The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-17
AN UNfoRrUNATE MISTAKE.

AN UNFORTUNATE MIsTAAA'
The Evils shas Came upen = Sailors
Wife THROUGH Her Ktnkness In
CAIRNS Tor . Neighbor's Infant.
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. %. 20.
Between twelve and one o'clock this
morning an alarm was started on Broad
way by shrieks Of distress and cries OF
murder preceding from the upper story
of tenement house near Dupont street,
and those attracted to the scene were
Mortified BY the sight of a man and
woman struggling in window, the lat
Ter attired in her night clothing and the
man eIertlng his strength to throw ner
out TO the pavement below. Finally,
warned by the shouts OF the people In
the street, the man desisted from his
murderous attempt, but piercing
shrek as if evoked by mortal pain was
heard, when the woman disappeared from
the window. falling backward upon the
floor. A rush was made by dozen or
more to enter the building, and the man
who had been engaged in the struggle
with the woman WAS encountered on the
stairway seeking to make his escape
For moment he kept the crowd BACK
by threatening to shoot the first two VINO
approached; then smashing in q door at
the head of the stairway, he raised win
dow in the room, jumped from the Sec
ond story to the sidewalk and ran away,
apparently uninjured. A crown started
in pursuit; but the fugitive gained the
lsbyrinths of the Chinese quarter
add made good his escape. Meantime
the occupant of the room through which
the man dashed IN avoiding the crowd
on the stairway, supposing that MS
premises were invaded by robbers or
mlrdel ers, sprsng out Of bed and COM
menced firing revolver recslessly, the
shots being responded to by man in
the hall. but fortunately without effect.
The crowd on the stairway, under the
misapprehenslon that the man who was
shooting in the room was the same
whom they had observed attempting 70
,.row the woman from the story above,
>. up the cry of :" Lynch him." DE
Was presently secured, after having
emptiad his revolver, dragged down the
stairway heels foremost, and was beng
hurried to lamp. post by bis enrsged
captors, when those who had remained
in the street interfered and explained
that they had caught the wrong man,
the one who was responsible for the dis
turbsnce having jumped from the win.
dow and run away. The person who
thus narrowly escaped being made the
victim of mob violence was one Carson,
proprietor of coal yard on Pacific
street.. He suffered very severe bruises
IN being dragged down the stairway, and
complained tina. one or more ribs had
b,en fractured by kick he received in
the slde Alter this unfortunate mistake
was discovered, in good time to avert
more serious consequences, the excited
crowd began to explore the upper story
OF the building In the room where the
struggle in tho window had occurred
they found a woman lying upon the
floor in half-conscious condition and
bleeding from knife.wound in the
shoulder. A physician was summoned
and restoratives applied, when it was
found tina. her prostrstion resulted from
nervous agitation and fright, the knife
wound being slight one and not
dangerous, though it was evidently IN
nctea with murderous latent. After
recovering some degree OF composure,
she related the story that completed
most remarkable combination of mis-
takes. The murderous assailant was her
husband, who is captain of the schooner
Metamora, engaged in trading to the
Mexican ports. Yesterday he returned
home by the steamer Colims, after 4
wears absence, and on entering her
apartments he found her attending a
yolng infant belonging to neighbor,
and which had been left in her care for
q short time to permit the mother to go
abroad. On preceiving the infant the
husband repulsed her affectionate well
come with terrible curses, accompanied
with blow, and Immediately left with
out permitting word of explanation,
though she followed him out and for
some distance on the street, beseeching
him to return, until he threatened to
kill her on the spot if she pursued him
another step. She went asleep, ex.
haustlny herself with weeping when
she was awakened by knock at the
door. In the expectation that her
husband had relented and recovered his
confidence IN her fidelity, she sprang up
and opened the door, but before she
could utter word he had seized her by
the throat and commenced dragging her
toward the window, which he succeeded
IN raising while still holding her speech.
less. She struggled desperately tor life,
and finally escaped the death grip sutfi-
GENTLY to scream for assistance, when she
felt a blade enter her back, and was
dashed violently to the floor. She re-
membered no more until she recovered
consciousness through the restoratives
applied by the physician. The poor
woman pleaded piteously that no harm
should be done her husband. as she knew
he would discover his mistake and come
back to her again. Up to o'clock this
morning Buchanan had not been arrested.