Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-12
EDWIN H. CowLEs SHOT.
Separated From Ills Wife, He
Carries Away His little
Daughter. "
Mrs. Cowles and Her Brother
Follow Them to Montreal.
AN ALTERCATIoN IN A CARRIAGE
RESULTS IN CoWLEs BEING
4 SHOT IN THE NECK.
Mrs. Cowles' Brother Fired the Shot
and Says He Intended to Kill.

o paroxysm of excitement. st. Gather
inc street was crowded with pedestri-
ans, as is usual at that hour. Suddenly
they saw flash and q puff of smoke,
and heard q pistol shot and a woman's
scream. A cab was brought to a stand
still and woman alighted. In it were
still two men, one with q smoking re-
volver in his hand, the other uncon-
scious, his blood soaking into the rugs
of the carriage. The wounded man
was Eugene Cowles, of Cleveland, O.,
son OF the late Edwin Cowles, late edi-
tor OF the Leader. His assassin was E.
G. Hale of the same city, and the wo-
man was Cowles' wife. After a few
hurried words, Hale ordered the cab
man to drive to the General Hospital.
The lady re-entered the carriage, which
started for the hospital, a distance of
half a mile. A by-stander had tele-
phoned for an ambulance and it met
the party, bat its services were not re-
quired.
On arriving at the hospital, DR.. Kirk
patrick, medical superintendent, had
the wounded man conveyed to q pri-
vate ward where DIR. Fenwick, one Of
the attending physicians, was called.
There was close examination and a
hurried consultation, and the result
was announced to the eager crowd.
There was no immediate danger. The
ball had entered the right side of the
neck and, after piercing the right jaw
bone, emerged through the cheek ofthe
opposite side. ....--
When 1t became known that there
was no immediate dangeran inquiry in
to the facts of the case was begun. The
party, with Sergeant Foye, who had ac-
companied them from st. Catherine
street, proceeded to the central police
station. Sergeant Watson was on duty
and received them. Hale briefly re-
lated the story of the shooting, and
gave himself up on a charge of shooting
leave of his friends and was then show
ed to the cell he was to occupy. There
were on the scene Mrs. Cowles, Mrs.
Bolton, her sister-in-law; Judge Inger-
soil, of Cleveland, as Mrs. Cowles' legal
adviser, and Mr.. ID. McGibbon, @. c.,
of Montreal.
Cowles was visiting his mother in
Cleveland, as had been his custom.
His little daughter, who was stopping
with her mother, was permitted to
visit her father at his mothers house.
He took her in charge and went to the
station, accompanied by her sister, but
he escaped from her and at once took a
train. This train ran only to Conneaut.
There he got horses and drove twenty
eight miles to Girard, Pa. From there
he took train to Buffalo, and was
next located at the Welland House,
st. GATHERINGS. There he was met by
Sheriff Sawyer, who had long inter-
view with him, lasting nearly a day.
On Thursday. Cowles took a boat for
Toronto, about four hours sail. He had
previously said that he was willing to
have an interview with his wife, but
would talk with no one else. His OBJ
ject was to obtain an additional allow
ance. Four months ago, on the death
of his father, he was cut off with an
allowance of $500. Previous to this
he had been living, it is said, at q rapid
rate, and made two trips to Europe in
company with woman Of question
able character, named Clara Lienes-
chloss. She is known under the aliases
of King and Wilson, and is at present
stopping at the Welland Hotel, st.
GATHERINGS, having come there from
Buffalo. On Monday last an appli-
cation was made for divorce by Mrs.
Cowles on the ground of adultery.
Cowles admitted his guilt to the sheriff,
naming persons and places, but he af-
firmed that his wife had condoned the
Offense. Mrs. Cowles had in her posses
sion letter in which he promised to
mend his ways and be faithful in fu-
ture.
] On Thursday at 7:5O Cowles left for
Montreal. A pursuing party, COM
posed of Mrs. Cowles, Mrs. Bolton,
Judge Ingersoll, Mr.. Hale and officers.
reached Toronto the same morning.
A consultation by Cowles with his
Toronto attorneys, Mccarthy, Osler
and Creelman, led to an interview be-
Ing arranged here. The last party
reached here this morning, and stopped
at the Windsor Hotel. Mr.. Colwes had
left the Windsor and had gone to st.
lawrence Hall, where he registered as
"Mr. Wilson and child" and had
breakfast. After breakfast he took the
child to IAcademie de Ia SAGE Cour, a
convent under the charge of Les Souses
de la Province, and gave instructions
that she was not to be given up with
out written order from him. He then
returned to the hotel without the
child, ready for the interview with his
wife. 'e@;.
The child, Florence, Is 8 years old,
and of remarkable beauty.
Ten years ago Cowles was married to
Miss Alice Hale, daughter of e. B.
Hale, banker. For about five years all
| went well, when Cowles began to absent
himself from home, allegingthat bust.
ness ceiled him to Philadelphia and
| New York. Instead of this he went to
the Iriquois Hotel, where the woman
| Wilson was stopping. On one occa-
sion, when In Europe, Cowles cabled to
his wife to come to his aid, saying that
he was sick.
She did go, accompanied by her child,
but he no sooner received her than he
left her and returned with q strange
woman to America and registered iii 3
hotel in the Catskill mountains as man
land wife. On another occasion he
| lived with her in San Francisco, alleg-
ling that she was his wife, and thew oc-