The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-09

old age they have named her "Joy".
Mr.. and Mrs. Rees celebrated
en- Corvallis the End, 3rd, and 4th,
and would haveremained ifthe fes-
tivities bad lasted the entire week.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Perrin
came home the fourth from Turner
where they have been visiting friends
and relatives.
Portland, July 7.-Oregonian:
Crazsd with jealousy because her
nus band was courting the affections
of woman reputed to be of the
lower world, Cora White, wife of
James White, Of sailor. boarding
hoase fame. at 8:35 o'clock last
| night shot her husband in the back
with 32-calibre Iver-J Johnson re-
volver, inf1icting a wound from
which the attending physiciansfe fear
the wounded man will not recover.
The murder was attempted in
front of the residence of Mrs.
Whites sister, Mrs. Eli Davis, at
1913 pine street. and was witnessed
by F. S. Dunning aud c. R. Collier
and, it is thought, by Whites moth
er and Mrs. Eli Davis, although the
latter two deny any knowledge of
the affair.
! After White was shot the woman
for the pleasure of whose company
he will probably give his life enter
ed several saloons in the north end,
where she laughed and joked about
his shooting, and was apparently
little concerned in regard to his
welfare. She displayed bruised
spot on her face, where, she said |,
she had been struck by Mre. White
earlier in the evening, when, 10 the
company of White, she had acci-
dentally met the wounded mans
wife on the street.
1T was me to the wco3s," she is
quoted as having remarked.
i 1t was fully an hour after the
shooting before White was convey
ed from the home of Eli Davis
} where he had been carried after the
shoe ting, to St. Vincent's hospital,
wb, re- the attending physicians de.
cid, Il that nothing could be done
for the wounded man until infam.
, mat On ARISES at the seat of the
, bul at and discloses it's whereabouts.
| W ite, who had been drinking
was in no condition to make any
! stat nent. At f-st, he stated that
the woman had fired twice at him
Lat :, he changed this statement
sayi g that man had shot him
and still later he alleged to have
fred the shot himself. He refused
, to tell the name of the woman or oi
the man implicated in his state
. ments.
When the shot was fred, Officer
Olesner was less than block dis.
tant, and hurried to the scene of the
attempted murder.
II reached Whites side at the
same time as Mre. Davis" said thu
officer last night. ''He was about
so feet north of the gateway to ths
Davis home when I re ached him
The first thing I asked him was i
, he had shot himself, and he an
swered, yes. accidentally We car
} ried him into Davis house where
he said:
II want to see Cora. I guess it,
all off with me. 1t was all my
, fault, anyhow. I caused all the
trouble"
II asked Mrs. White who shot hel
j husband" said officer Robson, "anc
| she replied, I'm the woman Al
: she was bending over the prostrats
form of her husband as he lay
!, stretched on lounge, heard hel
say to him, 4 only wish it had beer
me instead of you.' On the way tt
the police station, in the petro
5 wagon, Mrs. White would say moth
. ing. She appeared to be struggling
{ hard from fainting and seemed
powerless to speak. White said b,
did not want his wife arrested, anc
!. repeated the statement that he hae
!, shot himself.
Mrs. White spent last night ir
the police station.
The position of the wound anc
other circumstances go to show i
would have been impossible fol
! White to have inflicted the wounc
! upon himself. The bullet hole il
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