The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-28
WILL A BULLET
REUN|TE THEM?
Grissom on the Way to
Wife's Side.
A MOTHERS ANGUISH
Mrs. Grissom's Brother-in-Law Be.
lieyes This The Reason of Her At
tempted Suicide. Thought of
Seeing Her Boy lIIuminates
Her Face.
(special 10 News and Ohserver.)


been learned that the handsomely
dressed woman who attempted tc
commit suicide here early Saturday
morning by shooting herself in the
left breast and abdomen while seated
on a bench in Farragut Square with
i'm two blocks of the White House, is
Mrs. G.. Grissom, the wife of the
secretary and treasurer of the Leaks
vile Woolen Mills, near Spray n. G.
Mr.. G.. GrisSom is the son of DR.
Grissom, for SO many years superin-
tendent of the North Carolina Insane
Asylum at Raleigh, n. c.. Mr. c.
Grissom. it is said here went Wes.
with his father and there married his
wife with whom he returned to North
Carolina, locating at LcaksVille and
.dtCr going to Spray About three
ears ago they separated on account OF
incompatibility of temperament, Il
son of ten years remaining with his
father. Mrs. Grissom it is said, has
h@en employed in one of the govern
ment departments here. but up to tna
| resent time. the detectives have failed
to locate either her residence ir this
city or the department in which she
was employed.
hlrs. Grissom herself, although per
fecIiy conscious when removed from
the Park after shooting herself, stead
fastly refused to give any information
IN regard to herself, and did not give
her name until more than tAcNc
hours after and then only when T'r.
M#rtyn, of the Emergency Hospital,
had received a telegrani from ram
Vile. Va, revealing he. identity.
When confronted by DR.. Martyr
with this telegram. she admitted that
she was Mrs. Grissom and that her
home was at Spray, and at once beg
ged the doctor not tc permit these
facts to get into the newspapers. She
still persists that she wishes to die
although DR.. Mareyn and other nhy-
sicians called IN. believe now that
she will probably recover.
1t was learned al the hospitaI to-day
that the only communication thus fa1
received from any of her people, was
n telegram from her husband 81
Spray, asking what her condition was
today.
Mrs. Grissom. It was learned
through the clerk of the Burton Hotel
at Danville. Va, arrived in that city
Friday afternoon AMI registered there
without stating how long she expect
ed to remain. Che seemed grea ~
excited and about 10 p. m. LEFT the
she remained until the Southern train
left Danville at lis a. m., for this
city. She had Pullman car ticket,
but sat in the observation car al the
way and according TO Conductor j. ".
Harvey appeared to be very nervous.
There are conflicting stories in Gil =
culation here, one man who was driv-
ing past Farragut Square at the time
of the shooting, stating that Mrs.
Grissom was talking % an el1erly
man when she :ooil out the revolver,
while others who were iii the park
say she spoke to no enc.
The revolver which Mrs. Grissom
used is a 50 calibre and had never
contained ii came from the factory
being fund in her bag. together with
about S25 in gold and paper money.
4 later report of this sad case gives
the following particulars:
Mrs. GrisSom has a brother-inl2W
in this city, Eugene Grissom, an en-
ploye of one OF the departments.
Eugene Grissom said tonight that his
brother. Robert G.. Grissom, the. hus-
band of the injured woman, met his
wife in Denver and married her in
family, her father having been a
colonel of a Missouri regiment dur
ing the Civil War The couple, Mr.
Grissom said lived happily in Denver
until four years ago, when she OBJ
tanned divorce, he believed, on the
ground of incompatibility. Mrs.
Grissom, he said. then made her
home with her brother-in-law, Harry
Ruffner, living at 90S east Tenth Ave-
nue.. Denver. Mr.. Grissom tonight
attributed his sister-in- Jaws action
entirely to the fact that by the de-
cree of the divorce she is compelled to
surrender her child into his fathers
custody for six months of each wear.
After each of these exchanges. he
said, the mother would become ex
tremely morose. and it would be i'm
possible to interest her in any of the
ordinary matters of life. He said the
two were devoted to each other In
spite Of their separation which grew
out of unfortunate differences in tenn
perament.
Mrs. Grissom had been i'm Washing
ton with her boy for the past four
months until early last week when
she left the city, saying she was GO
ing TO Spray with him.
DR.. White. the physician in charge
at the Emergency Hospital said to-
night that the woman had chance
for her life, although it has been i'm
possible to probe for the bullets
DR.. White today received word from
the husband at Spray, saying that he
would arrive here tomorrow The
woman has been anxious to keep the