The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-10
EMMETT MURDEROUS
The Well Known Actor Tries to
Kill His Wife.
While Drunk He Attacked Her
and She Fled.
SHOT HER AS SHE RAN.
Then Beat Her in the Face With
His Pistol.
SHOT HER AS SHE RAN

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10.-J. K. EN-
NETT, Jr., the German dialect comedi-
an, attempted to murder his wife Sat
urday night, and was only prevented
from executing his design by the forci-
bic interference of neighbors. EN-
NETT had been about town all day, and
in the evening returned home in
drunken condition. He and his wife
had an alteration and the woman fed
from the house. Emmett pursued her
into the street and fred a pistol at her
at close range. Then he caught the
unfortunate woman and beat her about
the face with the butt end of the gun.
Two young men pulled the maddened
actor from his victim and turned him
over to the police. Mrs. Emmett was TAX
en- to the receiving hospital where she
refused to allow her wounds to be ex-
amined. She had a violent attack of
hysteria and the surgeons could do
nothing with her. She insisted that
she had not been shot and said her
husband was too big a coward to shoot
her. There was slight wound in her
temple and the police said the bullet
glanced from the bone and lodged un-
der the scalp. Mrs. Emmett is Cali
fornia girl and is known on the stage
as Emily Litton. She married Emmett
about three years ago.
4 COUPLE TARRED AND FEATHERED.
WALLA WALBA, Wash, June TO-
Fifty masked men, heavily armed, took
Joseph Fossati and Robbie Allen, a
coIored woman who runs house of i'll
repute, and applied to them a coat of
tar and feathers early yesterday morn
ing. Shortly after midnight a body of
men with masks over their faces went
to the house occupied by the woman,
a hack was driven up to the front door,
the men broke open the door, and, 60
ing to a bedroom, dragged Fossati and
the woman from the bed and carried
them to the hack which was driven to
the outskirts of the city. Their cloth
ing was torn off and a heavy coat of
tar and feathers applied, and the two
ordered to leave the city. The affair
was well planned and executed, the
thOroughfare through which the hack
passed being guarded by armed men.
Although Fossati is the son of a very
respectable family and has had more
than the average advantages in life,
he was persistent in living with this
woman, and on Friday they went to
Dayton, where they were married.
Mrs. D. Fossati, the mother of young
Fosstti, is Frustrated with grief and
is in a precarious condition.
TWO FEMALE BANDITS CAPTURED.
GUTHRIE, Ok, June 1O.-Deputy
United States Marshals Runnells and
McCraft came in from Woods county
yesterday afternoon and lodged in the
federal Jail Belle Black and Jennie
Freeman, female members of the Zip
Wyatt gang. The marshals on Tuesday
had battle with the members and
drove them into a cave in the Glass
mountains at extreme western end of
the Cherokee strip, where they still
have them besieged. Saturday the
two women attempted to escape by
secret entrance to the cave, and were
captured after long chase. They had
in their possession considerable money,
and were going after supplies and re-
Inducements. The deputies secured
large quantity of dynamite and left
again at night for the Glass mountains,
determined to blow up the cave.