St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-13
Anderson P. Nelson, Of Winni-
peg, Shoots at His Wife
Four Times.
A Desperate Struggle in a
First Avenue North Board
ing House.
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the boarding house at 323 First avenue
north. followed by Woman's frightened
cry for help and the low, deep curses
of desperate man. A. Poppelman,
the proprietor of the house, who was in
his bed-chamber on the second floor,
rushed down stairs and into the kitchen,
from which came the means of woman
evidently in great bodily anguish. As
he opened the door into the kitchen, a
man holding
A LEVELED REVOLVER
in his hand rushed out of the pantry
crying:
I'll shoot" Selling chair and strik-
ing down the arm of his assailant, Mr..
Poppeman grappled with the furious
man and attempted to wrench the
weapon from him, but was I'M
able to do so. A young fol-
low named Cole, who boards in
the house, had followed Poppelman to
the kitchen and finally succeeded in
gaining possession of the revolver. The,
man was then Overpowered. and. other
boarders arriving, he was thrown down
and held while the police was called.
When the would-be murderer had
Us AZ
revealed
4 TERRIBLE SIGHT.
Half lying on the floor and half lean
| ing against the shelves was Mrs. Mary
Nelson, young woman of twenty-four
years. employed in the house as do
nestle. Blood was pouring in stream
from her right arm and there was q
large pool of it on the floor, while
the shelves against which she had
fallen were spattered with her
blood. The woman was scarcely able
to speak, but was finally moved
to chair in the parlor, where 1t was
found that a bullet had passed through
her right arm just above the elbow. and
another had buried itself in the iieshy
part of her right thigh. The man who
fired the shots is Andrew 7. Nelson,
the husband of the Injured woman, and
he is now in the central police station,
with a bandage over an
UGLY SCALP WOUND,
which marks where bullet from a
forty-four caliber revolver plOwed along
the top of his head. The probable
cause of the shooting is jealousy. and
the story is soon told. Nelson and his
wife were married in Winnipeg two
years ago in July and lived together
until the 9th Of October last, when
she left him and went to work
in private family, and about five
weeks ago left there and came to MiII-
neapolis, going to work at the house
where the shooting occurred imme-
diately on her arrival, where her has
band with the aid of detectives. found
her about two weeks ago. He
finally induced her to return to Winni-
peg a week ago last Monday, but she
would not remain. and returned to the
Poppelman house on wednesday last.
So far there is no dispute regarding the
facts, but beyond that
THEIR STORIES DIFFER.
The woman, who is fairly good look
ing and evidently bright and intelligent
brunette, says that she was married to
Nelson, as stated, in July, 1886, at Win
nipeg. She lived with him till last Oc-
tober, but during the greater part of
that time he abused her, and sometimes
failed to support her. At one time he
kicked and beat her so badly that
she carried the marks of his lll-treat-
ment for months. About month ago
he discovered, through Rice's detective
agency where she was, and came here
| to see her. At that time he hung about
the boarding honse for some time trying
| to induce her to come back to him, say
without her, and would not live without
her. She finally
CONSENTED TO GO BACK
to Winnipeg and see him, and see IL
they could not come to some agreement.
He returned first, and week ago Mon
day she went to Winnipeg. met him
there, told him she could not live with
him any longer and returned to Mime
apolis Wednesday last. She heard no
more from him until he came
to the house yesterday morning, when
they had a talk and finally agreed
to part peaceably and let the past be
dead. He came again, however, last
night at o'clock, ostensibly to bid her
goodbye before quitting her forever,
and the two sat in the kitchen and
talked from till o'clock, during
which time he once more endeavOred to
induce her to return and live with him.
When finally convinced that she would
not he rose, drew the revolver,
and said: IF we can't live together,
we can die together" He then fired at
her but missed her. She ran into the
pantry. He fired again and hit her in
arm, the ball passing through. Once
more he pulled the trigger and she fell,
the ball striking her in the thigh. He
then turned the weapon on himself and
she remembered no more until the peO-
pie came TO help her to seat.
NELSON'S STORY
differs from that of his wife in one eS-
sential particular. He admits all the
recent matters, and said to the officers:
II came down here from Winnipeg to
shoot her. | got drunk on purpose to
shoot her. She loved another man, and
/ wouldn't let her live for him." He
insists that his wife was unfaithful to
him, and that she was init
mate with one Billy Hulls, a
tinsmith, formerly employed in
Minneapolis, but lately of Winnipeg.
who left that city about the time that
| Mrs. Nelson went there. Nelson says
| Hulls is in the city, was at the house
| last night and that he fired a fifth shot
at him. The pistol, which is a cheap
bulldog revolver, had five empty shells
in it when taken by the police, but no
one in the house knows anything about
| Hulls, and it is not believed that he was
there. Mrs. Poppelman says further
| more that the woman always appeared
| to be honest,
| INDUSTRIOUS AND VIRTUOUS.
She was never out in the evening and
| had no fellows visiting her at the
house. Nelson's wounds are very light,
one being the scalp wound above re-
| ferred to and the other mere abrasion
/ of the skin in diagonal direction across
| his breast. 1t is evident either that he
was very drunk or that he did not in
tend to do himself any serious harm.
| Detective Rice, who knows something
of the case, thinks there is something
in Nelson's story about Huils, but
| is at a loss to explain the movements
and motives of Nelson. who told him
| ing that he had concluded to go quietly
away and leave her, as she evidently
| did not love him, and was infatuated
with the other man. Mr.. Rice says that
| Nelson threatened the girls life two
weeks ago, but he thought he had per-