The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-18
FR1pAY N1eHr,s SHOOTING.
The Pelot Women's story Of the AT
fair-Pelot Yet at Large.


fair-Pelot Yet at Large.
The colored woman, Mary Ida Pelot who
was shot by her husband about u o'clock
yesterday morning in Gwinnett street lane,
one door west Of West Broad street, was
resting quietly when a MORNING NEWS re-
porter called last night. With some diff
Guilty she recounted the details Of the at
tempt made upon her life b. her husband,
| David Pelot
She said that for the past three
weeks her husband has been cross and
continually complaining, and on Friday
morning when she asked him for money 70
/ buy provisions Tor lis dinner and supper, he
| took some money from his pocket ana put
| it on the safe, but shortly afterWard
changed his mind. and put the change in his
/ pocket and went off. The woman was left
without a cent TO get food for herself, and
/ son, a boy about years cid.
Friday night the woman went over to the
| house Of a neighbor HOIlingswOrth, where
| she staid an hour OF two, and from there
she went to the house Of Mary Gray in
| Waldburg street lane on an errand. When
| PelUt came home and found his wife out, be
| started to hunt for hel and vent to the
| house of the Holdings worth woman aud in
| CURED for her, saying he was going 10 fix
her tonight Shortly after he left his
wife returned. and was told by the Hol-
| lingsworth woman Of the threats of Pelot
ard her friend tried to persuade her to stay
all night with her. but she
said no, she would 90 home,
aud her friend went the greater part OF the
way with her. When she got home she
went to bed, and later her husband came in
and asked her where she had been. She
told him, but he said be hal asked tne Gray
woman, who hal told him that his
wife had not been tlere. He was standing
by the bureau IN the litt,o bed -Oom, not
more than 5 by 10 feet, and no turned All
began firing at the PROSTATE woman. She
said that rs ne turned she thought ne mad a
knife, and threw W her hand t.
protect her head, when the shot struck her
in the right shoulder, aud almost Hm--
diately a So ond shot was fired, striking her
IN the right side. Her mother and Pelot's
brother, since arrested, RAJ to the door and
began to clamor to get in. Mary sad that
her husband then faced the mirror OF the
bureau, and, putting The muzlle of his re-
volver to his breast, snapped the weapon,
but it failed TO discharge. He then leaped
through the window into a little side lane
aad ran into Gwinnett street lane, and
made his escape. He has not yet been cap
tured.
DIR. Sheftall was called shortly after the
shooting and treated the wounded woman.
The wound in the side is serious aud she
may not recover. She says that her hus-
baud has often threatened to Kill her and
then kill himself, but he had made the
threats so often that she did not think he
would do her any harm. The neiglb)rs
say that he was inordiaately jealous of his
wife, and could net even tolerate her talk
ing TO a female friend, and she was continu-
ally under his eSpl mage, although she was
a reputable and industrious woman.
Maj" Pelot the brother VINO was ar
rested and held for safe keeping is not be-
lieved to have had any knowledge Of or
completely in the crime The family say
that he is not bright, and is in poor health,
but suspicion was directed toward him be
cause he was seen walking backward and
forward at the entrance Of the lane when
David PeiOt was III search of his wife earlier
in the evening. Mary Pelot SAYS that her
husband was not under the Influence of
liquor, but acted as if he were under great
excitement.