Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-02

LIFE WITH SERIOUS REsULT-IhE WOuNDED
WOMAN MAY DIE-USsUccEssFuL PROBING FOB
THE BULLE-.
In two-story frame house at No. 426 9Th
| street southwest, lives young colored couple,
William Douglass Cross and Hattie his wife, who
| were married two months ago. He is a fish
and oyster dealer. Last night Hattie and her
husband had an alteration and the result is
that she is now confined to her bed with
bullet in her head. while her husband is the
occupant Of one of the cells in the South WASH
ington police station Hattie and her husband
lived peaceably together until Sunday night
when their honeymoon ended in a quarrel.
Since that time they have had several misun-
derstandings.
THE QUARREL.
Last evening shortly after o'clock William
| returned home and went directly to his room.
Don't you want your supper" inquired his
mother-in-law, who lives in the house.
NO" he replied, II haven't got time to
eat it."
Cross wife followed him to the room on the
second floor and had not been there many
minutes before the mother-in-law heard them
quarreling. She went upstairs to inquire what
the trouble was and says she heard Cross say
that he was going to remain away all night;
that her daughter replied, IF you do I'll fol-
low you. anu tnat Gross retOrteu, ''anU ii you
do III Kill you" The old woman adds that she
told Hattie to remain at home and begged her
not to follow her husband.
SHOT DOWN IN THE STREET.
She did not take der mothers advice but fol-
lowed William out. 1t was but few minutes
later when the report Of pistol shot was heard
at the corner of 7th and c streets southwest, not
three squares from their house. Persons passing
at the time saw the form of a woman fall to the
n hnar frn
scene. The woman was Hattie and the man
was her husband.
Police" cried some one, but there was no
officer in that vicinity at the time. An officer
was soon found and Policeman Henry re-
sponded to a telephone message, bringing the
patrol wagon with him. The officer was going
to take the wounded woman to the hospital. but
when he looked at her he thought she was dy-
ing and he therefore took her to her home.
THE ARREST OF okoss.
1t took but few minutes for a crowd to as
semble and some one said: ''Why don't you
get her husband?"
Where is he?" asked the officer.
Down the street with his father" replied
some one in the crowd
The officer went down to the corner and
there saw Cross father. Further down the
street he saw a man Fastening his footsteps.
That aroused the officers suspicious and when
he went III pursuit of the man, the latter ran.
stop there" shouted the officer, ''Or I'll
shoot you''
What have done?" asked Cross as he
turned toward the officer
You've killed your wife," said the officer,
after he had gotten Cross in custody.
Or. Crook soon arrived at the home of the
Crosses. The wounded wife was then in an
unconscious condition. There was bullet hole
in her right temple. The doctor probed for
the bullet, but failed to find it.
CROSS SAYS HIS WIFE SHOT HERSELF
The prisoner denied the statements made
above by his mother-in-law and also denied
that he shot his wife. To STAR reporter he
said that he was going to Kernan's theater last
night and refused to take his wife because he
thought 1t was not a proper place for her to go.
She followed him out of the house and when
near the corner OF It'll and streets she shot
herself.
THE WIFE SAYS CROSS SHOT HER.
During the night the patient recovered con-
sciousness, and when questioned said that her
husband carried the pistol out of the house
and shot her. Before shooting her. che said,
he beat her.
This morning she was able to converse with
her mother at times, but she was in great pain
CROSS ONCE CONVICTED OF MANsLAUGHTER.
The prisoner is about thirty three years old
and has spent most of his life in South Wash
ington. He was indicted for the murder of JAS
Curry September 8, 1881, and On trial, April
IA, 1884, he was defended by Judge Miller and
c. NJ. Smith, and was convicted of man
slaughter and sentenced to three months in
Jail, which he served. The death of Curry
was caused by blow with a brick thrown by
Cross i'll q quarrel, into which he had been pro-
voked by the deceased.
The young wife is seriously perhaps fatally,
wounded. The bali has not yet been ex-
tracted, and until it is located her exact condi-
ton cannot be stated.
A SPECIAL SALE Of fine new and secondhand
carpets at Duncanson's auction rooms tomor-
row morning at 10 O'Clock.
AUCTION SALE OF LOCAL STOCKS AND BoNps-
The attention of investors and others is called
to the advertisement in another column of the
sale at auction by Duncanson Bros, auctioneers
of a large lot of the most desirable local securi-
ties to take place at their rooms tomorrow, Oc-
tober Sd, at pm.