Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-20
POLICE AFTER HIM.
Lamoureaux, the Man Who Shot
 Mrs Frenette Last Night.
HAD WARRANT FOR ARREST.

The Man Had Threatened to Kill the
 Family-Finding Mrs Frenette
 Alone He Began to Shoot-The Wo-
 man Miraculously Escaped, Al
 though Several Bullets Struck Her
 sLamoureaux Was Held Under a
 Bond of $4,000.
 Peter Lamoureaux, elevator man at shop Al, Scovill Manufacturing Go, un- til recently a resident of Grand street, walked into the house of his mother-in- law, Mrs Kate Frenette, 79 Jewelry street, shortly after 6 o'clock last night, and after putting several bullets into her head and body, disappeared towards Brooklyn, with Officer John Brickel in hot pursuit. It was the biggest sensation that ever occurred ln, that part of the town and attracted a crowd that filled the street from South Main street to the Naugatu river.
 Lamoureaux and his wife have not been living very happily for some time past and recently they broke up house keeping and went to live at different places, the woman going to her moth CTS and the man taking up quarters in q boarding house on East Main street. They have four children, the three old est at the Gilbert home and the young est is cared for by his grandmother while Mrs LamoureauX is out at work. something which she was obliged to do half year ago in order to maintain herself and children. It is alleged that the children at the county home were sent there at the solicitation Of the woman's husband, and that the reason of the rupture which came be tween them the present week was brought about by Mrs LamoureauX's refusal to send the youngest child away and go live with her husband without any of the children. At all events they quarreled and separated, but Lamoureaux persisted in following his wife and finally threatened to kill her and the whole family, and is said to have informed her that he intended to carry out his threat last night. The woman had a warrant made out for his arrest Tuesday, but it did not hap pen to be served in time to prevent him from making the assault. His wife saw him about town yesterday and tried to have him taken into GUS tody, but he managed to get out of the way and hung around until he thought they were all home and then started in to do them up.
 Regarding the failure to serve the warrant on Lamoreaux before he cOm-< mitted the assault, Chief Egan said this afternoon that all the information the woman gave them was that he worked at ScoyilPs. He sent q man there to get him, but the officer was, told that Lamoureaux had been paid off and had left, stating that he would not return for a few days. Yesterday he was seen in 8 saloon on East Main street and while an officer was going in through the rear door he disap- peared through the main entrance. None of the officers knew him, and as he had no regular stopping place it wsN rather difficult to catch him.
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 Lamoureaux reached the residence of his mother-in-law a trif1e too soon to find his wife there. When the shoot ing occurred she was about two or three hundred yards from the house on her way home from the factory. When he entered the house the only persons present were Mrs Frenette, her daughter. Laura, and his own 2 year-old child. Mrs Frenette was en- gagged in preparing the evening meal and was going towards the rear door when Lamoureaux fired at her, hitting her in the head. The woman darted through the sitting room, then down the stairway to the front door, Lam oureaux blazing away at her as she went. He caught up with her at the foot of the stairway and the two grap- pied with each other, when Mrs Ere nette, who, by the way, is low sized, stout and muscular, while Lamoureaux is rather slight and has little or no use of one of his hands, succeeded in thrusting her assailant through the doorway onto the yeranda. and then turned up the stairway and into one of the rooms, where she swooned. Lamoureaux rushed into the street, fired two or three shots in the air, and then ran in the direction of Holmes, Booths & Hay. dens bridge.
 Meanwhile, a big crowd had collected about the place and the rest of the Frenette family had arrived home. A messenger was dispatched to St Ann's church and in a short aime the Rev Father Frederick was on the ground. Dr Lodge, Dr Thibault and pr Belle mare answered the call for medical aid. Officer John Brickel, who was on duty in the south end, heard the racket, but Lamoureaux had too much SluIL u IIiIi SllIll hllU WluSS tile pldCS thoroughly, he soon got out of the way. Detective Cahey and several other officers were soon engaged in a still hunt for the man, but no trace could be found of him until hejwalked into Clark Nichols's saloon on the Wa tertown hoad, about 10 o'clock, and after drinking couple of glasses of beer, told Mir Nichols about the case, stated that he wanted to surrender and asking him to accompany him to the police station. On West Main street Officer O'Gorman saw Lamour- eaux on the car and jumped on too, and the three men went to the police headquarters together. Lamoureaux was locked up.
 While the officers were running this way and that way after Lamoureaux, the physicians were attending to Mrs Frenette, and large crowds hung about the place, anxious to hear whether the wounds were fatal or not. The first authoritative statement regarding the woman's condition that reached the army of people who thronged the way on the outside came from Father Bro- derrick, who, in answer to query from a Democrat reporter as to the wo- mans condition, said it was not serious and that he did not think her injuries would prove fatal This