The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-20

About o'clock last night Joseph w.
Peironnet walked into the bed chamber
at his home, where his wife was sit
ing and writing a letter, told her it was
TaM up" pulled a gun from his pocket
and fired, with the result that the wo-
man is suffering from two wounds That
may prove serious.
Performed is locked up in {. cell in the
city Jail, charged with shooting his
Bssa.
SCENE OF THE SHOOTING.
The Peironnets reside IN a double cot
faee at the rear of 444 East Second
South street. The other part of the
house is occupied by Ed Osborne,
nrother-in-law of Mr.. Peironnet, their
wives being sisters. Mr.. Pelronnet us
one of the Proprietors Of the Palace sa-
loon, SO West Second South street. hls
hours on duty at the saloon are from
O'Clock in the evening until , O'Clock IN
The morning. Yesterday for some reason
or other. he deyiated from this rule
and went home at the hour mentioned
He walked directly into the house, used
ihs words given above and shot. ne
wSmen ran out of the house screaming
.'helpi MURDER The husband picked
up an 18-menths odd babe lying asleep
on a bed near his mother, and walked
out after the screaming wife.
Several people heard the shots and
rushed to the scene. They were met by
the woman with a pistol in her hand,
yelling for help, declaring she had peen
Sho.
II she's shot, I've done the shoot
ing" said the husband
Hugh L. Glenn and John O'Reilly,
two private detectives who happenedsto
be in the vicinity at the time were
about the first TO come to the scene OF
the ARRAY.
SHOWED GREAT NERVE.
Mrs. Peironnet, with remarkable
nerve and endurance, continued TO run,
coming UP the alley and going around
to the front door of James Waldrop's
residence. which is Immediately in front
of the Peilonnet cottage, and rang for
help. The blood was streaming down
her BODY and despatched the porch.
Miss Mary WardrOp one OF the daugh-
ters IN the house, opened the door and
the wounded woman came inside and
ran into a clothes closet. From there
s3he went outside again and talked for
SINE moments with Mrs. Bestin,
neighbor. Afterwards she was conduct
ed into the Wardrop house and placed
on cot and medical aid summoned.
Drs. Wright and Dart arrived shortly
and attended to the wounds.
right hand and the other in the center
and about two inches from the upper
edge of the collar bone.
SAVED HER LIFE.
The wounds were evidently inflicted
by the same bullet. In being surprised
by her assailant gun in hand she had
thrown UP her right hand and the ball
first passed through the feshy part of
il and lodged in the collar bone. This
movement perhaps saved her life.
PEIRONNET ARRESTED.
The police had been notified a few
minutes after the shooting took place.
and Doc" Raleigh and officer O. p
Pratt went out. Peironnet made no at
tempt to set away and was easily taken
in custody. He spent a few moments
i& the same room where the doctors
were probing for the bullet which he
had sent into her body so coolly. but
seemed unconcerned. lie told several
tales. One was that the woman shot
herself, another that some strange man
whom he claimed TO have met as he
went into the house had done the fir
ing Upon being searched a gun was
found with one chamber empty and
smelling strongly of fresh powder.
When his attention was directed to
this he explained it by saying that he
shot a dog during the evening. but lust
how and where he could not yall After
ceiling these different tales he became
uncommunicative and with wave of
the hand indicated to the reporters that
he was no longer in a talking mood.
HE wONAN'S VERSION.
While the wounds were somewhat
painful. Mrs Peironnet was able to
talk. Her version of the affair. though
related somewhat reluctantly, is prob
ably substantially correct
IT'S ALL UP"
She said she was sitting and writing
a letter in her bed chamber. The baby
w9S lying asieep on the bed. All of a
s1Sdden and very unexpectedly her
husband walked in. and saying It's
all mp pulled his gun and fired. As
soon as he did so she reached under
the pillow on the bed for her own gun,
but before she could even get hold of
II he had fired. Still she grabbed for
it and ran out Of the house.
The above is in substance all that
she desires TO state. 1t is understood
in fact learned from her sister, Mrs.
Osborne, that Peironnet has been in
the habit OF abusing his wife SO that
the shooting was not at all unexpected.
THE HUSBANDS STATEMENT.
out of the house is secuted. Neither
girls who could not possibly have
failed to see him, had such been the
case, saw none but the husband
around 1t is believed he attempted
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