Evening journal., 1891-05-23
TWO DEAD ON THE FLOOR
Frank Turke Shoots His Wife
at Englewood. i
AND THEN ENDS HIS OWN CAREER.

They Had Only Been Married Few
Weeks and Quarreled Over Four Hand
Eerchiefs-rurke Married the woman
Three Weeks After His First wife Died.
ENGLEwooD, N. j., May %. = Frank
Turke, aged forty years, who kept a small
shoe store on Palisade avenue, quarreled
with his wife, to whom he had been mar
ried but few weeks, and finally shot her
In the neck, inhicting injuries which re-
suited in her death in few minutes. He
then shot and killed himself
Turke buried his first wife about seven
weeks ago and engaged his second wife as
housekeeper from an agency in New York
His first wife's mother committed suicide
in Harlem several days after her daugh-
ter's death by jumping from a third story
window.
They Heard Pistol shots.
Turke had his shop In small building,
the dwelling apartments being in the rear
Of the shop, shortly after 6 O'Clock some
children playing on the sidewalk heard
Turke and his wife quarreling. They
peered through the window and the shop
door when they heard several pistol shots
Mr.. Hopper, who keeps a restaurant next
door to Turke's shop, was the first person
to enter the place where the tragedy oc-
CURED. AS he entered the room directly
off the shop he saw Turke lying on the
| floor bleeding from wound in the breast.
while blood was also flowing from his
nose. He had a revolver Of six chambers
in his right hand. All the chambers were
| discharged.
Both We're Dead.
As Hopper passed into another room at
the rear Of the building he found Mrs.
Turke's dead body lying on the floor. She
was covered with blood, which flowed from
a horrible bullet wound in her throat near
| the ear.
| When Drs Wells and Curie arrived, M
teen minutes after the shooting, they
found both the man and woman dead.
| The rooms presented disordered condi-
tion and the furniture and walls were
spattered with blood. Chief Marshal
| Charles Townsend took charge of the bod
les until Coroner Hill, who resides in
Hackensack, should arrive
A Petty Quarrel the Cause.
Although several Of the neighbors heard
the shooting none of them witnessed the
killing. From what could be learned
from the children who were looking in the
shop the double tragedy was brought
about by Turke accusing his wife Of steal.
ing four handkerchiefs.
She had packed her trunk and decided
TO leave him. She refused To open the
trunk, and this enraged him go that he
struck her and she attempted to defend
herself, when he shot her She started "a
run from one room into another and be
fired several shots at her, only one Of
which took effect. 1t is said that he fred
six shots, including the fatal bullet which
he fred into his own breast
A Castle Garden Marriage.
Turke, who was forty years old, had
been a resident Of Englewood about q
year. The murdered woman was twenty
eight. He first met her about three weeks
ago at Castle Garden, she having just ar
rived from the old country. She was look.
ing for a situation, and as Turke had Just
buried his first wife he employed her. as
his housekeeper and took her 10 his home
IN Englewood. The day after she arrived
there she had trouble with rurke.
This quarrel was made pand the couple
had no more trouble until two weeks ago
when the woman obtained a warrant fol
his arrest on charge Of assault. When ar
raigned before Justice Cass he agreed e
effect settlement by marrying the young
woman. They were married before theS
left the court room. They had frequent
quarrels after that, and yesterday after
noon about o'clock Mrs. Turke procured
another warrant for his arrest on a charge
| Of assault