Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-08
SHOT BY HIS WIFE.
Thurston Hollingsworth, the
Barber, Mortally Wounded.
His Wife Blows the Top OF His Head Of
With Murderous Shot Gun
This Morning.

ing. A husband has very large hole
10 his head, and a vile is in Jail
charged with shooting him with
double-barrel shot gun. Tho victim
! Is the well known barber, Thurston
Hollingsworth, and his slayer IS his
wife.
The couple were walters al the ban.
quet last night, given by j. G. Jo-
seph and wife in honor OF the mar
riage of Mr.. Eli Redelsheimer and
their neice, Miss Ida Joseph. When
they left, about l o'clock, Holdings
worth asked Mr.. Joseph to give him
a bottle of wine. The wine was given
him, and in company with his wife
he left for home. About 3 o'clock the
news reached town that he had been
killed by his wife,, DIR. Carney was
summoned, and on arriving at the
house ne found that the wound was a
fatal one. The charge from the shot
gun had entered the mans left tenn
pie, ranging straight through the
forehead and tearing away the left
eye, the cheek bone, and portion OF
the front part of his skull. BY look
ing into this cavity the windpipe
could be plainly seen. 1t was such
serious wound that DR.. Carney could
do nothing but fill it full Of cotton
and leave 1t.
AS there was no witness to the af.
fair, the evidence against the woman
is purely circumstantial, with the ex-
ception of her own statement. This,
however, points strongly 10 DELHI
crate murder. The trouble seems to
have been jealousy on the part of the
wife, and many of the colored people
are in nowise surprised at the trag-
edy. Holingsworth left home last
| week and went to Frankfort, Ky.
1t is said that he went there to see
Leila Moore, a woman who formerly
lived here, but went to Frankfort
some weeks ago. The pair returned
to the city Monday night and were
met at the depot by the mans wife,
who upbraided her husband severely
for bringing the woman home with
him. They had a row at the depot,
and those who are acquainted with
the trouble say that the fuss had been
growing more and more public since.
Family rows were frequent and
threats of murder were heard from
both sides.
So much for the circumstantial
part os the evidence. Officer Robin
son went out this morning and put
the woman under arrest. She told
him how the shooting occurred. She
said that they had arrived at their
home about O'Clock last night. She
told her husband that he had been
waltzing with Lizzie johnson. They
got into row on this point after
they had eaten their cake and drunk
their wine. Hollingsworth picked
up a Ratchet and said he would kill
her. In an effort to intimidate him
she took the shotgun and pointed il
at him, pulling the trigger. She did
not think The gun would shoot and
was scared nearly to death when the
report came and her husband fell to
the floor. She made this statement
voluntarily to Officer Robinson, who
made the arrest, but has since denied
it all and said that they were playing
with the gun when it was accidental
ly discharged.
Thurston Hollingsworth has been
a barber in GAINESVILLE for a mum.
Der of years, and while he was an
industrius man, he was regarded as a
man who did not fulfill the marriage
vows to the letter, and had been con-
cerned in several affairs that had
brought the enmity of his wife down
on his head. Previous TO his coming
to GAINESVILLE he lived at Metropolis, |
Ill.,, and left there because he killed
another negro. He was arrested in
this city some years afterward for
this deed, carried back and was ac-
quilted on the ground of selfdefense.
LATER INVESTIGATION.
A later investigation of the circum-
stances regarding the killing throws
very little light on it. Attorney
Gen.. Pitt went out about noon to.
day for the purpose of taking a state
ment from the wounded man if he
wanted to make one. He found him
in semi-conscious condition and
could get very little from him.
ado you realize that you are going
to die?" asked Mr.. Pitt.
"No, SIR"
"Oo you want to make statement
to me, the attorney general?"
eyes, SIR"
"Who shot you ?"
81 don't know"
"Do you want to make a statement
your wife ?" |.
"No, SIR" :
AT this point Hollingsworth lapsed