The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-22
Says She Tried to Wrest His Re
volver from Him When he Z
Tried to Shoot. :
BOTH WOMEN WERE ARREST
Their Faces Were Badly Brui,-
and Their Clothing Bespat-
tered with Blood. Il

Two massively-built women with fat Ws
bruised and cut from blows evidently alw vs.
ministered but recently. were arragn,ass
before Justice Hogan, in Jefferson M.''
ket Court. this morning. ~
One of the women, the younger. W ~
charged with having fired two bulletsh
into the skull of her husband, Geors ~
Joseph Young, who died In Rooseve d.
Hospital at 825 o'clock this morning M
The other woman was there undesl
suspicion of having been concerned III
the shooting. She was certainly a witur
ness to 1t. d
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 soddep
| look she carries in 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 1903 Nin,h avenue.
ploy yahe by wi" the New New YORK central and
Hudson River Railroad 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
tenants say that, II it hadn't been for
the fact that both husband and wife
drank, they would have lived in COM
parative happiness.
Young, who was thirty-three years old,
promised to take his wife on little
pleasure trip yesterday afternoon In. In.
long before midnight. His mother-in-
IDENTIFY had been drinking also.
| were heard by the other people in the
house a few minutes after Young came
home.
mans footsteps tramping. down the
stairs followed moment later three
pistol shots rang out from the head Of
the stairs. They were followed by q
falling down the steps.
/, Policeman Munson. of the West
shots, and. bursting in the hall door.
ran upstairs
At the foot of the second flight he
stumbled over the body of a man lying
Munson stepped over the body and
assembled to the floor above. The door
OF the Youngs' apartments was open
Mrs. Young and her mother were In
the living room, their faces covered with
blood and their clothes so disordered
that it was evident that hand-to-hanc
struggle had just occurred. ~
Who did the shooting?" demanded
Munson.
There she stands" said the elder
" Oh, mother? Why did you give me-
away" was the wife's only remark.
Munson placed both women under ar
rest and sent for an ambulance.
| ('nnStnrk RnOsAye0
Hospital with the ambulance. He found
that Young had been shot twice Both
bullets had entered the skull from the
+ rear and taken downward course, 40
II fired from above.
Young, who was unconscious, was re-
moved to Roosevelt Hospital, where hs
died without making any statement
: The women We're taken to the West
Thrtleth street station, where there u
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 a!
: death: Asked to. explain how ths
Munson, in a bureau drawer, under Z
pile of rags came to be there. neithsi
E would answer.
Ju. tI f Hogan IN assigned assigned Lawyer Moran
to look after their interests.
In order that the women should havs
e every change Of defense Justice Hogan tSsM
e to a photographers across the way y
= have their pictures taken showing th'
0 bruises on their faces, ..,r.,
q An Evening World reporter talkee
q with the women while they were waiting
! to be photographed Mrs. Young sag
a that her husband came home drunk ano
g attacked her mother. He knocked hei
= down and then turned to strike his wire
: His mother-in-law got between then
y and Mrs. Young says he pulled revot
= yer from his pocket.
II Mrs. Young said she grappled with thf
II, then almost-crazed man, and tried 70 vi
possession OF the revolver. She got hold
:, of the weapon and her finger caught ~
I the trigger. The pistol exploded and the
. the bullet hit her husband.
. Mrs Young was shown how foolls1
I this explanation was, in view of the fscs
e that her husband was shot twice IN
!. the top of the head. =.
L Asked IL she didn't fire one shot y
| Young, and on his fleeing for his nie!
| follow him to the head OF the s,aIi
and fire three more shots at him. MI
Young at first said she didn't re'oemnef
Pressed to tell the truth she SAID tha
maybe that was how II happened, "
r that she was so excited that she coul,nh
recall the circumstances very clearly
Neither the wife nor Justice Hogas
! learned of Young's death until atteI
Y the case had been temporarily dispose'
of. an,
= Both women were held to await I'M
: result of the Coroner's inquest.