The St. Louis Republic., 1900-06-25
Not Vine. but a Razor, Slashed
His Throat as He
Slept.
HIS WIFE USED THE WEAPON.
Then Tried To Take Her Own Life
of High Staten in Rou-
mania. but Lowly Here,
and Weary.

/ REPUBLIC SPECIAL
| New York. June 2i.-While Adolph Wolfe
! WIS taking a nap couch In a little
room back of his queer little store at No.
402 East Fifteenth street, just after the noon
| hour to-day. he dreamed he was chased by
| fierce robbers in the mountains of his native
| RoumaDia. He ran for his life. and the ban
| dts followed. lie came TO the edge of a
! precipice and attempted to leap across a
| chasm, but missed his footing and fell He
WAS whirling down into the abyss when he
| caught his chin a vine that stretched
| across. The vine sawed his neck as he hung
| there. until he could feel-to his intense
horror-the warm blood come.
| Wolfe awoke with start, and discovered
| there was substance in the dream.
His wife had cut his throat with razor
| while he slept and was standing over him.
holding the weapon.
! Wolfe sprang up and ran into the street.
| The appearance Of the man in his shirt
/ sleeves, and wildly gesticulating and
screaming for help. created great excite
ment in the ne!ghborhood. Among those who
| ian to the scene was Policeman Oppeit.
My wife has killed me- cried Wolfe.
| Oppelt, followed by Wolfe, ran into the
| rooms where the assault upon the sleeping
man had been committed. Wolfe's wife was
found lying on the sofa her husband had
just vacated Her throat. too was siashed
with the razor. She was still conscious and
| admitted she had tried to kill her husband
and had then attempted to take her own
life.
Cause of the Act.
The policeman kept the crowds away and
called an ambulance from Bellevue. Sur
geons Christian and Nass hastily dressed
the wounds of Wolfe and hia wife, and then
took the two To the hospital Wolfe was
allowed to go when II was found he was not
seriously hurt The woman. who, the sur
geoDs say, will not die. unless blood poison
| ing sets in was held III the prison ward.
Wolfe said his wife had been worrying
over news from ROumania that her father
and mother were i'll.
she could think of nothing else said
| Wolfe, "and her blood went to her head"
She was especially worried after receiv-
! ing a letter four days ago. She insisted
that Wolfe should sell out the store. which
is filled with miscellaneous collection Of
| secondhand hardware and clothing. and
| start at once for home.
Amt / trying TO sell out? That's what
| Why I'm in busness-to sell out" Wolfe
| said he explained 10 his wife.
Evidently she was not satisfied with This
assurance. for she tried to kill him with
! one of the secondhand razors in the stock
/ one Of the articles she had been particular
| ly dssirous TO have him sell.
| 4 Previous Experience.
| II Is not much more than year since
| Mrs. Wolfe was picked up unconscious on
the sidewalk in front Of the store one rainy
| afternoon II was believed at the time that
1 she threw herself out of the window OF
| the floor above. II was also said that she
! fell out while washing windows-some-
| thing not often done on rainy days. Mrs.
| Wolfe herself said on her recovery that she
| did not know what had happened. She was
| in Bellevue for month or more after the
| accident. Wolfe gave up the rooms where
! lis wife had gone through the window and
| afterwards they lived back of the store.
Adolph Wolfe Is IS years old and his
| wife a. They We're married In Roumania
and came to this country eight years ago.
| They have no children. According to the
| neighbors Mrs. Wolfe comes Of an ex-
celIent family. They say that she was
worried a great deal because of her lowly
| station here. Policeman Oppelt reported
| that the woman tried to kill her husband
/ and herself because they were out OF
money and had not even a crust OF bread
! IN the house. Wolfe says this IS not true
| and declares that his wife on Saturday
night had laid in a stock of provisions for
| the Sunday dinner. which, however, was
not cooked.