Year: 1875

FRIGHTFUL SCENE IN A DELANCEY STREET


TENEMENT HOUSE.


About four o'clock yesterday afternoon some inmates
OF the tenement house No LOG Delancey heard
several pistol shots and noise which they guessed to
be that OF scufe between two men, in the back
the top floor Of the house. and at sent word to
the Tenth precinct station house. Eldridge street OF
the occurrence. Officers Henken and Hughes
were despatched to the house, and proceeding
up four flights OF stairs, they attempted TO
open the door Of the back room They found it
locked however, and Officer Henken applied his
shoulder to it without efecting his purpose He pro
cured hatchet, and by powerful blow forced open
little way but 1t Immediately closed again. as though
something we're leaning against it. He again put his
shoulder to it, and at last succeeded in opening it.
pushing with it, as he did SO, heavy obstacle.
Upon stepping into the ghastly spectacle met
his view. There beheld two men,


BOTH APPARENTLY IIFELEss


lying on the floor each grasping firmly in his right
hand Colts revolver The officers at began to
examine the bodies. One that Of about
forty three years Of age, aud five feet six inches in
height quite well dressed dark clothes. This man
had fallen with his knees against the door opening
the hall, and bleeding prousely from terrible
pistol shot wound in his right temple, the blood
completely covering his face and head He was
nsensiDle but not dead. The pistol casped in his
hand found to have been discharged four times 1t





Pskel. The other man. Joseph Goldman, who ap-
peared TO be somewhat younger and smaller than Pis
KEEL lying his back in front of the stove not six
feet from Piske dead though his body was still warm.
Two frightfu wounds his head, one over
the right temple and one in his right cheek. His head
was almost


FLOATING IN A POOL OF BLOOD,


and he, too, was bleeding when the officer arrived /
was with difficulty that the pistol released from hi
death grip, and when IL was examined II was found 10
have been fired five times. There was so much blood
the floor, which bare, that it began 10 soak
thar
beneath.


omcer Hughes Immediately sent for an ambulance,
in which Piskie was conveyed to the Tenth precinct
station house where he was examined and pronounced
mortally wounded, by Surgeon Ensign. He then
replaced in the ambulance, which started for Bellevue
Hospital, but the unfortunate died before he
reached the hospital


HERALD reporter inquired into the facts Of the case
last night and ascerained the following facts-Moses
Pskel of No 10 Essex street. and Joseph Goldman, OF
No 100 Hester street, both Jews. partners In
jewelry business at No 50 East Broadway. On Monday
night Goldman met a friend named Daniel Pearlson,
also Jew at the Atlantic Garden, in the Bowery and
told the latter that il he did object he Goldman)
would like 70 sleep at his friends house that
night Pearlson agreed, and together they went
to No. l06 Deancey street, where PEARL
resided In the morning the host
required to leave the house early gave the key
of the room in charge OF his guest Some time after
Goldman to his house in Hester street, where
other Jew friend named KIrshtein gave him ladys
gold watch chain TO be repaired. After that time
nothing could be ascertaned in regard to his wherea
bouts until he found dead by officer Hughes, at
which time the chain $54 90 in currency and some
private papers were on his person Both pistols
seven barreed and new. The whole affair is yet


sHRoUDED MYSTERY,


ii not possible to find out what terms with
each other the had been living. could il be
ascorained positively how Piskel happened be at
No LOG Delaney street Of1cer Hughes stated 10 the
HERALD reporter that an old woman the
told him that she Goldman send little boy after
Pskel From the surrounding circumstances, however,
IL seems safe TO assume that the two men met by
rangement to fight duel with the doubly fatal
above detailed