The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-23
WAS JEALOUS AND SHOT HER.
HIS AIM At HIMSELF WAS TRUE, BUT
HIS WIFE WILL RECOVER.
Bartender Henry Stephens Shoots Himself
Through the Head After nm IneGeetual
Attempt to XIII His wife and Servant.

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bartender Henry Stephens Shoots Himself
Through the Head After nm IneGeetual
Attempt to KIN Ills wife and Servant.
After five years OF discord and quarres and
bitter jealousy Henry Stephens. bartender.
fired two shots at his wife yesterday evening
with the intention Of killing her. He also fired
| two shots ct servant. Mrs. Stephens sank
unconscious to the floor.
The servant flung open the window spranR
upon the fro escape and leaped to tho side
walk. Then the man placed tho revolver to
his right ear. fred the last cartridge and fell
| eprawling on the bed.
This happened in the tenement house at 107
Allen street at $50 o'clock. Nearly everybody
in the neiehborhood heard the shots fred.
for the revolver was heavy bulldog of
3S-caibre. The housekeeper's son ran
to the Eldridge street station house,
which is only few blocks away.
to call the police. The servant, whose name
is Mrs Addie Andrews. had fallen on the side
walk on all tours. almost at the feet OF two
young men who were passing. They stopped
to raise her and she said:
Please take me to the drug store on tho
corner"
They carried her there in their arms. and the
druggist sent for an ambulance.
A detective came to the house about ten
Of stairs to the front room. and broke open the
door, led into kitchen. and on looking
around the detective saw an old gray haired
man crouching In q dark corner smoothing
the hair Of little girl. who was sobbing In his
lap.
But through door opposite the entrance he
could look into tho front room. where lamp
was burning. A man lay on the bed. The de-
tective stepped forward and held the lamp
close to the mans face. As no did so there
came long sigh. u slight tremor. and then
tension Of the muscles. and he knew the man
had just died.
the floor in little pool Of blood. She was
breathing heavily. as II in great pain. As he
bent over her there came from below the
rattle Of an ambulance. and few minutes
later the surgeon was In the room.
They put the woman on stretcher and car
ried her down stairs. A glance showed that
tho man was dead. A tiny stream Of blood
trickled from his cor.
The ambulance stopped to take the servant
from the drug store and then proceeded to
Gouverneur Hospital. When it reached there
both women were able to speak. They were
entered on the slips as Annie Stephens. IS
years old. and Addie Andrews. widow. 20 years
old. When asked whether she had any friends
Thaddeus w. Hunt, ca Cannon street.
When Mrs. Hunt was told that Mrs Stephens
had been shot. she sank into q chair and ex-
claimed excltedly:
Harry did 1t! I swear her husband shot
her. He's been threatening to do it for the last
five years. She has taken four or five loaded
revolvers away from him. He was jealous;
When the story had been told to her she said:
90 Ntnyv ,.tn.
al1 Mrs stephens a9s
s0gsns liked Harry hs
care for him either: That made him
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many visitors. and Harry became very jealous
l don't believe there was any cause for his
kill you She would laugh at this too. and
take hs Ps!aa 1ep n% Vent to the
with Addie Andrews; Her, husband knew she
Worked at Martin Kirhys sal S on the BoWery
somewhere. and left the house every morning
didn't see him. He didn't come BACK et, all
NY! ny husband was ever at Annie's at o'clock
shs Hairy aas sssn
pie was very Kind to Mrs. Andrews and took
her as .t servant. The woman would have
The old man and the child who were in the
room are Jacob NJ. Kanouse. Mrs. Stephens's
child. who is 5 years old. They were both
be ELECTED from tho man was:
Harry wasn't drunk; They had a, quarrel
and he shot them-he shot them. yes"
Both women We're struck by two bullets. One
entered Mrs. Stephens's left shoulder. another
grazed the back Of her neck
Mrs. Andrews was shot through the left arm
and through the lower lip. the last ball break
ing two teeth and lodging in the roof Of the
mouth. The physicians said that. while It
would take several days to tell just how seri-
danger.
The police say that Stephens consorted with
crooks. II he was not one himself. and that he
had frequently left HIS wife to live with a woman
known as Florence. At Kirby's saloon. 81 Bow
cry. they said that Stephens was not a drink
ing man. and that no was perfectly sober whom
he left thore nj. 8 o'clock Yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Stephens's sister. n Mrs. Behrens. who
lives at 81 45 Second avenue. came to the sta
ton house late last night and took her father
and the little girl homo with her.