The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-07-13

PROBABLE HoMIcIDE.-Between the hours of
eight and nine clock last Monday night the re-
port was circulated over the city that colored
woman had been shot in the extreme western
limits Of the town. AT any other time such an
announcement would have attracted very little
attention, but the ravages Of death in this com
munity within the last week had produced its
effect-that nervous tmidty and superstitious
apprehensiveness which rapid succession of
deaths, and especially by accident or violence,
usually creates, and consequently considera-
BILE excitement was aroused. DESTROYS Of Civ
ing to the public detailed, accurate account of
the affair, and, if possible, TO learn The causes
which lead to the commission Of the crime, if it
were a crime, we called on Capt. J. I. Parent,
Tuesday morning last, from whom we obtain
ed the following particulars
1t seems that the husband of the wounded We
man, Thos. Butler, had his suspicious awakened
other fidelity to him, by the lavish expenditure
ofmoney on her part, for dress, as the money spent
in that way hadn't been given by him, and it being,
to his mind impossible for hef to earn it in le-
Ultimate way He called, week SO ago, upon
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means known to the law by which his wife might
be compelled to disclose how she came into the
possession of so much money. He was answer
ed in the negative. The morning preceding the
evening of the probable tragedy, the husband
was informed by his wife, that she had taken q
dress for alteration to q mantua maker, which
would be ready for her in the evening" and at tnat
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to whom she referred lives in the western SUI
burbs of the town, near the tfestie bridge, on
the Chesapeake s. Ohio Railroad. About eight
O'Clock she started for the dress, and just before
arriving at her destination. and few yards on
the eastern side CT Mr.. James Smiths dwelling
house, In the lane passing the residence of Hon.
"A H. H. Stuart and which at its southwestern
terminus, ntersects Greene Street, near the afore-
mentioned trestle bridge, she was alarmed BY
the report of pistol and became aware that She
had been shot, The ball entered the abdomen,
and though we do not know exactly how it ranged,
will, in all probability. we learn, result fatally.
She did net see the party who fred the pistol
After being shot, she walked short distance to
neighboring house where she aroused the in
mates, and was taken 10 Dennis Harris where
sac received surgical treatment
The strange action of the husband, after the
occurrence Of the affair, along with the previ-
GUS evidences that the Green-eyed Monster had
taken up his abode in his heart, caused suspicion
to attach to him, as the probable guilty purity,
and he was, on Monday night, by Capt Parent,
arrested and inearcerated in Jail. The theory of
some very intelligent gentlemen is, however, that
the woman was shot, accidentally, by some one
who fired the pistol, before seeing her., shooting
guns and pistols. now -days, in unfrcquented
parts of the city being no uncommon thing. We
merely say this, that our account of the affair
may NOT. by any possibility. prejudice the reader
against the mail Butler,