New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-28
fatal" Writes Slayer of
Wife and Daughter, Then
Leaps to Death.
WOMAN COMPANION
AND $1,000 MISSING
Body Left to Science-Bitter
Notes Penned While Planning
Suicide in Hotel.

Nathan Pullman ended an incomplete
programme to wipe out his family by
murder end suicide when he Owed from
a fourth-story window Of the Grand
Central Hotel, Forty-third Street and
Third Avenue, yesterday morning. A
combination Of fortunate circumstances
saved two of his daughters from the
axe that took the life of his wife and
his married daughter, Mrs. Gertrude
Bazell, twelve hours earlier.
The body Of Pullman crashed through
an awning frame and landed so vio-
lently on stairway leading to base
ment that one of the steps was reduced
TO splnters. A barber and a half
shaved patron hurried to the street, IN
the belief that there had been an ex-
ploson, then aided in carrying the still
! breathing man into store. He died
few minutes later at Flower Hospital.
A search of the room Pullman had
taken the previous night as Zones and
wife," but with no "wife," revealed in
coherent letters in which he had sought
to justify the killing of his wife and
daughter. Across each letter was
scrawled the caption, "the wages of sin
is DEATH" Domestic troubles, real oil
fancied, had worked upon his disor-
dered mind until he imagined himself
a martyr.
$1,000 and Woman Missing.
Yesterdays investigation left two
mysteries still unsolved-the identity
Of the woman Pullman had expected
to meet at the hotel and the where
abouts of $4,000 he was said to have
exhibited before leaving his room at
| ia Dawson Street, where the two muir
ders were committed.
Pullman was retired insurance
broker, whose home was in Chicago.
/ With his wife he wes on here for a
visit. The keeper of the rooming house
said she could hear their voices lifted
often in violent discussion.
/ Wednesday afternoon he bought an
axe. Later developments indicate that
he almost Immediately used it to kill
| his wife.
Then the man hurried out to the home
of Mrs. Bazell, at 1872 Prospect Avenue
and, by telling her her that her mother
/ was seriously i'll, caused her to return
1 TO the room with him. One blow is be
| lieved to have taken her life.
Previous to this Pullman had visited
the home Of another daughter, Mrs
Nina Kasinitz, $50 East l64th Street
and left message for her to call q
see her mother Immediately. She di'
not respond. He also made an unsuc
cessful effort to reach his youages
daughter, Mrs. Ida Gable, of Astoria
L. |.
Murderer Flees to Hotel.
After the double killing Pullman
went to the Grand Central Hotel. HI
explained to the clerk that his wifi
would arrive in the evening. At tina
time he exhibited only 50. The clerl
4 IND bellboys say that the expected cal
/ from Mrs. Jones" did not materlalize
One theory of the police is that The
woman referred to as MRS. Jones" may
| have gone to Pullman's room without
/ the knowledge of the hotel employees
received the money and departed be
| fore he began writing the eight letter:
/ found.
The first letter, addressed to the
newspapers, was in a flippant tone ano
was written in Yiddish. In it he said
"Goodby, everybody; ta-ta. | guess
will make good. ! am going on Ions
| journey. Ta-ta again, and ta-ta once
more" Then, in a statement about the
/ murders, he said that his two victim:
were better off. you know, these PEG
pie were never any good to anybody
! but themselves" he wrote. $50 bt
wise, you people, and don't make too
much fuss about things you can't help
We have seen and heard worse thing;
than this"
Gives Body TO Science.
In a letter addressed Medical lnsti
tuition" he said: 81 donate my body &c
any certified medical institution for the
study and progress Of science. Wheer
wrote this letter | thought | would
not have TO jump from the fourth story
to die, but | was disappointed. But 70
make sure | will jump from the fourth
story"
Pullman's next letter referred to the
discovery Of letters in his wife's room
in which she had told her daughter
Mrs. Bazell, to make life a hell FOL
him" He described a supposed inter
view with his daughter in which she
referred to this series Of letters and
turned ell colors."
"She began to excuse herself, so
finally saw that she was guilty and
finished her, too," he wrote.
Another note described the supposed
arrest Of Mrs. Bazell whom he refers
TO as "Gertie Pullman" a shoplifter
The letter said that she was arrested
October 5. The records of the Detec-
tive Bureau show that a Gussie Pull
man, necktie maker, was arrested foi
shoplifting on that date, but was re-
leased later under suspended SEN
tence.
After completing his letters Pullman
called a bellboy and sent out for a
morning newspaper. lie smiled as ne
received il. Evidently he spent hall an
hour studying the story OF his crime
Then he stuck the paper in his pocket
clambereG out on ledge below MS
window and Owed TO the sidewalk:
After reading the letters JACOB ia,
zell. husband Of one OF the murdered
women, sara lhhI ms "iAc nov
so worried about the dangers involving
her mother because Of Pullman's. &C
tons that at one time she had not been
responsible for her acts. 1t was while
in this state, he said, that she had
taken an article in one OF the depart
ment stores and walked out without
attempting 10 conceal II.
AND THE CAT CAME BACK