The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-01-01
SLAIN BY HIS MISTRESS.
BROOKIYN RESTAURANT KEEPER sBOT
DEAD ~ ms BEDROOM.
Deses and The woman Had Gone Upstairs To-
sether In the Early Morning Fonnd
Later with Three Ballet Holes In Ills Head
woman Gaught Pleads self Defence.

George Deges. a Greek, about ~ years OF
age. who kept a restaurant at 1871 Washington
street. Brooklyn. was Killed by hs mistress
some time early YESTERDAY morning
In his sleeping apartment. an upstairs
rear room In the building ia which was
his place OF business. Nn employee of
Deges. Antonio ,lspardi. discovered the
deed. After trying repeatedly to awaken
DeRes by knocking. Cispardl burst In the
door and found his employer dead on tho
floor. Three shots had been fred by tho
woman. all Of which took effect in the head
The injuries from two OF the bullets were
comparatively trivial. but the third and EVIL
IDENTIFY the last shot penetrated the skull
under the left ear, producing q wound that
probably was almost instantly fattl.
Deges's companion In the bookkeeping
part OF tho little restaurant building was a
woman named Mary Ettell Several months
ago, as the result " q series OF violent quar-
relS with Deges. the Ertell woman made an
attempt to throw acid In his face and was
arrested. but subsequently released,
The neighbors say that Desc~ aud the
woman lived a cat-and-dog M" Of IL ut all
times, with only rare intervals Of peace.
The last that was seen Of them together wa at
9 o'clock estcrda' morning uee"s kept hiI
restaurant open all night and h." and tha
woman wer" up and attending 20 business
until the hour mentioned. At that time they
went upstairs and peges told hi. en-
plo' 90. Ci-pardi. TO call him at g O'Clock
In ~" morning Ci-pardi heard no guam" ling
after the two went up~tairs aud neither b."
nor any Of the neighbors heard any pistol
shots.
Tho first intlmatlon Cispardi had Of any
thing wrong was about Z o'clock, when 10"
smelled something burning IT," went up-
stair, 10 invrstiSat" aId iu the hallway near
the door 81 lDege.~ room he found e bed
uuIlt freshly burned aud thru, INTO "A bucket
- sIufA Ia. q. a . q VItA fEA ( Fn
tispardi went back downstairs where lie
remained until q o'clock Then he went to
related On In" floor II the room and near
whore the dead man lsr u revolver was found
with only one OF the five cartridges eNp,oded.
Thus pistol, II L. lr.eycd. wa Ga" property OF
Deg--. The noIghbct, SAY that D"ges and
the trteil woman hotn had pistols and that
,hey we're m IN" habit II shooting ut ainark
together ia the bIrh yard.
Prior 10 opemng IN" restaurant At 1871
Washington street. where ho met his death.
l'eg-s had another a little further down tho
street. At that time his compahIon was
an English woman whom 10 threw over when
be became acquainted with a." Frt"il woman
Last Suwm"r Dog mad Hi- father aud mother
come to tins country to 1--we VITA him, blt
the gHarrel- brtw""u hun and Irt"ll ver"
=" frequent aud iurIou, that the old pcople
went back to Greece.
Mrs lrtell waS arrested at q O'Clock last
night and at the, Fulton stro"t polio" station
wa. made 10y Detectives bowie. O'Couuor,
Noonsn and Ran, who bad h"cn searching
for her all day They knew that 81" had
written Il letter t. ter husband. VINO j. %
hak"r employed ct Graham aycuu" and
Powers street, telling hIu TO meet Ter o.
1923 Myrtle avenue. BROOKLYN. where there =
a bakers employment aseHoy lie told me
and they remained on ru9ii &c
the MyrtIr avenue house They l"'ra"i that
size had teen there early M tho day and hHd
started for tonsv Island tO huuf W TRENDS
\o' finding her friends slo returned lEs'-
night 10 the bakers agency 20 meet ncr nus
band
Two ~ The detectives U'r' In the piH,r and !
the other two were on tho orpuNIr" ride Of tho
street They saw nor TAP Ou 'ho store win !
dow. which Wa her signal a. her husband 81
arrival The detectives inside started to
20 out after her and sic ran away After a |
chase Of u block they caught her Slr said
she was Mrs Mary Ertell. 20 vaars old. and
that she had been LIVING with IeGcs She
said that she had gou" 70 his room Ni'h him
and he had there HssRultied her She had
into his pocket. got hold of his To-
volyer. and shot him once Then she eof
ont Of bed and " hen sh" saw that beses was
-,ill alive She feared b" night get M and
kill her 50 she fred 4 second shot and hur-
rled away She viii ho Rrraignnd to-day
in the Adams street police court on a charge
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