Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-05
A WOMAN In The CASE.
A SHOOTING ARRAY AT BetlAlRe,
YESTERDAY,
Between Two Wheeling Men-A. {. Stevens
Shot by Ihos. Heyman for Alleged
Intimacy With the latterswife
Stevens Wounded in
the leg.
THE SEQUEL AT THIS CITY.

two Wheeling men were principals
The news created considerable excite
ment and the details We're sought wi n
great ayidity. The following account
appeared in the B.llaire evening paper:
THE SHOOTING.
At noon to-day, just when everybody
was going to dinner, a shooting scIape
occurred on Union street The princl-
pals in the affair are two Wheeling men
whose names are respectively Thomas
Heyman, a jeweler, and A. +. Stevens,
life insurance agent. Stevens had just
arrived in the city, and stopped in the
confectionery store Of Mrs. E V. Linn,
for cigars, and just as he was lighting
one OF them, Thomas Heyman stepped
up in the door with a revolverin his hand,
and while he Sas saying: you'll take
my wife off, will you1" let go shot
that entered Stsvens's left leg just above
the knee. Stevens jumped over the
counter near the soda fountain, and
yelled Murder" at the the top Of his
voice, but Heymsn, Immediately after
the shooting, took to his heels, running
up Bridge street to the al y between
Union and Belmont streets, and then
turned north into the alley. The last
seen OF him was when he jumped over
the fence, about half way between
Bridge and Thirty-second streets.
A large crowd soon assembled, and
Officers Drugan and Lynskey were
diminishing around to find the man who
did the shooting, but up TO 3o'clock had
not found him.
THE DIFFICULTY,
as we can learn, seems to be that hey
man is n married man, but he and his
wife do not get along very we'll together,
and have separated more than once.
The last separation took place some
time during last winter. Stevens
is life insurance agent, who has a
room near where Mrs. Heyman
lives in Wheeling, and it seems that
Heyman suspects him OF being too init
mate with his wife, and OF inducing her
to apply icr a divorce, which, we un-
derstand, she has done. Heyman has
been in Bellaire for several days past,
consulting lawyers and the police otti'
GERS about getting out warrant Tor the
arrest Of Stevens, charging him with the
intimacy mentioned, but has neither
made any complaint or done anything
toward having him arrested. On Men
day he was here, and so was his wife,
whose mother lives in lower town.
Whether Stevens was or not We do not
know; but he says he was here yester-
day doing some insurance business, and
that he came down to-day to settle up
his business.
Heyman LETT word at his boarding
house to-day about ten minutes to II
o'clock that he wanted to see one Z. w.
LaSeur particularly. This was proba-
bly, fifteen minutes before the shooting
occurred, and Heyman must have seen
Stevens in the street car and followed
him down street to the place where he
shot him, judging from the time that it,
tervened between leaving word and the
shooting. LaSuer, who appears to be a
very warm friend OF Heyman's, says thst
he intended to shoot Stevens il he could
not put a stop to his manTuvers
any other way. This man also
states that Heyman's suspicious
are well founded, and that tie
insurance man and Mrs. Heyman occu-
pied room No. 20 in the Rhodes House
at Bridgeport on the night Of the 9th OF
February last, and that he occupied the
room next to it. He also says that the
fellow registered his name -. Wilson,
Pittsburgh" Ii these statements are
true, Heyman would seem to be Justly
jealous and partially justifiable in as.
saulting the party. Good trusty revolv-
ers are excellent instruments to brighten
chaps who fool with other mems wives,
but, OF course, man who uses them is
amenable to the law.
STEVENS TELLS OF TIE TROUBLE,
and says that Tom is jealous of
his wife, but insists that he
has got hold OF the wrong fellow.
He further says that Toms wife tantal-
ICES him, and that he always has been
his friend in trouble, and advised him to
let her go il she wanted to, but. says
Stevens, "Tom has just got so worked
up that he wants to do something des-
perate." He says they never got along
well together, and that Mrs. Heyman
told him she had "decree Of divorce"
but he insists that he never had any
thing to do with the woman, except
what was legitimate. He says he in
sured her life and took her to the doc
tors to be examined, but that he
knows nothing about her being unfaith.
full to her husband. Whatever may he
the facts in the matter, it is proba.
BILE they will all come out some day, but
one thing is sure, that although Stevens
will not die, he has received very pain
full flesh wound in the left leg, which
may cripple him for life and it Is warn
ing to him not to get too intimate with
another mans wife.
LATER DEVELOPMENTS.
Heyman was found IN the loft Of
Coulson's paint store just before going
to press and taken to the Mayors Office.
He is a real genteel.looking little man,
but says that his heart is torn out OF
him by the action OF his wife and the
man Stevens. He says Stevens played
the part OF friend only to accomplish
his own purposes, and that when he
saw his wife and told her of all he
knew, she confessed to her guilt OF the
statements above, but she threatened
to have him arrested, and he thinks
there is a warrant out for him in Wheel
ing. Stevens came into the office while
the reporter was present, and walking
up to Heymann, with bland smile on
his face, said: "Well, Tom, you've
done it, haven't your" Heyman re.
piled, "Well, you are the seducer OF my
wife, and you pretended to my friend"
Here Stevens interrupted, and asked
him not to talk too much till he had
private talk with him, but Heyman
moved his chair back and told him that
be wouldn't have a private talk with
him, and that he knew all he wanted 10
know about him. Stevens did not denv
being too intimate with the woman, but
says when he found cut all the circum.
stances that he was Toms friend.
Lawyer Cowden OF Wheeling, is expect.
ed here this evening to attend to Hey
mans case.
IN THIS CITY.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Heyman,
the wife OF the jeweler, appeared be.
fore Justice Philips and demanded a
warrant for her husband, alleging that
she feared he would kill her. The Jus.