The evening world., 1894-09-22
|D|O She KILL
her HUSBAND
George Young'S Wife Accused
Of His Murder by Her
| Own Mother.
I CLAIMS IT WAS ACCIDENTAL.
Bays She Tried to Wrest His Re-
volver from Him When He
Tried to Shoot.
BOTH WOMEN WERE ARRESTED.
Their Faces We're Badly Bruised
and Their Clothing Bespat-
tered with Blood.
BORN WOMEN WERE ARRESTED.

TSs :!Jssively-built women, with faces
Erd!sed and cut from blows evidently ad-
rinistered 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 S.25 O'Clock this morning.
~ The other woman was there under
4 usp!cion of having been concerned in
the shooting. She was certainly a wit
ness to It,
The wife, Ellen Young, is twenty-five
years old. but too free indulgence in
rink has aged her. and left only faint
races of the comeliness with which she
Fas evidently once possessed.
The other woman, Mrs. Catherine Eos
pr is fully six feet tall and the sodden
ok she carries in her face, shows that
es too, is addicted to drink.
she Is Mrs. Youngs mother, but she
ands in the position of her daughters
cuser.
The killing of Young occurred shortly
her midnight this morning in the ten
nent at 80 Ninth avenue.
Young. who Vas Was, o swit lehman, en- en-
hudson River Railroad Company in one
its west-side freight yards, has lived
that address with his wife ever since
hey were married, three years ago.
They were very poor, but the other
enants say that, If 1t hadn't been for
be fact that both husband and wife
Drank, they would have lived in COM
FpfrS tive happiness.
1 Young. who was thirty-three years old.
promised TO take his wife on little
y pleasure trip yesterday afternoon. In
stead, he came home drunk not very
Il long before midnight. His mother-in-
law was there, and the two women evil
IDENTIFY had been drinking also.
Sounds of a scutfie and high words
we're heard by the other people in the
house few minutes after Young came
home.
Then a door was heard to fly open and
mans footsteps tramping down the
fairs followed. A moment later three
PISTOL shots rang out from the head of
the stairs. They were followed by a
rream and the sound of heavy body
Policeman Munson. of the West
lhrty-seventh street station, heard the
aots, and. bursting in the hall door,
At the foot of the second flight he
tumbled over the body of man lying
mere Nl In heap and apparently dead.
Munson stepped over the body and
Seconded to the floor above. The door
the Youngs' apartments was open
md he went In.
Mrs. Young and her mother We're in
me liVing-room, their faces covered with
blood and their clothes so disordered
mat IT was evident that a hand-to-hand
struggle had just occurred.
Who did the shootng?" demanded
There she stands" said the elder
woman ma pointing to Mrs; Young u,,o ,o
away was the wife's only remark.
Munson placed both women under ar
Hst ana sent for an ambulance.
Or. Comstock arrived from Roosevelt
hospital with the ambulance. He found
mat Young had been shot twice Both
outlets had entered the skull from the
sas ana taken downward course as
loung, who was unconscious, was re-
Any oSeu TO Roosevelt Hospital where hi
i T without making any statement.
ihlrtieth street station, where there il
shooting.
When arraigned before Justice Hogan
us morning the women would not ad
ant that they knew how Young met his
srath asked to, explain how The
MiiLnson, in a bureau drawer. under 6
would answer.
Tiey had no counsel, they said, ant
tn9ce Hogan assigned Lawyer Moran
''Ieok after their Interests
syeorder that the women should hav,
orde change of defense Justice Hogan
70 az Policeman Munson to take then
have hotographer's across the way L
hrniseeir pictures taken showing tn
An IN their faces.
with thening World" reporter talke,
II 10 he Iomen while they were waiting
that hert ographed. Mrs. Young sal
H tracked sband came home drunk an,
II down andr mother. He knocked ne
Hi" motlfn turned to strike his wife
N and Mrs. Yl-law got between then
n Yer from hg says he pulled a revol
Mrs. Younocket
then almost-td she grapplcd with tin
n possession ofed man, and tried to &c
of the weapolrevolver She got hol
The trigger m her finger caught i
The bullet hit istol exploded and tn
Mrs, Young husband.
this explanation shown how foolisl
that her husbal in view OF the fac
the top of the heyas shot twice II
Asked IL she dA
Young, and on hlfre one shot a
follow him to thsing for his life
and Are three moret of the stair
Young at FIRST said \ at him. Mrs
Pressed to tell theNnt reraemher
thai she was SO excitaappened, bu
recall the circumstanS she couldn'
" clearly,