The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-02-21
Mrs. Shaw Surprises Husband
While Entertaining a Woman
ENTERS THROUGH A WINDOW.
Tenants Come 10 Her Assistance and Pro.
tsei Her From Threatened vioIsns.
Pistol Shots Are Heard.

New York, Feb. 2i.-By the unexpected
shaw's wife from Baltimore. where she
had been nursing her sick mother. the do
nestle happiness OF Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw
was rudely terminated last night.
A suit for diyorce, Mrs Shaw SAYS, will
be the next chapter IN the domestic rrag-
edy.
/, Mrs. Shaw, according 20 her own state
ment, forced her way into the apartments
through a window. and found her hus-
band Was entertaining a woman visitor.
She says that her husband then struck
her and spirited the other woman from
the apartments. Shaw, she says, then
began to beat her and was only prevented
from inJuring her seriously by the inter
vention OF neighbors
Tumult for half an hour held sway In
the Nallamont. fashionable apartment
house At No. lsn ST. Nicholas avenue
where the Shaws live. Tenants who were
attracted 10 the Shaw apartments by the
noise corrOborate Mrs Shaws story
They also say that during the confusion
two shots were fired
RETURN WAS UNEXPECTED.
Mrs, Shaw for the last ten DAYS had
been In Baltimore with her mother, who
was criucally ill. Last night she return
ed "a this city without notifying her hus-
band. She reached her home about ten
O'Clock and iv.ssd OF unlocking the door
with her pass key she pressed the bell.
Some one came 10 the door. but instead
OF opening IL he fastened the night bolt.
Let me in, George" cried Mrs shaw
the hall was the only reply that she re-
ceiyed.
She then called 20 her assistance David
Wright, an elevator boy. and John Peter
son, janitor Of the building She told
them to watch the door leading into her
apartments. Mrs. Shaw then ran 10 the
street and forced a window. She climbed
in and CROPPED her way through dimly
lighted hallway 10 her own apartments
but found the inner door was locked. Her
demands for sdmittance were ignored
She then let Peterson. Wright and several
tenants into her rooms.
Mrs. Shaw again went 10 her door and.
standing on a chair looked through the
transom into the room. In the dim light
she could see her husband and woman
moving about.
Beseeching her friends To help her, Mrs.
Shaw threw herself against the door IL
did not yield Several of those in the hall
then battered IL down Mrs. Shaw sprang
into the room and running TO the woman
looked fiNedy into her face for a minute.
She says that her husband then seized
her and thrust her from the room Then,
she said. lac ran back and hurried the
stranger through the group Of tenants
into the hall She ran from the house
without even a hat.
The other tenants then left Mr.. and
Mrs. Shaw alone.
Scarcely had they returned 20 their
own rooms when cries of "Helpl" echoed
through the halls. Archibald Levy ran
down the stairs, and just ne reached
the Shaw apartment Mrs. Shaw burst
through the door and fell into his arms
Lew says that Shaw pointed revolver
az him and then slammed the door and
locked IL.
WILL SUE FOR DIVORCE.
Policemen Whalen and Thornton. of the
West 2l5th street station. by this time
had reached the house. To them Mrs.
shaw said that she knew the Identity OF
the woman whom she had found with her
husband, and that she would Immediately
begin "a suit for absolute divorce. She
refused TO make criminal complaint
against her husband
Mr.. and Mrs. Shaw have been married
for ten years. and until three years ago
there was no break In the happiness OF
their life. Shaw is thirty-three years old
and his wife thirtyone.