Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-17
SHOT TO KILL
Woman Victim Now Lies al the Point of Death in Water.
 bury Bospilal
MANS WOUND SLIGHT

of the Smith & GriggS Manulactur- ing Co on the Simonsville road, when John Cavanaugh of 21 Willard street
 fired three bullets at Mrs Edith
 French of High street, Union City
 and then discharged two at himself,
 making a wound on the left temple.
 This is supposed to be the final scene in the secret lives of this man and woman. When Mrs Cavanaugh and her three children heard of the murderous affair she became hysteri- cal,
 While the police are not talking much about the affair, it is said that Cavanaugh and Mrs French had known each other for some time, and that they were quite intimate. lie has been engaged as an agent for the Potter-Foote Paper Co and also as an insurance agent. He is medium sized young man with fair, curly hair, and is probably one of the very well known young men in town. It is said that he had an appointment with the woman near the factory mentioned and that she was on hand at the time stated in the note asking her to meet him. The place of their tryst is very lonely and not very bright at night. It is supposed by the police, from what Cavanaugh in his rambling way told them, that he had been talking with the woman only short time and that he urged her to go away with him. She hay ing a cooler head than he, declined to risk the refuge of home for the slight and doubtful protection, the fancy of a married man, and father of three children, could give the wife of another living man, and she more than once, the police believe, gently informed him that they were better off in their respective homes. Then
 he suddenly drew a revolver from the right hand side pocket of his overcoat and fired three shots at her,
 the three lodging in her body, one near the heart, and any of them likely to prove fatal. She fell to the
 ground with a scream, and Cavan-
 augh, no doubt believing that he had finished her, turned the weapon on
 himself and emptied the remaining contents at his forehead. Only one bullet grazed him over the left tem- pie. George Jones, who lives in the i'm
 mediate vicinity of the place, heard the reports of the explosions and ran out in his shirt sleeves. He then heard the woman's cries and rushed
 to where she had fallen. It is not known If he saw Cavanaugh. It seems, however, that Cavanaugh,
 after firing the two shots at himself
 hurried away, but he. left trail of
 blood behind and later this served to track him. ..-
 A trolley car bound for Naugatuck was approaching and Jones, doing all he could for the suffering woman, hallooed for help. D. H. Douglas, the
 conductor, stopped the car and with the assistance of Jones and Motor
 man Stanbury, got the woman on the car At that point there is siding and a Waterbury bound car came along very soon. The bleeding wo-
 man was put on Douglass car and after some talk among the passen- gers as to the speediest way of reach ing their destination, they decided to change cars so that Douglass car
 returned to Waterbury. It reached Exchange place about 80 o'clock and the woman was transferred as
 speedily as possible to an ambulance which conveyed her to the Waterbury hospital.
 Meanwhile information of the shooting had reached the police and every available man was sent out tc arrest Cavanaugh. After some time he was found in James E. Watts's saloon, 150 South Main street, by Officer Mclean, who took him to the police station, where he was given
 medical assistance. This mornins when the doors of the station opened to admit the prisoners to the city court, Cavanaugh, with one side ol
 his head hidden in bandages coveript his left eye, and with what seemed tC be sheet or blanket over him, wa: | the first to enter. It was at once ey: dent that he was stranger in the place. His counsel, Attorney E. B Kelley. spoke to him a few minute:
 and then court opened. Cavanaugf
 was charged with attempting to mur 1 der Mrs French, but no plea wa:
 taken or given and the matter wa. put over to tomorrow without bail Prosecuting Attorney Meigs remark | ing that the woman was not likel,
 to live as she had three bullets il | her body.
 The police say they can mak, | neither one thing nor the other ou
 of what Cavanaugh has told them
 It is supposed that he and Mr. French understood each other brett,
 we'll. There is report that they
 went to Springfield. Mass, together
 some time ago, but Mir French is re ported to have said that he knew l where his wife was on that occasion and that she went no further thar
 Hartford to arrange for an opera | tion. Her husband is an employe Q
 the Connecticut Co.
 Mrs French is decided brunette
 and lived on Sunnyside avenue til
 she married two years ago. How
 she became acquainted with Cavan
 augh or how long they knew eacl
 other are matters to be developed \ by the courts along with the exten and depth of their acquaintance
 Rumor on this score said they becam,
 acquainted when he was collecting for life insurance company ana that he was a regular caller upon hel