Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-29
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SCENE OLE THE TRAGEDY.
the bullet, one of a thirty-two calibre, had
entered the body Immediately below the
apex and had lodged directly opposite,
and from where they soon extracted it.
The first theory of the physicians was
that the bullet had struck the ninth rib
and followed il around to the place where
found, and had not penetrated vital or
gan. Yesterday morning. however. they
made discoveries that warranted the be-
| lief that the lie alden messenger had passed
straight through the body instead of fol-
| lowing the rib. and had entered the kids
neys and caused acute peritonitis, which
was likely to result fatally at any mo
ment.
There are two versions rs to the
| CIRCUMSTANCE OF THE SHOOTING
Mrs. Dimick had been at the Eugene
Robinson floating show. and on her way
home by way of Nineteenth street. she
discovered horse and buggy in front of
the 'toboggGn." which she recognized
as belonging to her husband. Hurrying
home she seized revolver, and return
ing to the "toboggan" she entered
through a window. and the shooting oc>
cured
There were two women IN the room at
the time, and they aver that Dimick was
at the counter drinking, one of the wo-
men being on the outside of the counter
with him and the other behind, when
Mrs Dimick leaped through the window,
and with the utterance, you dirty pup,
I've caught you herel' took deliberate
aim and fired Then in an instant she
took aim at tie woman nearest her hus-
band on the outside of the counter,
when the woman behind jumped over the
counter, and seizing Mrs Dimick,
wrestled the revolver from her. and
flung it out in o the street. Mrs. Dimick
then
ASsIs TED HER HUSBAND
into the buggy. and drove him home.
Mrs. Dimick was seen IN her home on
the second floor of the Dimick livery
stable building as given above, by an
ARGUS repres soon after the &C.
currence and while the physicians were
working with her husband. She ap-
peared distres sed and anxious. but no,
nervous or excited. "Oh, it is all an acct
dent" she said, call an accident, an awful
accident. / did not shoot my husband
| would not harm him and he knows it
he will tell you SO; let him speak for him
self"
Lutte DlmiCk was greatly excited anC
possessed of he idea that he was diving
He screamed and groaned repeatedly, yet
it was time when the better side of his
disposition showed itself, for he not only
exonerated his wife, but laid the whole
blame of the unfortunate affair to him
self Twice he told this story to the
doctors and others about his bedside:
II was down there on Nineteenth
street and my wife came in on me. She
came in very suddenly, think through
the window, and
AIMING AT ONE OF THE WOMEN
said: so you are the woman who is en-
ticing my husband away and giving mt
all this trouble turned and grabbed
her, and in tie scuffie the revolver wen
off and was shot"
Young Dinick was constant in his
iterations that his wife was not to blame
Once between his paroxysms, when some
one had apparently cast reflection upor
his wife, he called her to the bed ant
said:
MOT A WORD AGAINST YOU, LIZZIE.
You are not to blame; you have been {
good wife to me-" Later, in talking &c
DR.. Truesdsle, he remarked: "Don'i
blame Lizzie she is my wife, the mother
of my little child there, and I can't have
her blamed"
One of the barn men said he feared
something was going to happen when hi
saw the expression on Mrs. Dimick's fac
on her return from the show. He wa
standing at the livery stable door, wheI
she hurriedly passed him and went NJ
stairs. When she came down again ant
went off toward Nineteenth street, h
felt sure something was wrong. His frs
impulse was to advise one of the bari
men to follow her, but an after though
told him he had better not. A very shor
time had elapsed before he heard q scream
from the direction of Nineteenth street
and Third avenue. He hastily went II
that direction and met Mrs. Dimick com
ing in q buggy with her husband, and sh'
told him her husband had been shot, blu
that was all she would say. When tn
Dimick building was reached. young Lut
was carried up stairs, crying that he ha,
been shot and knew that he was dying
Lutte HAD BEEN DRINKING
| considerably. evidently. and this had tn,