Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-02
SHOT BY HIS WIFE.
Three Bullets Enter Peter
Waters Body.
CAUSED BY ILL TREATMENT.
Mrs. Waters Ready to Be Hung Il
She Killed Him. No Chance
For His Recovery.

About 8 O'Clock last night the resi-
dents on San Fernando street were
startled by hearing several pistol shot
in rapid succession. Officers Marden
after hearing the first shot commenc
ed to run in the direction from which
the sounds proceeded aud came W
| in lime to hear second shot FREQ
and see Peter Waters, stagger on the
sidewalk and fall in the gutter. Be.
fore he reached the man another
shot was fired and he arrived
Just in time to prevent another
shot being fred by woman
who turned out to be the mans wife.
The officer seized her arm and after q
struggle succeeded in obtaining pos
session of the revolver, which still
contained one loaded chamber. The
woman was arrested and taken to
the police station, where she
gave her name as Bridget Waters.
and was booked for assault with
intent to commit murder. She
said that she had been married
to Peter Waters about two years, but
for the past few months had been
separated from him. Two years ago
they lived in Oakland, at Ais Seventh
street, but ever since her marriage
with Peter Waters she had led q
miserable life. She had been married
formerly and had two children by her
former husband, but none by Waters.
When she married him she possessed
a milk-ranch and was tolerably we'll
fixed financially. Waters had been a
spendthrift and had soon ruined her
and afterward attempted to kill her.
They patched up the quarrel
and went to live at Lang's Sta
ton, where Waters got work
as a track-walker at a salary
Of $$662 $$6622 per month. Here again they
were continually quarrelling and the
la time that he shot at her he mar,
rowly missed her. The bullet left
dent in the stove which she still has
in her possession and said that the
telegraph operator at that place would
corroborate her statement. After this
last escape, and he attempted to MUIR
der her eight times, they separated and
she came to live in this city and runs
lodging and boarding house on San
Fernando street. This morning she
sent little girl to Officer Marden and
requested him to arrest Waters, as
she heard he had returned, and she
feared he would kill her. After hear
ing her story the officer said he would
arrest him on sight and started out in
company with the little girl to look
for him, but his search proved fruit
less. Last night Waters turned up
and the above occurrence took place.
The wounded man was taken in
hack to the police station and DR..
Reese was summoned. He found that
the man had been shot in three
places. One ball had entered at the
back of the neck and passed out at
the mouth, another had entered at
the back, splintering the spine, and q
third had entered the groin and lodg
ed in the pelvic cavity. This last
wound is evidently the one that was
fred when the man was lying on the
side9al
After DIR. Reese had dressed his
wounds, the man was taken to the
Sisters Hospital in the ambulance.
He was very weak, and could only
whisper that his wife had followed
him from the house and had shot him
when about block away from home.
The doctor says there is little chance
of his recovery, and ne will probably
die to-day.
Mrs. Waters says that she has for
the past four months discarded her
husbands name and goes by her
maiden name, viz: that of Bridget
Hayden. She is very stout woman
aud said that she was perfectly ready
to be hung ii she had killed him.
Chief Cuddy asked Waters TO make
a statement to him and in answer to
several queries he stated as follows: Ny
name is Peter j. Waters and it was
my wife who fred the shots at me. /
had no pistol or weapon with me at
the time. l came to Los Angeles frsm
Pantano, thirteen miles east of Tucson,
Arizona. | heard that my wife had
threatened to kill me, and / went to
see. if it was true. After left the
house she followed me, and after
going about a block she shot me in
the back, as she was behind me.
The Chief asked him what he was
doing in Arizona, but he would not
tell.
DIR. Reese told him that he was
mortally wounded, and that he had
better answer the Chiefs question,
but be refused.
On the way to the hospital one Of
the TRUSTEES from the Jail was telling
the driver the wife's story, which
Waters overheard, and he said
audibly, "It's d--d Iie,u and then
fell into relapse.