Evening journal., 1896-04-30
SHOT AT AN ACTRESS.
Dallas Tyler Pursued by Her
Husband In a Hotel.
FoUR BULLETS MISS THEIR MARK.

Actor ni,her. the Would BE VITO Slayer
Locked Up-The Actress and Her Moth
er Reticent as to the cause-They Played
In "The Senator"
= HARTFORD, April 30.-Edwin Bither
Rn actor, who has been playing in Hood
man Blind at the Grand Opera House in
Boston, made an attempt yesterday Go kill
his wife, Gertrude Ashlan, whose stage
name is Dallas Tyler, by shooting her. at
the Hotel Heublein. His aim was bad,
and though he fired four shots at his wife
he failed to hit her.
Mrs. Bither is in the cast of W. X.
Cranes play, 1.-The Senator" in which
she takes the role Of Josie Armstrong.
The company has been playing an engage
ment at Parsons theater since Monday
last
The guests of the Heublein hotel were
alarmed by the report OF pistol shots and
by the flight of young woman down the
stairs and through tho Railways She was
pursued by an infuriated man bearing in
his hand a pistol. The man was Edwin
Bither and the young woman his wife.
BY the aid OF Il. r. Laird, guest OF
the hotel, and Clerk Estlow, Bither was
secured and held until police arrived,
when he was arrested and locked up.
Bithor was greatly excited and was evil
IDENTIFY under the influence Of liquor.
Bither and Gertrude Ash q were mar
ried in Brooklyn three years ago tho bride
being at that time but q years OF ago.
For a timo the couple lived happily to-
gether, but about year after the mar
riage they separated. They lived apart for
year, when a reconciliation was Effected,
and all won't well until six months ago,
when they again separated, the wife find
ing position in the Crane company and
Blther remaining In Boston.
Since then Bther has tried repeatedly
to induce his wife to SEQ him and to live
with him. but says he has always been
thwarted by Mrs. Ashlan, his mother-in.
law, who told him she should not allow
her daughter to receive his letters.
Appealed For Money.
Mrs. Ashlan accompanies her daughter
on the tour with the Crane company, and
when the troupe reached Hartford last
Monday they put up at the Hotel Heub-
lein. From there Mrs. Bither sent this
telegram on Tuesday to her husband in
Boston;
HARTFORD, April 2s.
at the Heubein hotel. GERTRUDE.
On receipt Of this Bither gave notice TO
the management Of THE Hoodman Blind"
company, in Boston, that he should sever
his connection with the company and go
to Hartford 20 rejoin his wife. Before
leaving Boston he bought a revolver.
On arriving In this city he visited the
various hotels and drank freely. While
looking over the register at the United
States hotel he was recognized by Marion
Abbott, one Of the Crane company. Miss
Abbott at once notified Dallas Tyler of her
husbands presence in Hartford, and the
young actress and her mother paid their
bill at tho Heublein and instructed the
clerk If any one called for them to say that
they had left.
They then went to their room on the
fourth floor. Bither must have seen them,
for he at once went up stairs and knocked
loudly for admittance. Tho door was
opened by Mrs. Ashlan, and Rither went
in. An angry alteration ensued and soon
the door opened and the young wife rush
ed screaming through the hall and down
the stairs.
In the hall Bither fred one shot, and
whom bis wife reached the foot Of the
stairs leading to the third floor he dis
charged his pistol three times more in
rapid succession. The wainsootlng OF the
halls was cut by the flying bullets
Mrs. Ashlan hung on to her son-in-law
while he was pursuing his wife, and this
doubtless caused his defective aim.
All BitheT had to say in defense or ex-
planation Of bis desperate attempt upon
his wife's life was that It was case Of
mother-inlaw. Mrs. Ashlan and Dallas
Tyler were very reticont about the Incl
dents of the affair.