The San Francisco call., 1905-08-30

but he never sent dollar. did not com.
plain about that
from Healdsburg and opened the store on
Shrader street. She made Ed leave for
good and work there for her.
Nine months ago, when his constant deser
tions of me at the instigation OF his mother
had driven me to- frenzy, the desire to Kill
him came over me. / bought the pistol that
1 used to-day Then began the struggle against
the voice that was telling me to take his life.
In my desperation / went to the Christian
Scientists and under their ministrations
was soothed for time and managed to keep
my terrible desire in leash They were kind
harming the man loved so for whom 1 was
ready to give my own life had he only been
kind to me. Christian Science lost its power
over me.
Always to my mind then came the revolver
that lay ready to do my bidding and the
thought that the man / loved beyond all else
earth was under the influence of another.
went to hypnotist and he put under his
power and held me safe for time. Gradu-
ally the demon that told me to kill got the up
per hand again and the hypnotist told me he
had lost control 1 went to a so-called sug-
awful desire. The revolver that lay in my
drawer resolved itself into the fend that was
were the object that held me in its clutch. 1
next went to an Osteopath. who said that by a
system of massage he could save me. He
could do me no good at all.
To-day the demon conquered me- and taking
the revolver, ] went to the store at s this
morning and demanded OF Ed that he come
back to me- When he refused, i started to
shoot. and he turned to fee. The first shot Il
think must have struck him. When fired
the second time he was nearly. across the
street and Of course could not hit him at
that distance.
1 went to the store with good intentions
1 intended, il Ed refused to return to me
would kill him and then myself. told his
brother Fred that Ed was my husband and
there was no use OF his mother trying to keep
him from me, as l would get him yet: that
he could not stay away from me and live.
+ Y1 moi IN hloy r1r1,a
cannot get away from Its influence.
Asked If she meant by this that she
still intended to kill her husband Mrs
Delventhars eyes glittered and she said:
well. that remains to be seen" Then
she burst into sobs.
After she had done the shooting. Mrs.
Delventhal went to the lodging house of.
her sister, Mrs. Hennessey, at 1031 Market.
street, where she was arrested by Police
men Hicks and Dow of the Park station,
who had been told of the shooting by
Fred DelventhaL
1.-THE statement that I have kept my
son away from his wife is false" said
the mother of the man who had been
shot at. He came to me of fhis own
accord, and I certainly would not drive
him away. ! gave him an opportunity to
go back to hisSwife, but he did not want
to go to her. His own wish is all that
influences him in the natter
"Thiss woman accuses my mother of
having tried to take Ed away from her
from the start said Fred sDelventhal.
though she did not know they were
married until five months after the we'd
ding had taken place. and she only saw
Eds wife once during that time They
were married in December, 1902, and in
the April following there comes a letter
from her to my mother inclosing mar
riage certificate and a letter i'm which,
among other things, she said, 1T is
pity that God lets such a miserable crea-'
ture as you live
A surgeon bandaged the abrasion the
bullet had made on the side of Ed Del,
venthal, but he did not go to police head
quarters. His brother went to the Hall
of Justice and offered to swear to a COM
plant against the arrested woman but
was told that his brother would have to
do that
The distracted wife was visited by her
sister during the afternoon The formers
little boy by her first husband is in Gus
tody of the sister.
Mrs. Delventhal was formerly Mrs NJ
Haak She came here six years ago from
the East, where her husband had desert
ed her. It is probable that her excite
ment caused her to say that she had
been married to Delventhal four years
and that the date of their marriage given
by his brother is correct. She Is thirty
two and her husband is twenty mine years
old