The evening world., 1911-03-30
Travelling Salesman Gets Back
From Trip and Quarrels
With Her All Night.
BOTH LIKELY TO DIE.
Aged Mother Tries to lump
From Window When She
Hears of Tragedy.

After an ail-night quarrel. Jack Neu-
man, a travelling salesman, shot his
wife Lena and himself at No. ZIG East
Thirty-hrst street at 3 o'clock this
morning. Both are In Bellevue Hospital
In a critical condition. The woman has
shot himself in the right temple.
Letters found in Neuman's pockets az
ter he was taken to the hospital indi-
cato that the attempt at murder and
suicide was premeditated. According to
persons living at No. ZIG East Thirty
first street. a roomlng house, the couple
led a cat and dog existence. Mrs. Neu-
man Is thirty years old, ten years
younger than her husband.
The East T~hirty-frst street house Is
conducted by Mrs. Frederick Rohmer.
She took the place only last Monday
and knows nothing about the Neumans.
Up to last night Mrs. Neuman occupied
the front room on the second floor alone,
her husband being in Baltimore on
business.
NuaTTelIeu All N'0nts
lie returned last evening. Otto
Rymeus, who occupies a room just
back of the Neumans, says the pair
began to argue as soon as Neuman got
home. The argument kept up most OF
the night. The woman wanted Neuman
to leave and he refused. She spoke
many times of her ability to support
herself. and this drift of the argument
appeared to render the man furious.
All was quiet in the Neumans' room
from daylight until shortly before 8
o'clock. Then the couple was heard
again in loud and angry conversation
Rymeus was leaving his room at s
o'clock when he heard two pistol shots
and a scream In the Neuman
apartment.
lie ran 70 the street and summoned
Policeman Miller OF the East Thirty
fifth street station. During his absence
another shot was fred. When Police,
, man Miller reached the house and
forced the door OF the OF the
Neumans he found both unconscious
The revolver with which the shooting
had been done "a on a dresser some
distance from where Neuman was lying
and for a time there was some doub
as to which of the couple had done
| the shooting.
Wrots Three Letters.
This doubt was d~!ssipated when De,
~tectives Nelson and Mcdonald searched
Neuman's clothes at the hospital. They
found several letters he had written
but had failed to mail. They were I'D,
dressed to Mrs. Minnie Neuman. No
1920 East Fayette street, Baltimore
Neuman's sist~er-in-law; Mrs, Denbo
No. 40 South Eaton street, Baltimor,
and Hoe Levy. No. 636 East Thirteentl
street. All the letters We're similar II
| construction. The letter to Levy read:
March p.
Dear Friends Joe and Max: When
you get this letter l will be dead
because / kill myself. I a you to
be at my funeral. Go to my sister
Mrs. Weingarten. 7o1 East One Hun
dred and Sixtieth street.
Look friends This is all you could
get out OF fast life. ! know / was 4
fool, but I couldn't stand for II any
more. The live ones were too much
for us. Look in the newspapers.
They will have oil about 1t.
In the letter to Mrs. Neuinan tn
writer said, Il Just got tired of life an
Lena was the cause of II. but l am kill
ing her. too"
The dates OF tho letters show tina
he had the murder and suicide pic
in mind for at least a week.
Mother Tries to XIII Herself.
Mrs. Weinsarten. Neuman's sister. live
at No. FOL East One Hundred and Slx
tieth street with her mother. who
eighty years old and stone blind. Whe
an Evening World reporter went to tn
nat, an hour after the shooting down
town. Mrs. Weinxarten opened the doc
and screamed;
.something has happened to m
brother Jacob"
While she was bombarding the repor
err with questions the noise of a windo
/, opening was heard in the dining roo
of the nat. Mrs. Weingarten ran towai
the door OF the dining room and faints