Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1896-04-16

MRS. VOID'S STORY.
Void Had Threatrned Her Life Many Times.
Believed He Intended to Kill Her.
eff Can't Live With You No
One Else WILL

"If 1 Can't Live With You No
One Else WILL"
Last week the PIONEER gavo full and
complete story Of the acts of F cederick
Void and also gave an interview with the
prisoner and would-be murderer and
suicide. In the report of Monday nights
affray there were one or two slight
I errors. While it was published as given
to us, it seems there were one or two
wrong meanings. Yesterdays report gave
Mr.. Void's side of the story. This led
reporter Of this paper to call at the house
where Mrs. Void lives with her parents
and learn mere of the sad story connected
with the case.
Mrs. Void was found at the house ON
Church street with her bright 16-months-
, old baby, Starlie Clare Void, on her lap.
| At first she did not care to talk about her
domestic affairs which led to the at
tempted murder, but she finally did.
She said that Void lived with her parents
as a boarder, about three years. That
they became acquainted and he married
her. Soon after he went out West to
| Alton, ILL.,, to work at his trade; he was
glassworker. He sent for his wife to
come out and she went to where he was
at work.
| Everything went along all right for but
little while only and then he began to
abuse her. He would tear her clothes up
aud beat her terribly, threatening to kill
her. For what reason she knew not only
that he was full of liquor most of his
time. He got discharged at Alton for 60
ing on drunk. Mrs. Void then went to
board with her brother, Frank Cant, at
Streator, Ill. Her husband got work in
Streator.
| Void kept up his ill treatment of her
She said one night she was sitting in the
room cracking hickory nuts with a
hatchet when he grabbed it from her and
raised it over her head and with an oath
threatened to brain her. Another night
he came home from work and choked her
until she was black in the face. She
screamed, but all the boarders We're afraid
of him and did not interfere.
! Mrs. Void said she could stand such
work no longer, and wrote home telling
her folks how she was being treated.
Her brother gave her money to come on.
and she slipped away from Streator, un-
known to her husband and came to her
parents home here. 1t was on the 10th
of January when she came home, and
two weeks after she received letter from
her husband tc meet him on the late
train, but she was afraid of him. He
came, but she was not at home, fearing
to meet him. lie left and was not seen
around here any more until Monday
night.
She said that her mother had always
treated him well and it was not so that
her parents were opposed to him. They
had always used him as their own son.
He was madly jealous Of her, and did not
want her out Of his sight. The whole
time he was in the West he was drunk
and abusive to her. He always said if
he could not live with her no one else
should.
II was afraid of him. said Mrs. Void.
II believe he intended to kill baby and
me and then kill himself the night he
came here. Pm satisfied that he intend
! ed to do this. got so / was afraid to be
where he was. That is the reason we did
not live together, not because my parents
were down on him at all. 1t was quite
the reverse. They would do anything
for him if he had only treated me right"
She said her husband was given to
reading novels of various kinds, also all
sorts of stories, and would become in
| fatuated with novel and sit up late at
night reading them, and get her mother
| to read to him. It seemed to be the only
kind of literature he cared for. She said
she believed that reading these and drink
ing so had made him crazy.
On Monday night when her husband
came to the house there were two men
with him. These stood outside the yard.
A horse and buggy stood down the street,
and it is said that these men got Void
in the buggy and drove off out Irving
avenue.
1t is very evident that Void had one or
two companions with him that night, as
woman living on Walnut street, it is
said, heard persons talking in front of
her house before the shooting occurred.
One man said Erred you had better get
out of town." to which he replied: "That's
not my mission; Pm going to kill the old
woman aud Kate, first" and afterwards
he remarked eff l can get the old man
out OF the way I can live with my wife,"
If this was Fred Void who said these
words which were alleged to have been
said, then there is every reason to believe
that he intended to kill his wife on Mon.
day night. Both Mrs. Void and Mrs. Cant
said that he fired five shots in the yard.
Mrs. Cant, in speaking of the matter,
among other things said, that on Monday
night she had premonition that some
thing was going to happen. She said She
told Kate that she should not go out for
she believed Fred was here and had he
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