The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-16
SAID HE CUT UP HIS WIFE.
THE POLICE AT LAST TAKE NOTICE
OF MARTIN TICTOR'S STORI.
Mrs. Victor Has Been Missing Since Sep
tember and Her Husband Has Repeat
eddy Told Her Relatives That He MUIR
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Mrs. Victor Has Been Missing since Sep
tember and Her Husband Has Repeat
eddy Told Her Relatives That He Muir.
dered Her-Now Says He Was Joking.
Martin Victor. 10 years old, OF 642 East Ninth
street. was held without bail in the Yorkville
Police Court yesterday on n charge OF being
concerned in the disappearance OF his wife.
who has been missing since last September.
His examination will take place tomorrow.
Detective Sergeant Barrett Of Police Head
quarters made affidavit charging the prisoner
with homicide. Tho charge is based on in
formation that the young man had told Mrs.
Matilda Cohen. mother of the missing woman.
that he had cut up his wife and buried her.
The detective asked Magistrate Wentworth
for time to ascertain whether the missing
woman was really dead. and II dead. the cause
OF her death.
Victor and Sadie Cohen. II years old. were
married at the City Hall on Jan. - Of last year
by Alderman Oatman. The young womun's
parents live at q West street. Hoboken. Her
father runs a shirt factory in Newark. Sadie
spent much OF the time both before and after
her marriage with her married sister. Mrs.
Emma Froelich OF 800 East sixteenth street.
this city. She and her husband did not take
up housekeeping. but continued to meet at the
home OF her sister.
Shortly after the blowing up Of the Maine
Victor enlisted in tho navy and was assigned
to the ram katahdin as n coal passer. He was
discharged on account of sickness in Boston on
July 4. and returned to Now York. He called
to sec his wife occasionally. and on tho evening
before Yom kippur. the Jewish New Year. in
the latter part Of September. he sent a messen-
ger to the house OF Mrs. Froelich. asking his
wife to meet him around the corner. She sent
word by the messenger that she would do so,
and telling her sister that sho would be back
In a few hours she loft the house. Since then
When we asked Martin where Sadie was"
said Mrs: Froelich in court yesterday he said
she was in a good place and we couldn't see her.
we didn make any complaint to the police, as
We thought we might be able to find her; We
months ago he told us he was another Martin
Thorn and had cut up. his wife and buried her.
week. When he called at the house > and told my
mother and me that we would mover see Sadie
agaa a IS he had pqt her away" ..uo,.
ened to do her harm. He would nun out a re-
yolyer and a razor. she said. and placing them
careful what she said about him. She declared
that while out walking with his wife one night
gave gas! f i To Bis WIFE, IL G teIIfns + he S" * f ia eG Il fSr f Hsr
health; There was q label viii the word Poi.
Froelich had the box with her in court.
She and her mother went to Police Head
tive Sergeants. Barrett and Murphy arrested
Victor that night. In his pockets were a 81
calibre revolver. q razor and a pair of wire cut
ters,, He. said that he. was a shipping clerk
tursrs at Elm and Houston streets. and that he
had concocted the stories about numbering his
wife merely to brighten his mother-in law.
Il don't know whore my vito is he went
on. IL have not seen her since that night be-
fore Yom Kippur when l met her. ! don't
know were she wentto. but / shouldn't wonder
IL she was found In some east side cafe. When
she disappeared, my mother-in-law said to me;
Maybe you cut her up like Martin Thorn |
said. Maybe I did and maybe / didn't. l
wouldn't have said that il I'd known what a fix
II was going to get mo into. | was only trying
to give them q scare, last week when | told
them I had buried Sadie