The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-04-25
Tilted GIRL KILLS
Man W|THP|STOL
THAT He GAVE HER
"If ! Don't Marry You, Shoot
Ne With This" He Said,
And She Did.

Three days before the date set for
her marriage to Joseph Anilino. tw on
ty-four years old. Henrietta Halpern.
twenty-seven years Of age. shot the
man through the heart at 1906 o'clock
this morning in a little candy store
which she owns at No. 2s4 Ellery
street, Williamsburg.
He had Tilted me-" the young
woman quietly said to policemen who
found her standing over the body Of
Anilino. When he made love to me
and asked me to become his wife he
gave me this pistol and told me to
kill him II he broke his promise.
We'll. l did II. Now the law can
Kill me II II wants to. l shot him
when he wrote me letter saying be
could not marry me because [ was a
Jewess and he a Christian and that
his people objected"
She showed no emotion when taken
to the Vernon avenue police station
and put In cell. This morning she
was arruigned In the Gates Avenue
Police Court.
The candy store owned by Miss
Halpern IL on the first floor of tene-
ment house. On the second floor AMI
limo lived with his parents. He was O
moving picture operator employed in
the New Star Theatre, One Hundred
and Sixth street. near Fifth avenue.
Manhattan. A stockily built, good
looking chap. with fair hair. he was q
general favor1te among the young
lived.
II was on Dec. % last that Miss
Haipern opened her little candy store.
Amino struck up an acquaintance
with her. The young woman says that
early In January he asked her 20
marry him.
She demurred because Of the dif-
ference In their religious beliefs and
then. she says. her sutton handed her
q pistol and told her that II he did
not become her husband In spite of
all religion she could kill him.
She tested the weapon, found that
II was useless and returned It to
Anilino. who. she says. gave her
another pistol.
This will not fall to work" she
says he told her.
In her living room at the rear OF
the store she tested that pistol, too,
and found It effective. Notwith-
standing her precaution. she says she
fall to keep his promise. In the
evenings she worked at her trous-
| Oeau.
According to the story she told the
police. every detail for their wedding
had been mapped out. The marriage
was to be civil one. and they were
to have a little wedding journey over
to Jersey. Then she was 70 continue
running the candy store and Anilino
was to attend to hts moving LECTURE
| business.
All OF those air castles fell fiat, she
| says, when yesterday she received n
letter from Anilino telling her the
wedding could not take place
Briefly. he explained that his parents
objected because Of her race and that
he would have to bow to their wishes
With the note In her hand. she
| waited In the store last evening, for
Anilino to return to his home. When
he appeared. shortly after midnight
she called him into the store and de.
manded an explanation. She says
he replied that the letter explained
itself.
Then she drew the pistol and re
minded him of what he had told her
Anilino grabbed at II, she says. but
ehe avoided him and fired four shots
| One bullet crashed through a window
another through a glass pane in tho
front door, another went wild and .he
| last struck Anilino in the breast and
ne fell dead at her feet.
Almost before the last shot rang on,
Policemen Drinkwater. O'Malley and
| echaefyer and Detective James Owens
Y rushed into the store. The girl hand
| ed the weapon to them and told hei
story. At the police station she said
she came to this country from Aus.
tria eighteen years ago. that re'
parents were dead and that she hal
a brother living at No. l72 Defiance,
street.