Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-25
SHOOTS WOMAN
AND SOON AFTER
ISFOUND DEAD
Double Tragedy in Polish
Boarding House on Beacon
Street Brings Inquiry.
DEAD MAN HAD WOUND
IN BACK OF THE HEAD
tandlady, Whom He Tried to
Kill, Is in Paralyzed
Condition.

A young Polish butcher is dead and
his cousin, young matron with two
children, is in the City Hospital
paralyzed from the neck down as the
result of shooting at their home, 81
Beacon street, last night. Three
months ago they eloped from Pough-
keepsie and last Saturday the
woman's father came here in an at
tempt to straighten out the mixup.
The older man, who was in the
house when the shooting occurred,
says that the young butcher shot botn
himself and the woman, but County
Physician Mckenzie says it Wor
have been almost impossible for the
dead man to have fired the shot which
killed him.
The older man was arrested by police
of the Fourth Precinct, but his story
was so clear and precise that Captain
Oscar Vogel was satisfied that the
dead man killed himself and at noon
today paroled the older man, Ser
geant Sebold and Detective Rotten
berg of police headquarters, however,
are investigating the many mystify-
Ing features attending the shooting.
The dead man is Theodore Ballszen-
ski, twenty-nine years old. The
woman is Mrs. Lillian Wirkosky, about
his own age and the older man being
held as witness is Joseph Baliszen-
ski, flfty-three years old. of "a North
Water street, Poughkeepsie.
About three months ago Baliszen-
ski obtained employment in the pork
packing house of A. Fink 6; Sons, of
129 Belmont avenue. He said his
hn NO
married Nothing about him was
known, but he proved to be steady
and dligent and earned a good name
from his employers and associates.
About the time he went to work
FOR Fink he commenced to live on the
ground floor at 81 Beacon street With
him were the woman and her two
children, Loretta, aged seven, and
Evelyn, aged five. The neighbors as
suned the relations were conven-
tional and all were known as Miller.
BFothers Of woman.
Nothing out of the ordinary hap
pcned until Christmas Eve when the
couple had two men callers and after
a time the police were called to quell
Il fight. Then it became known that
the callers We're brothers of the
woman, one a resident of Newark and
the other of Poughkeepsie, and that
hoy had come in an effort to get
their sister to go back to her hus-
Band. The fight started through the
butchers resentment at the propo-
sition.
Nothing seemed to come out of the
Christmas visit except that the
neighbors became acquainted with the
conditions of affairs and had less to
do with "the Millers." They also
seemed to be worried, but did not
quarrel, so far as the neighbors knew.
Last Saturday the woman's father
came from Poughkeepsie, and after
that the butcher seemed nervous and
worried even more than ebfore. Last
night. shortly before o'clock, two
Young children ran up to Policeman
William SchWerer. who was standing
al Springfield and Belmont avenues.
saving that a fight was going on at
81 Beacon street and that there was
shooting.
Schwerer whistled for help and was
followed by Traffic Policeman Man
ming to the house. There the police
men found the older man standing in
The dining-room with a revolver in
his hand and his hand, coatsleeve
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