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LOVE AND DEATH
AS She SAW THEM
MRS.HUBBS TELLS HER STORY
WITH FEELING FLORIDA GIRL RE
LATEs ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

For the First Time Mrs. Hubbs Tells
why She Attempted to send Bull
let Through Her Heart on April
S-Feared Her Husband Was Going
TO Leave Her, Never TO Return.
but Her Love Since Then Has
Grown Cold ana She Goes Back TO
Her Mother.
Wasted away to sixty-eght pounds,
Mrs. F. E. Hubbs, whose sensational
attempt at suicide by shooting herself
at a boarding house on Henry street
on April IS attracted so much atten-
ton, will leave the Telfair Hospital
for her home at Daytona, Fla, this
morning.
Fof the first time the young woman
made full statement yesterday Of her
attempt to take her own life. She
talked freely with a representative of
the Morning News and described the
sudden impulse that prompted her to
turn the muzzle of a revolver on her
self
Her wound was similar to that which
caused the death of President Me-
Kinley, and when she was taken to the
Telfair Hospital it was not expected
that she would survive. The ball had
pierced her liver her kidney, one lung
and had gone through the stomach
cutting the intestines in several places
But she won her uneven fight for life
with the assistance of DR.. H. H Nc
Gee, DR.. George r. White and the
nurses at the hospital
Not Sensitive.
Though the appearance of Mrs.
Hubbs gave evidence that she had won
in her fight for life by narrow mar
gin, she was cheerful over the thought
of going home. Her form was wasted
away almost to a skeleton and her pal
lid features gave evidence of the close
confinement of the last few weeks
Some people think 1 am sensitive
about the affair" she said, but I'm
not 1t all seems to me like dream,
my married life and the shooting. The
man has passed out of my life and |
think of him only as of a friend l once
knew. / will never take him back
Il know where my husband is all
right enough, though l have had no
communication with him. He wanted
to write to me but my sister forbade it.
as she feared that it would have bad
effect on me. | am sure that it would
have made no difference. l think he is
at home with his mother at Bridgeport,
Conn. l could communicate with him
any time desired.
To-day l was out on the street for a
few hours and feel almost well. / had
to learn to walk again when 1 got able
to stand on my feet. I weigh just -G8
pounds. when l used to weigh more
than a hundred
Everybody has been kind to me here,
the physicians, nurses and everybody,
and want you to say - in the Morn
ing News. / came here a stranger and
they've saved my life and I'm grateful
to them for it. One of the doctors said
that nothing could kill me, but l don't
care to take any more chances.
Don't Want to Marry.
about the shooting? Oh, yes. I'll
tell you about that. You see, l never
wanted to marry Mr.. Hubs, but he
insisted and declared that l would
never regret it. l was married once
before, but had gotten divorce from
Mr.. Brown-that's my first husbands
name. My married life had not been
pleasant and l had no desire to try
natrimony again.
But he insisted, and l said / would,
though 1 told him that I did it un-
willingly 1 loved him then and for
a long time after the shooting, but
| its all over now.
We'll, his mother did not like me
| woman.
She kept after him to leave me, and
though l know that he loved me I
was afraid to let him go, afraid that
he would not come back.
ut was on Friday that the thing
happened. He was to leave me on
Sunday, and though he said he was
going to come back, l did not believe
| it. We were both dressed to go on
the street. We were rooming then at
| No. $40 Henry street, west, and TAX
ing our meals across the street.
Shooting an Afterthought.
Before we left 1 went upstairs to
our room to write letter to my moth
er. l had no intention of shooting
myself when l went upstairs. That was
all an aftherthought. There was pis-
toll in the bureau drawer, and if there
hadn't been there would have been no
shooting.
well, l started to write that letter
and l began pouring out my troubles
to my mother. When l thought of my
situation everything looked so bad that
in moment / thought, I'll end 1t all,
and got up from the chair, and got the
pistols
II have never been able to remember
just what happened before the shot,
but can remember very clearly what
happened afterward. l remember I
seized the pistol and pointed it at my
neaft ana pulleu the trigger.
Il don't remember much about the
pain, though the shock was terrific.
The others, including my husband,
came running up. After the shot was
fired 1 took several turns around the
room, still holding the pistol in my
hand. l was very nervous and the
bullet did not go where 1 had aimed it.
Perfectly Conscious.
1.-THE doctors came in a few minutes
and l helped take my dress off, and
laid myself down on the bed. I asked
the doctors to give me chloroform and
after I inhaled it l remember nothing
until l awoke at the hospital and
found my husband sitting by my side
He wired my mother to come, but
she was so Frustrated that she could
not make the trip. For three weeks
he stayed with me. but one day he
heard that somebody was going to
cause his arrest and he left sudden
ly.
Never again will l take him back
He seems like a dim dream. He has
tried to pursuade me since have been
here to go back and live with him, but
l have suffered too much for him 1
cared once, but don't care for him
now. / haven't shed a tear over his
departure.
Il always spend the summer with
relatives in Bulloeh county, near Sa-
vannah. though don't know that 1
] will IL