Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-03-13
A WOMAN SHOT!
and Attempted Murder!

About two o'clock yesterday morn
ing Moses Remington, residing with
his family, consisting Of q wife and
four children, OH North c street, Vir-
ginia, in a fit of drunken Jealousy, at
tempted to murder his wife. The fol-
lowing, as near rs we can learn, are
the circumstances Of the case:
She was at she Theater
the evening previous to the shooting
with n young mar named Foster Caine'
who has been boarding and lodging
with Remington and family for some
time past, and Mr.. Remington himself
was also there for a time, but went
home before the theater was out. When
Game and the wife came home, the
three of them sat by the stove for some
little time, conversing on various sub
jects, but principally about the play at
the theater. When Caine retired to
his room there appeared to DO nothing
particularly wrong with Remington,
except that he had evidently been
uTluhllks hV"S'S'' s"S
husband and wife got into II or two
little alterations relative to their own
affairs, and Remington evinced jeal-
ousy toward Caine. About two o'clock
Mrs. Remington says she had retired
for the night, and was lying In the
back part of the bed, upon her right
side, when her husband, who had been
sitting by the stove smoking his pipe,
suddenly came to the bedside, saying,
ICED On Won. l'n Going to Kill
You"
or words to that effect, and thrusting a
double-barrelcd pistol into her face, he
blazed away. The ball took effect in
the left cheek, inflicting a terrible
wound. Not being stunned or rendered
senseless by the shot, she was spring
ing I'D, when he caught a pillow and
tried to smother her with it. Being
quite a powerful woman, however, she
succeeded in getting out OF the bed,
and grasping the pistol, which he stu
held In his hand, she battled with him
for a short time, shouting for assist
ance, which brought Caine to her re-
lief. Bleeding terribly from the wound
In her face, she ran out and took refuge
In the house of a neighbor. Reming-
ton went out Of the front door, and
Caine. rs o O rs he could dress HIM
salt. went into town. Meanwhile, a
messenger brought Doctors Heath and
Weber, who rendered what surgical
assistance the case seemed to demand.
The Wound
IS not necessarily fatal but the chances
nre that 1t will prove so, although the
lady was able to talk quite intcligibly
ut noon to day. The ball entered be-
meath the cheek bone. and, apparently
glsncing, passed across through the
nasal bones and lodged beneath or
back Of the right eye, where 1t Is now
supposed to be. From the nature OF
the wound, however, probing to ascer.
tain the course and exact situation OF
the ball was considered i~nexpedient.
Tho Husband Arrested.
Officers Larkin and Potter, learning
directly Of the shooting, fastened
thither, found Remington in the front
ward Of his house, arrested him, and
lodged him In the County Jail, where
he now Is. They also found the pistol
with which he committed the dreadful
deed. We saw it afterward at the
station house. II Is
Dsublc-barreled Derinxer,
Tor at least that is our term for it), car
rying a large-sized ball, and Reming-
ton says he had been keeping 1t loaded
for another man-not Caine-of whom
he felt jealous.
His Story
Is that after he got to bed his wife tried
TO kill him with this pistol, and in his
struggle to get it from her it accident
ally went OF. shooting her in the face:
From the fact that his clothes were all
bloody, from head to foot, pants and
all, he was fully dressed, and all other
circumstances seem to c~orroborate her
version Of the affair.