Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-23
Vim. Corduan, Hus-
band of Victim, Is
Missing, Charged
with Her Death.
POLICE AND HOSPITAL
REFUSE TO AID WOMAN
Reported Simply as Case of
"Dying Woman"-Witnesses
Now Under Arrest Feared to
Tell of True Conditions.

From superficial" wounds on her
face, Mrs. Emma Corduan, As years
old, slowly bled to death in her home
at 1852 Walnut street and her hus-
band, William Corduan, as years old,
is a fugitive from justice, it being
charged by the police that he in
fiicted the wounds on Monday which
resulted In her death yesterday morn
ing.
Acting County Physician William
D. Minningham, who performed an
autopsy on the dead woman this
morning, said that her death was due
to external hemorrhages from the
wounds, one on the upper left cheek
and the other on her upper lip, which
might have been inflicted with some
sharp instrument He also added
that had the woman received medical
attention her life probably could
have been saved, as the nature OF
the wounds clearly indicated that
she had slowly bled to death.
The wounds were described by DR..
Minningham as being superficial,
inasmuch as they were inflicted on the
exterior of the face only, not pene-
trating into the interior of the head.
circumstances PerpIexing.
The circumstances surrounding the
assault on the woman by her nus
band and the manner in which she
was permitted to die is beyond the
comprehension of the authorities.
Monday night about 8 o'clock a
young woman boarding with the Cor
duans, and known only as Hattie,
went to the saloon OF Jacob Holzer
AT Walnut and McWhorter streets,
lust across the street from the Cor
duan home, and asked for drink OF
brandy for a, sick woman" At that
time she asked the bartender to tele-
phone to the police station that a
woman was dying.
Mr.. Holzer stated to Detective Ser
geant Walter Godfrey, of the prose-
cutor's office, and Detective Brex, of
the Third precinct, that he tele-
phoned to the station and was told
by the lieutenant on the desk that
the police could do nothing with the
case, bat that he should call up the
City Hospital. He lid not state over
the telephone that the woman had
been beaten.
He then called up the City Hospital
and had this conversation it is said:
"a woman is dying at 162 Walnut
street, won't you send and take her?"
mo, she will have to be committed
by a doctor" is the reply he alleges
he received from the hospital.
Monday night DR. Charles F.
Tomassi, of 155 Union street, re-
sponded to a telephone call that a
woman was dying at the Walnut
street address, and it is said by the
police reached the kitchen of the Cor
duan home and asked who was going
to pay him, and when told that nu
one would he refused to see the dying
woman. DR.. d. Eppler, of SO Con-
gress street. also received a call, but
was told that the woman was i'll al
161 Walnut street, and when he visited
that address was told that no one
was I'll there.
Neighbors Heard of Murder" Monday.
Neighbors have told the detectives
that all day Monday there were ru-
mors that Mrs. Corduan had been
murdered, but no one made an in
vestigation, or did they notify the
police. In the meantime, Corduan
was taking things leisurely about the
house and frequently visiting saloons,
1t is said
Mrs Cora Vreeland, of Ais Plane
street, visited her friend, Mrs. Cor
duan, Monday night and seing that
she was in a dangerous condition,
asked the husband, who is said to
have been intoxicated: What have
you done, WHIP" She alleges that he
shrugged his shoulders, and replied:
when l do job, 1 do it good"
After administering to the wound
ed woman she left the house, and be-
fore she had gone half a block en-
countered a policeman, but she did
not tell him of conditions in the
Corduan home. With her at that
time was Mrs. Minnie Benz of 121
Commerce street, who also failed to
notify the authorities. Both women
were placed under arrest and held at
the Third precinct station house as
material witnesses.
Friends Afraid OF Getting Into Trouble
To the detectives who arrested
them, both women declared that their
reason for not telling the authorities
of the affair was that they were
afraid of getting into trouble, and
added that they did not believe their
friend would die
Corduan was about the premises all
day yesterday. Shortly before noon
he was in conversation with Pau
Testa, an ice dealer, of SO Elm
street. He was also seen about the
house between 5 and o'clock in the
afternoon by other tenants of the
building.
The police have learned, they say
that both the dead woman and hel
husband drank heavily and frequently
quarreled. Louis Schroeder, of II
Ferry street, an employee of tn.
Graves File Works, boarded with tn,
couple until last Saturday when ht
left on account of the continual fight.
ing between the couple. He statec
to the police that when Corduar
would come home drunk he woulc
hurl plates or anything else that hs
could put his hands on at his wife