Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-01
A JEALOUS HUSBAND.

George LIE Cointe Attempts to XIII His
| Wife and . Man Named Frost.
apEAr ExcrrEMEyr IN BOARDING HOUSE on
TWELFTH STREET.-THE MAN AND WOMAN SHOT
NOT SO SERIOUSLY INJURED As AT FIRST SUP
rosED-A COMPLICATED STORY.
Yesterday morning about 2 o'clock the still
ness that usually prevails in the neighborhood
Of 18th and streets at that hour was broken
by the noise Of half dozen pistol shots fred
in rapid succession. Officer Oriani, who was
walking toward the corner of 18th and G, OBJ
served that the sounds came from the house
No. 6o4 18th street, which is kept as boarding
house by Mrs. Rogers, and Mt once started in
that direction in time to arrest a very excited
young Frenchman, who still held in his hand
the hot and smoking revolver.
| The man proved to be George LIE Cointe
with whom the officer had been talking but
a few moments before as the former was max
ing his way toward his rooms at the boarding
house.
| COMPLICATED STORY.
The story that reached its climax in the
shooting is complicated one that came very
near evolving itself into the death of a man and
| woman, for it was soon found that lie Cointe
had fired with fatal intent at his wife and at
man whom he claims to have thought to be her
paramour. This man Is Cnas. c. Frost, a
young man OF twenty-nine and the agent here
for rre alarm company. There is one more
person involved in the plot Miss Grace Eaton,
young art student. The stories told by the
four principals to the affair do not hang well
| together.
THE MAN WHO DID THE SHOOTING.
George LIE Cointe, whose real name turns
out to be Adolph Doyenhard, came to this
country when a small child. After coming to
| this city to live his mother married a second
time. man named lie Cointe, and the young
man was known by his stepfather's name. Six
Edith Collins, who had two small children.
| She is the daughter of Mr.. VIM &. Yeatman,
the disbursing clerk Of the War Department
1t turns out that lie Cointe was at one time
in the navy, serving in the same ship with
| Officer Oriani, but, it is claimed, he deserted
before he had served his entire term of enlist
| ment. He Is row clerk in the War Depart
/ ment
| WHAT LIE coINrE CLAIMS
LIE Cointe claims that on Saturday he began
to have serious doubts Of his wife's fidelity He
and Frost were friends, and Saturday morning
Frost accompanied him to the train. as he was
going over to Baltimore for the day.
Late Saturday night lie Cointe returned to
the city and reached his home about midnight.
! He went to his room and found his wife there
and also Miss Grace Eaton. but saw nothing to
confirm his suspicious and was there only few
moments. He spoke to Grace and to his wife
and then, putting set of poker chips in his
might not get home till morning. Then he
wentinto the street and waited.
THE SHOTS FIRED.
1t appears that Mrs. lie Cointe, Miss Eaton
and Frost had spent the evening in Miss Eaton's
rooms drinking. The young art student occu-
pied two rooms across the hall from the lie
Cointes apartments Along toward o'clock
LIE Cointe returned to his rooms and finding
none there started for the rooms across the
hall. where he expected to find his wife. The
back room opens upon y tin roof of the Globe
Hotel on + street.
As LIE Cointe drew his pistol and started for
Cruces back room, seeming to ignore her
presence entirely, his wife tried to stop him.
He fired and missed her. She turned and
climbed out through the window on to the tin
roof and so escaped through the Globe Hotel
As she fed the husband fired at her second
time and the ball struck her back just below
the right shoulder blade but she did not stop.
THE MAN IN THE CASE
Finding q man in the rear room whom he
claims to have felt sure was the author Of his
supposed wrongs LIE Cointe pushed the man
on the bed with his left hand, and az they
struggled he fired four times. Three Of the
bullets struck Frost, one in the stomach one
in the chest and one in the shoulder
AT the time OF the shooting. LIE Cointe saws
he did not know who the man was, The French
man was at once arrested and taken to the first
police station on 18th street. while the wounded
man was removed to the Emergency Hospital
| near by.
Mrs LIE Cointe had already been taken to the
| hospital and there the two wounded people Law
| on cots side by side, while Drs. Hall and Boss
and afterwsrd DR.. Bowen dressed their
| wounds.
The woman's wounds were BY no means
serious, but it was thought at first that Frost
must die as the result of the wound in his
stomach, but his condition was afterward
found To be not 30 serious, and last night he
was thought to be out of danger. He was
| taken from the hospital to his room at COS 18th
street, which Is also part of Mrs. Rogers
boarding house.
MRS. LIE CoISTE's STORY
When Mrs. lie Cointe and Frost were carried
to the Emergency Hospital he was almost I'M
conscious, but declared that he was not in n
| room with any woman. Mrs. LIE Cointe WIS
more laxative and said that Frost was not
with her. but was in neighboring ROOM and
that she had left her own chamber and gone
| into the next room, where Miss Eaton was
sick, to give her some brandy when Mr.. LIE
Cointe came in.
She thinks the shooting was the working ont
| Of plan to murder her concocted by her hus
band and the blonde art student Grace Eaton
She thinks her husband was fond of Grace
Notes passed between them.
Her Idea is that lie Cointe h. A Grace sacura