The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-11
FOLLOWED WIFE; GOTABEATING
HAUPTNER BADLY THRASHED
IN LONELY WOODS.
Says HIS Wife Kicked Him while He
Was Fighting Her Companion-Albert
Barnes. Whose Head and Face Are
Battered. and Mrs. Hauptner Arrested.

Barnes, whose Head ana Face Are
Battered, and Mrs. Hauptner Arrcsted.
YoNKERs, N. Y, July 1O.-Osoar HaMptner
of 462 Van Cortlandt Park avenue, pro prietor
Of shirt making establishment at Broadway
and Thirty-ffth street, New York, was
viciously assaulted, he says, by his wife
and Albert Barnes, bartender, last evening
in dense wood near here
For some time. Hauptner says, he has sus-
pected his wife of unfaithfulness. On many
different nights she had been away from
home until a late hour, and on such occa-
sions he had reason to believe that she
spent her time in the company Of another
man.
Last evening Hauptner determined to
shadow his wife. He followed her, he said,
and saw her board a trolley car for Tucka-
hoe, accompanied by man whose name
he ascertained was Barnes. Hauptner
entered the car and sat In rear seat.
When the car reached the terminal OF
the Tuokahoe line Mrs. Hauptner and her
escort alighted and walked toward nearby
woods. Hauptner followed at a distance,
but lost track Of them. He stood still
and listened, but could hear neither their
voices nor their footsteps. He walked
cautiously onward, but for q long interval
met no one.
Suddenly, however, when near the ex-
tremity OF tho woodland. he encountered
those whom he sought 80 abruptly that he
almost brushed against them. No sooner
had this unexpected meeting occurred,
Hauptner says, than his wife and her COM
panion made a savage attack upon him.
He was knocked down, he says, and while
on the ground was viciously kicked and
beaten by the woman whom he had chosen
for better or for worse.
The fight continued for nearly half an
hour. Barnes is Of powerful build and 30
Is Hauptner. Before Hauptner escaped
he received gaping cuts under both eyes
and on his head and face. His head was
covered with bruises Streams Of blood
drenched his face that he presented
q CHASTITY appearance. When he boarded
trolley car 10 return to Yonkers his clothes
were covered with mire and he was 80
blinded that he could barely see.
When Hauptner alighted from the car
In Getty Square he staggered along aim
lessly and had gone only short distance
when he was met by RoundsInan Connolly.
The latter says that never in his life has ne
beheld visage so repulsive as that OF
Hauptner when he first saw him. His
head was covered with blood.
to take him by the arm and lead him to the
station. On the journey, the injured
man gave to Connolly a meagre account
of the assault and said that the man who
had assailed him was named Barnes but
he did not know the fellows first name.
At police headquarters Hauptner was at
once helped into the patrol wagon and driven
to st. Johns Hospital with all possible
speed, a. 1t was feared that he would die
OF loss of blood.
After his wound had been dressed he
was again taken to the station house 80 that
he might identify his assailants should they
be arrested.
In the meantime vigorous measures
wore being taken to apprehend Mrs. Haupt-
ner and Barnes. Roundsman Lawrence
and Connolly and Patrolmen Waldron,
Herlihy and Bell were detailed to the case.
the first 1name of his assailant, Rounds
man Connolly made inquiries among the
motormen and conductors on the Tuckahoe
trolley line, and found that the name OF the
men they sought was Albert Barnes,
well-known local bartender.
The roundsman was told also that Barnes
and Mrs Hauptner had frequently beon
passengers together over the Tuckahoe
linz at night.
Barnes WAS captured after midnight in
remote part OF the city. AT Police Head
quarters he was positively identified by
flauptner as the man who had assaulted
him Barnes had couple Of cuts on his
head, which required medical attention.
He was treated Mt St. Johns Hospital also
and then locked up. The search for Mrs.
Hauptner in the vicinity of the scene OF
the assault was fruitlcss
After Hauptner had identified Barnes
he left for his home in company with Rounds
man CROUCH. They arrived home about
100 o'clock and there encountered the
missing wife. who had made her way Il
the home of her husband,
While securing the woods In which thu
assault occurred, Roundsman Lawrence
found coat and hat. In the pockets of
tho coat were found letters from women
adore ssed TO Barnes the content OF which
were Of n l.wd nature.
This morning in court Barnes was charged
with assault in the second degree and held
without bail to await the injuries OF Haupt-
ner. The woman was arraignsd on a
charge of assault In the third degree and
held in 81. 900 hail.
Hauptner was attended In ST. Johns
Hospital again this morning, DR.. Daniels
says that the wounds and bruises while
serious, are not dangerous unless erysipelas
sets In.
Mr.. and Mrs Hauptner have been married
about seven years. Hauptner was for