The herald., 1896-07-14
POMONA PISTOL PRACTICE
INDUCED In By a Jealous
Woman
w. II. DOBBS ESCAPES DEATH
By the Prompt Action Of Deputy Sheriff
Slanker
In the Case - The Shooter ID
Now Under Arrest

POMONA. July 13.-W. H. Dobbs was
shot at by jealous woman today, mar
rowly escaping instant death. the bullet
passing within an inch or two of his
head and plowing its way across q
panel Of the door beside which he was
standing. The shooting occurred in the
hallway of the second story Of the Oxa-
rat block, on Second street. Mrs. Kate
Dobbs, a former wife of Dobbs, being
the aggressor. Dobbs, it Is said, was
going upstairs in the Oxarat block to get
some trunks belonging to two women
friends Of his who lodged in the block,
one of the women being married, who, 1t
Is said, was leaving town to join her
husband at some other point, the other
woman beingt a friend who was to ac-
company her, and to whom, it is al
legged, Dobbs was paying court. Dobbs
had reached the foot Of the stairway
when he was met by determined look
ing woman in the person of his former
wife, who was standing at the head of
the stairs with a revolver in her hand.
1t was at this point that John w. Hutch
inson passed along the street and no
ticing Dobbs standing in the stairway
entrance asked him what the matter
was. Dobbs replying that his wife
wouldn't allow him to go upstairs.
Hutchinson seeing trouble in store hail
ed Deputy Sheriff Slanker, who was
passing by, and informed him how mat
ters stood. Hutchinson unarmed Dobbs,
who also had a pistol, while Slanker
went up to the head of the stairs to re-
monstrate with Mrs. Dobbs. In few
minutes he had pacified her. seemingly,
and told Hutchinson to come on upstairs
with Dobbs. The door of the room which
Dobbs wished to enter is to the left of the
head of the stairway, and as Dobbs
tHrned, after reaching the head of the
G2airs, to enter the room, Mrs. Dobbs.
who in company with Deputy Sherim
Slanker was standing some ten or twelve
feet away down the hallway, raised the
pistol and fired point-blank at Dobbs'
head, all but accomplishing her purpose
of killing him. but for the timely inter-
ference of Officer Slanker who grabbed
her arm, and succeeded in disarming
her, but not without a struggle, for the
woman fought with fury to retain pos
session of the pistol. The bullet that
was fired passed within an inch or so
Of Mr.. Slanker's leg and within about
the same distance of Dobbs' neck, strik-
ing the door through which he was about
to pass, almost directly in front Of his
face, then partly burying itself in the
plastered recess within which the door
is hung. but rebounded back directly
past where Mrs. Dobbs and Deputy
Sheriff Slanker were standing.
Officers Shanker and Lorbeer placed
the woman under arrest, and she was
arraigned before Justice Barnes and has
been placed under $500 bonds to appear
in court Wednesday at 10 a. m.
The trouble between Dobbs and his
wife dates back to a few weeks after
their marriage, little over a year ago,
Dobbs claiming that withif short time
after their marriage Mrs. Dobbbs kicked
him out of bed, and that they have been
-sx-.o@ x,kl
told by Dobbs to the officers is that he,
having secured work up in the noun
tains near Redlands, became the pur-
chaser of a railroad ticket to Redlands,
and, as the women referred to were on
the point of leaving for Redlands also,
where the husband of one of them lives,
that ne offered TO have one of their
trunks checked on his ticket, he having
been so requested to do by the womans
husband, who is friend of his.
City Marshal Lorbeer states that Mrs.
Dobbs refused to make known her mo-
tive for her attempt on the life of her
husband. and that the most plausible
theory Is that her anger arose from
jealousy. Dobbs and his wife, he states,
have not been divorced. although they
have not been living together for the
past six months or more.
Miss Glennie Pearl of Pasadena has
arrived and will visit at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Goodwin for several
weeks. The party will spend next week
in San Antonio canyon.
Isaac Greenlaw and family are rusti-
eating for time at Newport.
Mrs. Irwin w. Brink is staying at
Long Beach, and will remain until Au-
gust /.
The Misses Matte Frye, Kate Post,
Earie Loud the Misses Adams and a
party of young gentlemen, accompanied
Dy chaperone, will spend a week at
Mt no Loo
Thursday.
Preparations are being made for the
removal of the Louis Phillips ware
house, occupied bAJ. H. Graber, and the
opening up of North Gordon street. AS
Mr.. Graders lease ran out about the 1st
of July, the consent of all the parties
concerned was obtained, and the step
at last determined upon. Permission
had to be obtained from the Southern
Pacific and from Louis Phillips.
The families of p. ]. Dreker and r.
win Brink have gone to Long Beach.