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Show A Wronged Wife Drops Down a StTen-Story StTen-Story Electric Light Shaft and OF COURSE IT KILLED HER. Sooner Than Appear in Court She Ended Her Brief Career. Xkw Yokk. Juno 2 A little more than a mouth ago a new tenement house was opened for occupancy at 133 Forsyth street. The first family to niovo into it consisted of Mary ("alia- J han, her sister. Ellen Callahan, and three nephews and a niece of theirs, the orphan children of another sister. They hiivd I rout apartments on the top floor. All of the family worked In shops or factories excepting Mary Callahan and the youngest child. The latter went to school and Mary kept the house. Ellen, who was a handsome woman of !U, worked in a silk mill in Gioeno street. To all their friends Ellen was known as a single woman, but in reality she was married. Working beside Her In the mill was a silk spinner named Edward Ed-ward Tow ne. lie made love io her, and in Malvh last he induced her to marry him. The marriage w as a secret one, performed by the Rev. Mr. Morehouse of East Seventeenth street. Tow no visited her and often took her out in the evenings, but they never openly lived together. Two or three days ago William M. Towne, a brother of Edward, brought the news to Ellen that the man she hail trusted was a bigamist ami had a w ife and two children liiing nt -1(8 East Eight y -fourth street. William and Edward Ed-ward Tow lie lived together in Eighty-fourth Eighty-fourth street, and something had aroused the brother's sjisnieioti nml he had learned the truth, lie had nil- plied to Justice Taintor at the Essex Market police court for a w 'arrant for his brother's arrest. Justice Titlntor told him to bring the second w ife to court. On Thursday Ellen nud William Towne swore out a w arrant and Edward Ed-ward Towne was arrested that night. He was arraigned Saturday morning and the case was adjourned by tho justice until 3 o'clock in order to have tho clergyman present w ho performed the second marriage. Ellen went home to her dinner, and at'Joclock she dressed for the street and started for the court house. Iler sister watched her from the window until she got beyond the block that the house is on. 'i'lien she returned to her housework. A few moments later a piercing scream startled the teua'its In that and the adjoining house. It seemed to come from the roof, and a lad w ho lived In the adjoining rooms, nml who was silting hositluawilidow that opened on a w itle air shaft between that house and No. 120, saw something fall past the window. He could not look into tho court because of a wire screen which protected the window. He ran to the ionf, Mary Callahan was there before him. "Oh, my sister Oh, my sister," she was moaning, iu her bunds she held a hat ami a jacket which Ellen hail worn away from the house but a few minutes before. She found them ou the roof beside the three-foot coping which bordered bor-dered the air shaft. Away below, seven stories beneath tho roping, lay something, which she knew must be the bodv of her sister. Ellen had apparently deliberately' taken off her hut and jacket, mounted the coping, and sprang shrieking Into space. She fell on a little ladder, which the housekeeper used to get from the basement window to tho pavement of tho court. Every other window Unit opened upon the shaft was closed with heavy w ire netting. This one was left open, and it wus the only portal to the court. Fallen's tragic death did not Interfere with the proceedings in court. Towne's first wife was there. It was proven that he married her fourteen years ago, when she was Clara Nile, in Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. The Rev. Dr. Paneoast performed per-formed the ceremony. Towno was committed for trial. |