The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-17
MURDER IN HOME WIFE LEFT.
HUSBAND AND "OTHER WOMAN''
FOUND DEAD TOGETHER.
The PfeT ermans HAD Parted Only Few
Hours BeTore-tJead Woman q hook
makers Mistress and He Is Held
Murder and suicide, Police Think.

Hours Ber0re-tJead Woman q Hook
| makers Mistress ana He Is Held
Murder and suicide. Police Think.
' On the very night when his wife deserted
him after a long term OF abuse Charles
Pfefrerman killed Cora Kipling, the COM
mon law wife OF John Oakford, In the for
mer's fiat at 4os East Seventy eighth street
and then committed suicide. This is the
probable solution Of q case which the police
took to be double murder when it was first
reported. PfeHerman was produce dealer
and peddler and Oakford is a bookmaker,
Pfeferman and his wife, cloak model
have lived in discord for year or more q,
He used to beat her and throw things and
she used to retaliate by locking him out .
When this happened, he would kick the
door until she opened.
He wants to get divorce from me to
| go with that other woman" Mrs. Pfeffer-
man explained one day to the housekeeper,
Mrs. Hoag. and I'm afraid that he'll give
other men the keys 40 as to cook up grounds.
And I'm taking no chances Who that
woman was Mrs Pfefferman didn't say.
There was row on Thursday, which
caused Mrs Charles Stewart the land
| lduyy W give tHtIil tHdt tliCy 'hhot
move by next week, because all the other
tenants were complaining. Mrs. Stewart
was sorry for Mrs. Pfefferman, and all the
other dodgers called her a nice little woman,
much abused.
After short and sharp quarrel on Satur-
day night she broke with him. She took
some clothes her parrot and her canary
and went away for good, she told the
neighbors.
SO they were little surprised when, very
late that night they heard another row in
the third floor. Pfefferman was raging
again, and feminine voice was answering
him Away along in the night somewhere,
Mrs. Hoag and Mrs. Stewart heard a series
of explosions. The noise did not waken
either of them thoroughly; they turned over
and went to sleep again
But when she went down for her paper
at O'Clock Sunday morning Mrs. Stewart
smeed gas at the Pfefferman door, re-
membered the explosions and telephoned
for the police. The door was locked, but
they broke In. 1t was some time before
they could make shift to get the gas on and
enter.
The fiat runs in a straight line OF con-
nected rooms from back to front. Jets
| "cIc OH luli IcdO III thC hltChCu wv
bedrooms. BY the time they had the win
dows open. they ran across woman's body
in the parlor. She had wound ON her
head as though she had been knocked down
by pistol-butt and there was separate
bullet wound in each temple. She was in
her chemise, but her murderer had folded
her skirt len gthwise and laid it over her,
SO that she appeared to be dressed.
On bed ON the next room was Pfenerman.
fully dressed. He was shot through the
right temple but thee revolver which had
done II lay by his left side Coroner Jack
son came. noticed this and it set him to
working on the double murder theory.
At first every one believed that the dead
woman was Mrs. Pfefferman. The other
dodgers didn't want to look at the body
1t was only when the police sent to the
address OF Cora Kiping's friend that she
was identified by Joe Feinberg as the COM
mon-law wife OF Oakford
Detective Mcclure took Oakford down
to Coroner Jackson's Office for examina-
ton.
Il lived with her. yes" said Oakford,
"but this other man is news to me"
Cora Kipline's friend. Mrs fenberg. lives
at a2I East Eiehty-third street.
The other bore only the simple address,
John Oakford, 2o7 East Fourteenth,
He told the police that the woman left
home about o'clock last night, saying that
she was going to Mrs. Feinberg's. He told
her to be in by II. He himself didn't get
in until 3 o'clock in the morning When
he didn't find her at home he just went to
bed They had lived together for three
wears. He said she had been a waitress
once and she came from Stonington. Conn
This looks suspicious said the Coroner
.and IN have to hold you"
Il guess not" said Oakford I'm a
friend OF Senator Martin, and you will
sweat for it IL you dol
jackson though it over, aud asked Oak
ford IL he could furnish bail Oakford
telephoned to Martin, who bailed him out
when he was held in $500. Then Oakford
went down and clnched the Identification
He cried when they showed him the tur-
ouolse earrings which she had been wearing
and which he gave her.
After talking to him the police decided
that Pfeffermans right hand had fallen
TO his breast when he shot her and that
the pistol had slid down his left side when
his fingers relaxed.
Oatford swore up and down that he
never saw or heard of Pfeferman before
Others close to him have. and the police
incline to the belief that he is lying like a
gentleman Certain cabmen told the de-
tectives that they'd seen Pfefferman with
the woman and that he didn't treat heI
gently, either. At the apartment house
where Oatford lived they say that Pfeffer.
man had twice come up to shoot his riva
and been thrown out. Mrs. Pfefierman
| harself had talked of that woman"
Where Mrs Pfehernan went with the
canary and Parrot, no one could discover
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pfeferman have had two
children, but they are both dead. HI
ran several produce wagons, from which
he sold fruit and vegetables to retailers.