The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-04-03
SHOT HUSBAND
Because She Gould Nos Bear
Thought OF Separation.
TRIED TO KILL HIM.

Mrs. Charles Avery, OF Cleveland
Ohio, Doomed to Quick DeatE
From Cancer, Having Been Tolt
She Would Live But a Few Day
Longer, attempted to Take He
Husband With Her.
Doomed to quick death from
cancer and crazed at the thought O.
parting from her husband, Mrs
Charles Avery, Of Cleveland, Ohio
thirty-fve years old, and wellknowl
in society, shot him twice with re
volver Sunday night in their resi-
dence, 1911 Superior avenue.
The first bullet struck Avery II
the back just over the right, AdTes ne
and may cause his death: ne me
second bullet tore through ms -eis
wrist. as he turned toward ms VIE
to enter on a desperate struggle Tor
possession of the pistol;
pUTA ~ Avervs came here severa!
wears ago from New ! ork, me
husband is at the head Of the Cleve-
iand branch OF the Upton Tea COM
nanv. rs About year ago Mrs. Avery
Vas stricken with cancer, and SIX
months ago she submitted to an
operation in the Lakeside hospital,
but with only temporary relief.
Wednesday she summoned g spe-
cialist, and insisted on his informing
her OF his opinion Of her case. He
told the woman she had only a few
days to live, and at once she cried
she could not bear to think Of dying
and leaving her husband behind her.
The Averys have been almost IN
separable companions since their
marriage almost fifteen years ago.
It is not known how Mrs. Avery
obtained the revolver, and she has
refused to answer any questions.
She sent the nurse from the bed
room on an errand and then asked
her husband to search in a drawer
for a book Of poems. Crossing the
room, Avery laughingly remarked
a drawer in a bureau was strange
place to keep a book, and his wife
said: >.
s.Now, bear with me, Charlie,
dear; don't know why asked the
nurse to put it there" J"
Avery found the drawer filed
with articles of wearing apparel,
and while hewas rummaging for the
oook his wife crept up behind hlm.
She startled him with cry:
::Cnarlie, We'll die together
The husband had no time to glance
over his shoulder. before his vile
shot him. He swung around, and
with his left arm warGed the second
shot from his body. The husband
and wife were in desperate strug-
gle for the pistol, when suddenly
the woman's muscles relaxed and
she fell to the floor unconscious.
Avery had not strength to support
his wife or even to break the force
of her fall.
He was dazed alike by the sudden,
ness Of the attack and his wounds.
For a few moments he stood Waver,
ing, and then, his strength gone, ne
fell straight across the form OF his
wife. The next moment servants
burst into the room, and Mrs. Avery
was put in bed and her husband
taken to Lakeside hospital.
Avery manifested no resentment.
Instead, he said he understood the
feelings Of his wife, and was flied
with compassion toward her:
"Our life together has been an
unbroken holiday" he said: II
ever a couple were really one it was
NV wife and I. She simply did not
want to leave me, and she came to
a realization Of the hopelessness OF
her situation. The thought inhsm-
ed her mind; it unbalanced her
reason. Poor, dear, sweet wife! |
know how she felt, and forgive
her.
Mrs. Avery regained her senses
an hour after the shooting. She was
rational and expressed great sorrow;
The doctors told her her husband
would recover, and she brought tears
to the eyes Of several nurses at the
bedside by offering prayer to
heaven for his recovery.