The evening world., 1894-03-03
CAOKED IN COURT.
Mrs. Graz, Tried to Murder Her
Accused Husband.
He Was Charged with ~Assaulting
His 15-Year-0Id Daughter.
Nearly Succeeded In Her Attempt
and Was Sorry She Didn't.

There was an exciting scene In the
Adams Street Police Court. BROOKLYN,
this morning. caused by Mrs. Sophie
Grau's attempt to avenge the wrongs
Of her ffteen-year-old daughter, alleged
band. Michael Grau,
Had not four OF the court officers
grabbed the woman she might have sue
ceeded In stranglpg her husband.
Tie Infatuated woman choked Grau
until he was black In tn face. He
fought desperately In his struggles to
free himself from the woman's clutch.
but Mrs. Grau seemed to have the
strength of two men.
The man. with the woman cling!.C 10
his throat like u tigress and the foSr
officers trying to drag her from her vic
tim. struggled about the courtroom FOR
two or three minutes.
Chairs were overturned and general
pandemonium reigned among the spec
tators who were standing on the benches
watching the exciting Genes.
All the messengers and clerks ran from
the courtroom downstairs 10 the First
Precinct station to notify the sergeant
at the desk that Grau was being stran-
gled to death.
Grau gave short Gasps. and it could
be seen that he was fast losins strength.
The four policemen fell all over each
OtnpT III tntlT tIutd NOTs 10 "ItIlCI the
woman from her victim Her face was
a fr!ghtful sight. Like n maniac's, her
eyes bulged from their sockets. Her
~nostrils were dilated and her face
twitched with excitement. All the while
YOU villain. This is my revenge. Die.
die, You dog, and may God nave mercy
over and over again she repeated the
! sentence, zach time closing tight her
grip On her husbands throat.
Her short gasps for breath told the
| or,ookers that evep BIT OF strength was
being put into that clutch on the mans
throat.
Finally she got the mans back across
enc, Of the benches, ana he stopped his
For a moment it looked as though a
murder had been committed in a court OF
justice.
liCemen whom the woman mad succeeded
in shaking on gathered themselves to-
gHther and Erahbst III" wpman around
woman was oyerpowrrGd.. ,
Her husband druppe! from the bench
TO the floor. He was IN a stA;" Of semi,
consciousness, but soon recovered, when
A pail of water was thrown over him,
The dcep imprints OF the womau's I'm,
gers could plainly be seen on her VIC
Ii was fully tw"nty minute after tht
arrival Of "A doctor who had been sent
for, tina. the man recovered sufficiently
To talk, and then he only succeeded
after a trying enort.
The woman was carried TO Justic,
Walsh's private orice, where she re
mained for an hour before she becam,
quiet,
Grau is a tailor, and hal formerly live,
with his wife and child at sixth avenu
and Twenty-fourth street.
Last week. after having been a~rreste,
on "A serious charge made by his fifteen
year-old daughter, ne askei TO have
lawyer sent TO him at Raymond Stree
Jail.
lie told the lawyer he had $500 In
bank, but that he could not get II unit
his Wife delivered over the handbook,
Mrs Grau was summoned before Jus
tice Walsh to-day and asked. in TIT
presence OF her husband, II she wai
willing to give up the book. She at frs
consented, but suddenly, rs II remember
ing some great wrong, she cried: "foi
devil!' and sprang at the prisoner.
Afterward the women said she wtshet
she had completed her work
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