Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-04-09
Adam ShuIsky, Of Grove Street,
Fires Two Shots, Kill
Ing His Wife.
HIS BODY FOUND IN WELL
Learn That ShuIsky's Intimacy
With Other Women and
His Wife With Other
Men Caused Deed.
HIS BODY FOUND IN WELL

After Staying his wife by sending
two bullets through her brain on the
front porch of their home at 324
Grove street, Adam Shulsky, forty
years old, drowned himself In we'll
In the rear of the house shortly be-
fore 10 O'Clock this morning. The
man was released from the county
Jail two months ago after having
been sent there for beating Mrs.
Shulsky.
The double tragedy is declared to
have resulted from Shulsky's tntf-
macy with other women and his jeal-
Gus rage in hearing that his wife had
been intimate with other men. The
wife's innocence was unquestioned by
neighbors, but it was learned that for
some time that Shulsky had been liv-
ing with another woman at 719 Cort-
landt street ever since he was re-
leased from Jail. Both principals had
been married before and there were
no children from the second union.
Coroner Eugene J. Mullen was no.
titled of the Staying by Chief of Po-
lice Burke and arrived at the scene
at 1916. He removed the body of
tue 0pmdly Ing ln pun VI DlOod,
from the porch, and, with the body
of Shulsky, took 1t to his morgue.
He found Shulsky's feet sticking up
Just below the surface of the water
in the well, the head buried in the
mire at the bottom. The mans face
bore an awful grimaee which naS6a
Saose- staTu5Mx abonk shgeder. His
eyes appeared unusually large. and
his expression was that of wild man.
Intense excitement prevailed about
the scene and pushing, Jostling
mob of 1000 foreigners, men, women
and children gathered about the lit
tie house and surveyed the body of
the woman crumpled on the porch
In a pool of blood, and watched the
body of Shulsky drawn from the we'll
under direction of Chief Burke. At
first the crowd thought the murderer
was still at large, and we're timid in
entering the yard, but when they
learned that he was In the we'll.
focked through the gates and over
the fences.
No eye witnesses of the tragedy
have yet been secured, but Alex.
10th, living on adjoining property, |
was one of the first on the scene. He |
was not working and had just fin !
fshed breakfast with his wife when he
heard the report of two shots fired
1t came from the direction |
of Shulsky's home. He ran out of |
the house and knocked on the back |
door. No one answered. He made |
his way to the front of the building
and found Mrs. Shulsky lying face
n Wy oY.d faJ4 l.
body and 1t was yet warm He
looked for the murderer and a boy |
Informed him that Shulsky had |
jumped into the well. Looking in the |
well 10th saw the mans cap floating |
on the surface and his feet sticking
straight up. Shortly afterward Pa |
trolmen Quinlan and Chris Hanson |
arrived, and later Patrolmen Kas-
prczak and Hartung.
Quinlan was ON Smith street and |
after the police had been notified was
detailed to the scene and instructed |
to take another officer with him. He
made his way to Grove street and
Hanson on the way. When
Ahey arrived several in the crowd In
formed them the murderer was in
the house. Look out, he will snoot
you," some one cried. The two Of
1cers broke in the front door and
searched the house with hands on
their hips ready to draw their guns
IN case of emergency. Their search
was futile and coming out of the rear
door they were informed that the
murderer was In the well.
Chief Burke and Coroner Mullen
arrived on the scene about the same
time, and proceeded to draw the man
from the well. A ladder was first
put down, but this means proved of
no avail. A moose was then made at
he direction of the chief and attach
I'd to steel hook, connected with
he rope on the windlass of the we'll
Alex Gardner, of 1S1 Bruck avenue,
to attach the moose to
he mans leg and let himself down
IN the outjutting stones. The
gindlass was then turned and Shul-
'ky's body drawn TO near the top of
he we'll, where it was grabbed byl
wo husky men standing by, and
placed on the ground. In a pocket
)ook dozen thirty-two calibre bull
cts were found. The man was in his
hirt sleeves, with a sweater hang-i
ng from one arm. Being a laborer
lie was roughly dressed. is
There was a welt on his head,
Which is believed to have been made 8
yhen the man leaped into the well {
nd struck his head against one of I
he stones at the top. From all ap-
'earanees the man intended to make ;
ertain of his suicide by jumping
into the circular hole. =
More than three months agoI
hulsky was sent TO the county Jail
or three months for beating his wife.
.fter he had been In Jail one month !
acob L. Klein, his counsel, secured {
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