The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-30

threats he left the house 10 take up q
residence with his brother, at 1928 Ban
croft street. After that he frequently
called at his former home TO annoy his
wife, and his conduct became so intol-
cradle that Mrs. Won Media had her
husband brought before Magistrate Jer-
mon about a week ago.
At a hearing at the Central station
Won Media promised TO keep away from
the Ellsworth house, and as his wife
was satisfied with this arrangement he
was discharged He not only failed TO
keep his word, but began to haunt his
wifes' home from morning to night,
begging her to take him back, which she
resolutely refused to do. II was then
that he repeatedly told her that he
would kill her, and she again had him
arrested on Monday last. Again his
wife refused TO prosecute him, and as
he professed the utmost repentance for
his conduct he was once more released.
On Monday night Won Media sought
solace in drink; but there was murder
in his heart, and he had carefully plan
ned the deeds he committed yesterday
morning. He left his brothers house
before o'clock, ostensibly to go to
work in a soap factory, where he was
doing odd jobs. but really to take his
post at Sixteenth and Ellsworth streets,
where he could see his wife open the
front shutters of the house. When she
did so he went around TO an alley in
the rear and awaited a favorable oppor-
tunity to enter.
He did not wait long. 1t was about
half past when Mrs. Won Media I'M
bolted the back gate to give assoc to
the iceman, and then went down in the
al p r. La Il,
her husband had heard the bolt slide,
and passed through the yard into the
kitchen. When she came up from the
cellar the unfortunate woman was face
to face with her husband, who stood
al the head Of the stairs with a loaded
six-chamber revolver in his hand.
Without saying word the would-be
murderer pulled the trigger in rapid
succession. Mrs. Won Media was shot
three times. One bullet passed entirely
through her left arm; another went
through the muscular part of the right
arm Indicating from the position Of
the wound that she had thrown up her
arm as a shield and entered the right
breast, and has not yet been located.
The third bullet entered the right side
from behind, and passed almost entirely
through the body, lodging under the
skin. In its passage it penetrated the
stomach, and slightly injured the in
testines and lungs. Symptoms Of peri
tonitis from this latter wound have
since appeared, and an operation which
resulted in the removal of the bullet
was performed in the afternoon. Mrs.
Won Media bore the operation remark
ably well, and her condition was improv
ed thereafter. No cert has yet been
made TO locate the bullet in the right
breast.
After her husbands murdereous at
tack Mrs. Won Media staggered down
the stairs, rushed to the front cellar
window and managed to crawl out on
the pavement just as her husband, with
blood trucking from wound in the left
breast, cody walked out of the front
door. He had turned the weapon upon
himself as soon as he thought his wife's
death was certain, and then started for
his brothers house.
Mrs. Won Media was taken TO the !
house of her next-door neighbor by two
passers-by, who happened along just !
as she climbed out Of the window. Her |
husband calmly walked down Ellsworth
avenue to Sixteenth street, and by
supreme effort managed TO reach the |
house on Bancroft street, where he
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the bed.
Meanwhile, the police of the Seventeen /
tn district had heard of the shooting, |
and Mrs. Won Media was sent 10 St. |
Agens' hospital. Ten minutes later |
her husband was placed under arrest, |
and was sent in a patrol wagon TO the |
same institution.
The shot which Won Media fired into |
his own body entered the left side, touch 1
ing the lung and passing out at the back /
Late in the afternoon the doctors pro- |
bed for the bullets IN the body of the |
wife, and succeeded in removing all OF 1
them, except one, as stated above.
The condition of Won Media and his |
wife at late hour last night was con-
sidered hopeful by the surgeons of St !
Agens' hospital. In Won Medals case /
unless something unforeseen |
occurs. they believe he viii recover
Mrs Won Media was also somewhat i'm |
proved after the surgeons had operated |
upon her IN the afternoon. and, although |
her condition IS still critical, hopes are |
entertained that she may recover.
Won Media was once reputable bust |
ness man. and was weli-known TO tre |
local wholesale dry goods trade. Some 4
years ago he began TO neglect his busl- |
ness, and finally sold out. Since that /
time he has mainly depended upon his /
wife for support