New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-16
DOUBLE MURDER TRIED.
A WOMAN AND A MAN HELPING HER
HOME SHOT BY A JEALOUS SAILOR.
BOTH VICTIMS HAVE A POOR CHANCE FOR LIFE
THE wOrLD-BE MURDERER CAPTURED
AFTER FRrrrLEss ATTEMPT

AFTER A FRCIrLEsS ATTEMPT
AT SUICIDE
John ~ Petersen whlc in jealous rare. sho;
Mrs Leonora Martha Faukner--with whom he
was living at her home. No. sos schermerhorn-st.
Brooklyn-twice IN the head. once In the neck and
in tho thigh, yesterday afternoon ana also
probably mortally wounded alleged innocent
man. Henry Pole an artist. Of No. 2t@ court-st.
Brooklyn. Both Mrs. Faulkner and Pole are In tho
Scney Hospital Neither enc has made any state
ment to the authorities. Mrs. Faulkner was un-
conscious last night but Pole was conscious. and
had a short conversation with his wife. who re-
manned at the hospital most OF the night
Mrs Faulkner wro owned the house n, No. 800
Schermerhorn-st. where the shooting occurred had
sheltered Petersen. who Is the captain OF dredg-
ing boat for some time He would not talk much
about the affair last night When asked why he
had done the shooting. he answered: This woman
has not been treating right. ! have had sus-
piclons that she was receiving other men. On
Monday night went to Manhattan and got drunk.
Before I came home bought revolver and fifty
cartridges in Whtehall-st. When got home.
about o'clock in the morning. I went to bed.
When woke up at / O'Clock. the woman was
gone. I dressed and went down stairs From the
window / saw her coming back with man.
waited until she came to the basement door and
shot her. That's all"
The neighborhood in Schermerhorn-st. between
Bond and Nevins SITS. thrown into great exc
element Just at o'clock yesterday afternoon by
the first pistol-shot. 1t was followed In moment
by several more. Policemen OConnor and Inter
mark found a lying In the areaway before
the basement door with bullet wound in his
neck. When they started 10 so upstairs Petersen
challenged them. He at the head Of the stairs
with big revolver
Get out Of here"' he exclaimed. II don't want
to see you This is my own affair" The police
IN ST ed n 20 IN hu heav a second
warning Halt or I'll blow your brains out"' de-
cided to strategy
Detectives Mccormack and Murphy. who had fol-
lowed the policemen. forced open a window on the
parlor floor and rushed into the hall Petersen was
still threatening Policeman Untermark with his
pistol. The woman lying unconscious in pool
OF blood behind the front door, where she had evil
IDENTIFY run In her effort to escape When Peterson
saw the detectives running al him no pointed the
pistol at his own head and fired The bullet grazed
ried TO the Adams-st. police station. where he was
locked up on the charge of assault In the first de-
gree.
Sherwood the ambulance surgeon. after a hurried
examination. FASTENED to get Mrs Faulkner and
On investigation the detectives found that Peter
sen had evidently loaded his revolver a second
fired His fusiilade was stopped by the arrival OF
the policeman. A pile OF thirty cartridges thrown
probab bly, from the mans pocket was found beside
the PROSTATE woman. Ct.
Mrs. Faulkner is about forty five years ola she
Gao where he has charge Of a sugar plantation
Mrs Faulkner went to the Bondst. ONCE OF the
Continental Electrical Company. where her son
formerly worked. yesterday. and said she had been
locked out of her house AS she was drunk and
became abusive she put out. AT Bond and
Schermerhorn SITS she met Pole. and asked him 20
help her home. Apparently he did not know the
woman more than casually but sympatheucaiiy
consented TO help her
Last November Mrs. Faulkner brought suit In
dollars gr from the estate Of Henry ! sharma3 for
alleged services during a ,Ong period. The Court
gave Mrs. Faulkner $3.50 Her husband. VINO Is
sea captain IS said to have left her five years ago
Pole the injured man, bears an excellent char
acter His wife utterly overcome when she
heard that he had been hurt. and told a reporter
that he had only left her two hours before. she
declared that he could not have known the woman
who shot with him.