New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-02
MURDERED AS SHE SLEPT.
a GERMAN VAGRANT KILLS HIS LAND
LADY TO GET S.
HER SON. WHO SLEPT IN THE SAME ROOM. A
WITNESS TO THE TERRIBLE CRIME-HE
AwAKEs TO SEE THE MIsCREANT
SLASH HIS MOTHERS THROAT
OPEN WITH a BIG CARY
INC KNEE.

ING KNIFE.
Robbery was the motive for the murder OF Mrs.
Ju,lanna Hoffman in her home at No. oH Sixth
S.. Avenue Il. early yesterday morning She
vas bu,chered in her bed by Carl Feigenoaum'
German vagrant who wanted to steal S which she
had hidden under her pillow. The crime was Wit
messed by her son, who mad earned the money and
the murderer was caught red-handed
Mrs Hoffman was a widow OF middle age, and
she came to this country from Hungary about egh-
teen mOnths ago In company with her son M.chaeI'
fifteen years Old She hired two sma. rooms on the
second floor Of the tenemen-house In Sixth-st, and
went live there The boy found employment at
the office OF the American Portrait Company, at NO.
p East FOurth-st.. where he earned IS week he
paid most OF his wages 10 his mother every week
His earnings supported his mother and himself
Mrs Hoffman thrifty and cheerful, and II was
evident 20 her ne.ghbors that her heart was wrapped
up in her dutifu. son.
SIZE THOUGHT HE HAD AN HONEST FACE.
on Tuesday Feigenbaum knocked at the widow s
door. and told her that he wanted 10 hire room
where he could sleep. He said he had work and
would pay for the room Friday when he got his
pay. He Is a short, stout German. with mustache
and chin whiskers and a restless eye. Mrs. HOFFMAN
let the rear one Of her two rooms. with bed ana
chair for s. week He slSPt twn in the room Nor on
Hoffman sept on, foding sofa in ne front room
ard a. The ot OF he 9a S rSSm about for se eocS on
Friday night and said nothing about the 81 which
h'a 10 ny AS ands, s Ten er po@ % s on h
sora Sc which her son had given 20 her out Of his
money. The widow and her son were asleep soon
after he had shu; himself In his room
THE VICTIMS LAST CRY.
An hour after m,dnigA, the boy was aroused by
the cry: Fay Fay. Fay.' which In the Hungarian
| language corresponds closely to "Oh. Lord!' in
English. He saw. By the dim light that shone into
| the room from the street lamps, a man standing
| over his mothers couch with big carv!ng-knfe In
| his hand Instnctively he kicked at him and showed
him away from his mother. but the man made a
thrust at him with the big knife and the lad jumped
through The window TO the fre-escape. crying Muir
Ills call was answered by Policeman charle,
h,m enter the house, young Hoffman passed back
into his room through the window He was horr
| deI 10 find his mother lying in the middle OF the
| room with her throat cut from ear TO ear. She was
sasping FOR breath. her head rolling from from side e
| dying mother the trembling lad opened the doo
for the officer The murderer had escaped by th'
The policeman ran ba ok the street and whistle
9[ s pr.sei sefP him. ns af besoPe the
man reached Avenue A Roundsman John Dugan. o
49n aTae e fesad had 6ny
trousers on. being even barefooted He tod tn
0nrsuIt Of the murderer. The officers took him
once to the widows room, thinking tney, c0ui1 ee
she gave final gasp and died
HE WASHED OFF THE BLOOD STAINS.
The prisoner taken at once to the Fifth-s'
station where he described himself as lahore
and a native OF Germany. and declared his limo
| cence.
| IL was noticed that there were marks OF bloc
| on his hands although II was learned later tina
when he had climbed down the fire escape and 30
| from the roof OF Outhouse 70 an alleyway ina
leads 10 Sixth-st.. he had stopped at a hydrant
the hend Of the alleyway and washed MS hands
The police thought ne German thief who ma
come over here TO the Chicago Fair. and had be
come stranded He was Identified by young Hoff
man. who upon seeing him at the station ex
claimed . a.,
My God. that is the man that killed my dea
old mother
II was with great difficulty that he could be re
strained from attacking the murderer.
Abraham Davis Os No T. East Broadway, an
Nyer Munski OF No. 2ll Henryst.. saw the prisone
run out OF the alley Of No 54 SiXth-st Nethe
they nor the son OF the murdered woman wer
held at the police station, aS Sergeant McNali
fer sure they could all be had at any time II wanted
Fegenbaurn said he had been in this countr
three years and had been in the West until a icy
months ago lie would not tell where ne had pee
employed but he admitted that he had been SLEEP
lne in the parks at night before ne touna snelte
I'm Mrs Hoffman's room. He declared that ne ma
taken another homeless TO sleep with MIN J
the room on Friday night and that the man mus
have committed the murder His story was cor
| tradctei by young Hoffman and the persons wn
saw him running away said he was not chasln
ANYBODY He held without bail Tor examiha
| tion nj the Essex Market Police Court.