The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-22
KILLED HIS Wife.
Moreado Made a Keen
Stiletto and Plunged It
In Her Breast.
WOULDN'T LIVE WITH HIM
Angry Mob Pursued the Muir
derer With Cries of
Lynch Him.

Sne was seated AH LIE HiAiSiNSs ASS~ -
Sixth street Hoboken. nursing her infant
child The brutal deed gave rise to an
exciting scene and Morado would have
been killed outright by an angry mop
were it not for the timely intervention of
the police. When taken before captain
Tanning of the Second Precinct, the
prisoner boasted of his crime and said ne
had made the stiletto for the purpose II
had served.
The Morados were married three years
ago and took up a residence in Hopoken.
Mrs. Morado, when she met Morado, was
widow with two children. Agentiana.
nine years old, and Stephen, five
Her union with Morado was unhappy,
fter their first child Alberto was born,
two years ago. Morado was quarrelsome
and abusive and life with him became so
intolerable that she was forced TO
take her children and live with her
mother The latter, Mrs. Rosa Ber-
tano. occupies apartments in the
tenement at No. 405 Adams street.
She is in poor circumstances. Mrs. Morado
supported her children by taking in sew
ing and other light work Morado fire.
quently visited her and tried TO induce her
to begin life over with him. She refused
to nave dnylnlnS 10 uO Will HiAia. liz 1AieNSNN
all kinds of threats and promises.
Mrs. Morado decided to take the chill
iren out for walk yesterday afternoon
Her mother accompanied them. Reach
ing the hillside Mrs. Morado took seat
near tree. The children played with
their grandmother a short distance off.
Morado evidently had followed the par
ty for they had not been seated long when
he approached Mrs. Bertano and asked
her to plead with her daughter to go
back and live with him. She refused.
Morado then went up to his wife and fall
ikg down on his knees implored her to re-
turn home When she said she would not
he grew threatening.
sIf you don't come home with me you
will never put your foot inside another
door, he exclaimed.
"Go and leave me- answered Mrs.
Morado 81 waHt-to- see YOU no more
Without warning he pulled the stiletto
from back pocket and plunged it twice
into his wife's breast. She tried to ward
off the second blow and the knife slashed
her right wrist. The babe she had been
holding in her arms dropped to the ground
bathed in its mothers life blood.
Morado stood gazing at the body for a
moment scream from Mrs. Bertano
startled him and muttering an oath, he
went tearing down the hill.
A freight train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad track was passing. The engi-
neer, seeing the fern of the dying woman
and the fleeing man, footed his whistle.
A number of men playing ball in a nearby
lot took in the situation and started in
pursuit of Morado.
Stephen Barry, a young man living on
Monroe street, overlook Morado before he
had gone far and commanded him to stop.
Morado made suspicious motion at his
hip pocket and Barry, thinking he, was
going to draw a revolver, struck him over
the head with bat. The blow split open
the skull and Morado dropped to the
ground. He was on his feet in an in
stant however, and kept on running until
he was overtaken at Clinton and Sixth
streets by Roundsman Fall and PATROL
man Ryan The latter were only a short
distance off from the scene of the crime
and hurried after the crowd in pursuit of
Morado.
II was well for the murderer that the
police were so near, as he would have
paid for his crime then and there. There
it looked as If the angry mob would tear
the assassin from the poliecemen's care
and string him op on the nearest treee.
Special officer Peter Farley here put in
an appearance and Morado was taken to
the Second Precinct unmofested.
At the station house another wild scene
took place. People swarmed into the
small room and many climed over the
sergeant's desk in eagerness to have their
names taken as witnesses to the crime.
over a score of names were entered by
Sergeant Stanton.
To Captain flaming. Morado said, as
recorded:-.I am glad I killed her. 1t is
good to die. / made the knife just tx
kill foreground, tempered and sharpene6
it from an old file., 1 struck at her foul
times Am 1 to die at once? I nope il
will come soon.''
This was all said in an excited tone ir
broken English, but quite distinct. Mo
rado was taken to a cell. Later on he was
= removed to Police Headquarters.
The crime was committed about one
hundred feet west of the tracks of tht
West Shore Railroad. which is the bound
ary line between Hoboken and jersey
City. The body Of the murdered woman
was taken in charge by coroner don
manns assistant, Henry Erbeck, who wa
driving down the Paterson Plank Road
and witnessed the sad affair He coa
veyed it to the morgue.
The Hoboken authorities notified thu
Jersey City police that the murder wa.
done in their ta.r ory. Captain Wohlle
ben of the Si;g precinct, accompanied
by Detective McNally. came to Ho
boken in the evening and took the pris
oner in charge.
The knife with which the crime wa!
committed is over ten inches long, ths
workmanship crude, but the edge is ,keer
and sharp and tempered to a degres
which makes 1t a most deadly weapon
The police think Morado must have spen
a long time in making it.
The murdered woman was thirty-fvt
years old She had had her husband ar
rested four times. On May he was ar
rested for assaulting Mrs. Bertano anf
fihed s10 Morado the police always re
garded as dangerous man. He is forty
years old. He tried to kill his wife sew
eral times in the past. a Year ago hi
attempted suicide and he was sentenees