The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-05
SHARPENED
RAZOR ALL
NIGHT
Then Melancholy WhseIxT|ght
SIaShsd al WIfs's Threat and
Cut His Own.

New York. Doc. 6.-Frederick Sileman,
a wheelwright. cut his wife's throat and
his own in their nat on the third floor of
the Alberta Apartment house, No. 10
West one Hundred and Eighth street.
The wife may live. Sileman died on at
rival at the hospital
For a week past Mrs. sileman had fear
cd that her husband would try To XIII
her He had suffered from acute mol.
work. on Monday Mrs. Sileman told
her fears TO her uncle, George r. or. VINO
informed the sergeant in charge at the
West one Hundredth street police sta
uon. The sergeant advised that Sileman
be taken TO an asylum. saying the police
could not act until Sileman showed signs
Of violence.
DR. Julius A. steigmeler. OF No. 2o1
West one Hundred and Sixth street pre-
scrfbed sedatives for Sileman, and warh-
ed his wife that he was dangerous.
A NIGHT OF HORROR.
Thursday night sileman could not be
quieted. He got out his razor and sharp
ened IT. Mrs. Stileman. though realizing
that her life was menaced remained with
her husband. trying TO make him more
cheerful Their children. Lillian. aged
ten, and Stella. aged seven. played about
the rooms unaware OF the tragedy i'm
pending.
sileman went TO bed at midnight. but
could not sleep. More than once his wife
awoke TO find him still sharpening his
razor. The neighbors heard him pacing
the floor at intervals throughout the
night, and the voice Of his wife reason
Ing with him.
In the morning Sneman was morose.
AS soon as the little girls left for school
he resumed the task Of sharpening his
razor.
AT 10 o'clock his wife ran out 10 a drug
store end telephoned her uncle.
Fred is crazy. I a mafraid that he
means TO kill me. Come up and protect
me-" she said.
Mr.. OF was very busy In his picture
store. West Twenty-eighth street, but he
answered that he would go as soon as
possible. Then Mrs. Sileman returned 10
the fat
Fred was stu sharpening his razor"
she said yesterday afternoon. He did
not look UP when i came into the room.
l asked him II he was not almost through
and then he raised his eyes 10 mine.
could read his purpose In them. and
shrieked. A / cried out he seized me
by tho hair and pulled my head back,
siashing at my throat with the weapon.
battled with him as we'll as l could,
He cut me several times about the face
and neck, and 1 cut my hands trying
to take the razor from him. At last j
got away and ran for the stairs. He
followed me as far as the head OF the
stairs"
Mrs. sileman sought refuge with n
friend on the second floor of the house.
Frank Robinson, a pug1ist, saw her
leave the fiat, followed by her husband.
and stager down the steps. When Sie-
man returned TO his apartment and shut
the door Robinson summoned an am
bulance.
SAW SILEMAN CUT THROAT.
In the meantime ]. IL Palmer the pa
trolman on the beat. had reached the
scene.
II ran into the house." he said yester-
day, passed Mrs Sileman and ran up
stairs TO arrest the husband. found
the door bolted and tried to kick 1t In.
Then i was let into an adjoining fiat and
climbed through the front window across
the fire escape. into the Sleman fiat.
saw Sileman quitting his throat with a
with my stick, knocking his knife TO the
table knife. struck him on the arm
floor. Then he sank an my feet. still
struggling. IL was not until help came
that he could be subdued."
DIR. McFarlane, the ambulance surgeon,
tried to save Sileman by inserting a tube
which permitted him 10 breathe, and he
was taken into the ambulance with his
wife. who was on the way TO the hospital
desperately hurt as she was tried TO ca
ress HIM From the time OF her flight
from the fiat she had been constantly re-
peating, He was insane, or he wouldn't
have done IL. He was insane"
Just as the ambulance drove away the
children returned from school for their
lunch. Neighbors took them In charge.
Later Mr. or took them to hts home in
the Bronx, No. Ts2 Prospect avenue.