The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-27
SHOT THE GIRL HE LoVED.
Nliss Lizsie IIumphries HAD Refused Jobn
Hnllida, ,s Hand.

Miss Lizzie Humphreys. 20 years old, who
DO Irded with her sister at 30 Harrison ave-
nue., williamsburg, was shot last night by
John Hallonbeck. a clerk in tho Singer
Sewing Machine Company. The shoot
ing occurred at Hallenbeck's home,
ON the third floor Of 159 Broadway, Williams.
burg. Hallenbeck was locked up In the Bedford
avenue police station. Miss Humphreys WAS
taken to st. GATHERINGS Hospital, where she was
reported as being in q critical condition at mid.
night.
Miss Humphreys parents 1.-Two at stapleton,
Staten Island. She lived there until . few
months ago, when she got work as q lacemRkor
in Park avenue. Brooklyn. Then she went to
board with her sister, Mrs. Amelia Otto, at
the latters homo in Harrison avenue. Sho
made many acquaintance in Williamsburg.
Among them were the Hallcnbeck girls, May,
Julie, and Nellie. May introduced Miss Hum.
phreys TO her brother John. He became infatu-
ated with her, lie wrote to her. She did not
answer his letters. When he called at her homo
she refused to 500 him. He would walt at his
own home expecting her to call there to SEQ his
sisters. He sent her presents. She sent them
back.
His mother noticed that he was growing
nervous and consulted DR.. Sanford OF briggs
avenue and South Fifth street. Tho physician
advised Mrs. Hallenbeck to send the young man
to q sanitarium. Mrs. Hallenbeck said she
could not afford 10. John was % years old, she
said, and helped support the family. She talked
TO her son about his foolish love affair, as she
called It, and advised him to forget Lizzie. She
even told him that the girl loved some one else.
This aroused the young mans jealousy. He
said he knew Lizzie loved him. but did not want
to show her love before May and the other girls.
Finally Mrs. HallenbecE talkei the matter
over with Miss Humphreys, and requested the
young woman to keep away from the Hallen-
beck home. Misc Humphreys did not obey the
request. She continued to call and John con-
tinued to make himself dlsagreeablo,
AT 8 o'clock yesterday, evening, Miss Hum.
phreys went to tho Hallenbeck house. John
answered tho bell, greeted the young woman
pleasantly, said his sister May was with Otto
Ruse in the rear parlor, and that Miss Hum.
phreys and himself might 60 into the front
parlor.
Miss Humphreys went into the room with
him and they talked together for over two hours.
Shortly before IL o'clock AS Miss Humphreys
got up to go home Hallenbeck followed her into
the hall and fired three shots at her.
The young man who was in the rear room ran
q pistol in his hand pointing Il at himself. Miss
Humphreys lay upon tho floor in a pool of
blood. Hallenbeck had shot her in tho right
breast and in the right arm.
he could shoot himself. Hallenbeck then ran to
the first window and was about to Jump out.
when his mother and his sisters held him.
Henry SChmakenberg, a confectioner on the
ground floor of the house.. told Policeman
O'Connor Of the shooting. Hc went into the
mans mother. who had b, on holding, him,
tainted. Hallenbeck denied that he had shot
Miss Humphreys. She refused to accuse Hallen'
beck OF the shooting.