New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-30
DOUBLE PARK TRAGEDY
WIFE SHOT THREE TINES.
Husband Tries lSuicide-Wounded
She StumbIeS to His Side.

Morris Sacks, a Russian weaver. thirty-two
years old. shot his wife and himself yesterday
afternoon in Stuyvesant Park when the crowds
of women and children which frequent it were
greatest. Three Of the bullets lodged in the
woman's head. She will probably die. but he.
with two bullets in his head is expected to re-
cover
Jealousy and misunderstanding were the cause
Of the tragedy. according to the brother of
Sacks.
The sreatest excitement was caused among
the women and children in the little park. 1t
is the breathing spot OF the neighborhood. and
the fine weather had induced all the nurses and
mothers of the neighborhood to take their
charges into the air
Emil Waters. Of No $40 East Fourteenth-st.,
told the police that he noticed the couple go
into the park from Second-ave. about 4 O'Clock.
They seated themselves on a bench near the
avenue Sacks rested his head IN his right hand
and talked in a low voice to his wife. She
turned her face from him, and seemed not to
agree with what he saying to her.
Waters SAYS that the man attempted to turn
the woman toward him, but that when she felt
his hand on her shoulder she repulsed him and
drew further away from him. They were talk
ing in Russian so Waters could not understand
the conversation The man seemed to be plead
ing with his wife.
When she turned from him Sacks arose from
the bench. and. drawing a revolver from his
pocket. fired three times at the woman as she
sat on the bench. She had nc chance to escape.
One shot tore out her right eye, another eRterad
the left SIDE Of her jaw and the third penetrated
the neck to the side of the jugular vein. She
fell to the ground.
When Sacks noted the effect of his bullets he
turned the weapon on himself. The first shot
took effect in his right ear and the second in
the left side Of his jaw He then staggered
across the walk and fell the lawn a dozen
feet from where his wife lay.
She managed to arise and stumble across to
where her husband lay, and threw herself on
the ground beside him. Sacks was conscious
and put his arm about the woman
Waters and others who had seen the tragedy
ran to the couple and pulled them apart, Sacks
protesting feebly Policeman Kassing, of the
East Twenty-second-st station. pushed the
crowd away and called an ambulance Dr.
Pearce responded from Bellevue and, seeing the
desperate nature of the wounds, hurried man
and wife to Bellevue in the sams ambulance
The woman was put at once on the operating
table and the surgeons probed for the bullets
The husband was taken to the prison ward
He revived while his wounds were being dressed
and begged the surgeons TO give him poison.
In his pocket they found a letter addressed
please notify my brother. Bernard Sacks, No
1881 Second-ave.. pharmacist" The police at
once communicated with the brother. After
seeing his brother in the prison ward he said he
could give no explanation Of his act The letter
addressed to him was written in Russian. and
he refused to tell the police its nature.
He said that his brother came to this country
six months ago from Odessa, The day he left
home he married the woman whom he shot. and
they had not lived together as man and
wife. The wife arrived in this city four days
ago on the steamer Kroonland from Rotterdam.
The couple had been living with him
He admitted that the couple had not been
happy. and said he believed his brother enter
tained unfounded suspicious of his wife, They
had luncheon with him yesterday at his home
and went out for a walk. Morris had been con-
tinually talking of the happiness that was in
store for him when his wife arrived. but foI the
last two days he had seemed moody and rest
less Mrs Sacks was twenty-five years old.
She was well dressed and wore several valuable
diamond ornaments.
The surgeons at Bellevue say that there IS
little hope for the womans recovery, but they
do not consider the mans case critical