Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-14
A Woman Shot by . Gambler.
A DESPERATE MANS REvENGE-THE woMAN's
LITTLE SON THE ONLY WITNESS OF THE
TpAnEny

LITTLE SON THE ONLY WITNESS OF THE
TRAGEDY.
From the New York Times. to-day.
A little boy, 4 years old, gave q graphic de-
scription last night of the manner In which his
mother, Lizzie Healey, had been shot by her
lover, Frank Brewer. Mrs. Healey and her
husband, who is employed as q baggage ex-
pressman at the Grand Central hotel, live at No.
2O6 east 44th street. Healey is about 80 years
steady, hard workingman. His wife IS pu nn
little blonde, decidedly pretty. She was mar
ried at the age of Ia years, and is now %. The
OF years, named after his father.
For several months a gambler named Frank
Brewer, who is employed at Joe Murphy's pool
room had been a constant visitor al Healey's
house He generally called while Healey was
at work. He was. or pretended to be, desper-
her that she leave her home and live with him.
This the woman refused to do, though she con-
tinued to receive his visits. About two weeks
ago he made demand OF this kind, and when
she refused 10 accede to his wishes he took out
revolver and fired a shot at her which took
effect In door and made a hole big enough to
Healey heard OF this affair." and when he
next saw Brewer ordered him to keep away
from his house and his wife. Brewer paid no
attention to the warning, and Mrs. Healey
seemingly fOrgave her lover for his attempt on
her life. I. +. Shook, who lives a few doors
six O'Clock last evening, accompanied by his
wife. Shook was at one time steward OF the
KnickerbOcker club. He and his wife re.
manned at Healey's for the best part OF an
hour. Healey was not at home, but his wife
was, and with her, apparently on the best OF
terms, was Brewer. Mr.. and Mrs. Shook left
Brewer behind them when they took their
leave. At S:15 O'Clock some of the other occu.
pants Of the house, which is a tenement, heard
pistol shot. A few minutes after the shot
was fired they saw Brewer leave Hcaley's
apartments. He did not seem at all Hurried, as
it was noticed that he was careful to pull up
his collar to proper height and his cuffs down
to an exact longitude,
A neighbor entered Healey's apartments to
discover the cause OF the shooting. Mrs. Healey
was lying on the floor OF her bedroom with her
head in a pool of blood. An ambulance was
summoned, and arrived at 915. The surgeon
said Mrs. Healey was simply bleeding at the
nose and refused to take her to Bellevue hos
ptal. Officer William Mccullough, of the nine
teenth precinct, wiped the blood from the
womans nose and found a bullet hole. A
second ambulance was summoned. 1t arrived
at ten o'clock. Mrs. Healey was taken to Belle
vue hospital, where she lay In an unconscious
condition at midnight Her little son, the only
witness to the shooting, said: "The man lmean-
ing BroweD chased mamma all around the
room and put pistol to her head, and IL went
bang Then she fell down."
Healey returned to his house lust before his
wife was taken to the hospital In company
with Detective Shelly, of the nineteenth pre-
cinct he Immediately started out in search of
Brewer. The latter is "a years old. The woman
was shot through the left cheek from behind,
the bullet coming out near the nose.