Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-04
AGED HUSBAND KILLED
WIDOW SUBJECTED or BEING
THE MURDERER.

NEWBURGH, N. T., February 4.-Old
Abraham Seaman was found dead in his
bed yesterday morning with q bullet wound
in his heart. and his wife was committed to
the Duchess county jail at Poughkeepsie
on charge Of having murdered him.
District Attorney John q. Mack made .
thorough investigation. He decided that
the evidence and story considered most
improbable told by Mrs. Seaman justified
him in accusing the woman of having taken
her husbands life. Mack admitted that he
had no direct evidence against Mrs. Sea-
man., but that circumstances had come to
his knowledge which left him no other
course than to enter an information against
her "
Mrs Seaman II q comely woman of forty.
with daughter Of nineteen. who ts mar
ried to man named Pendleton, at Mattea-
wan. =.
Seaman lived with his wife In Min street.
MatteaWan, and. according to all aecountA
none too happily. The twenty-nine years
difference In their agea seems to have been
q discordant element In their HIVES. Neigh
bors informed the authorities Of visitors at
the Seaman home who. they were sure. had
not been welcome to the head of the house.
Had a Heavy Cold. s.f.,4
For the last several days Seaman had
been confind to his home by q heavy cold.
He was employed In Weston's coal yard at
Matteawan, and, despite his age. was
steady an. one who disliked having to re-
main away from his work. According to
Mrs. Seaman, she retired with him early
yesterday evening. It was near midnight.
she claims, when she was awakened by q
pistol shot. She got up. crawled over her
husbands body and sat in rocker the rest
Of the night, she said.
It was about o'clock in the morning
when neighbors Of the Seamans were
awakened by Mrs. Seaman. The woman's
hair was disheveled and her nerves were
unstrung. She said her husband had been
shot during the night.
The woman said her husband was in need
of medical attention. Louis Evert, a neigh
Dor. sent for DIR. Atwen. and when ne ar
rived he had only to glance at Seaman to
tell that the man had been dead for many
hours. The body lay on q couch. re-
volver with one Of its chambers empty was
on a bureau few feet away.
DR.. Atwer reported the death OF Seaman
to Coroner Mosher. who. with the district
attorney. obtained a statement from MRS.
Seaman, in which she said that, after near
ing pistol shot and feeling her husband
pressing her toward the WALL he began to
yawning or stretching himself when he
moved. Finally she was impelied to leave
the bed There was no light and she did
mot think of making one.
Had Frequent ouarels.
Until dawn broke. Mrs. Seaman added
she sat in a rocker beside the couch where
her husband lay, and then started out to
te.. the neighbors. When DR.. Atwell told
her that her husband was dead she said
that was the first she knew about IT,
The district attorney learned of frequent
ouarrels between Mrs. Seaman and her hus-
band. The old man never seemed to ap-
prove of any of her actions. In his opinion
they were not compatible with the dignity
OF wife nor the mother of grown daugh-
ter.
Mrs Seaman was Nellie Hills and only
twenty when she married. She was eoun-
try school teacher in the mountains near
Liberty. and the story goes that she took
Seaman to pique young swain who had
offended her. She believed him to be
farmer with q competence but he had
never had more than his daily toll brought
him In the employ Of others.
The police learned that Seaman attempted
to commit suicide by shooting himself about
two years ago. The police say 1t would
have been absolutely impossible for Sea-
man to have killed himself unless he had
been left-handed. which he was not.