The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-11
RAAB'S WIFE MADE HAPPY,
He COMMITTED SUICIDE JESTER
DAY AT JAMAICA.

The Event Celebrated by nia widow. Hsp
Daughter. and Her son in-L in the saloea
OF tho Lnttcr-Thcy Hire n urass Hand ana
Treat All the NciEhbors 10 Music and Beer.
Jacob Raab, a book ngent, who lived In the
rear OF 172 Graham avenue, Brooklyn. waa
found doad on Cedar Hill, near the village
reservoir at Jamaica, l.. l., yesterday after.
noon, by Alexander Hortcnstein. His left
hand clutched a revolver. and in tho right
side OF his hcad. near the car, WINS q bullet
wound. In.one OF his pockets was found q note
in German, which was translated as follows:
Tho last legacy Of an unfortunate man.
driven to death by n devilish wife. II some kind
man finds me give me a decent burial. 1 have
an insurance policy for $115 with tho
Hancock Insurance Company, corner Of Broad
way and Boerum street. A demon has the
papers. This nend in human shape calls hor-
self nv wife. l call upon the police and
municipal authorities to see that this woman
does not como near my dead body. To
identify for the insurance. sec Mr.. Gottlieb
Keck, who has lately been the collector Of the
Hancock Insurance Company, or else the Presi-
dent Of tho German Lieherkranz. Joun Hummill
of Grand street, Brooklyn. between Graham
avenue and Even street. I bid farewell 70 all
my friends and acquaintance.
JACOB RAAB,1 72 Graham avenue, Brooklyu,p
Coroner Mutt was notified and no sent word to
al. tho addresses in Raab's note. When Mrs.
Raab received word that her husband had COM
mitted suicide, so she said last night. she leaped
for Joy. She declared that her husband was a ne'sr-
do-well, and was continually beating her black
and blue. She said she received bestings from
him as regularly as she received her meals.
During the winter. she said. her husband man
aged to get around and earn something toward
supporting the household, but when the hot
weather came around. he gave up work and made
her go around among her friends and neigh
bors and borrow money 10 keep him in food and
drink. When she failed to supply him with money
no beat her. She said that she was o widow,
named Hoffman,, when she married RAab In
1889. He was q widower. and had seven chill
dren in Germany. After they were married
they went to live in Jersey City. She says that
almost from the beginning of their married life
Raab began TO treat her cruelty. He drank. and
when he would come home drunk at night would
beat her before they went to bed. After living
some time in Jersey City they returned 10 VIII
Recently. when tho national saengerfest was
go there. She said shc did not have the money,
and he struck and kicked her. and threatened her
sether, which she gave him. He started OF Tor tho
saengerfest, and when he returned it was plain
in, she says. to beat her worse than ever. he
left home 9 week ago Yesterday; As soon as
she carried it to the saloon Of her son.in-law, Z
German named Theobald scheeffer. who keepe
Even ni0S Street. ao'0 'wi ii alanTln sc fssfss M 1aa
also overioyed. The frat thing he did
sSs house 90 set sad Up l5v,ts see otho TO ss ev sSs SiSinl II
to come in and help him rejoice. Then he turned
s brat. sal tss s ,niS g q Rflasfs s 81 'o Tbs Sssp tS ss,s.
served by Mrs.. Raab's daughter. while Theobald
aslapPed BIZ e guests on tho back and told them 70
nm, NE { sei ii ssass.S vas s.on not I ,Ss y6, ssSSsss ,ss
Il and R0f m hraQR hand Mira Ranh aat In thA IA
loon with the m~errymskers. The band began to
play al 3 o'clock 10 the afternoon and kept on
WEIGH the merrymakers Joined with their voices.
and free. She said that she would SuiS no longer
have to submit! to %beatinss from RhSb. and r. i.
that RaaS made her b Borrow oSI' money every
sometimes to leave her home for fear OF meeting
some of the peishbors to whom she owed money
ysisntipsss Miller. % for tho rent q a,,t sh &.
moneo that Rasb took to go to, the sanserfest in
Philadelphia. Last Monday Mrs. Raab says she
Raab after he had left home that her husband
intended to kill her on sight,
Soon after this she received a note from him
asking her to meet him at the corner. of Grand
street ana Graham avenue. In view of what abe
S Md. R sssR d tSlh by not The to f tr,snd lie p spEoist.
mept; She had somebody there and her witness
tolG her tnat itaao was waiting 70 meet nSf
have anything to do with the body, and
would not make any special effort to collect the
10 insure Raab. and she did not care whether
she got IT back OF not. She said she was glad 70
get rid OF him at any cost. Schaeffer was still
in a jolly mood last night when a Sun reporter
raw him. He snid
This is tho happicst day Of my lie. This 10
my good motherin law: ny very good mother
in.lRw. She is a good woman, and il WAS Raab
who was the fcnd, and not she. He was no
good. He wasn't worth powder to blow him to
he'll. The best thing in his life that he ever did
was to Kill himself"
I'm glad he's gone, I'll not get any moro
b%catings." interrupted Mrs. Raab.
That's right, mother, you will not get any
more bcatiugs from him" said Schacffcr. They
continued 10 celebrate. Mrs. Raab is 81 years
old.