New-York tribune., 1886-01-19
WIFE.MURDER IN THE SLUMS
ANERR1NG WOMAN SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.
THE MURDERER CAPTURED AT THE HOUSE OF

run urpnrRrR CAPTURED Ar TIE HOUSE OF
FRIENDSHIP SAYS HIS WIFE DESERVED DEATH.
A pisro-shot in the fve-story tenement-house no.
Go MulbeIry-st at 123O a. M YESTERDAY aaa was dol-
lowed by cries of horror in the Ita ian language.
The sound of voices was swelling INTO roar. wneh
a short, repulsive-looking man darted out OF lhe
front door aud ran toward the Bowery. soon alter
tie man had disappeared the din IN the mouse
attracted the attention OF Policeman Wlmmer' VI
the Sixth Precinct The biz building was iuIL Gi
ltaliaDs. whose excited jargon was uulnteheIpe
to the officer and lie gave an alarm 10 suliiinon ~
other policemen. On the floor of rear room IN
middle age. lying in pool of blood. The room; room,
Ike the rest of the house. was filthy and almost
devoid of furniture. A brlei sAhain"tOt haa, ubot
through the neart. They learned that she was the
wife of AN Italian laborer Andrea Aploite. VINO
was employed in rag shop at mo- o0 neghhoSing
beer-shop. aid had gone home drunk. Other IN
mates of the house & had heard ottdn nun
midnight. He. had declared that she was
unfaitbful to him. and she had retorted III
fashion calculated to increase his anger; ne ne
pis oshot had put end to the quarrel and to the
had led from the house, of the inmates having
WI hen Your Young Captain McCullagh was informed
OF the murder he took prompt measures to prevent
the escape of Apoe from the city Men were SEM SEM
Gerrow were dispatched to the, Grand Central
Station IN company with an Italian who knew knew
q child at school in Troy n Y. and Captain
McCullagh thought that he would probably Try to
go 10 Troy by the first train When the detectives
Reached the station they learned that Apo(te had
been there before them and had demanded ticker
to Troy. As there was no train ready TO start ne
had been able to get tleket, put had
become so violent that an official had put mn
out of the waiting-room by force. Search was
made for the murce erer III the neighb rhood put IL
was evident that he had left the station. While
the detectives fingered about IN the expectation OF
Apiolto's return, Policeman Cottrell was sent to
house in One hundredand eleventh-st near second
ave. where lived some friends of the murderer.
The italians in the house said that Apolte was not
there Cottrell took up position i'll the hallway
and waited Shortly before a. M an ita ian VINO
was smoking short clay pipe entered the Daiway.
When he was stopped by the officer he admitted
that he was Audrea Apioite. Before u a. M he was
locked ND in the Elizabeth Street Police station.
He said that he forty-Seven years old, and
could neither read DOR write. His wife had de-
served 10 die, he said because she had been too III
innate with q black-whiskered Italian who had
adopted the name of John Bushner. The police
found Bushner, who admitted his intimacy with
the dead woman. He said she deserted her husband
two years ago 10 live with HIM, but went back TO
Apiolte recently. NIcolo MlreschelI, who boarded
with the Apiotes. said he Aplolte beat his wife
on the head with key before the shooting Hus
band aud wife were alone in the room when the
fatal shot was fired. ApIOlte was taken TO the
Tombs Police Court yesterday aud committed
without bail for trial