New-York tribune., 1920-03-03
Mrs. Won Tnzer
Stabs Husband,
Freed by Court
Song Publishers Wife Ac.
quilted Upon Her Recital
of His Alleged Infidelity
as Disclosed by Stranger
Bread Knife Her Weapon
Police, Twice Called to
House by Woman, Find
Man Wounded i'm Side

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Her own story Of discovery Of al
legged infidelity on the part Of her
husband and his cruelty told on the
witness stand in the West Side Police
Court yesterday by Mrs. Estelle Won
Tilzer, thirty-nine years old. wife of
Jules Won Tilzer. a member of the
firm Of music writer's and publishers
bearing his name, caused Magistrate
Simpson to dismiss the charge of as
sault against the woman after she had
admitted that she stabbed Won Tilzer.
Mrs. Won Tilzer, who is widely known
among men and women of the stage,
was taken to the West Tooth Street po-
lice station early yesterday after po-
licemen and detectives who had. gone
to her apartment at 204 West Ninety
fourth Street found her standing be-
side the bed on which her husband
lay, screaming that she had stabbed
him and wished to be arrested. This
was at o'clock and was the second
call for police which Mrs. Won Tilzer
had sent to the station in the night.
Husband Reassures First Callers
The first call was made about 1880
o'clock, and she told policemen at that
After being assured by MI. Won iii
ger that his wife was nervous as tho
result Of an automobile accident and
that her alarm was due to personal af-
fairs, the policemen departed, only to
be summoned later to find Mr.. Won
Tilzer on the bed with a wound in his
left side.
Mrs. Won Tilzcr, policemen said,
stood beside her husband, holding
silver bread knife, and proclaiming
that she had stabbed him.
AT the police station she expressed
hope that she had mortally injured
her husband, and told briefly of family
affairs. She said she had discovered
his Intimacy with another woman.
Mr.. Won Tilzer, who was given emer-
gency treatment at his home, declared:
Il want her arrested. This thing has
gone on long enough"
He said that he had arrived home at
1880 o'clock and found his wife with
several Of her friends. He went to his
room and was followed soon by Mrs.
Won Tilzer, who had dismissed her
visitors
"She Does All the Talking" He Says
II do not remember what she said.n
he declared on the witness stand yes
terday afternoon. II never have any
words with my wife. She always does
all the talking. l fell asleep. The
next thing I knew there was q sharp
pain in my left side. She was stand
ing over me with a knife.
He insisted there had been no quar-
rel, and that he couldn't account for
his wife's action except that she had
been extremely nervous
When Mrs Won T;11or , alicia
woman, strikingly attired, took the
stand she admitted that she had at
| tackled her husband, and said it was
after he had returned home and de-
manded that She go to bed and be
quiet, and finally struck her on the
chest with his hand.
II was hysterical," she added. "and
went into my husbands room to talk
with him concerning matters which I
had learned lately. He refused to talk.
and said that If you do not go to sleep
will put you to sleep myself where
upon he struck me in the chest. |
seized the knife, and after that do
not know what happened.
he has been very violent man. He
oroke my jaw once, and on one occa-
SION ne tried to hit girl as she walked
through the Astor Hotel, and stopped
him."
Mrs. Won Tilzer said her husband
had beaten her on many occasions.
1t was at this point that she declared
she had discovered Won Tilzer's rela-
I.tions with another woman, saying:
Last Saturday night woman tele-
phoned me and said she heard | was
seeking divorce. I pretended that I
was contemplating a divorce suit Just
to see what she had to say, and she de-
clared that my husband had been
friendly with another woman for three
years, and that she would arrange q
meeting. l assented, and the next dav
l met the other woman at the Hotel
Bonita, at Ninety-fourth Street and
Broadway"
Revelation by Other Woman
She testified that the woman said i:
Mrs. Won Tilzer, have learned that
you are good woman. am the other
woman. Your husband has been taxi
ing me around to hotels for the last
three years. He has been koing under
another name. He told me lately that
ne was married and~was going to try to
get divorce. He said he was hayinc
detectives watch you"
MRS. Won Tilzer said her husband re-
turned home from Boston on SUNDAY
and that she had produced letters |
wnlch the woman had given her, and he |
did not deny they were written by him.
She cried all day Sunday, she said. be-
cause she loved her husband dearly.
Az the conclusion of Mrs. Won TIL
zers testimony Magistrate Simpson an
noanced: II believe that the evidence is
sufhclent to show that this woman was
protecting herself. If there is snv
doubt will give her the benefit Of Il.
DISCHARGED !" ~