The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-11
MRS. QUACKENBUSH BETTER.
THE BULLET EXTRACTED FROM HER
HEAD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
She Gets Relief Immediately, and tho Doc.
tors Have some lIope-The Torments OF
Her Life with Her ~ urderous Husband.

she Gets Relief Immediately. and tho doc.
tors Have some lIope-Tho Torments OF
Her Life with Her Murderous Husband.
Everybody will be pleased to hear that there
is possible 81 Rnce Of recovery for Mrs.
Charles g Quackenbush. who was shot by her
husband in Newark on Friday night Just bo-
fore he fired the shot which stretched him
dend OH the kitchen floor. The heavy bullet
was extracted from her head yesterday after
noon. and she seemed to be relieved almost
Immediately. The doctors say she possibly
may recover. The bullet passed through the
bono of the skull dagonally and upward from
point one inch and half back Of the left ear.
Mrs. L. L. Slender Of 4O3 Montgomery street.
Syracuse. is the only sister OF Charles S.
Quackenbush. She arrived in Newark yester-
day with her son. 30 years old They regis
tered at the Continental Hotel as G.. W. White
and mother. They visited Chief OF Police
Hopper first. and from Police Headquarters
went to the house in Warren street where the
three children arc in the care Of Mrs. James
Gold. who lives on the upper floor of the house.
Maggie Quackenbush met her aunt at the
police station. and went to the house ahead OF
her in Capt. Corbetts sleigh. Mrs. Slender
made arrangements for the care Of the chill
dren. the second one OF whom Is a feeble
minded girl years old. Mrs. Slender told
Chief Hopper that the child's condition was
thought to be due to her brothers cruelty to
his wife. After attending ~ the. comforts OF
the children she went with hef son to the
hospital and saw Annie. who seemed to recog-
nize her Then she went to Mullins morguc.
and gave instructions for sending the body OF
ground thaws in The spring when it will be in
Alter attending to this she went to the hO.
tel and retired 70 get some rest after the "a
tGue 10 OF the Journey She was seen at the
Gns heF Brother in FEATURES She sai ESS that
attention to the fact that woman sitting Just
behind her in the car closely resembled Annie
S aack &, It,us the wounded woman. Mrs;
she spoke to the woman. and found that she
was one CHANNELS three sisters. and was 60
journey together and on their arrival at New
bushS bedside in the hospital. She said she
L9pg Island ant today to find another sister:
would remain to take care Of the eRiildren and and
watch the results in Mrs, Quackenbush's case.
die she SS SHd her with
tic care Of the family her special charge. She
Annie and the children. nut seemed to have
less less. feeling for her dead brother who had
II he has said anything to reflect upon the
character char s. Of that puro woman lAnpiel he has
faithful wife through ali her heavy trials"
Mrs Slender said that her father Smith
den5 ans So Fl had
left SO that the inheritance OF herself and
G en- W.. we're left in the hands Of Abraham
She was content to allow him to invest the
to ME- De W.T. a1d lie sn9nrenE his with
grew W wild boy and a dissoiate man. ii" He
times but was away from home the greater
part Of the time. Five yenrs before his marriage
g. % Who to by Win
ness in AiSany Will" IN Montana oh he ' and
to the Second tnted STATES a Gav WGTe
3nacEE,e e! =; was Guarrelsome: and was con-
fh tn %as II es on II the s snd With G 9a
was discharged thenn, and sent to his fathers
kept his head shaved and covered with an OIL
sf RI cap He had erazy spells attimes and then
from and Was more tIan yesr aet
ting we'll. His sister thought that the wound
had much to do with his eccentric actions
since
ployment in Mrs. Stenders house in Albany as
a kitchen girl She came from Ireland in the
ters Her father is a farmer at Cresson. sara
toga county. and her sisters are. servants in
various pnrts of tho country. Annie stayed
discharged for ineompetency: Then they
found the name OF Annie Quackenbush, writ,
in Charles's handwriting The girl was then
in a delicate condition Charles was living in
the house ut the time and quarrel arose be-
tween him and Mrs. Slender. She told her
father. who also was living with her and Civ
ing her an allowance OF $3.50 a month. that
house. 1t was finally arranged that Charles
should take part of her allowance and go. He
then went to live with Annie. Neither the
it are known. Mrs. Slender said the girl was
good looking. we'll behaved. and demure. She
had always been honest and faithful to her