Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-31
Mrs. Eva TOtten
Shot By Young
Man In Hotel.
DEAD.
Left Aged Husband Living in Tot
tenviIIe and Fell in Love With
Young Millionaire Couldn't
Get a DivOrCe--.-LOV
Shot Himself Too.

NEW YORK, Dec. 31:-It was
Mrs. Eva Totten, the young wife Of
eighty-year-old John Totten, of Tot
tenville, who was shot early yester-
day morning by Sidney Kaufman in
the Knickerbocker hotel, in Third
avenue Kaufman, who is the son
lof Gustave Kaufman, retired pro-
duce merchant of 112 East Seventy
fourth street, turned the revolver on
himself after shooting the woman.
He is in Bellevue hospital. and was
not expected to live late last night.
Mrs. Totten died soon after the dis
covery of the shooting.
The murder and attempted suicide
were the climax of a romantic love
affair The denouement occurred in
the Knickerbocker hotel, Twenty-fifth
street and Third avenue. where the
couple held their last argument about
a marriage which was for the time
impossible. Strangely enough, In
this tragedy the plea for an immedi-
ate elopement was made by the man
and resisted by the woman, who loved
HILL Dit was dii CdQy dAOtnCi ildli
wife, and, although separated from
him, was not divorced She was also
la Roman Catholic.
Before her marriage to John Tot
ten, the young woman was Miss Eva
McCleary, of 17b Mesereole acenue,
Brooklyn. A little over a year ago
she met John Totten, who is great
grandson of John Totten, who found
ed the village of Tottenville. Mr..
Totten was an old man, but the mar
riage of December and May resulted
in contentment for nearly a year.
Then the trouble began.
Mrs. Totten, beautiful young
woman, darkhaired, hazel-eyed, and
with Spanish complexion, appeared
in magistrates court in Staten ISL
and and asked for summons for her
husband.
The summons was issued, and the
case called on November 19, 1904.
n Totten did not appear. His young
ivl Q said that ever since the first
v eek of their marriage he had insist
ed upon her keeping house upon IS a
week. His defense, she said, was
that his mother had been able to
meet all the household liabilities on
$3.50 a week. AS Mr.. Totten did not
appear, the case was put over. While
| it was still pending in court, Mrs.
Totten, disguested, 1t is said, with the
continual unpleasantness in the
household, left her husband and went
to live with her brother and sister. at
| 175 Meserole avenue, Brooklyn.
Tried to Get Her Back.
1t is said that the aged husband
went to Brooklyn and tried to get his
wife to come back. For six months.
however, the young wife lived in re-
tirement with her brother and sister.
+, Then, according to the brother.
Thomas McCleary, she began to talk
in way that indicated another at
tachment. She finally said that she
was going out to work for herself.
Her brother and sister warned her Of
the dangers attending such a course,
but she said she was able to take care
of herself.
Little was known of the young
woman's movements after that until
she was found at / o'clock yesterday
morning face downward across a
table in Room 80 of the Knickerbock-
er Hotel Her brother and sister.
however, believe that 1t was about
the time of her leaving their house
six months ago that Mrs. Totten met
Sidney Kaufman. 1t was about this
time that the report was given out
and published that she was dead.
Kaufman is the son of retired
and well-to-do produce merchant
Gustave Kaufman, who lives in a
four-story brownstone house at liz
East Seventy-fourth street. He is an
invalid and so is his wife. John
Kaufman, the son. who is in Bellevue
J Hospital, is about thirty-six years
old. He has brother, William, who
is in the lace business. He has also
two sisters. one of whom is married.
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