The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-03
ALL ABOUT A WOMAN.
The Long-Standing Feud Be-
tween Wall and Sanderlin.
sANDERLIN ONCE SHOT WALL.
The Victims Wife the Cause OF the
Trouble-sanderlin In Despair
Had Attempted Suicide.

The condition of William c. Sanderlin,
who was shot On Depot street on New
Years night BY (. j. Wall. is considered
quite serious BY the attending physician.
Dr.. Crichton. One of the bullets in iicted
painful flesh wound on the right arm
near the shoulder, and another entered
the right leg joint above the knee and.
ranging downward. fractured the thigh
bone very badly, severed three tendons
and lodged in the flesh under The knee,
half an inch from the shin. The fracture
was reduced and the bullet cut out If no
serious consequences occur Sanderlin will
be able TO leave his home in about two
months. but il is not at all improbable
that the leg will have to be amputa,ed
Wall is still in jail pending thorough III
vestigation of the affair.
There has been i'll feeling between Wal
and Sanderlin ever since last winter. when
Sanderlin accused Wall of breaking up his
family by alternating his wife's affections.
On March 81 DR.. Chrichton was called a,
L O'Clock At night TO attend Wall, ~ho
Was suffering from bullet wound in tn.
groin Wall said that he had accidenty
shot himself. but the physician. noticins
the range OF the bullet. disereiited the
story aud afterward Wall admitted that
some one else had shot him, but he pos
lively declined to say who his assai.aist
was. Il IS believed that Sanderiin is the
man who shot him. A few days
after Wall was shot, and while
he was still in bed as re-
suit of his wound, Sanderlin attempted
suicide by taking q large quantity o
iaudanum- Dr.. Crichton worked with
him all night and succeeded, after a hard
fight, in saving his life. Since that time
the bitter enmity existing between the
two men has been a matter of commol
talk among their neighbors in the vicinity
OF, Depot street At the shooting Monday
night there were tive witnesses, Wall him.
self. his friend. c. J. Eggert and three
women, Mrs. Sanderlin. Mrs. Mitchell and
Mrs. Jennings. Six shots were fired. Wal
firing three and the wounded man three;
but there Is a dispute as TO who COM
menced the shooting.
For year Sandsr.in and his wife have
not lived together pleasantly. and sine
October they have not lived together a. ali.
Daring Mr.. Sanderlin's absence from the
city in October Mrs. Sander,in moved
away, and with her i3-year-old daughter
NDoA IOdEAnEs al go DspOt street.. IN tue
same lodging house where Wall had his
residence. A week ago Mrs. Sanderiin
telephoned for a policeman, and when the
officer arrived he found her much excited
and in tears. She said her husband had
been there and had choked and beaten her
and threatened her life. The next day, in
company with young man named Rice.
she called at police hea dquariers and
wanted her husband put under bonds 10
keep the peace. She was told to see the
prosecuting attorney, but she never called
on that official.
Sandsr!in received word last Saturday
that his mining claim ut Silverton had
been jumped and he declared that he
would go to the mines and have New
Years dinner" with the jumper. but he
remained in Seattle, with the result that
he was shot himself. Sanderlin is at his
home, 12l Lombard street, and still de-
clines TO tell anything concerning his
troubles with Wall and his wife. He is
very downhearted and says he does rot
care what the police do with his assailant
or what becomes of himself Wall will
probably file a charge of attempted muir
der against Sanderlin today.