The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18
TWO INDIGNANT WIVES
WOMEN WHO SUSPECTED THEIR
HUSBANDS AND FOLLOWED THEM.
Both Procured RevoIvers and One
Husband Was shot-sto-
ries They Tell.

Last night two Indianapolis women
started out after their recreant husbands.
Considerable excitement was occasioHed
and one man had very narrow escape.
Walter and Fanny Willis have been mar
ried for about eight years and have lived
at "a North New Jersey street for some
time. Last night Mrs. Willis became i'm
pressed with the idea that her husband was
not treating her right, and started on a
tour of investigation, taking with her a
small thirty-two caliber revolver, as she
says, to protect herself. With little loss of
time she located Willis at the home of
Mrs. Addie Schaub, 62S East Wabash street,
and without the ceremony of knocking,
pushed into the house and upstairs, where
she claims to have heard the voice of her
husband. And sure enough there he was
on the sofa and close beside him
sat Mrs. Schaub. There were several people
in the room who witnessed the affair, and
they say that without any talk Mrs. Willis
deliberately aimed and fired, the bullet TAX
ing effect in her husbands right temple
She then left the house and was arrested
later by Detectives Splann and Wilson VIII
Its was sent to the City Dispensary with
the bullet still between his scalp and skull
DR.. Paul Martin attended him, and after
locating the bullet cut it out without
great difficulty. The bullet had struck Will
Its at the curve of the skull near the tenn
pie and had luckily glanced. The lead was
found about two inches from the place
where it struck. 1t was considered ex-
tremely fortunate that the bullet did not
bore a hole in his head.
The woman, when questioned by the po-
lice, said she had not intended to shoot her
husband, but had gone to the house with
the weapon in her hand for protection. and
he. seeing it and fearing that she intended
him harm, grappled with her, discharging
the weapon in the struggle. The husband
first said he had accidently shot himself.
but later acknowledged that it was the
work of his wife, but said she was Justified
He said he had paid the Schaub woman nc-
casfonal visits several times in the last few
months he was arrested and charged with
assault and battery.
Before the man was locked up after being
attended IN the Dispensary. Captain Daw-
son heard shot and then two more in
quick succession He started to investi-
gate, and was met at the door of the police
station by John Wilson. employed as a
driver at the New York store, who said his
wife was crazy and had been shooting at
him. He asked protection. The captain
started at once to get the woman, but be-
fore he reached her Private Fred June
mann, of the Twenty-seventh Battery, had
taken the revolver from her. She was al
most wild with excitement, and declared
she would kill her husband. Many people
were on the streets and were attracted bv
the shooting. They crowded about the door
of the police station until dispersed by Ser
geant Laporte.
1t seems that for two years the married
life Of Wilson and his wife has not been
pleasant Last night, according to the
story told by Mrs. Wilson, her husband left
his home and she went after him shortly
afterwards. Finding him on North New Jer-
sey street. near Washington. she asked him
to return. but he refused. He was with two
other women She then went TO neigh
boring store which Was open and borrowed
q small revolver and started out again She
found him this time on Washington street
near Alabama. Without any warning she
opened fire. She says she shot to kill. but
witnesses claim that she fred each time In
the air. She and husband were both ar
yazfed