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Show SLAYER OF WIFE EXPRESSES REGRET Harry Bernstein, who is- alleged to have i Tiuirdered his wife Monday evening and then attempted to commit suicide by 1 slashing his throat with a safety razor 1 blade, was out of danger last night and oo the road lo recovery, according lo al- ! (aches of the emergency hospital, where he Is confined. Bernstein declared last night that he i regretted his rash act and insisted that he must have been out of his mind at the tune he shot his wife. He ejiressed ' the wish that the law would speedily I take its course, presuming that he would I be found guilty and be executed. He protested that he had attempted to visit ; his children at St. Ann's orphanage ' where they had been placed bv his wife 1 during his absence, and was refused per-mission per-mission to see them, and that he then became insane with grief and determined 1 to end It all. The officers declared that upon his re- CO very he would be charged with murder mur-der in the first degree. Meanwhile he N ' held In the prisoners' ward of the emer- j ffency hospital under constant guard of a I police officer. |