From the May 3, 1891 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“A week ago, George Wahl, a farmer at Queens, was arrested for threatening to kill his wife. He had broken nearly all the furniture in the house. Wahl was believed to be insane. He wanted to get rid of his wife, he said, that he might marry his daughter, and if his daughter would not marry him he would kill her, too. Drs. P.M. Wood and P.K. Moynen examined Wahl several times and pronounced him perfectly sane.”