Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-10
|CRAZED, JUMPS
FROM WINDOW
Man Leaps from Seoond-Story
Window. Crying for Wife
and Children.

Driven temporarily insane by
worry about his wife and children.
who are in Russia, Eugene Yakowski,
thirty-fiye years old, jumped from
second story window of a boarding
house at 4S3 High street yesterday
morning Whether he intended to
kill himself or another man who was
sitting beneath the window, and
whom the deranged man suspected OF
plotting to keep him from his fam
lily, is not known.
outside of a laceration above the
right eye and a bruise to his right
side. he was uninjured, the doctors
at the City Hospital say. He is be-
ing detained, however, for observa-
ton as to his sanity.
A complaint to the board of police
commissioners about the police In
handling the case will be made by
Mrs. Marie Wigert. proprietress of
the. boarding house where Yakowski
lived, she declared today. Captain
Oscar Vogel, of the Fourth precinct,
and one of the patrolmen attached
/ to the precinct will come in for her
censure, she said.
YakowslSi first showed signs of de-
rangement on Thursday, when he left
his work and returned to his room.
He said the heat affected him. The
following morning he asked Mrs. WI
gert IL her husband and another man
hadn't been talking in the parlor the
night before She said that they
hadn't, that her husband had re-
tired early in the evening
His reply was, 81 must have been
dreaming, but 1t doesn't seem pos
sible." From that time on he kept
telling Mrs. Wigert that her hus-
band wanted to get him deported
and make him go to war, and that he
had overheard his plans. He then
told fellow boarders that he was
going to sail to Russia the next day,
| Saturday. On Saturday he was too
i'll to leave his room, and in response
to Mrs. Wigert's inquiries insisted
that he was being poisoned or was
going to be killed.
At o'clock Sunday morning the
people for blocks around the house
were awakened by his shrfll cries
from his window. He yelled repeat
eddy my wife and children" Ac-
cording to Mrs. Wigert, her husband
and some of the boarders, finding that
he had barricaded himself in his
room, went in search of policeman,
They were unable to find one until 10
Ho'clock. when one passed the house,
she said.
house, according to Mrs. Wigert, be-
cause he said 1t was against the law.
He advised her to get DIR. Clark, the
police surgeon. She tried to get him
and he was out of town. Then Cap
tain Vogel was informed of the case
and he gave one of the boarders the
address of DIR. Hinckley, DR.. Clark's
substitute, and he went to summon
him. In the meanwhile Yakowsh,
who had been quiet for a while,
climbed to the window sill and
jumped. He apparently tried to jump
on Joseph Wigert, the man whom he
suspected of plotting against him and
, who was sitting on the stoop, but his
window was too far from the stoor
| and he fell to the stone pavement be-
meath. He was treated at the Babies
Hospital, opposite, until the ambu-
| lance arrived.
Mrs. Wigert claims that If the po-
lice had acted promptly the man
would not have risked his life She
also claims that no policeman passed
her house between and 10 in the
morning Another allegation she
made and which she said she would
make to the commissioners was that
! Captain Vogel refused to telephone
DR.. Hinckley and told the man who
saw him to go there himself.
Mrs. wigert said that some months
ago she elected some policemen from
an upper hallway, where they were
watching a house under suspicion In
| Academy street.
! Captain Vogel denied that he re-
fused to telephone or that any officers
did not do their duty. He said the
boarder told him that the man was
sleeping and quiet then, but that they
were afraid of another outbreak.