New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-26
NEWS FROM NEW JERSEY.
KILLING HIS SWEETHEART WITH POlSoN'
THE RECREANr sUIToR, WHO Is UNDER ARREST
TOOK THE DRUG HIMSELF, BUT WILL
rpORIpTy RECOVER.

PROBABLY RECOVER.
Emma Busch. pretty girl Of eighteen died yes
terday morning at the home of her parents NO
Ashland-st Newark, from the effects OF dose VI
Paris green administered by her rejected suitor Erhe.
lehman who also took dose Of the poison but Will
nrobablv recover The deed committed about
half mast 10 O'Clock on Thursday night and mmedatey
afterwad tho murderer and would-be suicide neu' he
WAS captured about O'Clock yesterday morning III
Elizabeth his victim having died about 'So d. HI
in great agony. -. =, .bo
horso and are much respected by their neighbors'
Emma was the eldest child. She had been fnehdn
with Lehman but did not accept his attentions III
scrious light About two weeks ago ne asker hcr ~
attend a wedding at Elizabeth TO which ne hau Decn
invited but she refused, and learned after"au tn"'
Ibmann had told a friend that he would not call at
her bouse again. The girl sent word 10 her Sui'of
that II he would return some presents sic ia" ii"oo
him She cared not whether 10 ever returned 10
her On Thursday night he called, but before uoihe
On purchased a quantity Of Paris green ana arsein'
in an Elizabeth drug store The pair talked Oh "lei
love affair on the front stoop They od NOT 'o,"0 "
any understanding, it is said, and on aRihs Ills Io''' u
lehman said:
ue went IN uquor shop, purchased bottle OF
soda, and returning sald:
Emma let us drink before we part lot ever. 80
The soda wss poured into two glasses, ana "hle
dining so Lehman must have poured also the Poi9o'
m for they were I'm the dark. Both drank and parted
WHOM the girls father was returning home al w oo
n m. he met the couple the stoop, ana toln inc
OWL IN come indoors. shortly after IL O'CLOCK nrs'
Ruecb went 10 call her daughter and found her Hl"s
q, the steps vomiting some green substance 'uS
-, that moment she saw Lehman running away anu
tbe Girl said that her lover must nave put So''o's
IN The soda water. DR.. ID. J. Edwards was caiieu'
.nd with a police officer worked on the girl unui
. 10 a m. when the county physician was sent lor'
Che made an ante-mortem statement, containing te
facts already stated, aud signed IT, ,-
Two glasses we're found on the stoop' DOM haNils
croen sediment at the bottom. At 4: 80 O'CLOCK the
o,J died Her father Frederick A. Busch Is Il DiacA
smith. The dead girl, who was INDUSTRIOUS was en-
Ioved I'm Jackson's corset factory in Newark Whle
Ernest Lehmann who Is twenty-five years DID, Worhou
Of the singer factory in Ehzabcthport as poSher'
The county physician ordered coronerS inquest
having foupd that the sediment IN the glass was PalS
rrncn II was Thought that Lehman WOulu DC lOuuu
80 hut Of O'Clock Detective Carroll ana CIHCer
Mont learned that Lehman had taken feiSy
airoad train west. they went al once 10 r1h%IDe'n
Ia Of 2 n;clock saw the conductor OF IRAN put d
snarsely built young off tie tram iOr nSt pS
III, fare II proved 10 be Lehman. lie hdu sOt.'S ~
RabTav where being dazed from the enec,o vi I ".
noison he had got upon return IRAN ana ~ ~
nav Ms tare re admitted his deuVty, anu SOU t ~
had swallowed Paris green. lie Nls tahcn o w
Michael's Hospital, where he was az nfst Ind
10 no I'm a serious condition. In Ills pocket was louii
half pound OF arsenic.