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Show WIFE IS HURLED : THROUGH WINDOW fall c from Second Story i Rills Her and Husband Is Arrested. ' i NEW YORK. June U.-Campbell O. 'Adair.' an English bricklayer.' was arrested ar-rested early today after his wife, Agnes, had been killed by a fall from the second-story second-story window of their home, on the fifth floor of a tenement house at 229 East One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street James Smith, who lives in the house, said he was coming home and was just about to enter the door on the ground floor when he heard screams overhead, and looking up, saw the body of a woman come whirling through the air and strike heavily on the pickets of an iron railing in front of the house. Smith recognised the woman as Mrs. Adair, and hurried to- a police station. .The woman was dead when picked up. Two detectives went up to the Adair apartments and found, they said, that the bricklayer had barricaded himself In the room. When they asked him to open the door his replies were curses and threats. They broke down the door and arrested- Mm.- - They - questioned his eighteen-year-old daughter. Kittle, who said her father and mother had quarreled during the night. |