The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-04

A DAY OF BLOOD.
Two Terrible Crimes Com
mitted in New York
This Morning.
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED
A Jealous Blacksmith Fatally
Wounds His Wife and
Kills Himself.
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED

Two horrible crimes were committed
In New York this morning: one was
murder and of a mysterious kind and the
other in an probability will end IN mar-
der. The first crime was the discovery
of the body of a young woman, Annie
Book, at her home, No. 27 East twenty
first street. Some women entered the
woman's rooms at seven o'clock and
found her throat cut from ear to ear
and her breast and neck lacerated with
a knife. She was lying partly on the
bed and PANTY on the floor, with her eyes
wide open and staring at the ceiling
Her face wore a look of terror.
From the appearances of the room
athere must have been a terrible struggle
Blood was everywhere n on the wash
stand stood a basin partly flied with
bloody water, where the murderer had
washed his hands.
Her husband was Jacob Book, recently
employed al kRockaway Beach. from
whence Mrs. Book returned yesterday.
Then she went out on the street. as
was her custom. She returned about
11.so O'clock with a man whom she had
met on the street. She went to her nat
on the second floor, back. and from that
time until early this morning nothing
was heard from her. The family living
Immediately above the murdered wo-
mans apartments say they were awaken.
ed early this morning by the sounds. OF
a quarrel and that that they heard a
womar,s voice saying in pleading tones;
Don't; oh, don'tpp Then there was
silence for a minute or so and once more
came the voice pleadlng; .Dohat, IN IN.
a silence which was not broken again.
The woman had a servant named Reisn-
man, and it was this servant VINO round
her mistress murdered this morning.
The police of the Twenty-second street
station took the servant into custody,
and will allow no one to see her. About
noon the usban Jacob Book, arrived at
the house. He knew nothing of the
woman's companion, whom the police are
NOW looking up.
While the police and the neighoors were
all excitement not very far away another
blaeksinith. of No. IS sullivan street,
had fatally wounded his wife and then
Lomeo. his wife and a daughter Mile
lived very comfortably in furnished apart
ments. but the couple have not had a
why they quarreled. Some said that 1t
was because of the girl Mile, who would
never call Lomeo her father.
morning. when Lomeo dressed himself
in his Sunday clothes, a grey suit, russell
boots and a Lavender tie. Then he bought
a revolver for $1.25 and ten cartridges.
He went into a BARRIERS shop to be shaved
and remarked to the barber after the
operation, '.Thi is my last shave" Then
he went home.
Mrs. Lomeo had just made up the
beds when her husband entered the room,
locking the doo behind him. Pulling
out his revolver he fired three times at
his wife. One bullet struck her face and
another on the back of the neck.
Then the italian put the revolver to his
own hea and fired. Death was instan-
taneous. The firing attracted a crowd
and finally a policeman burst in the
doors. Mrs. Philomena Lomeo was re-
moved in a critical condition to st.
Vincent's Hospital. The child was un-
hurt.
Lomeo was of a jealous disposition and
not popular in the neighborhood.