New Britain herald., 1930-07-24
HARTFORD WOMAN HACKED ID DEATH
 HUSBAND QU|zzED
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 Although Diamond returned to his wife. these domestic wrangling5, the police say, continued. Mrs. Dia- mond also continued to accuse her husband of intimacies with women. Seek Flaws In Story
 This morning the police were en- deavoring to discover flaws in the story that Diamond related to them concerning his movements at the time the woman was murdered. Dia- parents. MT, and Mrs. Max Epstein. from their grocery store at 16t Church street to A Barker street shortly after o'clock last night The Epsteins, he said, were to at tend bridge game at that ad- dress, Diamonds two year old daughter, Mavis, had been visiting with her grandparents and Diamond decided to take his daughter home He reached home about 9:30, he said. and claims that he saw his wife alive at that hour for the last time.
 Diamond has been employed by the Bacon Bottling company, earn ing $50 a week. At night he drove a taxlcab. Just before l o'clock this morning he returned to Barker street, but the Epsteins were not ready to leave and told their son-in- law that they would go home in an- other cab. However, Morris Lavo- Witch who has a tailoring establish ment at Al Church street and was also a guest at the card party, ask cd Diamond to take him home in the cab. Diamond discharged his passenger at Albany avenue and West Bourne Parkway at 1:15 a. m He asserts that he did not reach hjs own home on Bedford street until 1:40.
 Heard Quarrel
 Mrs. Anna Pinsky and her two 1 children, who live on the second floor of the six tenement block directly over the Diamonds, told DO lice that they heard sounds Of quar reling at 1:30 and soon after tn. frantic screams of woman. The, thought at first that the trouble wa! outside the house and ran to a iron window. There was no one outsid. and Mrs. Pinsky, deciding that tn. commotion came from the first floor called out. inquiring if there va trouble down there" There va! no answer,
 When he discovered his wife body on the bathroom floor, Dia mond related, he knew that "some thing terrible had happened
 T covered my wife's face with window curtain I found in the bath room and left the house, driving {, the home of Dr. George E. Sleepe at 45 Belden street, and I told hin that something terrible had hap pened.' He said he would go righ over and I left him and went to tn home of my uifes parents. I drov the Epsteins including my sister-in law, from Park Terrace to my hom on Bedford street"
 "As We reached there" Diamon, resumed. "Dr. Sleeper arrived W all went in. The doctor announce that Ida was dead. I left the hous and went to the home of my broth er-nlaw, Samuel Epstein, on Gar den street and l told him what ha happened 10 his sister We the drove back to the house.
 Her body was cold" asserte Diamond, when l found her a 1:40."
 Doctor Contradicts Story
 Her body was warm" asserte Detective Sergeant Sutherland, wh
 reached the scene about an hou later. Dr. Glover E. Howe, who ey amined the body, said that the nun der had evidently been committe some time since midnight. The bac
 of her head was crushed in, p-ne trating the skull in two place
 There was another ugly cut on in
 left side of her head. Two blow
 cut through her jaw from a poir
 under her chin. one Of the instrr
 ments passing through to the roc : of her mouth. The index finger ( and it is believed that the dig was chopped when she raised he hands in futile effort to ward o [ the attack of her assailant. : A blood stained axe was found | ] Detective Dooley back of a washir t machine in a rear hallway leadir l to the Diamond apartment.
 Thomas F. Sullivan, finger pril
 expert, was this afternoon makir a minute examination of the axe ' The slain woman was the moth of three small children, the oldes ' Jerome. 5, three, year old 1rw y Murry, and little girl, Mavis Jun ?, who was only yesterday di charged from the isolation hospit y where she had been confined wi
 scarlet fever.
 I Mrs. Diamond leaves her fathe = Max Epstein of BPS Park Terrac e a carpenter by trade, who has r y gently operated a grocery store
 161 Church street; her mother, MI
 Sophie Epstein; a sister Miss Do
 othy Epstein, and brother, sar ', uel Epstein.
 Mrs Diamond was born in Hal e ford in 1902, and graduated fro f the Henry Barnard school and t r Huntsinger Business college, al h after that was employed in [ d office of the Skayef Ball Beari il Co.,, and later at the Pratt 65 Wh q ney company. She was married # Diamond six years ago.
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