The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-05
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SHOT HIS WIFE
Bernard Tague Mortally
Wounds Rose Tague
With an Old Musket.
SAYS SHOOTING WAS ACCIDENTAL
The Woman However
Charges it Was Done
Intentionally.

Bernard Tague, forty years old, u no
28e Gator avenue, shot and mortaH'
rounded his wife, Rose Tagues apou
twelve o'clock Monday night. The Tagu'
family is composed of father, mother am
two sons. Tague is a foreman, employee
at the chemical works, West Bergen. ~
ouarrelled with his wife when he arrived
home from work Monday hight MIS-
Tague became angry and went to tn
house of a neighbor some distance OH
Tague. with the assistance of his sons
prepared supper, after which he loaded
" old muskets with powder and wad'
ding. He amused himself by firing OF
these Anticipated weapons a number o.
times. In the meantime the oldest sol
dressed and went to a picnic.
The father and youngest son sat sal
upon the rear stoop waiting for Mrs
Tague to return. About midnight Tague
saw his wife walk down the rear stooI
and into the yard of the next house. He
Immediately picked up one of the old guns
and fred striking the woman in the back
directly beneath the left shoulder blade
The woman fell to the ground screaming
in agony.
The youngest son, George Tague. rushed
iout Of the yard looking for a policeman.
He found Oficer Miller on the Boulevard
and told him of the shooting.
Miller hurried to the scene of the shoot
ing. In the meantime Tague had in some
manner dragged his wife from his neigh
boris yard to the kitchen of his own
house, and when the officer arrived he
was ~endeavoring 10 lift the wounded
woman to a lounge in the room.
Oficer Miller quickly say that the
woman was dangerously wounded and i'm
meddately telephoned for the patrol
wagon. The woman refused to make a
statement and was sent to the City Hos
pital. Tague was locked up in the Ocean
avenue police station. His son was held
as a witness.
Tague told Captain Nugent that the
shooting was accidental. He said that
the gum was only loaded with powder and
wadding and that he was simply cele-
brating the Fourth of July.
George Tague, who is twelve years old,
said that his father and mother frequent
~ quarreled because of the mothers ex-
cessive fondness for liquor. He said that
they quarreled early in the evening and
that the mother left the house on that
account. He also said that he was with
his father when the shot wal fired and
did not believe that his father meant to
shoot his mother. Captain Nugent, real
izing that the woman was in a dying con-
dition, fastened to the City Hospital to
get her ante-mortem statement. When
asked if she thought she would recover,
she said:-"Yes, I think I will pull
through" When asked who shot her, she
replied:-'My husband shot me and has
often threatened to kill me before"
She said that her husband shot at her
several times last week. The injured
woman had several hemorrhages. which
DR.. Varick said was caused by a portion
of the contents of the gun benig located
in the lung. The condition of the woman
is too serious to admit of an attempt
to probe for the ball. The police have
the two muskets at the station house, one
is several inches shorter than the other.
The woman claims that she was shot with
the short musket. Tague does not appear
to be very %penitent, and it is said that
he fired the gun off after he had rounded
his wife.
The neighbors say that both man and
wife are heavy drinkers and quarrel con-
tinually. A %neighbor said last night Mrs.
Tague had frequently been compelled to
run out of the house, to escape injury
from her household and had repeatedly
slept in the woodshed or in the home Of
some one of the ~neighbors houses.