Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-23
MAD WITH JEALOUSY
Awful Deed of a Drunken New
 York Bartender.
SHOT TWO WOMEN AND HIMSELF
They Ere in Critical Condition, While
 He Died Instantly.

The Victims His Wife and a Servant
 After They Were Wounded They
 Jumped rrOIu Windows to Escape His
 Times Before Attempted to Murder His
 Wife, but on Each Occasion She Had
 Wrested His Revolver from Him.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-A ghastly tra- gedy was enacted last evening in the five-story tenement house at No. 107 Allen street. Henry Stevens, rendered insane by jealousy, attempted to kill his entire household, and succeeded in dan gerously wounding his wife and the ser want girl, and then put an end to his own life. The weapon he used to com init the deed was heavy bulldog revol- yer. Two of the bullets were fired at his wife, two at the servant girl, and the fifth and last was sent through his own brain.
 The suicide was a bartender.
 When Stevens returned from work last night it was plain to be seen that he had been drinking.
 The Stevens family occupied the first apartment on the second floor, consisting of three rooms. His wife, his daughter Lillie, aged five years, his fath erinlaw and the servant were in the kitchen when he arrived. Shortly afterward the house. keeper, Mrs. Schmidt, who lives in the rear tenement on the second floor, heard Stevens and his wife quarreling A few minutes later five pistol shots rang out in quick succession. Then the two women, covered with blood, were seen by people on the street to rush to one of the front windows. climb out on the fire escape and plunge headlong to the sid e. walk.
 Mrs. Stevens was caught by 8 man who was passing at the time, and was carried | in a fainting condition to the Eldridye street station. Miss Smith fell on the sidewalk and was carried to drug store nearby. Both were afterward reno we'd to Gouveneur Hospital.
 Immediately after the shooting the neighbors entered the Stevens apart ments One of the first to enter was Detective Mooney of the Eldridge station. He found Stevens little daughter sitting
 in the kitchen crying.
 Papa just chased mamma in there, she said, pointing to the front room,
 "hnd shot her.''
 Detective Mooney pushed open the door and found Stevens lying dead across the bed, with revolver clutched in his | right hand. Blood was pouring from his right ear. The furniture of the room was overturned, the window curtains pulled from their fastenings and the | mirror of the dressing case shattered by one of the bullets.
 In the rear bedroom, the door of which was locked, Detective Mooney found Mrs. Stevens father. He was too frightened to tell much about the occurrences that led up the shooting, He simply knew that Stevens had come home in quarrel some mood and had threatened to kill everyone in the house, at the same time drawing a revolver from his pocket. The two women ran into the front room while he went in the rear bedroom, locked the door and crawled under the bed The old man and the little girl were taken to the house of his otheJ daughter at No 2145 Second avenue At Gouverneur Hospital the physicians last night said that the two women were in very critical condition. Mrs. Stevens was shot in the right shoulder and in the neck, the latter bullet narrowly missing the jugular vein. The servant was wounded in the mouth and the left arm. To reporter Mrs. Stevens said that her husband had always been jealous of her without any cause, and had ire quently threatened to kill her. He had drawn a revolver to shoot her four times before, but in every instance she had | succeeded in wrestling the weapon away | from him.