New-York tribune., 1902-03-15
MAN AND WOMAN THE SLAIN AND SIAYFPS
VICTIMS OF JEALOUSY SHOT TO DEATH IN THEIR BEDS
ONE MURDERER ESCAPES
DEATH FOR CRUEL SPOUSE.
WOMAN. ILL TREATED, SHOOTS HUS-
BAND WHILE HE SLEEPS,
THEN CALLS DOCTOR.

III treatment led Alice T. Slower to shoot and kill
her husband. John 7. Slower, when he was asleep
in bed with her at $50 a yesterday, in their
home. in the fathouse No 81 East One hundred
and-sixth-st. Slower house painter, and had
/ shop No 2,10S First-aVe. He was forty-seven
years old three years older than his wife. The
couple were childess.
About nine years ago the stovers came to this
city from Philadelphia, where Mrs. Slower has we'll
TO do relatives. Mrs stover let her husband have
money 10 start in business with, and he spent it all
without making the business pay. She gave him a
fresh supply of capital, and he squandeTed It, An
other supply of money was disspated With the
loss of money there had been quarrels and re-
ordinations. Mrs. Slower recently sent her bank
book and jewelry to her brother, Frank Harpzell
in Philadelphia, and he placed them ir safe de-
posit vault at her request. at the same time In
viting her to leave her husband and make her home
with her relatives.
Bad feeling between Mrs Slower and her husband
was increased recently by her discovery that he had
been paying attentions to other women and had
been spending money in dissipation with those
women. On Thursday night, she said yesterday, he
demanded more money and threatened to kill her.
Yesterday morning Mrs. Slower said 10 some Of
her neghbors in the house that her husband was
Ill and she wanted DR.. Brinkman. his physician
called. DR.. Brnkman was called 10 the house by
the janitor. He found Mrs. Stover in the kitchen
holding a revolver in ner hand
What has happened??'' he asked.
We'll, he tried to shoot me-" she replied glanc-
What thep?'
You will know the rest
Inc physician entered the bedroom and found
her husbands body on the bed. lying with the face
10 the wall in an attitude of sleep The bed bore
signs OF struggle. Slower had been shot in the
back near the right shoulder. and in the back OF
the head, behind the right ear. One bullet had
passed through the brain.
The police arrested Mrs. Slower and then she ad-
mitted that she had shot her husband. A coroner
committed her the TOnbS red N bA
suffering with nervous prostraton then. a letter
which was found in the fat indicated that the
woman had thought Of committing suicide and
then had changed her mind and had decided to
kill her. husband. The letter read:
John Stover: You win rue the day that came
from Philadelphia. After I am gone you will be
sorry for the bad language you used. and you did
not care whether the neighbors heard IL and
brought it back to Philadelphia 1 know what Mrs.
Miles meant when she said that this house is bet
ter than the people in it. beg YOU TO let my
mother bury me in our plot in Philadelphia. as I
do not want 10 be near you in death. You will
never know how much have suffered and how you
have tried my patience. You do not even know
what patience is. l hope 10 God that after I am
gone YOU will not make another as miser-
able as !. God alone knows what have suffered.
ALICE E SLOWER