Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-19
Young Mother Murdered in Cold
Blood by Husband She
Eloped With.
MRS. IDA HORNEY is
KILLED in PARENTS HOME
Shooting Is Result Of Five Years
of Turbulent Welded Life
After Runaway Marriage.

Henry Horney, "a years OLD, walked
into the apartment of his mother-in-
law. Mrs. Mary Sloan, at 1872 Boyden
street, while his wife, Ida, the same
age. was getting up from the break
fast table today and fired four shots
from S2-calibre revolver into her body.
killing her almost instantly. Then he
walked over to the First Precinct po-
lice station, and, tossing the revolver
with one ball unused--it was q Ave-
chamber affair-on the desk, said to
Sergeant Mcclellan coolly:
you had better keep this; have
Just killed my wife"
1t was the elimination of five years
of tubulent married life. Horney, who
was an electro platter by trade, married
his wife, who was Ida Sloan, a niece
of Battalion Chief Sloan, of the fire de-
partment, five years ago. 1t was a
runaway marriage, and the parents of
the girl opposed it. They lived in fur
nished room houses when they were not
separated, after violent quarrels. The
last place they lived was at 379, Wash
ington street. little more than four
months ago.
One day about that time Mrs. Hor-
ney saw her husband on the street with
another woman. She chided him about
1t, and there was violent quarrel. and
when Mrs. Horney said then that she
never would return she evidently meant
it, for on the various occasions that
he asked to see her she was as ada
Inant, r
Pleads for Boys sake.
He pleaded for the sake of their son
Henry that she see him, but she was
deaf to it all. Then Horney. it is said,
went to Bridgeport, Conn, where he
procured Job at his trade.
( March 1S Mrs. Horney went to the
First Precinct Court and got war
rant -lor her husbands arrest on the
charge of desertion and non-support
A fety days ago she told the police TINT
her husband had returned to this city
She tsaid that he was a great baseball
fan and chat they might find him at the
baseball game at West Side Oval. The
police, went there Sunday, but could not
locate him in the crowd. At that time
the Awife told the police that the last
times she was with her husband he cut
up gall her clothing.
with Mrs. Sloan at the Boyden street
add ress besides the murdered woman
llvd,d Mrs. Sloan's son Henry and her
twRo other daughters, Edna and Laura,
F6nry and the two girls had their
mtbrning meal early and left the house
shortly after 7 o'clock. Horney has
since told the police that he waited un-
xil they had gone before he entered
Met Wife Lnst Night.
4 Horney also told Captain Carroll, of
the detective bureau, that he passed a
sleepless night He said that last night
he met his wife at the home Of his
aunt. Mrs. Haas, in New street He
asked her, he told the police, to with
draw the complaint she made against
him and he agreed to support their
child, but she refused. He said that
when he left where he was rooming at
Springfield avenue and Eighteenth
street he was bent on murder.
Mrs. Sloan met him at the door. She
tried to close the door in his face, but
he 1amrned it with his foot, and forced
his way past her. His wife heard the
scuffie and arose from the breakfast
table. She started to enter the parlor
from the dining-room when Horney
pulled the revolver and fred four shots,
all Of which took effect.
At the first shot, which 1t is believed
entered the shoulder, she turned and
ian backwards to the dinfng-room Her
husband ran In front of her and fired
three other bullets into her body. She
fell dead at the bottom of stairway
which led TO the apartments overhead
where her mother had fed in terror.
Mrs. Mary Goettner, who lives at "a
R fContinued ON Third Psge.)