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DEOSHBEB 13, 189Sf»A FATAL STABBING AFFAIR.JEALOUSY IS AT THE BOTTOM OF IT.ISpSklnWy Otlver, * Onkon Krico, tln-• uooeiarullr Attempt to Kill Uli Wife ■ud Thru Cut* HU Own Throat—1I« lulic* h Better J«l of It Dl«n IHtllMtt and Dle» From tlie Irjurlo*.Soelov Ollvor, alias '‘Sklnky,” a young colored mao. In a fit of jonlou*}’* at GohbOD, last night haggled his wife’s throat with a razor and then cut bis own with fatal effect, dying ibis morning at 6:25.The affair occurred about 7 o'clock at tho St, Elmo Hotel. When the por-tor, Charles VunDyko, was attending to tho hotel furnace, bo heard some ono talking in tho Laundry, and a moment later heard tho woman scream.Ho rushed out and saw tho woman running up stairs with a largo gash fn hor neck, crying Savo me, save mo 1 Grabblugaclub ho went to tho base meat, and there on the iloor was Ollvor lying in a largo pool of his own blood,Dr. K. W. Hitofccock was called and dressed tho wounds, luking sovon stitches in Oliver’s throat. Tho man was uneonsclous from the loss of blood and was removed to tho home of Ills mother, Mrs. Ann Oliver, on the Greet*, where ho died as slated.Tho woman is the St. Elmo Hotel laundress and the tragedy took place in tho laundry or basement of the hotel. She has been a bard working, industrious woman, a'd her husband squandered all of tho wages that It was possible to obtain from her. She is not dangerously Injured.Oliver and his wife were each about 34 years old, and had been marrlod about tblrleon years. Their marriage proved to he an unhappy ono. In this time thoy havo parted and lived together at different limes. O.Ivcr was always of a jcalouj disposition toward his wife, and had shown Don several occasions by threats of violence. He bad taken out his vengeance at one lime by culling up and destroying a lot of recently purchased clothing.Olltcr returned from Newark about tbreo weeks ago, where he bad been tome time. JIo bad found homework lr* a saw mill near Goshen. In this time he aud bis wife lived together apparently ocicnuly, but the friends of tho |mir have noticed that he had something on bis mind, more so especially in tho lost few days.It is not tho woniun's.cuBloin to leave the hotel very early evenings, and lust night us tho hotel porter, Clmi lea Van Dyke, went out to meet the Orange county express he saw Oliver In front of tbo building. He asked him to tell his wife to come out us ho wanted to fieo her. Ho promised to do so on hts return u»d Immediately after, reenter lug tbo hotel ho went to the basement where ho made the discovery already mentioned Tho gash in tho woman's nook only proved to bo a llesb wound in tho side ol tho throat, not deep enough to sever any of tho arlorlcH. She was kindly cuied for by Mr. Hook’s people and pul to b;d.The wounds of tbo man wore of a fatal nature, bis lo»s of blood belug terrible. The wound was a deep one about four Inches long in tbo larnyx or wind pipe, just above tho thyroid cartilage, severing the anterior jugular vein.The nows of tbo affair spread over the village very quickly and a large crowd wore deeply interested spectators la tbo work of dressing the wound by Dr. Hitchcock, who required the assistance of four men on each limb. It was Indeed a horrible sight to witness.Coroner Decker, who was no tilled, went to Goshen this morning and held an inquest.The following jury wet a Impanelled : Henry A. Horton, George Grier, lJllllp Power, Henry C. Fay tie, Gilbert P Hojiklns, Fred 0. Hay tie, Frank Flynn and Frank C.Hock.Tlie jury rendered a verdict that Oliver ciuuo to his death by Sujuries inflicted by him self.It J:Cl deal Fair bor l of lb oxhl aud Cora7HeBl Stev to A pan I son, He 1 DIml*u iPsraothopostanyCltj0001-ftlc Ph Ho* sin: a towmMhda:Go
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Middletown Daily Times
Middletown, New York, US
Tue, Dec 13, 1892
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