The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-04
Because of it She Slabs One of Her Own
Sex in Jealousy.

New York, Sept. 3.-The love of one
woman for another and a strange fit Of
jealousy prompted a sensational at
tempt at murder here today. The
would-be murderess escaped and her
intended victim is in the hospital with
her throat cut.
The members of the household of
Nine. Emily La Perruque, fashionable
French milliner, at No. 22I West
Thirty-fourth street, were startled at
o'clock this morning by loud screams
from her room. When they reached
her apartment they found Mary Bieh-
Ter, one Of her servants, hurrying out.
The madame was walking up and down
screaming Historically, while blood
gushed from gashes in her neck, chin
and hands. a moment later Tillie Kipp.
Madame's milliner apprentice, arrived
for the days work, and said she met
the big serving woman by the gate put
ting razor in her pocket.
Nine. La Perruque is an Alsatian.
She is the wife of Edward La Perruque.
chef at the Cafe Savarin. Mary Biehler
was employed by her in a time of sick
ness of her family in Alsace, thirteen
years ago, and that at the close Of that
service Mary, who is a big woman, OF
forty-eight years, induced her to let
her bring her daughter, the dark-haired
and pretty Emily, then fifteen years old,
to Amrica.
Mary acquired a strange affection for
Emily and was jealous of anyone on
whom she lavished attention. They
came to New York and Mile. Emily
Ronniger set herself up in business
she learned in her mothers millinery
establishment. Mary Biehler was her
servant and friend until four years ago,
when mademoselle met N. Edward La
PerrIIque.
Mary conceived a dislike to the ia
nous chef and was very jealous at
times Her influence over the pretty
Alsatian milliner was as potent as
ever, however, and when her lover
wanted to marry they had to elope.
They ran away to Chicago three years
ago and were married there Mary
Biehler was not TO be set aside, and
after a very short honeymoon, NJ. and
Nine. PerruQue Were aStounded one
day when Mary stalked into the house
of Nine. Isler, in Chicago, where they
had taken refuge.
The jealous servant was dressed in
mans attire, but easily recognizable
to her mistress, for Mary frequently
did SO in New York, spending the
night in gambling in one or another
not detected or suspected.
The determined woman brought her
pretty mistress and her husband back
to New York in triumph, and since then
they have lived in the little two-story
white cottage at No. 221 West Thirty
fourth street. But it was not always a
happy household, for Mary had fits of
intense sullenness, and was sometimes
furious In her jealousy, and went about
threatning dire things against unnamed
people.
She slept for three years with two
pistols under her pillow, and when one
night Annie Ziegler, a domestic, asked
in frightened tones what she had fire
arms for. Mary replied grimly:
They're not for you, Annie; never
fear"
Last week Nine. La Perruque began
preparations for a visit to Saratoga
Mary had another fit of sulks. She
kicked the furniture. ratified the pots
and pans, and growled at everybody
and everything.
Then she announced that she was
going back to Alsace to see her 17-year-
old boy, born out of wedlock in the
little state on the border line between
Germany and France. She said she
and Annie Ziegler would sail today. At
Mary always had plenty of money
in a tidy roll, which sometimes she car
ried in her stocking and sometimes in
the bosom Of her gown, but no tickets
We're ever bought for the European
passage.
Annie Ziegler said that last night
Mary told her they'd buy tickets on
the pier.so she didn't know what steam
ship Mary intended to go on.
Madame was asleep when the big
servant entered her chamber and rude
" awakened her by slashing her chin
in an attempt TO cut her throat. Mad
anne arose in hr nightrobe, screamed
and tried to ward off the blows. That
is how her hands were slashed.
Mary Biehler, putting her razor in
her dress pocket. hurried down Thirty
fourth street toward Seventh avenue.
She turned the corner and the big city
swallowed her up. The police are on
the lookout.