New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
SHOT BY THEIR CUSTOMER.
NAN AND WIFE FALL TOGETHER.

PROBABLY FATAL FIGHT.
Tn the basement of the the big fat at Nos
160 and CO Houston-st are bakery and grocery
store adjoining. Valentine Goez is the owner OF
the bakery, and his brother Nicholas owns the
grocery. They both live in the rear Of the stores
with their wives and families. Last evening at
supper time Nicholas and his wife were in the
back room of the grocery eating while Madeiino
Goez looked out for the bakery and Valentine
her husband, had charge Of the grocery lheic
is a common passag ageway between the stores III
the
young man. fairly well dressed in dark cio'nes
with a large fur cap pulled down over MS ears
entered the bakery, picked out two apple pies anu
some cake and told Mrs. Goez TO wrap thch up
lie threw down a 50 bill in payment III "as
old and greasy, and Mrs Goez carefully scahheo
IT, Not feeling perfectly secure aoou1 H. Sie
called her husband from the grocery ho eA
amined the bill and said that 1t was couh'erieiV
thc Young man said that it was all rlght ana 'ha'
IL had been given TO him by nquor-deaer WHO
kceps a place in Twenty -thrd-st near Eiphth-ave
The grocer replied that i, was one OF the worst
connterfeits he ever and that any one VINO
wonld try to pass il ought to be arrested The
vonnr man replied that he did not know much
about money but that he was perfectly WhinS "
wait until policeman could be founo ana ne
would willingly go t. the station house WIFI MN
Goez did not send for officer, and the young
man becoming inpatient said "Wen, II you do
not want the money gre it back to me- and Will
give you 20 cents in change that have for the
MES and cakes Goez r.fuscd to give up tho
bill. and told him that he would keep 1t until IL
conld be shown to his satisfaction that an attempt
had not been made to swindle HIM lie t0iu 'he
young man that he would have 70 prng M one the h
from him. This thoroughly enraged the PuI-
chaser of the pies and he exclaimed:
What! Do you refuse TO give me my Hon'H
It's every cent have in the world. My. wife
and child are home and they have been wlthouo
food during the day and this Is all L nave ieiV
70 feed them with ,a
Then | will murder YOU hisssd the yonnS
man If YOU rob me-" and he jumped forward ana
seized Goez by the throat. !'ocz tr,ed TO or,hn az.
away, and in the struggle they both fell 70 !ne
floor Nicholas and his VA MN Nj HeaEg oaS ram ne 70 her
husbands assistance from behind the couh''f ""'
they all SIT upon the stranger .ou T..
Goez saws that before the Young man it,I ~
had drawn revolver. while the stranger claims "a
that either Nicholas or Mrs, Goez dronped 1t on on
the floor and when he fell he pcGd IL @p a,vav M
and emitted six chambers. He did rot aim i1iN at
sny one, but fired upward from the hoor ihe ,he
first shot struck Valentine IN Inc "a" the aesh
and came out in front of the right ear +! he seGoao
bullet hit him in the right hreas'i od G his shirt
the floor unconscious anu the oio'" "NNN ~
front crimson. or,-n
TTJF WOMAN RECEIVES A MORTAL WOUND
The third shot struck his wife in the abdomen
and she staggered and dropped beside her huspanu'
Nicholas and his wife away then ana the
,,tber hnIlets were buried in the wall Inc noise
of the shots and the screaming aroused the ten"iU i
in the house and several strangers came rusmns
into the store from the street Mr uor1 SIZE SIZE
tbot throe men who entered first were confeder,Us
of the stranger but the police do not DeheNe thIs
Officer O OlIaa heard the shots ana Wiz wnDn u, t h
70 The bakery the young man sto0d quleelN I"o IL
AGAINST the counter with his aims foldeu. ~
toId the officer that he had done the sh1otlhg VI
selfdcfence and asked to be taken 10 tne pol,cSd
station at once. lie was greatly eNcltro any
charged Gocz with T9boing MN, was called
20 attend TO Goez and his wife. lie proDTd LOT Se
hall in Goez's chest hut was unable 70 ul Mnei n
II had entered the lung or not II .T ~ 9lu p'"0-
trate the lung it will probably ehu u"'d,n, dorous
Mrs Gocz's wound is eNceedlnclN uanE, o.or ru.n
o,d tho Indications were, soon after the doctor
arrived that the intcstlnes had nen I..i 60
She will probably die At the police staton ,Ie
vnnno man told Sergeant Douglas that ms NAM am
you Charles Giblin and that he lived at No 424
W|s. r ffth-st with his wife lle IS WIN, my
tbrce Years old. and came here last October from
Worcester Mass. where he worked VI i'nIe are henn
factory for five years, He has mo no P9r1 that |
the money he gave the baker was All u1aO ia W. 90
~ his savings Yesterday afternoon ne ,rIyu w. l."
ss,a,+cd e.. 70 walk home and says that hr was AZ
saotod hU the show of things in the wlndow whllr
sira tho bakers He drank one glass ol |
wb;sl,ev several hours before the shoo'lhg' aS h'
was half frozen. , D.. 40. orroar IN be |
icious rerSon and from all that could ne |
learned about him last evening IS w, -
honest man and exnert mochanic tie t3.u 3 LII Wv
sergeant 3 STRAIGHTFORWARD STORY Ih 1t ul't .,r,h
and impressed every one with its apparent tru'h-