The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-10
QUACKENBUSH'S LITTLE GIRL
IGNORANT UNTIL YESTERDAY THAT
HER MOTHER nan BEEN SHOT

IGNORANT UNTIL YESTERDAY THAI
HER MOTHER MAD BEEN SHOT
Found Ga,iy Ridioe Ia the Elevator OF the
Hotel Devonshire. Where Her Father
HAD Left Her 10 Go and KIN Her Mother
Mrs Charles & Qunckonbush. who was shot
In tho head ny her husband on Friday night
at 151 Warren street. Newark. chung to lilo all
day yesterday with tenaclty which surprised
the medical attendants and nurses at st.
MichaePs Hospital. who predicted TINT she
would die within an hour OF the shooting.
She Is delicate woman and the bullet en-
terins the head back Of her left ear. ranged
forward and upward into the brain. 1t was
fired from 38-calibre revolver. and another
from the same pistol passed upward through
the roof OF her husbands mouth and out ut tho
top Of his head striking the ceiling with force
enough to indent it deeply and then fall back
on the kitchen floor. Mrs.. Quackenbush
could not have been moro than four feet
from the muzxle OF the pistol when
the shot was fred. She was evidently
trying to get through tho kitchen
door into the hall when he fired the shot
which took effect. Before that he had ired at
her in the middle room whore she and the
children slept This bullet went through the
glass Of the sliding dyor. and striking the cell
ono Of the two cribs which we're In the room
and got into the kitchen. followed by her hus-
band. who shot her while che was trying to
open the door leading to the hall.
It was there. probably. that tho husband put
the pistol IN HE mouth and Hired the shot when
killed him After that she sb
the stair railing. Nothing Is known Of the CON
yersation which took place between guaeIen-
Emanuel d. LAUDER. who lives on the floor boz
live on the door above. heard = con- con,
tSe Cries so oi The little Children did
recognize the explosions rs pistol shots put
Enookea o eey III THey p heard Mrs
cry out after sho had been In the nan mo-
Meanwhile the three little girls, were, crying
what bad sSsssa by
saens "'fI It IS said thas no matter how
aqf tnd s wn H shs ah
father entered the house. She had been with
Newark With 'i Min. One slept In her mothers
bed and the others occupied two cribs. There
e eydenee that QuackHnt,psh began to riff, rife
before he attack cd his wife. and it is said that
the package OF 5000 found in his, pocket came
VIII 81 C Was sH ss Printed
on tho strip which bound It. but the bills were
not new. Tho floor in front Of the closet was
Uttered with torn papers ana tho contents OF
It Is said that when drunk ouackenbHsh was
%S.n soSes he eas q MS asa
was an inveterate gambler He got drunk
when he lost but kept sober Hsk was in
sor, Ss.e s%sS
PRESENTS for his ckildren. II IS thought that
his return was melted by drunk In Montreal,
Se ns1 70 XII Se N hss
soldier in the Twenty third New Jersey volun-
teers during the rebellion. ~
Hotel Devonshre In Forty second street. near
Madison avenue. sent word to the Captain Of
Station. asking him to come over at once, The
isThsiTsl ittis Il, s .orss y ss}S Who
II SUSPECT that that is the dau ghter Of that
nan Quaekenbush WHO shot his wife tyest9sr-
scription that was published ia the papers To-
day. He came here on Tuesday evening with
the girl and went away the next morning. He
back at il o':locE on Thursday night He
registered as Charles Davis. He sent the girl
Ing with the clerk. He said he felt too nervous
he sold he would turn in Tor a short nap lie
leaving tho little girl She's Leen playing
hero all day"
Come here. little girl" said the Captain.
/ sWhat is your nameW
Maggie Quac kenbush. SIR tho young one
promptly replied.
And what are you doing here2"
II rlds in the elevator. Do you know my
papa =" -,
The clerk explained that she had been rid
ing up and down with the elevator boy all day
"'She is the perfect image Of her father" he
= Ihe Captain telegraphed to the Newark
police. and at noon a detective came here. To-
gether they broke open the trunk which was
In "Chnrles Davis's" room. and there they
found conclusive proof that he was Charles
Then the detective took the
girl with him to Newark.