The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-05
Wife SAYS
IT'S CASE
OF SUICIDE
Woman Bsgs LandIady 10 Get
More Poison for Her So That
Sho Can Die.

New York. Nov. 5.-Mrs. Della Lupo,
milliner employed in Fourteenth street
department store. Is a prisoner In Belle
vue hospital charged with attempting sui
side. She Is held also on the suspicion
that she murdered her husband, Asbury
Lupo. He was found dead yesterday
morning In the room they occupied at go
Wgt Fourth street with bullet wound
I'm his he'd and another In his chest.
Lupo's body was found OF the floor
between the door OF their room and their
bed. Near his right hand was a re-
volver from which all OF the Ave shots
had been fired. Whether IL was a case
OF suicide or murder the police have not
been able 10 determine. Mrs Iupo said
her husband shot himself and that she
took laudanum because she had moth
Ing TO live for.
In a small room adjoining that occu-
pied by the Lupos were two other lodgers
Frank McGlynn and Ralph Berard They
were aroused from sleep about o'clock
In the morning by two pistol shots that
were fired In quick succession. A moment
later they heard three more shots fired
rapidly. They heard a sound as of body
falling. Then all was still
Within a few minutes Mrs. I,upo left
the apartment and went out In the street.
She was gone about 20 minutes. on her
return she entered her room. Fifteen
minutes later the woman crossed the hall
and entered the room of her landlady,
Mrs. Mary McWilliams Handing her
purse TO the latter she said:
HUSBAND SHOT HIMSELF
Something dreadful has happened and
don't want to live any longer. I
have taken laudanum. but I did not
IN 10 II nj
you TO run out and get me another
ounce Nv husband shot himself and
want 10 die. And while you are out
please send telegram 10 my daughter
at Savannah and tell her TO come to
New York ut once
Miss Mcwiliams refused To 60 for the
drug. She took Mrs. Lupo into the sit
ting room. where she fell In dazed con-
dition on a couch. The landlady then
hurried out and notified the police of
the. Charles street station Detectives
Carmody and Mckenzie went 10 the
house after they had summoned an am
bulance from ST. Vincent's
T. The detectives found Lupo's body on
the floor, and Or. Doan. the ambulance
surgeon said that the man had been dead
an hour or more. Mrs. Lupo said that
she had moved the body because II block
cd the door OF the room and she could
not get out She could not account for
the fact that the pistol was found near
her husbands right hand but denied that
she had placed u there after moving the
body.
McGlynn and Bersrd saw the couple
had q violent quarrel on Monday night
before retiring, but they could not tell
what n was about They heard Lupo
tell his wife that he would get even with
her.
The woman In q semi conscious con-
dition was taken TO Bellevue, where II
was said Tuesday night that she would
recover. She told Coroner Scholer that
her husband had shot himself and that
she had done her best 10 prevent him
from doing so.
The Lupos came here two years ago
from Georgia. lie was employed as n
sewing machine agent. and she was a
milliner. They had lived only week I'm
the Fourth street house She told Miss
McWilllams that she was widow az the
time OF her marriage TO Lupo, and that
she had a son and daughter living at
Savannah His home was at Rome Ga.
The husband was s5 years old and the
wife So