The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-05
A BLIND BOHEMIAN
Becomes Insanely Jealous and
Attempts to Murder
HIS WIFE AND THEIR ONLY CHILD.
The Wounds in the WOman's Breast-The
Struggle at Midnight-Sayed from
Horrible Death.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examlner Dlspatch.l
NEW York Feb. 4-There was a fright
full scene in an old ramshackle shanty on
Second street early yesterday morning.
Two rooms of the house, which is situated
in back yard, have been occupied by
blind Bohemian named Meyer, with his wife
and six months old baby. Two feeble Ger
man laborers slept in an adjoining room.
Meyer is thirty-nine years old and by trade
chairmaker. When seven years ago he
married his wife Annie, a good looking Bo-
hemian girl the future looked bright for
the young couple, but their happiness had
lasted scarce year when darkness settled
upon his prospect for good cold that
had attacked Meyer settled in his eyes and
after doctoring six weeks he was sent to
the charity hospital. He came out four
months later stone blind. The whole sup
port of the little household devolved upon
the wife and by scrubbing and doing such
chores as offered she managed to earn
enough to keep the wolf from the door.
While his wife was out earning their bread
Meyer stayed in the house tending the baby
and the father and child grew up in the
bonds of closest affection. Wretched as
the demon of insane jealousy crept into
their home. Meyers had no reason for his
suspicious, because Annie was not
handsome and she loved her husband the
greater on account of his misfortune
When she came home after hard days
work he would meet her lately with a
scowl of evil suspicion that had brooded IN
his mind as he sat through the long dismal
day, and reproach her with unfaithfulness.
When his jealousy sought even in the two
old dodgers for proof of her perhdy the
suspicion that his mind was unbalanced
became almost a certainty, but his wife did
not brook the danger to herself or her
child After passing a miserable day with
her husband she, with her child, retired.
She had slept about two hours when she
was aroused by being dragged violently
from the bed by her husband. He pulled
her around the floor and with pair OF
sharp pronged scissors drove the double
dagger again and again into her chest, seek
ing heart. The woman, who has almost q
mans strength, fought for her life in the
darkness The mailman had locked the
door and thrown away the key. F'llnglng
away the shears the craZed man caught uI
a heavy hammer and launched blow after
blow, directed by the sound of her move
ments Two or three hit her head, but the
hammer glanced, cutting only the scalp
The room was so small that the blow coulo
hardly fail to strike her. Instinctively the
mailman guessed that she was making fol
the locked door, and followed her there
raining blows, each one of which might
have killed her had his aim been true
The door to the old mems room was
fastened with a cord. With mighty effort
the woman jerked that loose, when she
found the exit to the alley cut off. Rushing
to the window she forced herself through
it and dropped into the narrow slit between
two houses, where, for moment, she was
safe. Her hands and feet were cut by the
glass and her white night dress was spat
tered with blood. Like bloody spectre
she doomed up before the basement window
of the adjoining house, and knocking, de
manded admittance. The people let her il
: when they had recovered from their fright
+ and through their door she reached tn,
alley and sped to the street, shouting madly
for help. When the mailman knew that hi
victim had escaped he felt his way to th,
sink, and digging handful of Paris greer
from box kent there, ate 1t in sight o
his scared child. The dodgers hat
got up and their lamp threw its feeble
: CLEAN into the room. While one of the OLE
men was dressing Myers keeled over ant
; became sick The child stirred on the be-
and at the sound another spasm of his muir
derous purpose moved his wrecked mind
''Annie, Annie" he called coaXingly, Gan
ME, come here.n The child, used to bein!
petted by its father, crept over and nestled
at his knee. With yell he caught her VI
; in his arms and dashed her head with al
his might against the hot stove close a
!. hand, once, twice, then flung her from hin
. on the floor. 1t was then the policeman
) and the wife burst in the locked door. TIL
child was in it's blood crying in fright an
pain. The father sat on the edge of the be
covered with green slime, the picture of dc
a moniac srage. The policeman seized hir
Y and shortly an ambulance clattered ur
!; The surgeons examination was brief. TIL
!. mother and child, though badly cut, wer
, safe. A stomach pump relieved the mac
: mans stomach of the poison, but probabl
3 too late. He was taken to Bellevue hos
!; pital, bound in straight jacket and locke
K in padded cell. His mind is probably d
p. hopelessly gone as his sight.