Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-14
llons with the Pistol Last Night In
a House In East wheeling.
A Husband Disturbs His Wifs's
Peace With Her Param0ur.
Armed With a Poker He Tackle.
the Revolver Of the Lover,
And Receives Three Of the Bullets
In His System.
An Innocent Woman Gets a Hot
Bullet in Her Throat.

1T all comes of marrying q woman that
isn't right" was the exclamation al Mrs.
Emblem last night, when her son, Vim. I.
Emblem, was brought to her home on
Twent eth street, covered with blood oozing
from three gunshot wounds in different
parts of his body. 1t was true. Emblem
had married woman who had not proved
true to him and il was her in6delity that
got him In this trouble, which may prove
serious, and who is also the indirect cause
of Mrs. Jennings lying with a dangerous
wound in her neck.
THE STORY
is mixed one, and it will require the care
Z full sitting OF court Of inquiry to get at
the true facts. 1t seems that yesterday
afternoon Mrs. Emblem went to the house
of Mrs. Jennings, on Seventeenth street,
with the excuse of visiting Q neighbours
sick child. Her husband came home from
the fair and early in the evening went 10
seek her. jennings keeps q grocery store
and it was closed when Emblem reached
them, so he went to the rear
door. There he met Mrs. Jennings, and
er quired of her for his wife. "She Is
here" she said, "wait and I'll 20 and get
her" But Emblem followed her into the
kitchen and thence into a bedroom ope-
ming from it. There he found his wife and
with her was Henry Baldwin, better known
ss MAZE" a we'll known sporting man
about town. Just what followed is uncer.
tain, as here is where the stories differ.
Certain it is that Emblem got the poker and
MAZE came from behind the door and drew
his revolver. Emblem cracked MAZE over
the head with the poker, knocking him
down. BALDWIN began to shoot and emp
tied his revolver, firing five or six shots,
accc riding 10 different witnesses. In the
face of the fire, Emblem chased Baldwin
out OF the house and as he disappeared
through the Back gate, threw the poker
after him. Emblem was shot three times in
the struggle and a stray ball caught Mrs.
jennings in the neck, intiicting desperate
and dangerous wound.
ENBLESs WOUNDS.
Emblem was taken to his home on
Twentieth street, at the head of Chapline,
where Drs. Wilson and Reeves dressed his
wounds. One shot took effect in his right
shoulder, and is now lodged somewhere in
the muscles. Another struck the left ell.
bow, gindiDg the bones TO powder, break.
ing the Joint and intlicting serious aud
dangerous wound. A third ball struck the
left wrist and came out through the hand,
which is fpgerless and manned from an
injury received years ago. Emblem, though
suffering intense pain, was sufficiently
himself to make statement, whiSh he
did.
KMBLEN's VERSION.
For some time, he says, he has been sus
piCiUus OF his wife's virtue, and not with
out coed cause. Last night he went to
Mrs Jennings TO look for her, and when
that woman told him to wait she would get
her, he suspected that all was not right and
pushed in after her, into the bed room.
There he found her and found MAZE Bald
win with her with his coat Off MAZE had
gotten behind the door, when Emblem en-
tered. Emblem went for the poker and says
he did not use il until he was under fire.
He fell, upon being shot, and in falling
struck his eye and cut cash in his brow.
OF the order Of what followed he could moi
know much, as it was life and death en-
counter, until he heard the cock Of the re-
voiver snap over an empty barrel in the
revolver, and MAZE Baldwin rau out the
back gate and disappeared, leaving his coat
behind him.
Emblem says g had no weapon ofany kind
except the poker. He does not know what
became of his wife, other than that she dis
appeared. He told REGISTER reporter he
had known of her intimacy with Baldwin,
and bad warned Baldwin, saying he would
tend to him." but adding, "but didn't e1.
pect anything like this" His wife was
Ellen Bates, and they have been married
fourteen years. Her mother lives near the
First ward school, and there she has prob
ably fled. Mrs. Emblem says she is not
all right in the head, and that she told her
son so, when he married her. 81 would
have banished him, but he was always O
good son and came to see me-" Looking at
the affair from the Emblem standpoint, IL
is certainly a sad and lamenta affair,
ard he is much 10 be pitied.
MRS. JENNINGS WOUND AND STORY.
Lying il a small, uncomfortable and
dirty room, in the grocery on Seventeenth
street, REGISTER reporter found Mrs. Jen.
nings with a bullet wound in her throat,
and the hall lodged back near the base Of
the brain. She was struck by stray shot
in the melee. Her story is very mix ed
one, and there are strong indications that
she has wrestled with the truth and 1t got
her down. She says Mrs. Emblem came TO
her house with man she called her uncle,
(Bsldwin) and whom she (Jenni 1gs) did
not know. They went into the bedroom,
end Mrs, Jennings went out after some
beer. Mrs. Emblem had said, I'm
afraid my husband will find me
here" Emblem came soon afterward,
and went into the room and attacked the
uncle with a poker. The uncle shot and
then they had the fight. She says EN-.
blem shot her, but this is scarcely possible
as Emblem had no pistol. Her wound was
dressed and she is as comfortable as might
be expected
BALDwINs SIDE.
MAZE Baldwin is quite a we'll known
character pbout town and has served two
terms in the penitentiary for felonies COM
mitted. With his friends be is generous to
a fault and will sbsre his last cent with O
broken partner but his bad reputation has
always gone against him. A friend
OF his said last night: "Do not mis-
Judge Msje In this affair. as the woman
was all to blame. For long
time she has thrown herself at him and it
was only natural he should pick her up.
He was told by friends 70 let her alone and
said he would do IL. last weak .she SrUts
49, a1istter and ne answered 1t and EN-.
blen intercepted both Of them. AS to the
shooting, Msje didn't shoot until Emblem
cornered him and knocked him down twice
with poker and then reckon anybody
would have shot.
At late hour this morning, nothing
had been heard of Baldwin. IL the facts
are as bis friends state them, he should
give himself up.
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