The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-22
MRS. C0LDECOTT RETURNS
HER HUSBAND REFUSES TO LET
HER IN THE HOUSE.

dMH IN lah hOO6h.
She Enters Through a Window During
Ris Absence and Lies in Wait for Rirn
With Pistol-ae Has Her Arrested.
She Gives Bond-Her Explanation of
the Scandal.
ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 21.-Mrs. Lille Col
decott, the pretty, fair-haired, blue-eyed
wife Of George Coldecott, proprietor Of the
Turkish Bath Institute. was arrested about
noon to-day and placed under $500 bond,
charged with assault with intent to murder.
1t Is another sensational chapter in the
Khurt-Coldecott sensation in Ciucin-
natl, which has been the reign
ing topic OF conversation here since
last Saturday. The warrant was
issued at the instance Of Or. Coldscott, who,
with tears In his eyes, said his pretty wife
had attempted to shoot him this morning
because he refused to live with
her any longer on account of
her conduct with Khurt In Cincinnati,
when the two were ordered out of the Hotel
Emery. Mrs. Coldeoott and her little
7-year-old boy arrived in Atlanta this
morning at $3.50 o'clock on the East Ten
nessee vestibuled train from Gin
cinnati. Without hesitation Mrs. Coldecott
proceeded to her husbands home ON Luokte
street in a cab, her conscience easy because
she had done no wrong. she says, but when
she rang the bell her husband, after discov-
ering who was at the door at such an un-
usual hour Of the morning, refused to allow
her to enter. The pretty wife pleaded and
the little child cried. but the fathers out
ragged feelings would noe let him hear. aud
Mrs. Coldecott, and the boy turned away
In the darkness to find shelter, until the
dawn broke. with a negro woman who had
been cook In the family.
LAYING IN WAIT WITH PISTOL.
Later in the day altar Mr.. Coldecort had
gone down town his wife returned TO the
home from whose door her husband had
turned her away with her child, ip spite of
her entreaties and professions Her woman's
anger was aroused, and des-
perate light blaEed from her ba-
byish blue eyes. With her white teeth set
and shining pistol clutohed in her delicate
hand she awaited the return of her
husband, having gained an entrance to the
home through window. DIR. Coldecott
was unprepared for such a meeting. When
he pushed open the front door and
found himself face TO face with the
tall, re1ned-looking woman he had
called hiB wife, the blood stood still In his
veius at the dangerous light Ia her eyes.
What passed between them, neither the naan
nor the woman clearly remembers, but
when the husband, at the sound OF q sharp
"click, "cliek," glanced down and was hor-
rihed to see the shining pistol in bis wlfe's
hand. he quickly left the house to save bis
life.
M THE ARREST.
DR.. Coldecott consulted his attorney, and
the result was the warrant, the arrest Of bis
wife by police officer, and finally her re-
lease on bond. Thursday the bus
band and wife will meet again
In court, when preliminary in
vestigation will be made. DIR. Coldeoott
will begin proceedings for divorce Mrs.
Coldecott and her little boy are at the
home Of friend. OF the Cincinnati affair
Mrs. Coldecott says: Last Tuesday even-
ing, In company with my 7-year-old boy,
left here for st. Louis on business. lawsuit.
reached st. Louis Wednesday finished my
business and left Thursday. Instead OF
coming home went to Cincinnati TO see
my husbands uncle aud aunt. arrived In
Cincinnati Friday and went to the Hotel
Emery wi where ,da"ot. the register sCn will
Henry Khurt and another Atlanta
gentleman looked over the register, and,
seeking my name, called at my room
together. They came In, and they, with
myself and son, sat in the room. They had
only been in few minutes when
card from the clerk was sent
up, stating that ladies could
only receive visitors In the parlor.
told the gentleman, they left and haven'b
seen them since l went to my husbands
uncle's home and stayed there. He knows
all my actions from thon on We saw the
piece in the Cincinnati paper about me and
it nearly killed me. Ny husbands uneis
teiegraphed him thsre was nothing In it,
and Sunday started for home"
Mrs. Coldecott said she bought the pistol
this morning sfter her husband turned her
away from his house Then shs added:
"My husband Is insane. He has been in an
insane asylum in New York. lie once
tried to throw q cup of
vitriol in my face and has
made my life very unhappy. but when I
leave him he comes TO me weeping and
waiting and induces me TO come back TO
him again."