The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-14
Dentist Acquitted on Charge of Murdering Wife's Father Probably Mortally
 Wounded.
AT SCENE OF FIRST KILLING
Mrs. Horner Held In S5,O00 Bail---In-
 jured Man Crnwls Away from House When Wife Refuses to Aid Him.

Northport, l.. l.. July lS,-Standing NwIthln a few feet of the spot where q Ellttle more than two years ago he shot Nand killed his aged father-in-law, pr. <James Weddell Simpson, a dentist of New York. waa shot and perhaps \ Imortally wounded today by his moth er-in-law. Mrs Bartley T. Horner. the woman he made a widow Dr, smp- son's wife. from whom lie has been ostranged for muny months, was near when the shot was fired. out she did not witness the shooting. Upon learn t Ing that it was ier husband who had been wounded she refused to go near several hundred feet away to have his wound attended to Mrs. Homer was later arrested and held in s5,000 ball. while Dr simpson with the assistance of two friends, made his way to Roose- welt hospital in New York. The bull let lodged In his liver and an imme- tiate operation was performed to take Inc bullet out The doctors said toe night that Dr. Simpson has only a small chance of recovering.
 Statements from Dr. Simpson and from Mrs. Horner as to the circum- stances attending the sh )oting dis Fgrec. The dentist says that he had received word that his wife intended to sue him for a divorce and that he went to the Horner home to talk with her about it He says he rang the door bell and upon receiving no response, recred through tho door pane. He saw Mrs. Horner, he says and called to her to open the door Then, Dr. Simpson tays, Mrs. H9rner grabbed up l revolv- Pr and shot him. The bullet entered his body above the abdomen and he fpli back against the loor sill. A second shot was fired at him, he claims, but the bullet went wild.
 Mrs. Horner does not deny that she did the shooting, but she claims iustih- Miles, she said that Dr. Simpson had several times called at the house and that his visits were unwelcome. When he came today che says she ordered him off the place and when he refused to go she shot at him
 Constable Hansen, who arrested Simpson in 1905. when the dentist shot Mrs. Horner's husband, arrested Mrs 1lorner this evening, She was charg ed with felonious assault After Jus tice Hawkins had fixed ball at $500 Mrs. Simpson, the prisoners daughter qualified as bondsman and secured tn, release of her mother Justice Hawk ins set the hearing of the case for nex Wednesday.
 This second tragedy at the Horne homestead is only another chapter in
 series of unhappy domestic events c the last few years The shooting c Bartley T. Horner by pr. simpso II aroused the countryside in December 1905 and when the dentist was put O trial his wife turned against him an went so far as to take the wtnes stand against him, Mrs. Horner als gave damaging testimony against he son-inlaw Dr. Simpson was goin , through the manual of arms with
 shotgun when he accidentally shot hi father-in-law.
 After the verdict of acquittal, D
 Simpson resumed the practice of den
 tistry. He opened suite of offices O
 Fifth avenue, but he had lost many (
 his clients and of late, 1t Is said h
 has sought financial aid. .Dr Simpson
 wife left him after the trial and cam
 here to live with her mother. D
 Simpson has been seen in the villae
 several times, but until today 1t wa
 not known that he had visited the Hol
 ner home.
 | Mrs. Simpson said that while she we
 not present when her mother fired tt
 shot at Dr. Simpson, she believed he
 shot at pr. Simpson, she bC
 lieved her mother was absolute
 ly justified and said pr. Simpson gt
 what he deserved She says she was
 rear room of the house at the tim
 but upon hearing shot she droppe
 what she was doing and ran to see
 her mother had been shot. When sl
 found that 1t was her husband sl
 says she was relieved.
 "When my mother ordered Dr. Sim
 son off the place he made as though put his hand in his pistol pocket" sa
 Mrs Simpson 'Mother believed he WI
 going to shoot her so she shot him
 Rowland Miles, Mrs Horner's laN
 yer, said that pr Simpson had be'
 annoying Mrs Horner and her daug
 ter of late. He said that a man posil as a detective had visited his off
 several times to offer evidence whit
 would entitle Mrs Simpson to a (
 vorce but the man had been order