New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
w oman
Shoots Broker
AT His Office
tconsInusd from nase sns,

person who shot him and assigning as
the motive that he had refused to
marry her upon her demand Martel-
iiere was about thirty seven years old,
lived at Freeport, l.. l., and only had
q desk In Room ss4 of the Aetna Build
ing. which fs occupied by the New York
Roof Repairing Company.
these, however, are merely the super
threads of the story. The shooting, it
appears, is really the elimination of a
series of incidents that go back year
and half.
Martelliere is married and has wife
and six-year-old child. from whom he
was separated from time to time, and
whcm he left for the last time about
a month ago. 1t was thruogh her that
the. police learned that Mrs. Salundes
was also married, but had been de-
serted about year ago by her hus-
band, who had gone to Europe.
Mrs. Martelliere Calls
While the police were going through
Martelliere's effects in his office Mrs.
Martelliere, who lives at IA La Sale
Street, called on the telephone and
wanted to know why her husband had
not kept an appointment with her. It
developed that Mrs. Martelliere had
heard of Mrs. Salundes's design and
had made an appointment to meet her
husband at 116th Street and Riverside
Drive about o'clock yesterday after
noon to warn him of The danger. When
he failed to show up she decided to
telephone.
Mrs. Martelliere told sorry tale of
desertion and abuse to the police. She
had no particular sympathy for her
husband, she said, because he had never
provided for either her or her child
and had deserted her time and again.
"We were married about seven years
ago" she told reporters. "and we have
a girl about six years old. He hardly
ever made living and always had to
work to provide for myself. He was
first in the real estate business and
then in insurance, and he never made
good
"I am not sure about his carvings
on with other women, but / always
suspected it. About a year and half
ago we met Paulette and her husband.
Paulette's husband was trying to get
everybody he could into lumber
scheme, and he got all the money my
husband had and went off TO Europe.
He left bankrupt firm, and then his
poor wife came to my husband for
assistance.
81 don't know how intimate they
have been, but ! don't care much for
Oscar. The bond that existed between
Us was cut long ago by-his abuse.
Women Met Saturday
"On Saturday afternoon last Paulette
asked me to see her. We met and shc
told me that my husband had promised
to marry, her, that she loved him and
couldn't live without him. and wouldn't
consent to divorce so he could
marry her. Of course i pointed out ia
her that she herself was still married.
but that l would not stand in the way
If they really loved each other.
"But I, asked Paulette, whether. she
was sure he would marry her. She an
swered: If he don't something terrible
will happen She had desperate look
in her eye, She is French. you know
and she showed mucfl temperament.
had feeling that something awful was
going to happen, and so called UP nv
husband and asked him to meet me Sc
that could warn him. 81 as
: Am sorry? Well, would be lying
to say that Pm hurt. There was nc
warm bond between us for years"
Mrs. Martelliere lives at "a La Sale
Street. Her first name is Johannes
She Is stenographer. The police say
that from other sources they have
heard that Mrs. Salundes, under urging
by Martelliere, transferred to him .
house and lot in Brooklyn worth about