The evening world., 1910-12-12
BROKER DOOMED
TO DEATH BEFORE
) P. NJ. TODAY
Jealous Husband of Walter v.
Benefits One-Time Friend
Makes Threat.

walter v. Bennett, a young broker
who lives in the Porteraeld apartments.
No. sl2 West One Hundred and Twelfth
street. is passing as anxious a day as
any dweller in Greater New York. An
excited young man who or SATURDAY
night called at Benefits apartment had
tickled his nose with the muzzle OF a
revolver and doomed the young man. over
the telephone yesterday. to die before
s O'Clock this afternoon.
In consequent Of this threat Walter
v. Bennett and his brother. Frank.
called on Capt. Farrell at the West one
Hundred and Twenty-ffth street sta
ton and besousht police protection. The
doomed broker said that the young
man who threatened his life had mar
Red q comely dark haired girl with
whom he had been intimately acquaint-
ed when she worked In a biscuit fac
tory.
Won't Tell Her Name.
Though admitting that he was in e
Of his life, Bennett refused to reveal
the girls identity and thereby give the
police an opportunity to arrest the jeal-
Gus husband.
II haven't seen tho girl for eight
months" said Bennett to an Evening
World reporter to-day. she told me
then that she was going to get mar
ried, but stu loved me. I told her to
forget me and she promised 70 try to.
IL had almost forgotten all about her
when her husband. a young. good look
ing italian. called OF mo Saturday
night. / went to the door. n without
any preliminaries he told me he had
come to kill me.
MY mother was inside and In order
not to frighten her I stepped out In
the hall and hut the door.
"'Now. What do o WANT ] said.
I don't know o and am sure you've
got the wrong man.
YOU'RE Walter V. Bennett he said.
I assented. Then you're H. man /
want he cried. You ruined my life and
my wife, he shouted. and Nv come
here TO kill you
IT told him II he didn't get out I'd
smash him, whereat he drew a big re-
volver and stuck 1t into my face. l was
almost paralyzed. but managed to say
You better look out. There's lots OF
people around here and the elevator
coming down. II you shoot me you'll
get caught
Girl There, Too.
"He stuffed the u in his pocket then
and ran down stairs. l followed him
and in the hallway I saw the girl and
two other men. They all ran out.
Yesterday morning the same mar
telephoned me and said he was oominl
up to kill me. I told him I'd be read,
for him. Later in the day l heard tina
several suspicious looking men wer,
hanging around the Porterheld and
decided Il wa time I got protection.
with my brother / went to the 125ti
street station. l got a detective b
go home with me and when I got bacl
I earned hat there had been anothe,
telephone message to the effect tina
I would be killed before s o'clock THU
Monday afternoon.
Naturally this made me nervous, anS
I will continue to be " 1t ma!
only be a blackmail scheme. but 20,
never can tell what these excited Italian
may do. For certain sentimental rea
sons ] will not disclose the Identity O
the girl. I understand that she mar
ried a chauffeur"
Detective Calkins OF the West On
Hundred and T~wenty-ffth street static,
was detailed to watch out at the Porter
field as a guard to young Bennett.