The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-09
ANOTHER MURDER.
sirg. Frank Lcsllo Shoots her Hus-
band In the Hoad.
A SOUTH SIDE HOUSE OF ILL FAME
The Scene of the Shocking Tragedy
Early last Evening.
SAD ENDQF 4 SERIES OF QUARRELS
She had Shot at him Onco before
and was In Jail for it.
THE FOURTH MURDEROUS AFFAIR.

THE FOURTH MURDER0US AFFAIR.
That has Occurred In Wheeling this
Wccl,..-AIrs. Leslie Committed to
Jail without bail to Await the Re-
suit of her husbands Wounds.
Who tho Parties are, and Some
thing Indicating tho Cause of the
Fatal Assault. .f.,.i.
about quarter before six o'clock
last evening Mrs. Manic Leslie shot
her husband. Frank Leslie, innicting .
fatal wound. The ball entered the
right temple, piercing tho brain.
Leslie was taken to the City IIospi.
tai, and there DR.. John r. Pipes, assist
ell by DR.. schwirn and DR.. Frank
lIupp. trcphinol his skull, in the hope
that this might relieve the pressure on
his brain.
1t did no: hav, that effect, however,
and at half past nine O'Clock Leslie
died. ......... ~. ..ia e-5r.
County Coroner Phillips was ut police
headquarters, waiting to hear the re-
suit OF the shot, when tho news OF his
death came, and he fastened to the hos
pitai at once. s.f5
The shooting occurred in the house
Of i'll fame OF Anne keim, on Twenty
first street, adjoining hook and ladder
house No. |. Leslie was in the house
when his wife entered and said to Mrs.
keim: 81 want my husbandw -
lie heard her and recognized the
voice, pushing shut the door lead
Ing from tho room in which, he was to
that his wife had entered, lie placed his
foot against it. Mrs. Leslie tried to
iorcc the door open, but failed.
TIE SHOOTING. 49,
Mrs. Wooster conducted the woman
around to another door lcading;into the
same room, and she thus came face to
lace with her husband. He started
toward the door, when she drew a re-
vOlver from the folds OF light wrap
she wore, and pointing it straight at his
head, fired. - : '-s,=,' ~
The ball entered his right temple, and
he fell. Alter lying scarcely second
he put his hand TO his head; and feeling
q little lump on the surface where the
ball had struck; he muttcred something
about the bullet, and rose to his feet.
lie tottcred little, and then sank to
the floor again. -1.,-,-,, -r..-,---..-. =.
Mrs, keim ran to the door OF the hook
and ladder house and called the fire.
men. Mark Mulkearn and John Donley
went in, and found Mrs. Leslie standing
IN an open way beneath n staircase.
Mulkearn said,to her: "Hcrc, i want
yon! Where is that gun?" 81
She handed over the pistol and ac-
companied them quietly TO the hook
and ladder house. where. Mulkearn left
her in tho custody OF Donlev and went
out to look ior an officer. He found
several South Side officers passing on
their way from the 4 o'clock roll call.
and Officer Donavin was called in and
tho woman turned over 10 him. ue
iook her to police headquarters.
THE WOUNDED NAV.
Dir. John r. ripas was summoned
hrrried!y and did what he could ior the
wounded man at the house where the
tragedy occurred, and the patrol wagon
having arrived in response to call, he
was removed to the City Hospital.
DR.. Pipes gave it rs his opinion that
he could not possibly live more than
an hour or two. -s:
When Officer Donavin went to call
the wagon Mrs. Leslie thought hc
wanted 10 take her init to the iockur,
and she exclaimed, "Oh, don't do that;
will walk up"
Alter sho had been at the head
quarters for some time Squire z. l..
Nimoerly was called in, and ho COM
mGilted her to Jail without bali to await
me result OF her shot. Tho Justice said
nc would have the hearing at the iai!
oiiice some time this afternoon.
Mrs. Leslie refused to talk to tho Off
GERS or to anybody else, when she was
nfst arrested. After some time, how
ever, she said to Lieut.. Gaus: q
= have had constant trouble; moth
iNs, hnt trouble all the time!n'
:, She gave the lioys OF tho house over
Mer husbands saloon at 2OO6 Main
street to Officer Donavin, and hc went
1'"A and locked tho place up.
WHO THEY ARE. -g
., Leslie came here from Wcllsyillc.
GNio, where he was policeman for a
tI. line lilo was known rs TOD" Leslie.
itIs wife, Mamie, is said to be OF good
'"ihiIy at East Liverpool, Ohio.
Leslie @ got license to keep a saloon
y! " zoVb, but afterwards Councilman
BAILEY caused it to be withheld because
ssatls were being put in tho place
:Nch MS are devoted usually to tho worst
immortality. lie has had a saloon thero
9soDao!y eighteen months.
AGout n year ago Mrs. Leslie shot Mt
aes husband, but did not hit him. She
n Tas arraigned hciore the lato Squire
Jaws, who sent her to Jail, but later the
.ase ,n was arranged somehow and she
WGs released
o,, twas said at that time that she ac.
FUSED ,o Frank OF having soduced her sis
.S, vi, and tnatit was for that reason she
s HIeu to kill him. The police say her
;;sler Is now m inmate Ola house of i'll
'4ne IN East Wheeling. hi
wa;eL! ie,l!e was Il. short, heavy set man,
i%e!sAi!nS about 100 pounds. His wiie
a. a tail, spare, delicate looking woman.
"iTt' III traces OF former good looks.
ssaIe ane pistol with which the shot was
IL. ea !, was n cheap one OF Hopkins & AL
''1 maize, and only 80 calibrc.
Az EYE wirSsss's STORY.
Oh '+tS. Nf. hGim says that when she show
Issi;n iitrs. Leslie into tho room where
tStte isr was, she said to tho man: