The evening world., 1894-06-07
HIS wife WILL LIVE.
But Would-Be Murderer Buret Is
Likely to Die.
Sent a Bullet Into His Own Brain
After Shooting Her.
She Had Left Him Because of His
Neglect and Fast Life.

"nile tnere still remains much to be
explained concerning the shooting of
pretty Mrs. Louisa Buret by her young
husband, ELI Buret, at De Mott street
and Durham avenue, Hoboken, last
night. enough was learned to-day to
show that the motive for the attempted
murder and suicide was jealousy
Husband and wife are lying in separate
wards in Christ Hospital, Jersey City,
the man with a bullet in his brain and
semi-conscious, and the woman with a
leaden pellet buried somewhere in the
bones of her skull.
According to Drs. Masten and White
who are attending both the victims of
| the shooting. Mrs. Buret will recover
Her husbands case, however, is critical
| Neither OF the bullets had been ex-
tracted up to noon to-day.
This morning Mrs. Buret was able to
| tell House Surgeon Masten the circum-
stances which led to the shooting. Her
| story Is that she has been separated
| from her husband for the last three
weeks and has been living at home with
her mother Mrs. Enders, and a married
sister, on De Mott street, near Durham
avenue, within few hundred feet Of the
scene of the shooting.
Yesterday, she says, Buret came to the
mousse and asked her to go to New York
| with him, promising to buy her a new
dress. The prospect Of new finery proved
| too much for the young wife, and leaving
their one-year-old baby girl with her
mother Mrs. Buret went with her hus-
band. The couple spent the afternoon
shopping on Fourteenth street, and In
MT IN ufatt yhnr
Buret ordered an elaborate supper.
Mrs. Buret says that they started for
| Hoboken about o'clock and arrived In
shortly hetore 10.
The wife says that as they neared the
house her husband made a pretense OF
encircled her neck, he drew revolver
from his pocket and began firing. Three
OF the shots, In some unaccountable
bullet struck the woman in the right side
OF the head an inch or two above the
| temple.
She managed to break away from the
| nov, infuriated man and ran towards her
Buret turned and walked to the cor
ner of De Mott street and Durham ave-
right temple and fired He staggered
nearly to the middle of the street before
He was found there an hour later by
| three young men who were returning
from an entertainment. The streets in
the vicinity are almost deserted at
night, which accounts for the fact that
| Buret was not found sooner.
The West Hoboken police were notified,
and an ambulance call was sent to
Ghrist Hospital; Buret was still lying
from her mothers house. which she had
the hospital about midnight. Buret was as
unconscious and could make no state
ment.
Mrs. Enders, the young wife's mother,
and her sister went to the hospital this
when she was only seventeen years old.
Buret Is, she says, Frenchman, and
about twenty-three years Of age. He
the that he eus reeeives eess no an %Grs
come from his grandfather in Paris.
Mrs. Enders said she did not know how
hat he reeeUsd So from but PARIS shs
a few weeks ago, and within the last
year has had two remittances from the
same source, one of H.1oO and another
With this money. Mrs, Enders says.
he led the life of a sport. He neglected
his wife. and used to lock her In her
avenue and Spring street, while he went
to the races with other young women
of his acquaintance.
Buret lived at the Believille Hotel in
He seemed. according to Mrs Enders
to be infatuated with women and buggy
riding. He would go off on buggy riding
trips and be gone for days at a time.
He was well known as a sport among
a certain class OF Young men in Ho-
boken: and always had q crowd Of
drink the wine he paid for
Mrs. Enders says that for a time hi
kept a hardware store in Hoboken, bu
gave II up because II took up too much
OF his time. Last Friday Mrs. Bure
told her mother that she had gone tc
Fort Lee with her husband, who hat
Ing up her furniture preparatory tc
leaving.