New-York tribune., 1901-07-08
PRICE THREE CENTS.
CROWD WITNESSES MURDER
THEN IT HEARS HUSBAND SEND BULLET
INTO HIS HEAD.
BODY OF WIFE FALLS DOWN FIRE ES-
CAPE-BOOKMAKER SAYS WOMAN
FIRED THE FIRST SHOT

Edward I.uthy forty-three years old. book
maker who lived with his wife. Abbie L. Luthy.
and four of her children by former husband
at No 695 East One-hundred-and-sixty- ninth
ST.. killed his wife by shooting her in the head
last evening after she had taken refuge on a
fire escape to escape his fury. Then he shot
himself Dozens of persons in Park-ave op-
posite the house where the Luthys lived saw
the woman killed and saw her body fall from
one landing of the fire escape to the one below
Luthy before the tragedy. sent the children
from their home. One of them he told, In a
rage. never to return. Jealousy and a quarrel
growing out of a delayed dinner supposed
to have been the cause of the double crime
At the time of the shooting there were many
people on Park-ave and many more on the
bridge over the tracks of the New-York. New
Haven and Hartford Railroad The Luthys
lved on the fourth and top floors of a house
whose windows overlook the railway tracks
The people in the street heard a shot. then a
woman scream They looked up to the windows
of the Luthys' apartment and saw a woman
with blood streaming from wound In her
breast clambering out on the fire escape, all the
time screaming and begging for mercy. A man
appeared at the window with revolver in his
hand. He looked at her for moment, and then
raised his arm and fired. The bullet struck be-
hind the woman's right ear. She ceased scream
ward. down through a hole in the landing. and
dropped ifeless on the landing of the third floor
THEY HEARD ANOTHER SHOT.
The man retired from the window. The next
instant the people below, in state OF ter
| ror heard another shot. A moment elapsed. and
the man again appeared While he was looking
| down at the dead woman. IL was seen that blood
| had stained the bosom of his shirt Again he
| disappeared. and still another shot was heard
| Mounted Policeman Leary. Of the Morrisania
station dashed up. He went upstairs and found
| Luthy lying on the floor of his apartment He
was conscious. and said:
My wife shot at me and took the revolver
away from her. shot her.
| An ambulance was summoned from Fordham
Hospital. and Dr. Cantle, who responded. took
| I.uthy to the hospital The woman's body was
taken in from the fire escape
| When I4uthy was found he was still clutchinS
| the revolver The five chambers were empty
| He bought the revolver. it is said. several
months ago, after he had been held up by men
who attempted to rob him in vesey-st-
HE HAD LOST AT THE RACETRACK-
1t was learned from the children OF the dead
woman that Luthy lost heavily at the racetrack
| on Saturday To lose usually made him III tenn
| pered they said. Yesterday he was in ugly
| mood His wife was late in preparing dinner
| last night. and that made him angry He told
Lizzie fifteen years old, about O'Clock. 10 leave
the house and never return William. clever
years old playing in the street with Ar
thur thirteen years old, when Arthur ran up
stairs to ask if dinner was ready Luthy told
him TO return to the street and take john ntne
years old. with him.
1t was said by neighbSrs that Luthy thought
a great deal of his wife, but that he was so 1eil-
Gus that sometimes he abused her.
| The neighbors spoke highly of Mrs Luthy.
They said she had been an intimate friend OF
Luthys first wife She. was married 70 him.
they said. on condition that he would reform and
treat her better than he had treated the first
Mrs Luthy.
Coroner Lynch went to the Fordham Hospital
TO take LuJhy's ante mOrtem statement