New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-31
A SUICIDES MAD JEALOUSY
SHOOTING HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
HE CHASED HER TO THE STREET, CAUGHT HEp
BY THE HAIR, AND FIRED TWO SHOTS

BY THE HAIR, AND FIRED TWO SHOTS
INTO HER BODY.
Joseph Solomon, dealer in laces and linens, r.
tally wounded his wife Dora and killed himself at
1O15 O'Clock last evening in front Of No. Ill East
Nineteth-st. He has lived With his wife and four
children in fiat the second hoor Of No. IO7 East
Ninetieth-st for several years They have been
red about nine years, and have not lived happily.
He was about seventeen years older than his wife
and they were Of entirely different dispositions. He
preferred remaining at home and rarely went out,
while Mrs. Solomon fond of society and frequently
went to social entertainments without her
husband. Mr Solomon disiked 10 have
his wife receive any attention from other men.
and frequently sceIded her without reason She was,
according to the testimony of her neighbors. good
wife and never gave her husband any real occasion
for jealousy. After the children born Mr.
Solomon even became Jealous Of the attention that
his wife gave to them, and he frequently wished that
they were dead
Mr.. Solomon's business has not been good Of
late, and he returned from trips to the suburban
towns without making more than enough TO pay his
expenses. He tried TO drown his disappointment
in drink, and for. week past has been drunk most
of tho time. Last evening he was In nervous con-
ditiOn and could not sleep. He went to bed
and got up about 8 O'Clock and spent about
an hour in taking bath. He started
back the bed and met his wife, who read
ing by the dining room table. Without speaking to
her, he seized her by the and pulled her To her
feet. He ordered her to take bath, and upon her
fusa he said that he would throw her into tho tub
and drown her. lie became mad with passion and ac-
cused his wife of inhdelty.
She burst into tears and begged him not to talk
that way her lie tried to choke her. and She
broke away and down TO the front door. Ho
called after her and told her that he would forgive her
If she returned She replied that she would never
enter his home again after what he had said to her.
" Then will kill you,' he shouted.
lie put a pair of trousers, seized pistol which
was lying on a bureau and after his wife. The
eldest boy shouted warning TO his mother, and
Annie 6trobel a servant, seized Mr. o.omon and tired
to hold HIM. lie snapped the revolver in her face
and she fell In faint Mis-. solomon heard her boys
cry and toward Lexington-ase Mr.. solomon was
In his bare feet, and quickly caught her by the hair.
lie swung her around put the pistol against her breast
and fired. She fell TO the sement, and he fired TWO
shots at her, one OF which passed through her
right land Being satisfied that his wifo
was dead he knet beside her, placed the revolver
TO his forehead and sent bail into his brain. He
fell dead his wfe's body.
Policeman Egan heard the shots and ran to who're
Patro! No. had already takea the dead man
of his wife and carried her into their houss
She Unconscious, but speedily revived she
asked for her children and said that she wanted 10
die. The death of her husband was kept from her.
She said that the cause OF the shooting was Jealousy
and that her husband had threatened on sew
y5as was sii'" taken in an NH ambulance ITO to the the
Presbyterian Hospital. and the house surgeon said
that her wounds mortal.
cighth-st station. and Ice of his death was sent
Coroner