Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-03
ONE yonAN'S HATE
Leads tY q Horrible Plot for Re-
venge Upon a Recreant
HE REFUSED TO LOVE HER LONGER.
fshe Hired . Wicked Thug to Dash Fiery
J Titriol in His Face.
THE JEALOUSY OF 4 HANDSOME WIDOW
HE REFUSED TO LOVE HER LONGER.
THE JEALOUSY OF A HANDSOME WIDOW

ESPECIAL THLKGRAM TO THE p1sPLTcH.1
CHICAGO, June 2.-Woman' s infatuation,
love, Jealousy, rage, plot, mystery and
revenge, peculiar and hideous, have grown
to be the elements behind the strange and
otherwise unacconntabIe assault on Joseph
s. Fish, by Jerry Trumbly last Saturday.
AT noon on that day Joseph Fish, the
wealthy merchant of the firm of Fish
Joseph & Co., was attacked by a thug on
Wabash avenue in the business heart of the
city. He was knocked insensible with brass
knuckles and then his assailant heeled him
horribly about the face and head. For a
time his life was despaired of, but he is
now improving.
Developments show that Trumbly was a
mere tool in the pay of a woman, wealthy
and handsome widow, who was desperately
in love with Fish. The latter had paid her
considerable attention. Fish refused to
marry his charmer and became engaged to
the daughter of a wealthy Hebrew manu-
facturer.
The widow threatened revenge and declared
that she would so spoil Fish's handsome
face that no one would marry him. In the
thugs pocket was found bottle of vitriol.
The acid had been purchased BY the
widow and the brute had been instructed to
dash the fiery stuff into Fish's face. He
was prize fighter, and when the moment
of action came, he resorted to his natural
weapons which were reinforced by big brass
knuckles. What the knuckles failed to ac-
complish he finished with his hobnailed
shoes.
The woman in the case is blonde with
handsome eyes, and has a dashing air that
would attract notice anywhere. Fish
stopped going with her about year ago.
She came to his store after that quite fire.
quently and seemed to be anxious to renew
her friendship with him. He did not want
her to come to the place and there was evil
IDENTIFY great ill feeling on her part.
Mr.. Tuttle, Mr.. Fish's partner, said: 81
don't know her name. She mad several
aliases; she was not woman that Mr.. Fish
would think of marrying. We are satisfied
that to get revenge on him she hired this
man Trumbly to disfgure Fish for life.
She was the one that selected the vitriol as
a means. He had the bottle all right, but
did not have time to use its contents"
The Widow Mysteriously Disappeared.
A call at the widows house on the South
Side revealed the fact that the widow has
mysteriously left the city since last Mon
day without telling the servants where she
was going or how long long she would be
gone. Here it was also learned that the
lady had lately dropped the name by which
she is known to her friends and which is
printed in the directory, and is known to
the servants as the wife of a prominent real
estate man.
Not servant in the house had been in
the lady's employ long enough to tell when
her second marriage took place or much
about their employers habits. The resi-
dence is one of the finest on the South Side,
everything about it indicating wealth.
Conversation with the servants developed
the fact that while the woman moved in the
upper class and spent a great deal
of money she was in the habit of
receiving gentlemen in the absence
of other members of the family and spent
much of her time out driving To the
servants she was known by her second hus-
bands name. but most of the callers called
her by her first husbands name. Trumbly
is weakening, and it is said that he will
confess ere long and clear up the mystery
that hangs over the case. Fish's friends
declare that he will prosecute the woman
to the bitter end as soon IS he is able to ap-
pear in court.