The evening world., 1890-05-29
BATHED IN BLOOD.
Murder and Suicide In an EldridSe
Street. Tenement.
A Jealous Husband Shoots His
Wife and Himself.
Both Dying in tho Hospital-Story
of the Tragedy.

In the six-story tenement. ala Eldridee
street. Jacob Epstein. y Russian cigar
maker, shot his wife, Flora, and himself
about 7. 30 o'clock this morning.
Like the coward no was, he shot the un-
suspectinR woman In the back, aud then.
putting the pistol down his OWE throat, he
finished his own career. Before this is road
he will in all probability be dead In the hos
pital. where his wife lies, believed 10 be
MORALLY hurt.
There 10 in her case = slender chance for
life. 1t may be found, when the surReons
dare probe the wound, that the bullet hal
iun around her body. .glaneing from the
injured. But tis q narrow chance.
Husband and wife were zach twenty-seven
year, old Id ed In t y, IT. three ,so mean ii tbsy r9S gns
| with their Ave children, the oldest, aged
seven years, end the, youngest only four
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yisit. to her daughter, SAYS that for thS
there was no money In the house, which N
her !%opinion caused the couples fatal
Man aud wife sleep in the back bedroom.
The children In the middle room aud the
boarder In ron The latter was asleep and
the children were playing Q the hoor at
OF a wordy war came from the rear bedroom.
Blows were struck; they awoke May Netsky
and she went over, opened the door and
Having done this as though II were the
children alter milk Tor %breskiS.t, and
NOT nss' hal wa S' down the frst. flight Of stairs
when she heard o shot, followed imme-
diately BY another.
thing heavy falling. husbina back. she
threw open the door. A chorus Of fright
ened children's cries greeted her. On the
OF blood that. slowly growing on the dirty
floor. came nearer. and finally made one
CHASTITY. red splash.
The sisa5,m1her had nS, struck a. HI; wife as
floor. She shouted angrily to him that he
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Aired. n fell N :, pr tr5cks. T s hee
mortally wounded.
The woman's cries summoned the neigh
bors; PolissHAn kelsey came and sum;
wife of To the Gouyerneur Hospital, where
the surgeons. In q hasty SURVEY. pronounced
both fatally hurt. The children were taken
to the Eldridge street police station, u
their grandmother. was summoned. They
sat, q dii ~. fearful group. In the back
| room, none of them quite compromising
| the darkness Of the awful shadow that had
| fallen on their home.
Mamma. said the Oldest girl, Sarah.
commenced fighting with papa. Papa
took the shooter and knocked her down with
\; She fell right down. 1t made an awful
Eye-year-old Abraham. remembering the
flash. said Papa broke the lamp, He had
a match with . little Light and he put 10 to
the shooter. he did"
Tho police called upon Mr.. Gerry's
Society to take charge Of the children.
The motive for the dreadful tragedy 10
found in the ~ante-mortem statements OF the
dying pair. which were taken by the Coroner
at sthe Gouverneur Hospital this forenoon.
Epstein 10 shown to have been insanely jeal-
GUS. and in anger arising from q quarrel
from this cause suddenly determined TO take
his wife's life and his own.
EpRtein's Ante-m0rtem statement declares
| that he was jealous of his wife, believing
her to be unduly intimate with Isaac Sach.
man, who lived in the house; that he had
watched the pair. and what he saw increased
his suspiciOns; that they had .quarrelled
over the matter last night. and she had ex-
pressed preference for Bachman.
This morning he says he uDbraided his
wife and they quarrelled again. she calling
him vile names, and, as he says, scratching
and slapping his face. Then he shot her.
Mrs. Epstein's ante-mortem statement cor
roborRtss her husbands assertion that they
quarrelled because he was Jealous OF Sach-
man, but denied that he had any cause to
suspect her.