TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 654, 29 March 1870, Page 4

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.

The following was telegraphed to San Francisco : — New York, Jan. 3. A terrible tragedy, .recalling in some of its; features the famous Helen iJewett murder, but invested, in addition, with, shadows of dark mystery, occurred at 69 Elizabeth streetj last evening, at a house of assignation, kept by Mrs Beck. Among the visitors to the occupants of the back room, every SabbatTi 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 6. 30, .pi5t0l shots.were heard in the chamber. Mrs Beck and a policeman hastily broke in the door, and found the man lying on the floor insen-i sible, with a pistol shot through the right temple. His companion, a handsome and apparently refined and intelligent ladyi was lying near him with a ghastly wound in the left temple. The lovers were taken to the Bellview Hospital, where they died shortly afterwards, without speaking a word to clear up the mystery. From papers found in their; pockets, it is believed that; the name of the man was George Batman, and the woman Annie M'Namara. Both were school-teachers in Brooklyn. The bodies were placed in the Morgue for identification. Great excitement prevailed last night in the vicinity of the tragedy. - :.. January 4. j The terrible- love fragedy In. Elizabeth street excited general iiSte'rest yest3rday. To-day fresh developments were made. It is now evident that the cause of the murder and suicide was fear upon the part of the murdered man that he would soon be deprived, of the. means of continuing liis intimacy with, his. victim. The •parties were schoolteachers i?} 'Brooklyn, the : man Bauman. acting as principal of the, same school in which Miss M'Namaiia or Mrs Allemargq, was assistant. Bauman had a wife living, who informed a reporter yesterday, that her husiiatid was. a goojd ; nian y.jmtU: the schooithistress won hjs affections from lieri Mrs , Allemargo was the divorced .wifo of a dissolute Spaniard. .: i . .;;.. . .January o. j The. grave; closed . over one of the vifctims of the Eii^^eth street tr^dy yesterday. At the coroner's inquest, held this morning the aiajter. of Mrs Allemargo, and Mrs; Becky ;the^.keeper : «>f ! . tW assignation den, and the .police officer ; who broke in tjhe door of -the fatal chamber, were, examined;^ No stew, y;4eveyelopmen'ta further than th©. : pu;b,lic. no.yf - h^ve were elicited. ; The. verdiQt ; of; the ;^as in accordance with the facts, and the "body of MrsAllemarg&was delivered j»> her rela...tjtyesj for interment. That of the. murderer and suicide lies rotting a* the Morguej as no one has come forward ito claim it. '■ ~ r ::;..-..