New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-07
SHOT WIFE AND HIMSELF.
MRS. ROSE INSTANTLY KILLED-HUS-
BAND DIES FROM HIS WOUND.
HE HAD THREATENED THE wOMAN's LIFE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES HIS WAY
INTO HER HOME

HE HAD THREATENED THE WONIAN'S LIFE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES HIS WAY
INTO HER HOME.
After shooting his wife dead with three bullets
yesterday afternoon Philip w Rose fired a bullet
into his temple. infiictiug a wound from which
he died late last night. He went to her fathers
home, at No. 2S4 LenOx-ave,, where she had been
living since she separated from him. in July last
and after pointing pistol at his father-in-Iaw
intimidating him, rushed to another room and
killed his wife and then attempted suicide He
is in the Harlem Hospital
The woman Rebecca Rose, daughter of
Nathan Rose. She and her husband were first
cousins. She was thirty-two years old. They
had boy. five years DID, named Paul. who
lived with the mother. Rose was a salesman.
He had prospered before their marriage. six
years ago, and for a couple of years afterward
but then he became insane and he spent some
time in asylum at Jacksonville. Ill Then he
came to New-York. He and his wife separated
in July He out of work, and the woman's
father says Rose did not support his wife.
The elder Mr.. Rose who is nearly seventy
years old, said that Rose used to write threat
ening letters to his wife, saying he would kill
her if she did not live with him. The letters be-
came so frequent that the father says he burned
them and would not let his daughter read them.
went into the street fearing he might njure her,
Mrs. Rose and her father were sitting in the
front room at o'clock yesterday The boy
out. a knock heard at the door. and Mrs.
Rose said she thought it the baker. for
whom they were waiting, and her father opened
the door. 1t was Rose. The woman shrieked
and cried
oh my God. father! It's Philip
Rose pushed the door aside and tried to brush
past the father as the wife rushed into the
kitchen. The old man stood his ground and
grappled with him, attempting TO force him
out through the doorway, but the younger
quickly drew a revolver. Old Mr.. Rose said he
dared not attempt TO restrain the man further,
and Rose turned and went back toward the
kitchen, while the old into the street.
The old man hurried to the corner of One
hundred and-twenty y-ffth-st. and Lenox-ave.,
where he met Policeman Herrlich, or the East
e-hundred- -and-twenty- -sixth-st. station. He
could not tell what was the matter because or
his intense excitement, and he grasped Herrltch
by the coat and pointed 10 the tiathouse. Herr
Itch followed the old man. but they were too late.
The woman in the kitchen. There was
bullet in the right temple, another in the left
jaw and third in her breast. She was dead
Rose was in the next room with a bullet IN
his head fired into the right temple. His clothes
were covered with blood. and they were disar-
ranged. showing that the woman had rushed al
him when he first fired Rose was unconscious,
and Herrlich sent q hurry call for an ambulance
One soon arrived with DIR. Blackmar. who hur-
ried Rose back to the hospital.
The father-in-law greatly excited about
the killing of his daughter ard the attempted
self murder OF his sOn-in-aw. He declared at
first that he thought Rose had been seized with
a fit of insanity. but he said later that the young
man was apparently rational and sober
A. w. Rose. brother OF the murdered woman
met Rose in a saloon about a month ago and
which he declared he was going 10 Kill his wife.