National Republican., 1878-08-01
A Woman After Her Recreant Husband
with Pistol.

A Woman After Her Recreant Husband
with n Pistol.
About one o'clock yesterday afternoon 4
man rushed into the Eighth Precinct Station
and informed Sergeant McCathran that a
woman had threatened to shoot him. He
asked the officer to accompany him TO De
Moll's drug store, on Seventh street southeast,
where the woman was, as he was afraid to go
back alone. The officer consented, and accom-.
panied the man to the drug store, where he
found a neatly.drcssed lady, who stated that
she had threatened to shoot the man II he did
not acknowledge the marriage between them
to bc legal. On being requested to give un
her weapon she drew seven harrolcd Smith 4
wcsson revolver from her pocket and
handed 1t to the officer. All the cham
beH were loaded. and Ms the man
stated he was afraid Of his life, the lsdy was
asked TO accompany the officer to the station
This she did, and charge of threats was
made by tue man; but the father OF the lady
gave bonds for her appearance at Police Court
| this morning From all accounts II appears
| that the man, whose name Is Oscar Coumbc,
was married to the lady last April by Rev. Dr.
Murray, Of the Congress Street Methodist
Church, Georgetown. Owing TO his family be-
ing dissatisfied with his choice, he stated on
numerous occasions that n was not married.
and the matter being reported to his wife, she
| armed hcr'elf and proceeded to his place of
business yesterday with the avowed purpose Of
forcing Coumbc to publicly acknowledge her
ms his lawful wife. This he refused to do aud she
| said he would have to acknowledge her or she
would shoot him. The lady, whose name was
formerly Miss Emma Larnan, appeared TO be
| very much inccnseh at the behavior of COambc
aud produced a marriage certificate, duly ccr-
| tilted to by the clergyman who performed the
| ppFgmDuy She stated thp nntgara nj m
| station house that Coumbe had been living
with her us her husband, but as he had grown
tired of her, he circulated reports calculated
| to injurc her, aud she wished to set herself
right in the community by forcing au ayowal
from him that his stories about Ter were false.
A Husband In Hurry to Bury His wife.
Mr.. II. II. Moulton, as attorney for Kate Car
pentcr, has filed petition for divorce from
her husband, John X. Carpenter The parties
were married December g. 1867 by Rev. John
c. Smith, her maiden name being Kate Ball.
After marriage they moved toBrownsville Tex,
resided there about two years, then went to
New York city, subsequently, residing in
Brooklyn, n. Y.
Beginning with the spring Of 1874 and down
to their final separation, she charges that he
failed to provide for her pressing wants,
squandered his money in gamb ing. also the
household property. Owing to her need she
sought and obtained employment In the Office
Of the New York HerdH reporting sermons,
lectures, &C., by which she was enabled to
support herself. She further charges that he
has been guilty of adultery with one Annie l..
| Welch, ut Mount Clair, \. J. Also that he
committed higamy about Ecbruary 9, ls77,
at Mount Clair, n. j., in III ,rrying the said
| Annie +. WclCh, was arrested on the charge,
tried at Newark, \. j., found guilty, and sea.
fenced to the State Prison at Trenton for IL
term Of years. She further complains that ut
four different times he attempted to poison her
once before the false marriage, and three
times subsequently, On one of these occasions
so certain was he of success that he borrowed
$50 nom the editor of the New York Times
for tho purpose Of burying her. She asks for
divorce, with permission to resume her maiden
| name.