The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-27
TRUMBULL MAN
 MURDERS WIFE,;
 MAKES ESCAPE
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 Deery found Mrs. Haines dead.
 As soon they became acquainted with the details the policemen were formed into a posse and they ran into the woods on Haines' trail. Armed to, the teeth, they were searching every nook and cranny at press hour this afternoon.
 Haines had threatened to ''blow to pieces anybody who came near him. and the police will take chance with him. Every road leading from
 Beach's woods and every path in the vicinity was being watched this l afternoon.
 Former Deputy Sheriff E. P. Berger said this afternoon that Haines has threat tened to shoot hi mon sight.
 While the police were on their way to the scene, Irving Rosentha1, jit- ney driver of 1907 Main street. was travelling north on Main street near Fritz Henninger's saloon. He was accosted by Edward Ratigan, whose home has been in New Haven and who says he has been employed on Haines' farm. He got into Rosen- tFal's car and asked him to pull down the curtains and drive with him. Rosentha1 denurred and asked why. He was told that a womans s i body was to be carried to 8 norgue.
 Ratigan was put out of the car. Later Rosentha1, becoming curios went back over the road, seeking Ra- tigan and found him riding with liar ry Daniels, a farmer, in a produce wagon. He questioned Ratigan, learn 1 ed of the murder, became convinced that Ratigan had wanted the car for Haines to make his escape in, and then he enticed Ratigan into the jit- ney. Once he got him in there he
 grasped him by the collar and made full speed for police headquarters
 There he turned him over to the po- i lice.
 Ratigan was held without bonds. The police learned this afternoon that
 he knew Haines' intent and in the belief that he knew Haines' hiding place, Captain John H. Began and 1 policeman John Brown. took him in a car to the vicinity of the place the shooting occurred. He admitted on the way that he knew of a cornfield where he thought Haines was hiding. I Constable Berger told his story to The Farmer this afternoon, He said he had arrested Haines for the assault 1 on his wife and he said Haines had l threatened to kill him sight for Isthat and various other things. The sheriff was on the telephone when
 Mrs. Haines, was being approached by 1 her husband this morning and this fact 1 made Haines all the more determined 1 to chastise Berger.
 l Constable, Berger and Mrs. Beach i both happened to be on the wire when I the murder occurred in the Haines ! homestead and they both heard. the tscuffle. Mrs. Haines had shouted Corl- stable Berger's number into the te1e- I phone when she knocked off the re- I ceiver and the Trunbul1 soperator con f nected the phones. 8sE According to neighbors~ of Haines l he has been drinking much of late. He | Jo fc he ] said.
 Haines moved to Trumbull only 9 month ago from house of his on Pine Creek road, Fairfield. He has rented it to some Italian speaking
 persons and he went there yesterday with the intention of having them remove
 Aceording to Fairfield residents who
 knew the couple they frequently quar- | reled and Mfrs. Haines was beaten t often.
 l Haines is 4s years old and his wife was 46. They have four children, the isoldest of whom is Jason, a freshman l in the Bridgeport High school com
 nercia1 class. Three of the children were away at school when the murder I occurred this morning.
 I Assistant Medical Exa miner Edward fsFitzgerald visited the scene this af- ternoon and viewed the body. He gave permission for its removal to the
 morgue of Cu1hnan & Mullins. f According to neighbors of Haines, he
 had three shot guns, one rifle and one .revolver in his home. It was said he ETrad been threatening the life of Mrs. E5aines for many days.
 Haines was we'll known in Fairfield,
 Bridgeport and Trum bull. He is said to be very wealthy and to,own eonsfd- erable property.
 l While not an eye witness of the l ysn dyy "a fa1a MTS 1 s. Beach of Chestnut Hill, a neighbor ] of the Haines' family, heard enough 1 of the awful details so that little was left to her imagination. T was talking over the phone, | with aeighbor,' said Mrs. Beach to- day. when suddenly there was a. l dangling in the phone if the re-
 ceiver had been knocked from some 1 telephone along the line. Then I heard Haines and his wife appar- 1 entIy arguing and the next thing I Mrs. Haines began to shriek at the l top of her voice. He is going to kill | me-
 Then came the shots in quick. sue cession and then I couldn't hear any 1 more I ran out of the house and
 called w. E. Waller who was passing. 1 He called the central telephone Station
 at Trumbull and then St. Vincent's hospital and the Bridgeport police.
 Later we sent, word to Constable
 Berger but he was already at the Ihouse.''
 f The Haines family went to live in
 Trunbu1l last spring after MT Haines fell heir to the farm there, Prior to Ithat the family had lived at Price Iayenue and Sasco Hill road, Fair ffie1d, where Haines owns a fourteen tacre farm. Haines had few intimates lin Fairfield as he was reported to be I Iquarelso1ne and hard drinker. He
 Twas not a church goer.f} He raised t1arge quantities of early vegetables
 which he sold to produce dealers in
 this city, making trip here every day during the season.
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