New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-02
GODD EIDDINCE To 4 BRUTE.
4 BRI-NEEN HUSBAND AND FATHER SHOUTS
HIMSELF AFTER THREATENING TO
MURDER HIS FAMILY.


MURDER HIS FAMILY.
ro,c lack q German baker who lived on the top
. .r ~ ,he t4romert-hJrse No SIS East Eleventh.
st. out an end to his life. and to the misery IN
which he has kept his wife and children Tor the
last twelve years. 10y shooting himself n me risnt
temple yesterday afternoon with a revolver IN MS
bedroom 80 FAR as could be learned. there was
no person In the ienement-house who was sorry
for the suicide. All the neighbours knew him az
o., brute" and one and all expressed satisfaction
that his wife ard her children were rid Of their
prosecutions
His wife ls a slight. faded woman Of thirty-hVe'
who once had been pretty Her eldest hoy. Caare'
e twelve and there two other chiliren' FOR
eight years they have shared with her long course
- persistent III treatment from the man they
called fathc- and several times. so the ne'hHoo's
say only interference from the outside mas sa'eu
,h.rn from being murdered by him during one oi
,h. periods In which he was drinking hinsel INTO
the state OF Insanity which resulted yesterday IN
his suicide
Tire. months ago JacK stopped working at the
bakery in which he had been employed and sent his
wife out living for the family she went
uncompalningly and did washing ana scrnoohs'
Her husband waited for her until she came home
each evening and then beat her until she gave up 10
him hall Of the money she had earned when e
had got 1t he went out and spent II in the neares;
barroom and when 1t was spent returned home 20
walt for more.
H. began the last day OF the old year hy oiachihs
his wife's eye because she refused to give him the
money she had saved for the chltrens breakiast
to spend liquor Then he went out ana was no.
seen again until ne returned at a. m on NV
Years morning drunk lie staggered IN dno. havie
awakened her out OF sleep pointed reVoNef At
her head. 1880. =, -, ..h,o,usa
you vii feel am going TO Xii you ana
the children. too -, 49,, ..
sleep |, WAS dlnreI-time when ne dwoke dla ~
proceeded to repeat hts threats. boasting tnat ne
was going to die with his boots on Ike MS father
who was Killed by a landslide IN Germany. Ai.eI
A while ne tore or his w!fe.s skirt ana Wis anI
tried dra; her into the he room Dut SUI sil
the two Youngest children fed screaming DOWN
stairs and took refuge with nelghDOT;
Jack remained behind with his son. lie Sent 'he
boz ont for a GROWER II beef teiinS MN u,
hang up the barro0in keeper fjr the money un'l,
he could make his mother pay Tor H. On ms "ay
downstairs, however the boy Wa stoplcd oy ms
mother and detained They stayed trembling DOWN
stairs until cvenino when. etr.ng 70 SCUM! from
their rooms upstairs, and finding the door locked
charlie went up By TIC hre-"scape 10 try ana Sc
cure his mothers clothfnE IT., -
lie returned saying that his father MAS y, ie or,
the floor ~ the bedroom with two bnlet,ho,es ~
Ms head and a revolver by his side. lie had dra
as ne had promlsci--wth his boots on .
Mrs Jack fainfed al the news % her nuspahu 5
death Jack was "A member of various henent So
c,etes and social lodges holding meetings IN me
u.,ghhorhoOi and of these, II is eNpcc1ei' VIII
provide the funds 10, the burial