The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-22

Shocking Sunday Tragerdy at SIatersviIe.

the kitchen and the pantry. father being
the first one to go In there.
He was choking me hard, and. think
ing that he would kill me then and there
| pulled my revolver and fired point blank
at his face A second after had fired the
third shot he dropped to the floor dead.
Knowing that | had simply defended
my own life and that of my mother. and
that feeling that had killed him i'm self
defence and was justified. made no at
tempt to escape
THREATS TO KILL.
my mother has suffered everything in
the last seven or eight years. Often faith
er would not give her any money, and
when in liquor would abuse her and us.
"Once he went for her and boarder
with a razor. and he was always accus-
ing mother of being unfaithful to him.
when she has been a good wife to him
and is a good woman.
once when he lived on Paradise ave-
nue. I'm Woonsocket. he chased her about
the house with revolver, and he had at
different times threatened 10 Kill himself
and her. and had made her life so much
OF a burden that she was planning with
a lawyer 10 get a divorce.
mo one knows what my mother has
suffered, and IL was better that father
should die than TO have him kill mother
|, or some of the children. / work in the
bleachery at Slatersville, but ! had been
sick at home for several weeks, and faith
er didn't like that.
1--WE lived in woonsocket 13 years, and
until the last two or three years father
was a tea merchant and peddled tea. and
he was very well known in sections of
Rhode Island and Massachusetts, In the
vicinity of Woonsocket. He was a good
husband and father until the last seven
or eight years, and since then at times"
MRS. BONN TALKS.
In an interview Mrs Bonin said that
her husband was sullen with liquor and
possibly mentally deranged. and that VIII
liam was protecting her and the younger
children from his violence. Her husband
had been very Jealous OF her for the past
eight years, she said, and often the worse
for liquor.
She had reason TO suspect her husband S
fidelity 10 her and had found letters which
convinced her that such was the case,
she said, and had consulted her attorney
In regard TO receiving a divorce. He had
assaulted her at times and at other times
had been protected by her two elder
sons.
once he threatened her with a revolver
and once with razor She asked 10 have
her husband put under restraint, but the
authorities thought he was not bad
enough for that. Several weeks ago her
husband knocked her down and kicked
her. causing cut in the head requiring
several stitches.
Mrs Bonin's story OF the shooting was
substantially the same as that given by
her SON.
After the shooting Mrs. Bonin notified
Postmaster ONeill, who is also a con-
stable. who went To the house and pus
william under arrest. Dr. Hamlin ex-
amined the dead man and said death
must have been instantaneous
Medical Examiner Wilcox of Burrill-
Vile and Dr. H. H. Waterhouse OF New
York examined the body and found that
AT least one bullet had struck the right
eye coursed downward and pierced the
brain.
PRISONER ARRAIGNED.
The prisoner was taken TO woonsocket
last evening and arraigned before Clerk
Arnold on the charge of assault with n
dangerous weapon with intent TO kill. He
pleaded nat guilty and was held I'm $4,000
bonds for hearing October a.
The concensus OF opinion OF lawyers and
officers is that mansaughter is the grav-
est charge that can be brought against
the boy. and that the act was done while
defending his mother and the children
from violence
a Harrison and Richardson 32-calibre
revolver was used and when handed over
~ Officer O'Neili had three empty cham
bers.
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