The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-03-28
SHOT AT TWO.
John Newman Nearly Du-
plioated the ,Eokell
Tragedy on satur-
day.
JEALOUSY THE MOTIVE
His Wife OF Two Months Had
Left Him In Consequence
OF Threats His Story.

Had John Newman, telegraph line
man, been one of the most expert marks
men that ever drew revolver he could
not have come nearer to hitting his wife
Mary without doing so with two out Of
three bullets he fred in an effort to kill
her Saturday evening.
Newman also fred bullet at Mrs.
Rose Campbell, of No 365 Monmouth
street with whom his wife had been stay
ing since she left him about a month ago.
The bullet grazed Mrs. Campbers head.
AS to the three bullets fred at Mrs.
Newman one of them took the top of
her hat off and set fire to her hair and
| the other cut the fur boa she wore tight
| ly around her neck. Both the broken
ends of the boa were burned.
| Newman and his wife separated be-
cause of his jealousy of his wife who he
says he had been told was lavishing her
affections on another man. He is fifty
one years old and she is twenty-sevgh.
Since their separation he has been living
in furnished room at No. s Coles street.
About six O'clock Saturday evening he
called upon his wife in her apartments at
No. 365 Monmouth street. All the CON
versation that passed between them is
not clear. Just why Mrs Newman had
| on her street attire is not known but the
other occupants of the house were sud
denly startled by three reports of a re
volver mingled with the terrified screams
of Mrs. Newman Mrs Campbell ran
| out into hallway and was fleeing down
the stairway and Newman evidently be-
| lieving that be had finished his wife.
pointed his revolver at Mrs Campbell and
| fred. Though not struck she fell down
and Newman ran but short distance
from the house when he was arrested by
Patrolman Britten, and taken to the
Gregory street station. He threw the
revolver away before Britten caught him
but it was found and Newman admitted
that it was the one he had used. He de-
clared that he had only used blank car
tridges to frighten his wife.
The captain drew from the chamber Of
the revolver a 32-calibre cartridge and
asked how it happened to be there and
Newman was unable to explain. The
captain also sent men to examine the
premises where the shooting occurred,
and they dug two bullets out of wall
Of her apartments. They could not find
the other one, nor the one fred at Mrs.
Campbell.
In response to questions put to him by
the captain, Newman said he could not
recall where and when he got the revol-
yer. He said he loaded it with blank
cartridges during the afternoon. He was
locked up on a charge of attempt to kill.
In the First Criminal Court this morn
ing Newman asked that his hearing be
adjourned until tomorrow morning, so
that he could secure the services of a
lawyer. Police Justice Higgins told him
| that he could not try the case anyhow,
and said he would hold him in ST. 900 for
the Grand Jury. that meanwhile New
man could get lawyer to defend him in
the upper court.
Mrs. Newman gave an account Of the
| shooting and said she had been married
to Newman but two months, and that
she left him several weeks ago when he
threatened her life.
Mrs. Campbell told Of seeing the first
| shot fred and Of her being shot at as she
started to run down stairs, and that she
fell to the bottom. It would seem that
her fall saved her life. She knew moth
ing Of what happened upstairs after she
fell.
William strecker,. of No. s25 First
street, whose sister-in-law lives in the
house, said he was sent for, and the mes
senger said some man was shooting
everybody in the house. When he arriv-