The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-10
ATTEMPTED
MURDER.
Charles Pickles Fatally
Wounds His Boarding
Mistress and Then r..
Commits Suicide

and her condition Is such that she canno
live beyond a day. There are three bu'
let's in her body. Que Of them entere
below her left cheek bone and. went pillow
4 ing through her nose, the second entere'
beneath her left arm aud the third is en-
bedded In her left arm above the elbow
Because Mrs Graham rsfu ,sd 10 lower
her honor to him was the Gauss OF The ras
act Seeing that he had shot the womal
three times and that she succeeded In es
Gaping from the house cowardly he 81
down and sent the bullet into bis brazil
that ended bis life. y
/ About O. 40 o'clock this morning Mrs
Graham ran into Dr. james II. Morgan
drug store at the corner OF Thirteenth ant
King streets. She was covered with blooc
and for u moment DR.. Morgan stood spell.
bound. The woman threw her arin'
around Dr.. Morgan and told him that sh'
had been shot by Pickles. DR.. Morgan
helped the woman back to her home ano
having her placed in bed attended Temp
orarily TO her injuries. He then tele'
phoned to the police station and Captain
Back Was on the scene In few minutes.
The district officers. Floyd, Ward and
| Todd were on the scene about the same
time. Captain Black notified Coroner
Vandever and also requested Deputy City
Solicitor Cahoon to ssnd Magistrate Sasse
to take the injured woman's deposition.
Pickles body was found lying in the
sitting room with his head resting on the
stove so that the blood from the wound in
his head flowed into the ash pan. Lying
near his right hand was q revolver with
four empty shells and one loaded oDe the
cap OF which had bean snapped but had
not gone off.
AS soon as Mrs. Graham was made as
comfortable as possible in bod sine request
cd some one to go for priest and Rev. NJ.
X. Fa.lon was summoned and remained
with her for a short time.
Magistrate Sasse arrived about this time
and took hor dying disposition. The story
of the shooting is best told In the words
Of tho woman herself. They are:
II was engaged in taking up the ashes
of the sitting room stove when he asked
ne some questions and when l answered
no, no asked me If l meant that rs IN
answer to his propositions. ! replied in
the affirmative and then he said, "Thon
take that
ale was sitting on the couch and he
fired the revolver. The first shot took Of
feet In my face. l thon threw up my arm
to get tho revolver and he fired again.
That was the shot that struck mo beneath
the arm. ! then said, oh, Charlie, for
Gods sake don't kill mo- He said sont-
thing about loving mo even though W,
married, l screamed and San to tho door,
As closed tho door' Le lrel again and
that shot struck me above tho elbow. ran
out Of tho house and there were 50 many
doors feared that hs was following me.
As ran TO DR.. Morgan's stors my sun
bonnet was a5lazo. l saw by his eyes
that they had no meaning. I do believe
that the uiuries received will provo fatal.
The william hope will be punished. 80;
my poor husband ana little children. Tho
reason that he did the shooting was DO.
cause did not lower my honor to the VIII
lian."
Mrs, Graham ia the wife of John G,a-
ham, a clork in the employof the P. ".
~ b. Railroad Compiays at the Office
Fourth and Pine streets. When he was
notified Of the shooting ne lost no time In
getting TO his homo but upvn the request
of DR.. Morgan did not 20 into the house
AZ nv doing so miuht nroye fatally on ATT
count of his WHO'S condition, DIR, Nor
gan in spsakino of thu Injured wonun's
condition said that he did not see how She
could possibly recover, Hemorrhaeos
would cause her death, Sho is about 32
wars of ago and il tho mother of two
chiloreh' slri anu IL ooy ns'o anu
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