The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-21
ANGRY HUSBAND
USES FISTS.
HsWbsrger Found Ellis In tha
Flat With His wife.
ATTlRED IN PINK PAJaMAS.
latsrloper Was Soundy Thrashsd and Then
Divorce Papers Were Served on ths
wss:a 10 ihs Case
ATTlRED IN PINK >PAJaMAS.

New York. Jan. 9l.--Aroused early YES.
! terdsy morning by rush OF many feet
the thud OF heavy blows. the shriels oi
4 woman and the cries of struggling men
tenants of the handsome apartment house
| at No. 90 West One Hundred and Eight
eenth street, rushed hslf-elad from their
rooms
Through the wide open doors OF the
third hoor apartment were visible An en-
IaEed husband. 4 psnic-stricken wife. a
young man IN bare feet and pink pa
Jamas, a city marshal. four Pinkerton
detectives uniformed policeman, law
yer and two lawyers clerks.
Ihe circumstances that led 10 the dis
turbsnce began IN the Ea.t one Hundred
and Twenty sixth street police station,
which Just before midnight was entered
~ Se,,Sa,,. zen men. Nc their head was Isaac
the Urani2, a fashionable apartment
house in One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
street, near Seventh avenue.
Al Mr.. Neuberger's elbow was Lawyer
william Schnitzer, OF Gordon & Schnitzer,
No. 1928 Broadway.
we want the services OF policeman" d"
explained MI. Schnitser 90 the sergeant.
Papers were produced 20 show that Neu-
berger had secured a writ Of repleVin for
silyerware and pictures belonging 20 him
and held by Charles Ellis In his apart
ment at No. 30 West One Hundred and
Eighteenth street.
City Marshal Comisky was with the
party rrady 90 make the replevin, and a
policeman was wanted 90 keep the o, ace
IN case OF trouble. il was explained. Po-
hcemsn Hersch was detailed To the ser
vice
The party aroused Janitor Brannigan,
Of the Ono Hundred and Eighteenth street
house and ordered him 20 knock al Ellis
door. Hersch was puzzled and asked for
an explanation. Lawyer Schnitzer cN-
plained the situation.
The replevin is a blind" he SAID. I'VE
want the goods. but what We particularly
want % discover Is whether Mrs. Neu-
berger is in that fiat. II is evidence we
are after.
The janitor knocked at the door of the
third floor fiat The door was opened an
inch or so and a mans voice asked:
who's there?"
Like a catapault the invaders hurled
and the next instant Mr.. NeuhetGeE- was
punching a slender young man with
~ ws.s Charles Ellis, an insurance agent
connected with one of the big New York
companies.
Murder" yelled Ellis. but HE voice
was a whisper 10 the shrieks OF Mrs.
Neuberrer from an adjoining room. As
her husband rained blows on Ellis. she
cried for mercy for him.
Spare Charles!' she cried. Blame me.
] am alone to blaine" But Neuberger
continued his punching. and IL took the
united efforts Of the Pinkerton men TO
get him away from Ellis.
SERVED WITH DIVORCE PAPERS.
Mesnwhile the house was in an uprosr.
Men-affa- -~efnen--half awake and half
dresscd--were crowding the halls in be-
widerment. Lawyer SchnitZer asked
three tenants tn act witnesses. They
were Mrs. Blanche Eisenbers, Gustave J..
New and John Schlossberg. When they
had seen the yoEny man In the pink pa
iamaS ana the other actors In the scene.
they went to bed. leaving tho marshal and
the Pinkertons 10 replevin the property
and Lawyer Schnitzer 20 serve Mrs Neu-
berger. then and there, with summons
and complaint In an action for divorce.
Meanwhile Ellis. the Pinkerion men say.
GOT possession Of an icr pick, and as the
last Pinkerton was leaving attempted 70
puncture him. The detective seized Ellis
by his ps janas and drs gped him down the
three flights of stairs into the street.
Therc, at Neubereer's request, he released
his prisoner.
The Neubcrgers were married seven
years ago at tho One Hundred and
Eighteenth street house. Mrs. Neuberger.
her husband asserts, was a frequent vis-
itnr The janitor knew her as Mrs.
Ellis" an actress, whose business fire.
auentIy took her away from home
The husbands surprise was carefully
planned. He o-teuesbly started for Buf-
fslo Saturday morning. but went no FUR
ther than Yonkers. Mrs. Neuberger is
said 20 be a member of = family socially
prominent in Harlem.