The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-02-23
MAD WITH JEALOUSY
Awful Deed of a Drunken New
York Bartender.
SHOT TWO woMs EN- AND HIMSELF
They Bre in a Critical Condition, While
He Died Instantly.
SHOT TWO WOMEN AND HIMSELF

The Victims His wife and Servant
After They Were Wounded They
Jumped FroIu windows to Escape His
Murderous weapon-He Had Several
Times Before Attempted to Murder His
wife, but on Each occasion She Had
Wrested His Revolver from Him.
New York, Feb 23.-A CHASTITY ira
gedy was enacted last evening in the
ive-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
nit the deed was a heavy bulldog revol-
YER Two Of the bullets were fired at his
wife, two at the servant girl, and thu
fifth and last was sent through his own
brain.
The suicide was 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
Lille, aged five years, his faith sr-in-law
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 man who
was passing at the time and was carried
| in fainUing condition to the Eldridge
street station. Miss Smith fell on the
| sidewalk and was carried to a drug store
nearby. Both were afterward removed
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,h
| she said, pointing to the front room,
"and shot her.
Detective Mooney pushed open the
door and found Stevens lying dead across
the bed, with a 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 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 other
daughter at No. 2i45 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 iugular 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 fire.
quently threatened to kill her. He had
drawn revolver to shoot her four times
before but in every instance she had
succeeded in wrestling the weapon away
from him.