Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-17

NEW YORK, February 16.-This has
been day of murderous crime in this city.
Isaac Jacob, resident of Brooklyn. killed
Herman Royozinsky at daybreak in stable
at AZ Ridge street. From there he went to
the murdered mans residence at 81 Ridge
street to kill his wife, Johanna. She was
coming through the door as he approached
and he shot her with revolver. The ball
entered her neck on the left side close to the
jugular vein. The woman's son, Otto,
bounded from the room and leaped at the
murderer of his father before a second shot
could be fired. Jacob turned and fed, hold
ing the still smoking revolver in his hand.
He ran toward Broome street, and when
near the corner Jacob turned on the young
man and aimed the revolver at his head.
Otto lodged behind a wagon and Jacob,
seeing two police officers approaching,
placed the muzzle of the revolver to his own
temple and fired. He fell to the ground
with the blood pouring from the wound and
died in few minutes.
Mrs. Royozinsky ran toward the Delaney
street police station with the blood oozing
from her wound. She had just strength to
reach it when she fell unconscious on the
floor. The police followed her bloody trail,
and were just in time to witness the last act
or the tragedy.
VARIOUS CAUSES ADVANCED.
Various causes led to the shooting. The
trouble began three years ago. At that time
Jacob is said to have smuggled 81, 900 worth
of diamonds into this country. Fearing
discovery Jacob turned the diamonds over
to the murdered man to keep for him. When
the danger was over Jacob asked for the re-
turn of the diamonds. Royozinsky, it is
said, refused to give them up. This led to
a quarrel and Jacob threatened the others
lie.
Another cause is to be found in the fact
that Jacob was enamored of Royozinsky's
niece. His suit prospered until it was
learned that be had wife and children liv-
ing with him in Brooklyn. Jacob admitted
this when questioned by the girls relatives.
Boyozinsky refused him the house, and
Jacob became enraged when he continued
to call, and insisted to marry her. Frequent
and bitter quarrels ensued between the
Royozinskys and Jacob, and the latter swore
he would get even with them. Then they
refused to allow him to enter the house at
all, and Jacob became furious. Jacob went
to the house at 4:3O o'clock this morning.
He knocked on the door and told the
Royozinskys that somebody was trying to
steal their horse. The elder Royozinsky
is an express man. He dressed himself, and,
accompanied nv Jacob, crossed the street
and entered the stable, which was just over
the way.
SHOT THROUGH THE BREAST.
In the stable yard Jacob placed revolver
against Royozinsky's breast and fred. The
ball went through Royozinsky's breast,
and he fell dead without a word. Jacob
coolly put the revolver in his pocket, shut
and locked the stable door and entered the
Royozinskys house. Mrs. Royozinsky in
the meantime had become suspicious that
all was not right. She was about to start
after her husband when she met Jacob, and
was shot as already stated.
The body of the murdered man and the
suicide were taken to the station house and
the wounded woman was taken to the hos
pital in a precarIous condition.
The bullet entered her neck and was
taken out half way down her back. Both
of the dead men were about 45 years old
and Mrs. Royozinsky is 90. An ak was
found near Royozinsky's dead body, and it
is supposed that Jacob intended to use it if
the bullet did not do the work quick
enough. On Jacobs dead body was found
letter written in very bad English. 1t
said that he was born in Russia and was
citizen of the United States. He told in it
in rambling manner of having been swim
died out of money by a number of parties In 4
this city and of law suits in which he was
engaged and which profted him nothing.