The evening world., 1894-06-07
MS WIFE Will LIVE.
But Would-Be Murderer Buret Is
Likely to Die.
Sent q Bullet Into His Own Brain
After Shooting Her.
Sho Had Left Him Because Of His
Neglect and Fast Life.

While there still remains much to be
explained concerning the shooting of
pretty Mrs Louisa Buret by her young
husband, Ell 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
Nell House Surgeon Masten the circum.
dances which led to the shooting. HeI
aory Is that she has been separated
f,om her husband for the last three
weeks and has been living at home with
her mother. Mrs. Enders and a married
sitter. on De Mott street. near Durham
avenue. within a few hundred feet of the
scene Of the shooting
Yesterday, she says, Buret came to Tho
mouse and asked her to go to New York
with him, promising to buy her new
dress. The prospect of new finery proved
too much for the young wife, and leaving
their one-year-old baby girl with hei
mother Mrs. Buret went with her hus
band. The couple spent the afternoon
shopping on Fourteenth street, and ir
. me evening went to restaurant, where
, puret ordered an elaborate supper
Hoboken about 8 o'clock and arrived ir
the neighborhood Of her mothers home
, shortly before 10.
The wife says that as they neared thu
embracing her, and while his left arm
encircled her neck he drew a revolver
from his pocket and began firing, Thre,
way, missed their mark, but the fourth
bullet struck the woman in the right side
, Of the head an inch or two above the
temple.
She managed to break away from tn,
. now infuriated man and ran towards hel
mothers house.
Buret turned and walked to the cor
4 nue., where he placed his weapon to hi,
7 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 iT
the vicinity are almost deserted al
|. night, which accounts for the fact thai
Buret was not found sooner.
The West Hoboken police were notified
J and an ambulance call was sent Il
I Christ Hospital. Buret was still lyint
!, in the street. but his wife was takeI
from her mothers house, which she hat
. managed to reach. Both were taken /,
! the hospital about midnight. Buret wa
. unconscious and could make no state
ment.
; Mrs. Enders, the young wife's mother
. and her sister went to the hospital thi
= forenoon. Mrs. Enders sid that he
daughter married Buret three years ago
, when she was only seventeen years old
about twenty-three years of age. HI
= painter by trade, but does no worl
for the reason that he receives an In
Mrs; Enders said she did not know hoy
much Buret's allowance Is, but sh
knows that he received 5000 from Pari
few weeks ago. and within the las
year has had two remittances from tn
same source, one of $1.1 100 and anothe
, with this money. Mrs. Enders says
he led the life of sport. He neglected
his wife, and used to lock her In he
. room at their home on Bergen Lin
avenue and Spring street, while he wen
to the races with other young wome
Of his acquaintance.
Buret lived at the Belleville Hotel 4