New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
SHOOTS JANlT0R DEAD.
Civil Var Veteran Kills Nan zcith
U1hOm He Had QuarreNed.

Thomas E Bulger. sixty-three years old, a
veteran Of the Civil War shot and killed Frank
Hoffman. thirty-two years old the janitor of the
apartment house No 436 West 1920 street. where
Bulger liYed.-late yesterday afternoon. Bulger
was arrested.
He fred three shots from revolver at Hoff-
man. All took effect. One entered his head
above the right eye and the other two entered
the pit of the stomach. Hoffman died instantly.
Two of the shots fired through the panel
of door of apartment in which the janitor
sought refuge after Bulger pulled the revolver
from his pocket. The third SHOT fired
directly at Hoffman after Bulger had opened the
GoCr.
Buger told the police that he assaulted
by the janitor, and shot in self defence. He de-
cares Hoffman had hit him over the eye. When
the body of Hoffman was examined by the
bulance surgeon a blackjack found firmly
clutched in his hand. This. the police say
drawn by Hoffman after he received the two
bullets in the stomach and before the third
bullet crashed into his head, instantly killing
him.
Leopold Immergut, of No. 2265 Belmont street,
The Bronx, who was with Hoffman, says that
| Hoffman did not strike Buger. and that he did
| not blackjack in the janitor's hand.
According to the evidence the police have
gathered. there had been i'll feeling between the
TWO men for the last two weeks.
According to Immergut who had called to
look at a vacant apartment. Buger met Hoff-
man in the hall and said:
You have been talking about my wife. Do
you ths?" at the same time pulling of
his pocket revolver
! At the sight of the gun both the janitor and
/ the prospective tenant made bolt for the
cant apartment at the Of he hall. Behind
! them Bulger. with his revolver pointed at
them.
As he reached the door Hoffman slammed it in
BuIger's face. and Bulger fired shots through
the panel of the door. Both entered the janitor's
stomach
/ HOFFMAN criei feebly Il am shot" As he
did so Immergut alleges that Bulger kicked in
the door and. with his revolver levelled at the
! head of the wounded man, fired the third shot
/ The ianitCr fell the floor dead.
/ The murdered man leaves wife ana three
/ children. who are prostrated the tragedy.
Bulger is also married and has two children
! He bears excellent reputation in the neigh
| borhood He is n member of the Washington
! Heights Methodist Episcopal Church and at the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum where he has been a
| teacher of music for years, he has been a great
favorite with the pupils
At the West 1921 street station later In the
evening BugeT made statement, in which he
/ said that the janitor had made threats recently
/ 70 hxterminate his entire family He said that
when he entered the hallway on his way home
4 he was met with vclley Of abuse and threats
i from Hoffman. He protested until the janitor
/ struck him on the head with blackjack. Givin5
him n cut over the left eye. Then. angered by
! the blow and being afraid and confused in the
dark h shot through the Panel cf the door.
: MrGBulger corr0boratad this story. She SAID
! she had heard Of threats being made by the jan
itor. and 4 result had borrowed tho revolver
from a neighbor and given il 70 her husband