Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-08-01
NEW THEORY IS
ADVANCED IN /
DUAL Staying
BIatt Gave Large Sums OF
Money to Woman
He Killed
HE ALSO KILLED HIMSELF
Tarbox Woman Felt That She
Was About to Be
Double Crossed
HE ALSO KILLED HIMSELF

Believing that he was being made
a poor man with the loss Of vast
sums of money and diamonds that
he turned over to her. Is now the
theory advanced that caused Charles
Blatt. sixty years old, of o404 Arthur
Kill road. Tottenville. to slay Mrn,
Sadie Tarbox. in his apartment9
then afterward send a bullet into ~
brain that killed himself. s
An Investigation into the 4qQN
killing by Medical Exaninex <z'l 9eez B,
Mord for the borough os-.ksle! 5is - Al 4
and Detective Sergeant Schley yes-
terday afternoon brought out TN
fact that he had given the woman, \
articles of iewelry and large sums 81
money within the past several weeks.
Fearing that he was about to
double cross her when Mrs. Blatt,
wife of Charles Blatt. Jr., 425 Mat
tano place, this city. an adopted son.
by the father-in-law. is be-
lieved to have caused the pres
ence of Mrs. Tarbox at the house
yesterday morning. Mr.. Blatt had
been to this city Wednesday night
to his adopted son and arranged for
his sons wife to come to Totem
Vile, where they were in conference
with Rev. DIR. Jacob Ganss, OF
Kreischerville to place the deed to
the property where the shooting
occurred in the hands of his adopted
sons wife. This was 9 o'clock yes
terday morning and when Mr.. Blatts
lawyer could not come down until
the afternoon the papers were not
passed. The young Mrs. Blatt re-
mained at the house and DIR. Cans.
left to return in the afternoon.
According to the story told by Mrs
Charles Blatt, Jr., Mrs. Tarbox
whom she had never met. came into
the house. She said Mr.. Blatt said
This is my sons wife Mrs. Tarbox
l want you to meet her."
Mrs. Tarbox snubbed her she said
then she, Mrs. Blatt, went down
stairs. AS she reached the bottom
of the stairs she heard a shot and
then another and she then ran out
on the front porch. Mrs. Ida Kur-
jiak, who resides on the lower floor
of the two story dwelling heard the
shots at the same time. When Ser
geant Conboy and Patrolmen Ken
neweg and Roger Sullivan arrived al
the house the woman was lying in
the hall and the body of Blatt In
the kitchen. Medical Examiner Moro
on his arrival gave Undertaken Me-
Callum permission to remove the
body of Mr.. Blatt to his undertaking
place in Great Kills. The body OF
the woman was taken to the City
Farm Colony morgue. where it was
claimed by a brother and sister last
night.
All the personal effects found On
Blatt's body and those on the wo-
man were taken in charge by the
police. Those belonging to the wo-
trtp 49,
TO George Tarbax. the seventeen year
old crippled son In the presence of
his uncles, Frank Lichte and Horace
Roberts of New York. who took the
boy in charge. Mrs. Horace Roberts,
a sister. and Mr.. Lichte. brother
or Mrs. TarbaX, arranged last night
with Undertaken McCallum for the
burial The funeral for Mr.. Blatt
Will be held tomorrow morning at 10
O'Clock from the McCallum parlors
at So Bentley street. Tottenvilie, and
the fnterment will be in mausoleum
at Union Hill, N. j.. besides that Of
his wife, Josephine Blatt. who died a
year ago today on August 1, 1923, at
the home of her sister in Arlington.
N. ].
The funeral for Mrs. Tarbox will
be held Sunday afternoon at o'clock
from the McCallum parlors, 4S Gift
ford lane. Great Kills, and the in
terment will be IN the Lutheran
cemetery, Brooklyn.
Both Mr.. Blatt and Mrs. Tarbox
were we'll known in this city and on
Staten Island. Mr.. Blatt conducted
a saloon in this city a number of
years ago after he and his wife had
given up the vaudeville stage. From
here they went to Kreischervil!e and
opened a saloon in that place, after
ward coming to Tottenville where
they conducted the place at Arthur
Kill road and Main street until the
Volstead law forced them out of
business. He retired to private life
and after his wife died he met Mrs.