New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-08-30
MURDERED BESIDE HIS BED.
NILKNAN KILLED WITH A CROwBAR.
THE AUTHOR AND THE MOTIVE OF THE CRIME
UNKNOwN-HIs WIPE ARRESTED.

UNKNowN-IIIs WIFE ARRESTED.
The residents of Rideewood in the town
o. 'Newtown. l., greatly excited yesterday over
murder which occurred there on Saturday night or
eary yesterday morning. Bernard Singer milk
peoior nving In Greene-st, found the floor OF
mis- bedroom with his skull crushed fn
ABOUT $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning Constable John
FRESHMAN, OF the town OF Newtown, who lives in the
motel lu RldRewood Park. was awakened by some ono
pounding vigorously on the door. Going to tho
window he saw woman, boy and q girl
''Anuing on the stoop. He asked who
was .nere' The woman replied: 1t is me-" He recog-
n'1ed the voice and asked what was the matter She
sa'd' 'Ihere are three men the house aud I'm
airau that they are killing Barney"
I'll oe over in minute" said Freeman, and the
woman and children disappeared It took the constable
Snort time to dress and start for the house. which
ous snort distance from tho park. II is twostory
frame structure standing distance from the street.
BACK OF IL she'd used for storing grain. The barn
and cow-sheds are in the rear.
tue constable arrived at tho place found Mrs.
oi"ker standing In the shed. He asked: " Whore 10
barney !" She saidi lie Is in the house, In the
'front.' room used as bedroom he found Singers body
on .ne moor about three feet from the bed The top Of
us neaa was pounded into jelly. The uncsrpsed floor
was covered with blood, the bed The constable
ie' INC mans pulse and heart but the body cold
WAS evident that the had been dead some hours
her -FOUR children, John, age fourteen; Mary age
lweNo Joseph. age nve and Annie, age three. Free
man asked the woman who killed her husband. She
5su tat she knew nothing about the murder Until she
gov up 10 milk the stumbled
the body. Then turning to her oldest
Doy' johnnie, she said Come along,
johnnie. We must go out and milk the cow and get
ready Tor the mornings route II we don't hurry
VIII not nave anything to cat" She showed feeling
the four children slept room adjoining when
iuesoned they said that they had heard noise dur
Ing the night Constable Freeman then went back to
tne park aud ordered b. H. Gedkn the night watchman
hrnessed his horse and drove to the house Coroner
m"uroe y Council. This was about half past o'clock.
Io'u he Coroner all the circumstances OF tho
Both returned to the house. The boy Johnnie In the
had procured crowbar about five feet long
us outside the gate. The iron bar was covered with
blood ana human hair showing that it was the nstru
meht with which the deed was committed.
the coroner the woman repeated her second story,
10 Tue ehect that she asleep all the time and knew
nothing OF who conmitte, the deed The Coroner then
taken to the Queens County Jail at Long Island City
70 await the result Of the Inquest which will be held
care OF by the neighbors.
The and officer then made an examination of
the premises There locks any OF doors.
and IN warm weather tho doors were left jar. From
70 visit. Nothing seemed to have been disturbed
Inc body was removed TO skelton's mOrgue. at New
town ahd Dr. Wlekem. the town physician, ordered
Inc murdered man was about forty-fve old. He
had lived In Rdgewood with wife for the last seven
teen years Both and his wife drinkers and
they had frequent quarres About year they sepa
rated and the children we're placed In St Josephs
Home. six months a reconciliation was effected.
After few weeks OF peace 1t was the same old story
He got drunk aud did she. aud 1t always ended In
fight Last week he arrested upon plant OF a
Mrs Howe. who charged him with using abusive ana
obscene language. From the neighb0rs IL learned
that Singer came home about O'clock Saturday
night lie was evidently under the Influence OF liquor
lively row ensued In the yard Detectives work
Ing on the The strange part OF the matter Is that
tho woman, when she called the constable, stated that
three men were beating her husband, and afterward
stated that the first intmation she had OF the murder
when she stumbled over the body In the morning.
In the evening Mrs. Singer IN the jail by
reporter She denied that she knew thing about tho
manner OF her husbands death. She admitted that she
had Quarreled MIN the night before, but said that
they had not blows She clung her story that
che hrst knew OF the murder when she In tho
morning. and said that she frightened that she
ran to Constable Freeman's motel and told him that
there were burglars In her house, She said she found
that Sls so had been stolen from shelf she appeared
entirely unconcerned.