The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-25
A BRUTE'S CRIME
Ended His Miserable Lie After Trying
I to XIII His Stepdaushter.
JEALOUSY OF A MERE CHILD
2rOtU0ty1rOJ 70
Led to Tragedy In a New York
Tenement House.

SEw YORK, Nov. 25.-Ardrew Timko,
fn1amed by drink and desire yesterday,
murderously attacked his stepdaughter,
Mary Thouchuk, with knife aud Ratchet.
and then ended his own iifc with bullet.
Timko, who is an Hungarian. has legal
wife I'm Europe, and the mother OF Mary Is
his common law wife. He Is AZ years of
age, and has manifested an unnatural
jealousy OF the girl Mary. who Is barely
Is. To such an extent was the mans
jealousy aroused within the past few days
that he was scarcely able 10 restrain him
self, and whenever he saw the girl speak
ing TO boy on the street or elsewhere he
would beat the offending boy IL he could
lay hands on him and abused the girl
without mercy.
A week ago the man quit work ard de.
voted his time to the consumption Of
liquor. Saturday night tho husband and
wife had quarrel about the girl, Timko
attempting familiarities and making nu.
merous threats. Mrs. Thouchuk would
not go TO bed until her husband had re-
tired. He finally went to bed, and mother
and daughter slept In another room.
Not long afterward the mother found
tho man standing beside the bed and try.
ing TO lay down there. She ordered him to
return to his own room, and finally he
went away, but she was so exhausted that
she finally went TO sleep. only to be
aroused by her daughter cries. Again
she found her husband standing beside
the bed, and once more she induced him
10 go back to his own apartment.
Not long afterward, the woman was
once more awakened by hearing q cry
from her daughter, who had gotten mp
from the bed and had run into the kitchen.
The woman followed, and saw blood
streaming from the child's back, while
the man stood close by with a bloody
knife in his hand. While the child was
covering in dread of her father, the latter
graspcd her by the hair, and dropping his
knife and picking up n hatchet which lay
on the floor, began to strike the girl with
that instrument over the shoulders.
Double Murder Was Intended.
The girl struggled frantically, and
finally managed 10 slip from the brutc's
hold and ran down the stairs, across
the courtyard and into the room Of Mrs.
Schneider. Then the wife tried to grasp
che hatchet, but the man held IL aloft
and threatened to kill her too.
Don't kill mel' she cried. While the
man hesitated moment tho woman sue
cceded in snatching the hatchet from his
hands, aud ran with IL out of the room in
the direction her daughter had taken,
screaming "Murdcrl" "Police' at the
top Of her voice
The report Of four pistol shots followed
the woman's cries In rapid succession. II
appears that the man, as soon as he shw
that his wife had fed from his clutches,
took n revolver and fred two shots at her
as she disappeared down tho stairs, but he
missed his aim, and the bullets were EN-.
bcdded In the wars; then returning to the
kitchen, no turned the stih smoking re.
volver toward his head and fired two shots.
Both bullets entered his neck, just below
the chin, and he fell to the floor, and died
In 10 minutes.
phe frightened people recovered suffi.
ciently To summon the police, and the girl
WAS conveyed To hospital. Her night
clothing was covered with blood, which
had flowed from stab wouud In her back
aud from an ugly hatchet cut on her left
shoulder. Tho wound In the back had
been inflicted while tho child was in bed,
and tho point ot the knife was still there
embedded In the flesh. the blade having
broken. This WAS removed by the ambu-
lance surgeon and the other wound was
dressed before the girl was taken to the
hospital. IL is thought that the child
will recover