Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-26
SHE KILLED HER RIVAL
WIFE DECLARES SHE SAW HUS-
BAND IN VICTIMS ARMS.

BAND IN VICTIMS ARMS.
BALTIMORE, November 26.-Jealous
because, it is said, she saw another wom-
an in the arms OK her husband, Mrs. An
ME Maith. thirty-ive years old. a pretty
woman of refined appearance, living at
PSI East Hamburg street. after watching
the scene from a window. entered the
house at 1884 Knox court and impIored
Mrs. Sallie Brown. thirty years old, ito
let her husband alone" She says she
received a negative answer, and then
took pistol from her handbag and fired
bullet through Mrs. Browns brain. kill
ing her instantly. The tragedy occurred
about o'clock last night.
Mrs. Maith then left the house and ran
to the southern police station, six squares
away, and surrendered to Lieut.. Collins
When she was once inside the station
house she went to the steps that lead to
the second floor and screamed:
Killed Her for Breaking Up Home.
'Oh. my God, have killed a woman
for breaking up my home. Here is the
pistol in the handbag. I want to give
myself up
Capt. MCGEE, who was behind the desk,
FASTENED to the woman and. after listen
Ing to her story sobbingly told, sent
SerSts. Flood, White and Phillips and
several patrolmen to the scene of the
shooting.
When they arrived at the house they
found Mrs. Brown seated in a chair in the
front room with bullet hole in her fore
head. Coroner Reinhardt of the southern
district was notified, and after an exam
ination said two bullets were fired and
that death was instantaneous. The body
was left In the chair for the coroner 8
jury to view.
Says Husband Beat Her.
According to the story of Mrs. Maith, as
told to Capt. MCGEE, her life for the last
two years had not been happy. partly on
account of the woman she killed. She said
she had loved her husband since the day
she first met him, and to know that an
other woman had come between them and
caused their separation was more than
she could stand.
My husband and had not been get
ting along together in the last two years.
About that time Mrs. Browns husband
was killed on the Baltimore and Ohio
raliroad at Locust Point. Shortly after
mat the woman commenced to pay atten-
ton to my husband, and has kept 1t up
since. I begged him not to do the things
people told me he did, but 1t all seemed of
no use. A number Of times after that he
cruelty beat me. and he was arrested
twice, charged with assaulting and strik-
ING me-. me first time he was fined and
the second time he was sent to fall
Recently heard that ne was changed
man, but l knew he went to see Mrs
Brown: I thought that II i went to her
ana asked her never to speak to my hus-
band again he would come back to me
and we could live happily together once
more. l went to see her, but she would
make no promise. I went home and tried
to forget 1t.
Il saw my husband this afternoon and
TAXED with him several minutes. During
the conversation he seemed to feel sorry
Ior what he had done and told me tina.
Mrs. Brown seemed to have some kind o.
an influence over him. which seemed tr
draw him to her. He said he could no,
help it, and did not know what to do.
Saw Them Together.
Later In the afternoon heard he was
in her house, and thought the best thing
for me to do would be to go there and
ask her again to never speak to him. A.
was passing the side window Of the
house I happened to look in and. behold
who should I see but my husband In the
arms OF another woman. 1t angered me at
first, but thought the best thing for ma
to DO would be to go In and beg her again
TO let him alone.
when entered he was gone. walked
up to her and said You have taken him
from me and broken up my home; won't
you please never speak to him any more
and let him come back to me?
Mrs. Browns answer was, I love him
and shall never give him up
Mrs. Maith said the response was more
than she was able to stand and she
opened her handbag, and, taking the pistol
in her hand, raised it on level with the
woman's head and fired ,
II did not look to see If I had killed
her" she said. land hope now she is
not dead
Mrs. Maith said no more. but collapsed
suddenly and was carried to a room,
where a physician sought to calm her.
After the coroner's inquest at the home
Of Mrs. Brown the body will be taken to
the morgue today, where post-mortem
examination will be held by DR.. N. G.
keirle. An inquest will follow at night
at the station house.
Her husband, John E. Maith, who was
in the house just before the shooting. has
not been seen since He Is employed at
SINNERS shipyard as an engineer. Mrs.
Math during the time she has been sepa-
rated from her husband has been en-
ployed as dressmaker and has supported
her aged mother and father Her condi-
ton. as result of the shooting, was con-
sidered serious last night and the ply
sicians attending her, believing that re
that her victim was dead
might prove fatal, ordered that the facts
be kept from her.