Terrible Tragedy in New York.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 22, 13 April 1870, Page 3

Terrible Tragedy in New York.

A terrible tragedy, recalling in some of its features the famous Helen Jewitt murder, but invested, in addition, with shadows of dark mystery, occurred at 65) Elizabethstreet, New York, on the evening of the 2nd January, at a house of assignation, kept by Mrs Bock. Among the visitors to the occupants of the back room, every Sabbath afternoon for the past five months, have been an unknown gentleman and a closely-veiled lady. Nothing was known of the parties by Mrs Beck, except that the man engaged the room every previous Saturday, and that the mysterious woman, whose face she had never seen, met him at the usual time. Last evening, at half-past six o’clock, pistol shots were heard in the chamber. Mrs Beck and a policeman hastily broke in the door, and found the man lying on the floor insensible, with a pistol-shot through the right temple. His companion, a handsome and apparently a refined and intelligent lady, was lying near him, with a ghastly wound in the left temple. The lovers were taken to the Bellevue Hospital, where they died shortly afterwards, without speaking a word to clear up the mystery. On the following day fresh developments were made, from which it was evident that the cause of murder and suicide was fear upon the part of the murdered man that ho would soon be deprived of the means of continuing his intimacy with his victim. The parties were school teachers in Brooklyn, the man Bauman acting as principal of the same school in which Miss M‘Namara or Mrs Allemargo was assistant. Bauman has a wife living, who informed a reporter that her husband was a good man until the schoolmistress won his affections from her. Mrs Allemargo was the divorced wife of a dissolute Spaniard. At the coroner’s inquest, the sister of Mrs Allemargo, and Mrs Beck, the keeper of the assignation den, and the police officer who broke in the door of the fatal chamber, were examined. The verdict of the jury was in accordance with the facts, and the body of Mrs Allemargo was delivered to her relatives for interment. That of the murderer and suicide lies rotting at the morgue, as no one has come forward to claim it.