New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-02
NEWS FROM THE SUBURBS.
DIED By HER HUSBANDS HANDS.

DIED BY HEX hOcDA'1S
,,n,, eropv OF THE PATTERSON MURDERER AS
TOLD ny LABBE AND HIS VICTIM.
-. Vim was slashed by her husband I'm
nA'.. doven nlaces with knife on Thursday
h.oiV :. .,,n houre az friend In Paterson, ". j.,
,,sd yesterday morning at st. Josepns hospital.
-. ,~ho r.s Roman Catholic. received the
,.st rt,ss from a priest and msoo nor sn'."o''.'
st.tement In her brief affdavff' 'aAon " nocoie@
creaves IN the presence OF Coroner 'oo1i'ueo. sno
said The injuries from which 81, NOV
WERE inflicted by my husband IN w. -
"oi1 ~, r..t q o'clock thi, afternoon He went
~ ao.1' s.aroon and came out with hnife and cut
nv A d,s mot have a knife and did not cut
him first" p..ora.r c-..r..
49,. oo,rt roon was packed TO suhoca'ion' nc gave
NE name ss Tunis Liable and said that ne was thirty
wars old He said no was laDorer pu' had only
worked four days since he came Iroi" no""uu 'So'
november, and he did not know whaI no WORRIED al
he had only lived with his wi1e tnroo "eeAs Wnen
She left him because he had rheumatism ana could
-. ,rors Oh. went out 70 service. On Thursday
,he met IN tho street and went amcaoiy to Cornelius
slaatemaker's house. at No. 90 Chestnu's~ nc re-
ncated a request he had made several nmes mat she
return and live with him. ana NO says s"o aei'ou
to 20 to housekeeping with him again. lnoy so' ID
ouarreing over his charge that her iueas vi Doyins
furniture we're too extravagant ara aeeorlng 10 hs
story she picked up knife froti the taoie ana cuf
him on the neck and hand Then no got the Knife
awav and attarlsed her He was crazy with rage
and did not know what no was doing
An immense crowd followed Tho prisoner 10 inc
tan hut there was no disorderly demonstration. and
the three officers who formed the escort han no Touoe
The out ON Labbes hand IS thought TO nave oeeh mano
when he broke window IN the siaatemaker mouse IN
his struggle with his victim the deep slash on DIS necA
he IS thought to have inflicted bimscif In punghng
attempt at suicide. His statement that tho woman
attacked him first with the knife Is natly contradcted
by Mrs saateniaker and hor mother wno Wi,nesssu
The attack The eyewitnesses say that when LaDoes
sIfa went into another room for drink OF water no
stood np and put bis hand into his mp pooHel ana
when she came back he drew the knifo sprang on
her without a word OF warning and struck az hcr
again and again. p.u.xa., rho
. Cornelius Akershoek, prominent Hohander VINO
keeps n grocery, and at whose house Leopy ano
his bride spent their first night IN Paterson tells
story which indicates that the wife.mnrueTer y q
Tiser as we'll as q loafer. He says that nrs. Laooe
often came TO him and complained OF hfr busDands
neglect and cruelty He had never aonieliy a..
senitcd her but he had displayed revolver ard
tbrestened 10 kill her. He was 10 stipgy That when
thew went 10 look frniture 70 go TO housekeeping
IKE noorest hand stove no could ING was
deemed by him too costly, though no had about eluo
saved mn one night whsn be vas sick his wife
went ont 10 find work, and when she came home she
found he was lying In tho dark TO save tho expense
of lamp-oil