be done in the mat
ter. .srhe womaa," said one member of
the Lodge to TATTLER yesterday, Scam
not get the money in less than thirty days,
and then if we find that she dishonored
her husband, she won't get it if we can pre-
vent it."
Some of them declare themselves dissat,
isied with the result of the post. norton
examination, but DR.. Converse says that
the woman could not have a more COM
plete vindication against the suspicion of
having II hand in her husbands death than
tha ,,nst nrtana furnished