New-York tribune., 1886-11-14
pROpABLY A WIFE-MURDER.
nm vr ps OF HER HUSBANDS WRATH
A BASEMENT UNDER SUSPICIOUS
eVN clpcrMSlANCES.

n.srMFNr UNDER SUSPICIOUS
CIRcUMsl ANCEs
Txo basement rooms IN the h'e-s'oiy 'ono
=, hsuse No. 3i1 East Seventy y-e'ghtn-s@ "''o n
49,. .uouths ago cy William and Eilea E'isoh ~ %
..,h Mira Ellison hard working woman "
.",~ -. sha washed one day In the week for the
rronv.nhush family on the first floor OF 'oe
nouAs and went out to work s' "~s""N
and .crubbing for the neixheors on o'her u",
Her husband was several years younger thah sue "o
drunkard Although he worked In stone.'"" NO
.,.n most OF his money for wniskey and often oea'
~. r,se Mt night when he drunk Before tney
moved into tho teuement-house they had nvsa In
shanty AMI Mrs Ellison had been obliged 10 put nor
only child. George. boy OF eleven, In the JuVen'e
Asylum 81 Tenth ave. and Oae-hundred dsnd-seVeh'y-
sixths Occasionally she went to visit the boy ana
,ook him such articles and clothing she was
able 10 buy Usually her husband beat her
aftcrward for spending money Tor 'he
boy. Mrs. Engle, Of No. 1.4s3 First-ave
went with Mrs Ellison to the asylum TO see George on
Thursday. The mother took with her chicken. some
corned beef neckue and fne-tooth comb. which abe
had purchased with money earned by work at Mrs.
Eagles house on "Wednesday She told Mrs. Encle that
she feared would beat her In tho evening
They returned to Seventy late in the after
noon About p m Mrs. Ellison went to see the Engles
again. She was crying ana ssii;
my husband has not come homo yet; I'm sure that
he drinking soue and he will give me an aw ful
beatng when he comes nome. - ,.o %
he
Ellison when she hm. Later tnat evening the
fraukenbush family heard suspicious noises IN me oae
NJ and thought that Ellison vas beating MS WIG
again. hut attention was paid to the couple. Mrs
ElIison Dy her ncighbors on Friday or
yesterday. - - e..
About o. m yesterday Ellison told some boys in front
of the house that his wife dead. little later he
saw MIRA Ranes next door and said TO her: NV oa
woman IL dead" He was excited AMI made snow Oh
grief When asked had been .De matter with ms
wife he rrpIed: :" don't know. I left her well this
morning and she was dead when I got back" An honr
later he to see Mrs Engle and said tna. nus "e
was dead. He half drunk by that time, out ne re-
peated about leaving his wlfe well IN the moIh
ing and hnilng her dead on his return honc. 'ite'
Engle looked him squareiy in the eyes and asked:
Did you beat her
" Y@s," he replied sulenly.
"Wnere did you strike herf"
a of black eyes"
Engle told him that he ust go anu reort AT tne
police station in Ffty-nInth ST., and tie did 80. me
poce promptly locked him up and Detective Cainppei
body stretched floor In the front basement ROOM
Her fnce bloody aud dscolorrd ana one
arm appeared have been hrOkeu The BODY lay near
the door @ which Ellison had lon careiuly
locked The scanty In the room was Ia us'i-
der and bore evidence OF struggle. Ihere WAS ntte
doubt from the appearance Of the body tnat Mr. El
aon had been death many hours before Es"n
informed IL seemed not unlikely that he Aleu
her Thursday evening.
The poiIce mad difficulty last evening In keeping a
body of the IL utdered womi lay, and the basement
rooms lett dark. II said that the body wouu
be untll coroner had examined IL AM sl
given "A permit for It's removal to the moreue Az tne
poce station Ellison admitted having struck ms wile'
but he stil declared left her we'll IN the morning
expected hud further proof that he had beaten his
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