New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

in German, and then went back to the
kitchen to lay red table cloth and
heap it with her own cooking for this
silent, grayhaired brother
Never Had Used a Phone
The telephone rang 1t was Colonel
Nichol again. Mrs. Trauth informed
her brother ana asked bin to step to
the telephone. Henry protested that
he never had used a telephone IN his
life. But Henry was instructed to say
"Hcllo.' This ne did and all but
dropped the instrument when he beard
Colonel Nichols voice. Henry is an apt
individual and in very Jew seconds
was explaining to Colonel Nichol that
he had spent the previous night with
friend
"Somc of the time was back in
the old neighborhood where had my
trouble he said.
This "trcuble" was the shooting of
his wife at their little home, in l79
Irving Avenue. He sent five bullets
into her body and sixth the drink
maddencd husband then fred into his
own head. 1t passed through his head.
coming out between his eye and his
nose, but, in spite of ths and .hc
gloomy predictions Of the physicians
at st. Mary's Hospital, Henry recov-
cred within few weeks. His wife died
in the same hospital the day after she
was shot. After four weeks in the hos
pjtal and SIX months in the Raymond
Street Jail Henry was sent to Sing
parole law was passed after he went ,.p.
Children Go to Asylum
The two sons Henry, six and Rudolph.
five years old, were sent to an orphan
asylum. Both now are soldiers in the
American army of occupation in Ger
many, back in the Rhineland country
where their father was born. They have
not seen him since the day of the
tragedy.
Yesterday Henry was unable to ex-
plain the haste with which he had re-
visited the scene of his crime ~ used
to think about it at night in the
prison." he said $50 | thought I'd
go and get it off my mind. When we
lived there the Fresh Pond district
was all vacant lots and Irish and Ger
man. Now it is all Jews and Italians.
| stood across the street from my house
last night after it was dark and looked
and thought. Strangers live there now.
50 ! didn't try to enter. Tomorrow |
shall visit my wife's grave in the
Lutheran Cemetery at Middle Village"
After this telephone conversation
With Colonel Nicho, Henry learned
that 4 friend of his benefactor wished
to take him to New York to see the
town, and SO he set out on round of
thing that ever occurred to Sindbad the
Sailor. He rode in the subway for the
first time and then heaved a sigh of
relief when he emerged in New York
to take another ride in a taxicab After
that Henry said he would be glad to
accept an invitation to ride in an aero
plane. The taxi ride ended at the
Hippodrome.
Costumes Startle Henry
Renry's vocabulary was badly strained
at that performance. "Never have I
seen anything like it," he said.
Then the curtain rose on that scene
in Everything" in which the girls
wear lampshade costumes Henry said
nothing, but he took off his eyeglasses
and polished them carefully before re-
placing them on his nose At the
finale Henry vowed that he'd never,
never go back to Sing Sing again.
The bright lights have no appeal for
this man. His ambition is to get en-
ployment on farm, for he understands
farmwork. Any one who can assist him
to achieve this ambition should com
municate with Colonel Nichol, of the
Volunteers of America, at "a West
Twenty eighth Street
While he waits for this country Job
Henry plans to stand on New York