Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-27
EXCITEMENT ON WATER STREET.

A Shooting Case-Mrs. Edward How'd Shot fin the Head While Examining . Pistol The Police and Medical Examiner NOtfned-A Lady Arrested The Patient ReOOverS OOnciOus- ness and Says the Shooting Was En
 lIrely An Accident.
 Considerable excitement was caused late yesterday afternoon by the report that Mrs. Edward How'd, whose husband is employed by A. D. Sanborn at Sargent's, had shot her self in the head in house on Water street, opposite No. 7's hose house.
 The affair occurred at the house of Henry How'd, the driver of No. 7's hose wagon and father to the husband of tho wounded wo- man: Mrs. Edward How'd, who resides with her husband and his sister ct 372 Congress avenue, was spending the day as is freouent- ly the case, at her father-in-law's house. The two Mrs. Howds have been very intimate and were in each others company almost constantly.
 Yesterday afternoon they sat in chamber on the second floor engaged in crochsting. MT. Edward Howd's sister was also with them most of the afternoon, but left about 3 o'clock. She hadn't been gone but five minutes when the report of a pistol was
  How'd was seen wildly rushing across the street to No. 7's hose cart house where her husband was. She told him that Flora, as she familiarly called her daughter-in-law, had been shot. MT. How'd immediately telephoned to the family physician, Dr. Park, and not being able to get him, sent for Dr. Linquist. In the meantime Supernumerary Officer AL len who lives on the lower floor of the house, had telephoned the facts to police headquar- ters and Detective Brewer immediately came to the house and arrested Mrs. Henry How'd. She was released on $1 1000 bonds.
 When Dr. Linquiss was called at 3:35 he found the wounded woman lying on the floor Of the sitting room in pool of blood. She was bleeding profusely from a hole in her temple. He immediately sent for Medical Examiner White, and meanwhile did what he could to make the woman comfortable.
 When he arrived the woman was in semi- conscious state and talked incoherently.
 In reply to the question by the doctor as to how the accident happened she said that she had shotA herself but later her mother-in~ law said it was done accidentally by her. Dr. Linquist said the bullet hole was in the right temple, about two inches back from the eye. He probedfor the ball without sue cess and found cavity about one and half inches deep.
 In less than half an hour after Dr. Lin- quist arrived the woman was unconscious. He took charge of the weapon with which the deed was done, and handed it over to Chief Bollman. It was six shooter, and all the chambers were loaded but one, that being the one which was discharged.
 The flesh was badly burned about the wound, which would go to show that the re- volver was held close to the head and yet the hair was not singed as it would have been in case the muzzle was pressed against the skull. Dr. Liuquist thinks it is very serious case, but says there is fair chance for recovery.
 MT. Edward How'd when seen last night at his fsther-in-law's said the shooting was en- tirely accidental. The two ladies had been in the habit of going of into the woods in Whitneyvil1e with 22-calibre fve-barrel re- volver to shoot at a mark. The pistol had been broken some time ago and the elder Mrs. How'd had it repaired. In taking it from bureau drawer to show to Mrs. Ed- ward How'd yesterday afternoon it went off and caused the unhappy accident. As soon as the bullet struck her Mrs. How'd sank back in her chair, while a stream of blood gushed from the wound.
 Last evening Drs. Park and Carmalt probed for the bullet and located it in the left cheek. Mir. How'd said that the doctors informed him that it had glanced from the cheek bone and had made little more than a severe flesh wound and that the case was not at all seri- ous, and that the doctors thought the lady will fully recover in two or three weeks. The patient when not under chloroform was per- fectly conscious and said the shooting was entirely accidental