New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-22
WIFE'S DEFENDERS SHOT.
. BRrTAL HUSBAND KILLS ONE MAN
AND WOUNDS TWO OTHERS.
WERE PROTECTING THE WOMAN FROM CRUEL
TREATMENT AND WE'RE ATTACKED BY



THE ENRAGED HUSBAND
Inward Bender OF No. &c Manhattan-st who has
,.en separated from his wife FOR year. went 20
her home. at No 2,cS4 Second-ave yesterday morn
,rz and abused her until young men went 10
hs- aid. when he shot both OF them and police
nan Richard Bennett. nineteen years Old. OF No.
Is Nanhattan-st was shot in the forehead and died
soon after reaching the Harlem Hospital. Police
man Daniel DriscoN. OF the East Northumberland
,ventv-sixth-st. station. received a slight bullet
wound in the breast. and Henry Dagger twenty
years Old OF No. 5os West Observation-Disclosures
e.th-st. one in the right Bender was arrest
% BY other policemen and locked up in the East
One-hun1red- and-twenty-six station
Dare- and Bennett companions Of Mrs Rem
ssr.s eldest son. Henry. seventeen years old. She
hes five other children. TIE woman has been
..-ail OF her husband. who abused her frequently.
ard she asked the Bennett and Daeer boys 10 re-
main with Henry last might. she feared that
her husband would call 10 see her. Bender went
n the house at II o'clock at night and abused his
,r,te as usual She made the boys remain quiet
,o- the sake of peace. and Bender went away At
q o'clock yesterday morning he returned. however
ard abused hts wife again. He went away. and
,e.urnei again at o'clock. Mrs Bender was Nv
.ha, time much afraid that she hid and whom
Render could not find her he drew revolver and
6sroarded 10 know from the boys what had become
o, his wife. Without waiting for an answer he
then began shooting.
Render fred two shots at Bennett. who was stand
,-e only a few feet away and both bullets struck
him one in the upper part Of the forehead the
,.her over the right eye. Bennett fell 10 the floor
.sn dead. Then Bender fred three times at Dagger,
Who doged about the room. and managed TO escape
ZACH O. the bullets lie dashed out OF the room
after the third shot and into the street. Just then
Policeman Driscou rushed in. Bender waited for
him at the top Of the stairs and fred point hianN
81 the Officer The bullet struck him N the breast
The policeman staggered but recovered from ne
shock and dashed up the stairs. DaEer had oeen
the policeman ran at the infatuated Bender. ne
fred one shot more. an DaGer was hi in the rsAt
arm He fought but In a FEW minutes NOR
IRE three men were holding him down the man
yai.lv irving 20 FIRE the empty revolver. MS
Bender was In her room terrified
Several policemen who had heard the shootlnE gan
,r.o the house. the terrified tenants OF when ma
NOT dared 10 leave their rooms. Bender was car
r,es out Of the house and patrol wagon sum
-no1e5 as well as an ambulance from the Harlem
HOSPITAL in which the three wounded men Yer"
removed. The policemans wound was mcreE a
81 ch. abrasion Of skin. his thick uniform having
stopDed the bullet. Bennett died Immediately AFTER
Re5der was arraigned in the Harlem Police Court
later In the day. He told Magistrate Omsted that
ne had done the shooting in selt-oefence; he vas
cautioned - say nothing until he had pToclrei
counsel and he was then held for the Grand jury
~ the two charges OF feo',ous assault or pager
ana Driscor ne was held in 500 ball me poHce
saw that Bender IS a policy writer. but he says he
has business