The evening world., 1894-09-22
Says She Tried to Wrest His Re-
volver from Him When He
Tried to Shoot.
BOTH WOMEN WERE ARRESTED.
Their Faces Were Badly Bruised
and Their Clothing Bespat-
tered with Blood.

Two masslVely-built women, with faces
bruised and cut from blows evidently ad-
minlstered but recently. were arraigned
before Justice Hogan. in Jefferson Mar
ket Court, this morning.
One of the women, the younger was
charged with having fired two bullets
into the skull OF her husband, George
Joseph Young. who died In Roosevelt
Hospital at SIS o'clock this morning.
The other woman was there under
suspicion of having been concerned in
the shooting. She was certainly q wit
ness to It.
The wife. Ellen Young, is twenty-five
years old. but too free indulgence In
drink has aged her, and left only faint
traces of the comeliness with which she
was evidently once possessed.
The other woman, Mrs. Catherine Fos-
ter. is fully six feet tall, and the sodden
look she carries I'm her face, shows that
she. too, is addicted to drink.
She Is Mrs. Young's mother, but she
stands in the position Of her daughters
accuser.
The killing Of Young occurred shortly
after midnight this morning in the tene-
ment at 3O3 Nin,h avenue.
ployed by the New York Central and
HUDSON river lSallrOau company IN one
OF its west.side freight yards, had lived
at that address with his wife ever since
they were married, three years ago.
They were very poor, but the other
the fact that both husband and wife
drank, they would have lived In COM
parative happiness.
Young. who was thlrty-three years old,
promised to take his wife on a little
pleasure trip yesterday afternoon. In
stead, he came home drunk not very
law was there, and the two women evi-
IDENTIFY had been drinking also.
Sounds of a scufiie and high words
were heard by the other people in the
house n few minutes after Young came
home
Then a door was heard TO fly open and
mans footsteps tramping down the
stairs followed. A moment later three
pistol shots rang out from the head of
the stairs. They were followed by
scream and the sound of a heavy body
falling down the steps.
Policeman Munson. of the West
Thirty-seventh street station, heard the
shots, and. bursting in the hall door.
At the foot of the second fight he
stumbled over the body of a man lying
there In heap and apparently dead.
ascended to the floor above. The door
OF the Youngs' apartments was open
and he went in.
Mrs. Young and her mother were In
blood and their clothes so disordered
that 1t was evident that hand-to-hand
strrTWSgle hi1 had Just Just occurred, s,
Munson.
There she stands" said the elder
woman. pointing to Mrs; Young.
away" was the wife's only remark.
Munson placed both women under ar
rest and sent for an ambulance.
DIR. Comstock arrived from Roosevelt
HOlDital
that Young had been shot twice. Both
bullets had entered the skull from the
rear and taken a downward course. as
II fired from above.
Young. who was unconscious, was re-
moved TO Roosevelt Hospital, where he
died without making any statement.
The women were taken to the West
Thirtieth street station, where there ls
a matron. Neither would talk about the
shooting.
When arraigned before Justice Hogan
this morning the women would not ad-
init that they knew how Young met his
death. Asked to. explain how the
Munson, in a bureau drawer. under a
pile OF rags, came to be there, neither
would answer
They had no counsel, they said, and
Justice Hogan assigned Lawyer Moran
to look after their Interests.
n order that the women should have
ordered Policeman Munson to take them
to a photographer across the way to
have their pictures taken showing the
bruises on their faces.
An Evening World reporter talked
with the women while they were waiting
TO be photographed. Mrs, Young said
that her husband came home drunk and
attacked her mother. He knocked her
down and then turned to strike his wife.
His motheT-in-law got between them
and Mrs. Young says he pulled a revolt
yer from his pocket.
Mrs. Young said she grappled with the
then almost-craZed man, and tried TO get
possession of the revolver, She got hold
OF the weapon and her finger caught in
the trigger. The pistol exploded and the
the bullet hit her husband.
Mrs. Young was shown how foolish
this explanation was, in view of the fact
that her husband was shot twice in
the top of the head.
Asked II She didn't fire one shot at
Young, and on his fleeing for his life.
follow him to the head of the stairs
and fire three more shJts at him Mrs.
Young at first said she didn't rS'aemher.
Pressed TO tell the truth she said that
maybe that WAS how il HAPPENED, but
that she was so excited that she couldn't
recall the circumstances very clearly.
Neither the wife nor Justice Hogan
learned of Young's death until after
the case had been temporarily disposed
Of
Both women lweil held to await the
result OF the Cdroner'B inquest.