San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-13
A CASE OF JEALOUSY.
YOUNG HUSBAND ACCUSES HIS
PRETTY WIFE,
And Finding Her in a Very Com
promising Position With His
Friend, Makes a Bloody Attack,
Which May Be Murder.

Great excitement was caused in the
neighborhood Of the Arkansas Pass rail-
way depot about $50 O'Clock last night
by the reported murder of blacksmith
and iron worker named w. w. Hamilton,
by w. Colbert, another blacksmith and
iron worker.
The report proved somewhat exag-
gerated, though the fact that murder
Gus assault had been committed was
proved beyond a doubt when the patrol
wagon, with DR.. Menger on board, found
Hamilton lying insenSible in a pool of
blood, in a little gully, near the river
bank, short distance below the pump
house in the yards Of the Arkansas Pass
railway. His head was crushed and beat
en- in fearful manner.
The police and physician were sum-
moned by Colbert by telephone, and
when they arrived at his house he went
with them and showed them his work,
saying simply: 81 have killed man, or
tried to do So"
The wounded man and his assailant
were taken in the patrol wagon, the for
mer put in the city hospital, where his
wounds were attended, the latter In the
- city jail, where a charge of assault to
murder was laid against him.
To a LIGHT reporter he made lengthy
statement of the affair, in the presence of
Officer Pat Bergin and Mr. r. j, Hof-
heinz. He spoke in quiet, cool way, and
came out with the details in manly
style but expressed no sorrow or regret at
what he had done. He said: II am
originally from jackson county. Illinois,
but lived in Fort Worth some years be-
fore moving to San Antonio. | am 2S
years old. married and have a baby boy
26 months old. | married my wife five
years ago in Fort Worth. She was
Miss Steward, her father being a grocer
located on Missouri avenue. She is now
90 years of age. | am blacksmith and
iron worker, and since living in San An
tonic have worked for the past three
years for the San Antonio Foundry COM
pany, and have been employed on the
iron work of the county Courthouse re-
Gently. l also worked on the City hall
building. live north of Arkansas street
on the west bank of the river, near the
bridge, in Mr.. GuenthGr'S house, and
my brothers family lives next to me. We
have lived very peaceably and quietly
until recently when my wife and
Ihave had some little domestic troubles,
and as she is very jealous woman, |
thought some woman was stirring up
. strife and was at the bottom Of it. Ham
ilton has been good friend of mine and
had his little 9-year- old daughter at our
house, where my wife boarded and
took care of her, while Hamilton boarded
at Gwyne's boarding house on South
Flores street. He had arranged to pay
us IS per month 20 care for the child, but
had not paid anything as yet. He says
he is widower. He came TO San Anto-
MO about year ago and became night
Waterman at the foundry for three
weeks. Then he was sent out to put up
outside work, in LOckhart and other
places He is IS years of age. He came
occasionally to see his daughter and last
evening after l had come home from
work about $50, and taken off my
working clothes, and had supper,
he came to the fence of the
yard, while / was sitting on the front
gallery with my baby on my knee. My
wife invited him in and | did too but he
declined, saying it was too warm, and
went to the bncket and took drink Of
water. when he came up and also drank.
took up my boy again and he said he
was going TO see a doctor and get some
medicine. told him not to be in hurry,
but he walked out and stopped
to talk to my brother a moment
and then he walked Off My wife then
went out the gate and down the street to
Mrs. Lofts near the pump house, and
asked my sister-in-law to look after the
child and got cigar at the saloon near
by and then went down back of OlSen'S
wood yard until opposite Mrs. Lofts
where heard my wife talking and laugh
ing with Mrs. Lott. | stopped and tried
to learn why she left the house so
strangely, when | saw Hamilton walk up,
take her arm and they walked off. | fol-
lowed some distance until they went to
the right of the railway track and disap-
peared in a hollow near the river. When
came up they were lying down and |
then stepped up, saying you are a id
fine friend and when he started to get up
l struck him. had picked up a rock on
my way down and with this | pounded
him until he was quiet. He only said
Don't do that when l hit him. l took
my wife, went home and told my brother
what l had done, and then sum
moned the police officers and the
doctor by telephone. My wife had said
last Wednesday that she could live happy
If she was married to another man, but
would not tell me who, and when we
were talking of returning to Fort Worth
to live she refused, saying she had good
friends here whom she might need some
day. She offered to leave me, too, saying
we had had hard words, and she could
get work and support herself and child,
whom she wanted until he should be "A
years old. Hamilton was short Of money,
but expected some next Monday, which