The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-24
FAMILY JAR OYER XMAS GIFT.
THE WIFE J4RRED ENOUGH no
90 no TINE HOSPITAL.
After " visitors She Didn't know Had
Gone She Missed Her New Diamond
Earrings and Then Game a Row which
brought IN the N~eIshbOrs and Police.

The apartment house at ST. West Thirty
fourth street had anything but a quiet Sun.
day afternoon. Calls for help and the sound
Of a scuffie in the apartments Of William W
Gilman aroused the tenants. and before the
excitement ended the police were called in
and Gilman was arrested.
Mrs. Gilman said that when her husband
came home on Saturday night he gave her
u $500 pair Of diamond earrings as a Christ
mas present. MIR. Gilman came into the
apartments early yesterday afternoon with
two friends. a young man and a young
woman.
Il didn't catch their names on being in
troduced, and don't know who they are, az
| never saw them before" Mrs. Gilman said
last night.
The four persons chatted a while and Mrs.
Gilman had her maid serve some light re-
freshments and wine. Then the servant
left the apartments.
Il went to my chifronier drawer after my
maid left and took from il my earrings to
show 10 my husbands friends" Mrs. Gil
man told a reporter. The woman accom-
panied me to the chifonier in my bedroom
when | put them back, and we then joined
the men. We had had only a little wine and
decided TO open another bottle. / got the
wine, opened il, and left the room a minute.
When / returned | TOOK a drink. My hus-
band suddenly collapsed on the sofa and we
couldn't awaken him.
A" Never mind, he's only asleep Il
man said TO me.
shortly after this they left the house"
About 7 O'Clock Mrs. Gilman put her
four-year-old daughter, Edna 10 bed aud
then went into her room to have anoterh
look at her earrings. She opened the
chiffonier drawer and found the case, but
the plush inside had been torn and the
diamonds were gone. The earrings were
of the screw variety, the diamonds being
in a separate setting, screwing into the
rings. The rings were left, but the stones
we're gone.
Mrs. Gilman was frightened and
screamedt Her screams awoke her hus-
band. who came to see what was wrong.
When | told him my diamonds were
gone he attacked me and hit me repeatedly
in the face said Mrs. Gilman.
Her continued calls for help brought all
the tenants of the house to the floor landing,
and when the cries for help kept continuing
Frederick W. Fem, a tenant, broke in the
door. Several persons rushed into the
and found Mrs. Gilman bleed
ing and her face badly cut and bruised
while her husband was repeatedly striking
her. When Gilman saw the men in the
crowd he rushed into the room where his
child was and locked the door.
Policeman Phelan, who was on the post,
was sent for. He and another policeman,
an ambulance from the J. Hood Wright
Hospital and Mrs Gilman WAS sent there
TO have her cuts dressed.
Gilman refused TO come out of the room,
and the two policemen broke in the door.
Gilman put up a stiff fight, but was over
powered and taken to the West l25th street
Mrs. Gilman appeared there later
and made a charge of assault against her
husband.
Gilman told Sergt. McNaIly in the station
house hat he did not strike his wife, but
no explanation of his wife's bat
tered appearance.
Sergeant, this man would have killed
her il WI hadn't appeared, said one of
the tenants.
I'm through with him." said Mrs. Gil
man. I'm going to return TO my family.
This man comes of a good family, but
not enough"
Mrs. Gilman refused 10 make a direct
charge OF theft against her visitors,
Il don't know whether they took the
diamonds or not, and / don't care much.
| only know they were there after my
maid left, but were zone after my visitors
departed, Mrs. Gilman told the sergeant.