The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-02
SHE WANTED TO
SEE her SON.
Mrs. ErlsI Captured After
Numbering George Osgss.
HAD DESERTED her HUSBAND.
She Had Frequent Quausls With paramsur,
aua Once Threw VlITol Ia His Facs
Confasssa n, Killing.

New York, Jan. 2-"I killed him and
I'm glad OF IT, He was brute"
Thus spoke Margaret Ertel when ar
rested twelve hours after George Deges.
with whom she had lived lately. had fall
en- dead with two bullets I'm his body
7 The woman, who is German and comely
al twenty mine years old, was caught be-
cause she coui- not resist the impulse to
see her child nine-year-old son. living
with the husband she had forsaken for
Dcges.
The murder was committed az no. 16l
Washington street, Brooklyn. where
Deges was proprietor OF a restaurant and
oyster house. lie lived in rooms above
the restaurant. He had frequently quar-
relied with the woman. Deges was a
Greek, about thirty-hve years old. Her
acouRintances say that she was very
jealous OF him.
Last April. when she was living at No.
532 Gates avenue. she accused him OF
paying attentions to another woman.
They quarreled iercely. Suddenly she
threw vitriol IN his race, nearly binding
him Arrested and arraigned for her act.
she said Deges had made trouble between
herself and her husband. lie did not ap-
pear TO prosecute and she was dlscharg-
ed
MADE UP THEIR QUARREL.
Not long after this episode they were
living together I'm the ramshackle frame
building at Nos. lsl and lG3 Washington
street
Deges sleeping room. i'm which his dead
body was found was on the second floor
OF the building. Days and nights passed
without Mrs. Ertel being seen there The
neighbors say that the Greek was incon-
slant.
Pietro Paulas is assistant cook in the
oyster house that was kept by the Greek.
He retired at o'clock leaving Deges in
the restaurant. At o'clock I'm the morn
ing he returned TO the restaurant pur-
suant to his duties there. Deges was
stiu there, he says. and. sitting at
table with him was Mrs. Ertel.
They were quarrelling." said Paulas
yesterday. Mrs. Ertel was speaking an
grily 10 Deges. She called him by name
that is impolite.
n went TO work cleaning up the floor.
Deges and the woman still talked at the
table. hut not so loudly. When IL was
nearly o'clock they rose from the table.
They bade me good night.
LEFT ORDERS TO BE CALLED.
'Deges told me to be sure and awaken
him at O'clOck as he had To go TO Ful-
ton Market. l kept at my work until
twenty minutes OF O. when 1 went up
stairs and knocked on the hall door.
There was no answer and / called.
'Georgel' When | had called three times.
and there was no answer, | began TO be
afraid. ] remembered the time one man
had Killed another I'm the restaurant with
broken catsup bottle
AT this point Paulas turned pale and
his narrative faltered Fearing he knew
not what he went TO his own room. ad-
Joining that where his employer slept,
and forced his way through rickety old
partition With his head and shoulders
through he stopped horrified On the
floor lay Deges. dead
Paulas turned and ran breathIessly to
the Bridge street station and reported
the murder Captain Mara took personal
charge OF the case. Accompanied by De-
tectives Noonan, Brennan, Doyle and o.
Connor from the Central Office, he went
10 the scene OF the murder and started an
investigation.
where was the woman" the police
men asked. Pauas had not seen her
since she had left the restaurant with
the ill-fated Greek.
The dead mans arms were sprawled
out He lay on his back. Near him on
the floor lay his own revolver. All five
chambers contained empty shells. Two
bullet wounds were in the body-one I'm
the neck which had severed the carotid
artery: the other i'm the breast. under the
heart bullet was found in the tumble
OF bed clothes.