The evening world., 1894-10-08
BULLET FOR HIS WIFE.
Mad with Jealousy Cram Shoots
Her in the Breast.
Doctors Do Not Think the Woman
Can Recover.
An Eighteen Year-O Son Tried In
Vain to Rescue His Mother.


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tnat the woman VIII die' She was
taken 10 the New YORK Hospital ana
Coroner was sent for to get her ante
mortem statement.
Cram was taken to the Jefferson
Market Court, where he was committed
without bail to await the result of his
wife's injuries.
The would-be murderer Is a dissolute,
u,orthIos, fo,,ou, 49,, "a Ne, ar,,Li, e,
voorhees, teiiow' ana haa oeen drinking
very hard OF late and was under the
influence of liquor this morning.
The couple have Ave grown-up children.
Last night Cram left dirty bundle In
the hardware store at 1853 Seventh ave-
nue., saying to the clerk;
"If ANYTHING should happen give this
s,at,on No. $50 - oonta,r e,,', ~.
100 shoats -, s,ot,,n. nana. .or,S,,o,
niofe sheets oi piotti's paper, scr,ooieu
all over with memoranda. dated and
~ wes snnaran,iw = sar,as y, m",o.
~ was apparently series Oh notes
detailing the results OF his espionage
on his wife,
Relieving ia . saun,s.
ro'o"nhs Sample;
Sept To-day helped at the household work
hhe gave the note TO Craven through Sarah Keen
n.,,v s,. ven, ~ 80. AIM. s,s von,d
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'Femo,e IKE leaf
Sunday, Sept a'-Passed the day in the house
Nothing to note
Mondav-Trisd bsr best IN IA, IN. an.xsr
All .su.S, - s"
All through .hese hotes are references
to limitations from the window and to
Craven, and curses against Sarah Kee.
nan
One sheer contains the mans will II
reads like this
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N na ,h d.r ' p,u me van snn tnbn IAN
with NV son smith W Cram ana IN he n sood
and true bow and make a rood man.
Let stephen Merritt bury me out o, tn. in.
surance. and also act as my executor on all
property in house. 2s West Nineteenth. nrst
nCOr, ~ GEORGE W. CRAM
Dated Monday "a at SEQ
M ss-l wish The Gerry Society 70 take my
daughter sarah: and make good Girl OF her
MONDAY a. i"f
cram is thought by the police TO be
insane; He was soldier on the South
ern side during the civil war and boast
ed that he was the nrst male child
born n the town OF Weiden, n. c.
He has been arrested three or four
times for disorderly conduct and for
abusing his family.
Patrick Craven, driver OF an Ice
wagon. lives with his wife and family at
23S West Nineteenth street, One child
Is Johnnie, an .overgrown boy Of four.
teen years, and this johnnie was said
to be the object OF Craven's jealousy
Some of Grams Harry mentions one
vendor Of vegetables living In Harlem,
but sometimes selling through Nine