New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-21
KILLS TWO WOMEN,
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Salesman, infatuated with
One Victim, Dying in
Triple Tragedy.
ESTRANGED FROM
WIFE BY ILLICIT LOVE
Bitter Quarrel After Dance the
Cause of Crime in Newark
Apartment House.

Two women were killed in Newark
yesterday, and their slayer, 8 man
whose infstustion FOR the younger
gives = motive, is dying in the City
Hospital there. One Of the victims was
evidently shot SIS she tried 10 p. ptect
the other.
The shooting occurred at 252 South
Orange Avenue, sn apartment h use.
The dead are Mrs. Mary Clark and
Miss Hattie Reeves, who boarded IN
her family. Hiram r. Craig, trav-
cling salesman fer the Columbia Mills
luc.). % West Twenty-fourth Street,
Manhattan, fired the shots lie TO mer-
~ lived IN Jersey City, but has been
separated for years from his wife and
son because Of his relations with Miss
Reeves. She was twenty-eight years
old, while he is fifty.
Craig went TO the Clark home Fri
day night and asked for Miss Reeves.
u appeared greatly disturbed when
told that she had gone TO dance, and
at his request a room was prepared for
him and he went out, saying that he
would return later and stay al right.
After several hours, Craig returned.
He was intoxicated. and sat up to wait
Tor Miss Reeves. who was still at the
dance. About $3.50 o'clock yesterday
morning she came home, to find Craig
still waiting for her. There was a
quarrel. Loud words brought Mrs.
CLARK. Finally Craig, Infatuated by the
young woman's tsunts, drew revolver
and FREQ. Miss Reeves saw the mo-
t!on. and had partly turned to fee,
when q bullet hit her in the back, be-
tween the shoulders, and she dropped.
Another shot penetrated the back and
reached the heart.
Meanwhile Mrs. Clark had rushed
INTO the fray. She stopped the third
bullet. which smashed a butter dish
she was carrying and entered her
breast She was killed instantly. Craig
then turned the weapon on himself and
fred twice One bullet went into the
head above the right ear and came out
Al the top Of the head; the other
passed through his left lung and
lodged in the neck.
Craig had fallen as Miss Martha
Clark. twenty-one years old. daughter
Of one Of the victims, entered the room
and stumbled over her mothers body.
you've killed my MOTHER she
nouted. -,
Cant you see that I'm shot, too -
replied Craig as he writhed on the
floor
Miss Clark told the police that she
was in the apartment of her grand
parents, or the second floor, Just under
the rooms where the shooting took
place. The grandfather. BertholC
koenig, is eiEhty-one years old and
feeble. His wife, year or two young.
or, has been bedridden for years, and
Miss Martha was attending 10 her when
the shots were heard.
Mrs. Craig was in at her home, 215
Clerk Street, Jersey City yesterday
and could not be seen. Her twenty
year-old son said that he did not wish
10 visit his father, but asked the hos
pital authorities TO notify him in case
Of death The Rev. J. Francis Morgan
pastor Of the Claremont Presbyterian
Church. was at the house and said that
the family was broken up several years
ago because OF Craig's attentions to
the Newark woman. The church hac
also expelled him.
Recently, Mr.. Morgan said, Craig hac
tried to become reconciled with his
family, but his wife and son had re-
fused to have anything to do with him