Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1895-05-11
A White Mans Sin.
IN HIGH
PLACES.
No Negro Concerned.
ANOTHER DFXAMPLE FOR THE
NEGRO.
A Terrible Tragedy-The Wife and
Her ParamOur.
No Negro Concerned.

A New Orleans telegram in to days
Washington Post
A tragedy. similar in most respects to
the recent Gordon Brown tragedy in
Louisville. KY, was enacted here to-
day at lao There were three persons
concerned in the terrible affair. An in
jured husband caught his erring wife
with another man. simultaneously the
men drew pistols; a number of shots
were exchanged. and in one minute one
man lay on the bed gasping from NOR
tai wounds and the other was on his
way to the polire-station in charge of
an officer. The woman in the case was
not hurt.
THE NAMES OF THE PARTIES.
The names Of the three actors in the
tragedy are DIR. Samuel 2. Swain and
wife and DR.. Emile Hirart, all of Plaque
mine. La. DR.. Hirart aud Mrs. Swain
arrived here on Friday and registered at
house, corner of Canal aud Liber
ty streets, as G. ]. Smith aud wife. and
they were given the best room IA The
S0use They remained in their room,
scarcely leaving it for longer than
half an hour at a time. This morning
DR.. Swain, who had followed his wife and
her lover from Plequem;De, entered the
place by a aide door, and made his way
to the room occupied by the pair.
THE FRENzIED HUSBAND.
He drew his pistol aud fred FIVE shots
while the man who was killed fired six
shots, none of tn m hitting DR.. Swain.
| The latter Immediately ran out of the
house right into the arms Of a police
man, who was attracted by the noise.
| The doctor was placed under arrest,
and taken to the police station. The
| police sergeant then quickly went TO the
scene of the shooting to ascertain the
extent of the wounded mans Injuries
THE DEADLY AIM.
When the sergeant reached the plaee
the men was still alive. He was lying
on tho bed fully dressed, and a.physician
1 who was called in as soon as possible
was attending him The physician stat
ed that the case waa hopeless, and " hils
he was talking the wounded man ex
pired. The woman who was the cause
of the trouble, was seated by the bee
where the wounded man lay. She, too
was fully dressed, and was remarkably
= Icool. Sergeant Boyle took the woman
! 4 to one side and asked her name. Sh'
said il was Mrs s. I. Swain, but would
not state whether or not the man whs
did the killing was her husband, ans
emphatically refused to give the nam'
of the dead man.
THE WOMAN RETICENT.
All she would say was that he wa
a doctor. and came from one of the pa
r | rishes. She demanded TO be taken t,
2 the station at once. She was takeI
l. there, but resolutely refused to say any
! thing except that che would speak i
= court only. She was held as a materia
2 / witness.
{ From DR. Swain it was learned tina
{. the intimacy between Mrs. Swain an
q the dead man is of long standing, an
r he told an interesting story OF his troT
bles on that account. He said tina
q about two months ago. in IrbeviIle pc
!. IRISH, he and DR.. Hirart met on the publ
road and had "a shooting afTray in whic
n neither was hurt.
GLAD HE KILLED HIM.
DR.. Swain expressed pleasure when il
: formed that his man was dead. TIL
= woman in the case is perhaps twent,
:, six years of age, and by no means al
:, tractive. A strange coincidence of tn
!. tragedy was that at the head of the be
in which the man was killed, was
book. the title of which was, "H'
n Last l. )ver."