New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-30
A HUSBANDS DOUBLE CRIME.
JOHN 4. BROWN WOUNDS HIS YOUNG
WIFE AND KILLS HIMSELF.

SHE HAD FLED TO HER FATHERS HOME IN fHllA-
DEIpHrA HEcArsE OF BROWNS ILL-TREAT-
MENT AND NEGLECT. AND HAD RE
FUSED To LIVE WITH HIM AGAIN
THE BABY EEscrED FROM
IT'S FATHERS FURY.
Philadelphia. March 29-JOhn \. Brown. thirty
one years old. . salesman for James Talcott. the
woollen merchant, Of Frank.in-st.. New-fork this
evening brought t. 2 elimination four years of
abuse and persecution ot his young wife b.
shooting her through the throat at the home Of
hor father No 800 South For'y-second-st, and
then sending three bullets through his ovn head
killing himself almost instantly. Mrs Browns
wound is serious but 1t ia no: thought that it
will hc fatal -Four yeGrs a"o, when sne was
Miss bertha Tiobcrt and only twenty years Of
age. IN spite OF the opposition OF her family sh"
married the man who today attempted 10 Xii!
hor Mrs. Browns f. athcr is retired iron manu-
facturer and wealthy, and Brown was never in
= position to support the girl he made his wife
IN the manner in which she had been accustomed
to live.
on the very day Of their marriage Brown beat
and abused his newly welded wife In the past
four years he went from bad to worse. abused
his wife frequently Il, < to drinking and made
little effort to support her. Mrs. Brown left her
husband several times but as a child was born
to them about two years ago. that formed bond
II union between them. Some months ago Mrs
Brown left her husband with the avowed inten-
ton Of uc.or returning to him unless he made a
decided reformation. and taking her child went
L, live with her father at the house where she
was shot to-day. Browns abuse did not end with
his wife. but. Mr.. Llebert asserts two years
in nj 1r,fp pI In
pc only saved his He by wrestling revolver
from him
Brown came here this morning from Asbury
Park where his two sisters live. He called at
Mr. Iiebcrts about noon ard asked L see his
father-in-iaw Mr.. Liob"rt refused u see him,
and Brown then asked for his wife. When told
that she vas out h" asked permission t. see his
child This was granted. and while he was talk
ing and PLAYING with his baby his wife came
home. She went into the rccept!on-rcom where
Brown was and necessarily greeted him. When
lun cheon WAS served Mrs. Brown went To- the
table but nor husband was not asked to Do 50.
Mrs Browns father warned her against return
ing t. the room where her husband was. but
nevertheless she went back 10 the reception
room
ABOUT o'clock. as M!ss Licbert n sister Of Mrs
Brown and Miss Stockton were deecondlng the
stairs they heard Brown ask his wife - return
Q, 1--we with him. Mrs Brown was sat"d upon
~" Z aofa ~ he tim, and her husband
was standing before her. She answered that snc
would never return 40 him unless ne ceased
drinking and could make Z living for nor and her
.hui Upon tA!s Brown drcw revolver His
VII. irstin.t.vciy threw down her head. mo
movement probably saving her ne f1r the bullet
which he- husband fired At hor. instead = s'9ik-
ing hrv go ihc head. entered he back ut tn" neck
pad through and came oIt az her throat
Brown Ard again. hut missed and then hts wife
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