The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02
KILLS HIS WIFE ON THE STREET
THE COUPLE EsTRANGED AND sHH
REFUSED A RECONCILIATION.

One Bullet Fired Through the wo-
mans Heart and Another Through
Her HeRd-Her Daughter With
Her at the Time-The Murderer
Drug Clerk and Atlanta the
Scene of the TraEedy-.He Escapes.
Atlanta. Ca, June IA few minutes
after O'Clock tonight. while on her
way home from a grocery store. where
she went. accompanied by her 15-year-old
daughter. to make purchases for Suns
days dinner. Mrs. Lewis Hanvey waa
shot and instantly killed by her husband.
DIR. Lewis Hanvey, a well known drugs
gist.
The killing occurred at the corner a
Pryor and Garnett streets, one Of the
most central residence portions of the
city. being but four blocks from the Kim-
bali house.
The murdered woman was walking arm
In arm with her daughter when the mad-
dened man turned his pistol upon her.
Three shots were fired, one entering tha
woman's breast. another passing through
her mouth into the brain and the third
shot passed over her head as she felI
backward into the street
After doing the shooting, Dr. Hanvey
ran short distance down Pryor street.
and lodging behind a telegraph pole.
waited to see the crowd gather around
the prostrate form of his wife. He was
soon espied in his hiding place and when
the cry Of "catch him" rang out he fed
out Pryor street toward the East Ten-
nessee railroad. He was followed as
closely as possible and later a posse Of
mounted policemen gave pursuit. but up
TO midnight he had not been captured
1t Is believed that DIR. Hanvey fed to4
ward Macon, following the tracks Of the
| Southern railway.
Mrs. Hanvey was picked up and carried
| into the nearest house. She was dead
when lifted from the street, her daughter
shrieking frantically and clinging about
her neck.
DR.. and Mrs. Hanvey had not lived
happily together for several years on ac-
| count Of his dissipation. He was for quite
a while employed In the prescription de-
| partment of Jacobs Pharmacy, but lost
i his position on account of his habits.
After this Harvey foated about the
state, staying a while In Macon, Savan-
nah and other places, more recently in
| Savannah. DR.. Hanvey and his wife sepa-
rated several times, but had been living
together at III South Pryor street. block
| from where the murder occurred tonight,
| until few days ago, when Mrs. Hanvey
declared that she would not live with him
| any longer unless he reformed. At this
he left a couple of days ago. after threats
/ ening his wife ~ she persisted in her de-
termination to leave him.
An hour before the husband and wife
ha1 fhnfrs Fat f.sar H. -.
| Hanvey tried 10 shoot j. A. Punch, one
| OF his best friends. Punch ran away from
| him and took refuge in Brown e. Aliens
| drug store. DR. Hanvey pursued him to
| that place, but when he escaped he went
| on toward his wife's house on Pryor
street, evidently bent upon killing some
/ one. He came face to face with her whila
| the frenzy was upon him, and without
| warning drew his pistol and began firlngs
Mrs Hanyey always bore a good repu~
/ tatlon in the neighborhood. She had sups
ported herself since her husbands dissl4
/ patton kept him from providing for the
/ family. Last summer she filled the posi-
| ton of housekeeper at the Tallulah Falls
| hotel Mrs. Hanvey was the daughter of
| Joseph Mitchell, one OF the oldest engi>
neers on the Central railroad.
DR.. Hanveys friends expect to hear thaa
| he has committed suicide, and that hia
\ dead body will be found in the woods near
town when daylight comes. He is a man
| OF fine intelligence and education. and II is
/ thought that remorse at his own fallen
| condition, coupled with a determination
not TO permit another family separations
| caused him to kill his wife.
| Atlanta, Ca, June g. 1870 a. mat 4
| o'clock this morning Hanvey walked lntu
| police headquarters and surrendered He
asked II his wife was dead When told
| that she was, he lit a cigar and said he
| had nothing to say.