New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-03
cuOT DOWN IN HIS OFFICE.
CHARLES F. BIISH KILLED IN PEEkSklLL
HOTEL
,rpr L. BELTS. OF BROOKLYN. MURDERS THE
DESTROYER OF HIS HONE.


p..rskiu. y. ", Nov. 2.-Charies +,
,,;.h, proprietor of the Eagle ii''ei
bhsn, .;i,ore was shot and killed this afternoon
=. Albert L. Belts, of Brooklyn The sh0o'ihg oc-
W ar 80 about , o'clock, and was witnessed by
n 6 Searlr, clerk of the hotel ana in0nas
" % g The Peckskill Democrat" Blish was
fOsn"S' -, his desk when Belts entered with
St.a go fsce and cxcitedly exclaimed, You have
nus"eI - my family and robbed me of $780,
V,V "s A. the same time he drew a 3s-calibre
wv - and fred at Bsh twice, the shots lode
= IN. breast and left shoulder respectively.
lne @ " from behind the desk toward the dining
p''aa door and when Belts fired the second shot
r1.,nd Oh OH" and sank to the hoor
]" p..,s coollv walked through the barroom door,
Kipps question, What's the trouble
ON S~ - resnonded. u have shot Blish. He broke
u,. family. robbed me of nearly 100000,
"Pra ~ ,ook my wife and children away from me- l
'~an. a policeman" Mr.. Kipp took him TO
,roit q minute inside but Belts followed him.
viD WAS unable at first to find officer and SAID
- rouid take him TO a police justice, but after
I'D mot John Herschel, who removed Belts pis-
al from his hip DOC ket and took him to Police Head
.,a,,srs Betts said he was not sorry for what
:. hod done and thought he justified In shoot
;nr Rlisb When Belts was arraigned before
1us,ice Barton he retained d. W. Travis as MS
.s.nsal Ry advice OF Travis, Belts refused TO
DO apv statement and was committed TO the
,ocl,un lie will therefore await the action OF
49, Grand .Iury at White Plains where he Will
no conveyed in the morning.
hrs Knight. P. II. Mason. and ). r. horton
..o,o sup,moned Immediately after the shooting,
hu, AZ a glance saw that the victim was dead.
.rAo doctors under Coroner Sutton's orders. began
- ,,orsS,, az z 80 o'clock. The first ball entered
- ,ho breast-bonc passed through both sides or
,ho .heart and lodged at the base of the skull:
.to second hall entered under the left shoulder
h1ads and passing about two inches under the
skin, lodged in the neck.
Mrs Blish mother of the dead man, VINO lives
at New-Rochele. informed oil the Tragedy,
but ND to o'clock had not put i'll her appearance.
In the morning Mr. Blish had received telephone
message from some one in New-iork saying Meet
me al the Fifth Avenue Hotel without tail, anu
avoid trouble I must see YOU lie answered
"Maybe | will 1t is supposed that the uh-
known sender was friend of Blish, and wished
10 warn him of his imminent danger.
OF a Tribune reporter, Ietts, in an interview,
asked whether Blish was seriously injured, and
on being informed that he was, said: "for uou
sake do not think glory in what I've done as
don't; hut If you had suffered what nave dur-
inc the last i've wears on account of this man, sou
wonld have dGnc as | did" Belts was under
q mental strain and refused to talk further. lie
requested that he he left alone with Mr. Travis
Mr. Belts purchased the Eagle Hotel from AM
brose Parsons ten months ago, and was seemingly
well liked. The townspeople talked considerably
about the visit of Mrs. Betts at the hotel duflh-
the past summer. She and Blish were seen riding
together, and it stated that she wae furnish
ing the money TO run the hotel. Mr.. Blish aud
Mrs Belts became acquainted in Brooklyn five
years ago and il is stated that Belts was put in
Nm insane asylum 50 as allow the couple To live
together lie somehow got ont of the institution
in 4 short time and the breach between husband
and wife was healed lie thereupon turned over
to her. in her own name 100000. upon her
promise TO have no more to do with Bllsh.
In a short time, however, Blish and Mrs. Belts
met and went 20 Europe, and on their return kept
out of Betts's way. She Ii now In Dakota ar
ranging a divorce as she and Blish were TO be
married in the spring.
Mrs Belts is a semi-blonde and is considered at
tIactive She dresses in the height of fashion ana
wears many diamonds crayon portralt OF ner
hung i'm Blishs private room at the hOtel. anu
small miniature and capnet plctHre occuper apptor
prominent positions on his dresser ne reporter
counted no less than six portraits oil MIS- beVe'
in the room.
Betts evidently premeditat5d the crime; the re-
vover was Smith & WessOn seit-cocker, and ne
also had box full of cartridges IN his pocket nc
is about forty years of age, weighing spout -
pounds. with a light ,nustache, decidedly blond,
and was faultlessly dressed.
Blish is about fifty years OF age, weighs aooul
22j pounds slightly bald dark brown halr, ana
mustache same color. He was formerly connected
with the Pierpont House in Brooklyn, and the
DOOlittle House at Oswego, n y. lie was a man
of genial manners and soon became popular:
hotel at the time of the shooting. and after Bllsh
had been pronounced dead promptly empanelied
Jury TO hold al inquest. The jury is made up as
folloys ). D. Horton, g. +: Craft, cyrus IraS-
ems John G. Paulding. Theodore Timmins, j. ,.
Baker, G. w Robertson. Ebert Npp. W. a
Anderson, w. \. Hunt, w. J. Charlton and Jofn
Dovd