The sun., 1910-06-28
KILLS GIRL HB TRADED FOR
WHEN SHE REPUDIATES HER
FlTHERS BARGAIN.

YounE Nan Fresh From . SsaFtisr aay
Jennie NlnkaH's Hand Was Pledge
in Dicker for q atsre. but when :
Came 90 PaJlnE the NlhkoHs I.AHEhe'
A young man snte red the Fifth stree
poliCe station little after q O'Clock las
night. walked rSther unsteadily up d
the rail behind which Lieut. Judge va
sitting. placed a revolver on the desk
and said Il have just shot my girl
Then he tainted
While the doorman was working ovsl
the man on the floor the Lieutenant brOkI
[ the revolver Il held three loaded she'll
and two empty ones
The man recovered consciousness lonG
enough to say that he was Morris Nathan.
son, % years Old, of p Third street
that he had shot Jennie MinkOf ard leii
her wing In the private hallway Of her
home az Is Third street Ho tainted
again before the police could question
him further
Policeman Teigen found the girl lying
dead IN the narrow hall which leads into
the Minkon apartment on the third floor
There were two bullet wounds in her
breast Her father. mother and three
younger sisters were in the grocery
which Morris Minkod. the father, keeps
IN the basement of 70 Third street
They had been told Of the shooting by
a neighbOT only a moment before the
policeman arrived They declared that
Nathanson had never been attentive TO
Jennie and that they could not explain the
murder
NathansOn when he came out Of the
second falnting spell was taken to Police
Headquarters and questioned by Capt
Carey tie said that he had shot the girl
becaus" shs and her father refused 10
carry out the fathers promise 10 marry
her o. Nathln-on
Nlihanson said that after MnkoH
bought tho basement grocery store at
p IGIrt street early IA March he
sold 10 10 Nathansons uncle. who st his
nephew up 10 bu-sness The store began
% DO a good Ous Ness a. soon a. Nathan
son TOOK hold and when MnkoH. Who
had been unsuccessful IN getting another
place. Uame back in June and asked
Ndihan-on 10 sell the latter thought
that the business was worth 81 5nO
he didn't wan, to sell even az that
price. which MlnSuh was unable To pay
but neanWhile h. had met Jennie Minkoh
ant had fallen IN love with hcr Ne
brhrved that Jennie liked him well enough
to marry him. M he offered a. lst her
father have the store for SN0 providing
NnkOh would sanction the marriage
With this UNDERSTANDING bs says the
bargain was struck and Minkuf took
possession ut the store
When Nathanson dropped IN 10 ask
ghen the wedding was 10 take placr
Mnkof aud his daughter laughed At
him he says and declared that 4 wedding
Nfi put barn part II the bargain He
tT'd to win the gIr over 20 his side but
IN. r'pui-,-l him When the n@ighbor5
began ro twit him about his lack % sic
Un-- n Ii- love afair be- decided he says
Ia krll both the girl aud himself
Williamson bought revolver last
THURSDAY ON FRIDAY be- met Jennie
on lrr way tn wora ln a shirtwaist fac-
t"rs and pleaded with her 20 marry him
~u" r''iu~-r. but his nerve failet him
aud be- didn sFUof. ~ be- had intended
J r-trriay NpthaU-on savs he met
lcnnI" 100 the hail bv Chanoa. having gone
tu the bouzs tu collect a debt Again
be begged her fu marry him When
~" rrhuFri him be- shot her He larksi
thr courage 20 Cnrry uu' the suicide he
had planned aud decided to give himself
up tl the pOlCr instead
The MiukuHs DENY that their daughter
was ever promised 10 Nlthanson They
saw that Jennie VAS never mentioned
100 The decker ov"~ fhr sale ~ the store