Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-14
MARRIED HER DAUGHTER

Flstol on Son-in-iaM, ana LatterS
 Wife Defends Her Mothers Action,
 Saying Husband Made Move as
 Though to Draw Weapon. Northport, N. Y., July 14-0n the threshold of the home that once had | been his. but which was shut to him after he shot his father-in-law on Dec. | P, 1906. Dr. James w. Simpson was | shot by the wife of the man whom he l had killed. Simpson was acquitted of | the murder of his father-in-law in spite | of testimony which his wife and his l mother-in-law gave against him. The 1 killing, however. had alienated his | wife from him. and it was when de- | manding to see her in order to arrange with her to make their separation per manent by means of a divorce that the bullet came crashing through glass door. It entered the dentists abdomen and lodged in the lower part of the right lung. He hurried to New York where he went to Roosevelt hospital to have an operation performed. After receiving a frightful wound Dr. Simpson showed that he had mar intense pain, knowing that internal hemorrhage was sapping his life, he travelled alone from Northport to Long Island City and from there. with little help, made his way to Roosevelt hos pital. And on the way, knowing he was looking death closely in the face, he said solemnly:
 ''I may die before morning. If die 1t will be with a conscience clear of the murder of my father-in-law."
 Wife Loyal to Mother. <,
 The shooting of Simpson came as an- other tragic incident in a household in which wealth had caused dissensions which turned daughter against her parents. Not until her father had been shot by the man whom she had mar ried and to whom she had been loyal did the daughter return to her mother and desert the man who had done the killing. So bitter was the feeling of mother and daughter toward Simpson that when they knew he was lying on their doorstep bleeding from danger ous wound they did not lift finger to help him.
 When Dr. Simpson. who was one of the most prominent dentists in this section. killed his father-in-law, Bart ley T. Horner, the revulsion of feeling which Mrs. Simpson felt toward her husband was such that when the jury acquitted the dentist she denounced the twelve men for what she said was a gross miscarriage of justice.
 Simpson had lived in the home of his father-in-law. who was wealthy re- tired tobacco planter. There were many quarrels in the household. and Mrs. Simpson always stood with her husband. but after the killing of her father she and her mother told the dentist never to enter their home again, and it was because he was about to violate their injunction that he was shot.
 Statements from Dr. simpson and from Mrs. Horner as to the circum- stances attending the shooting dis agree. 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 doorbell and upon receiving no re- sponse peered through the door pane. He saw Mrs. Horner. he says, and called to her to open the door. Then, Dr. Simpson says. Mrs. Horner grab bed up a revolver and shot him. The bullet entered his body above the ab- domen. and he fell back against the | doorsill. A second shot was fired at him. he claims. but the bullet went wild.
 Woman Admits Shooting.
 Mrs. Horner does not deny that she did the shooting, but she claims justi- fication. Through her lawyer Row. land Miles. she said that Dr. Simpson had several times called at the house and that his visits were unwelcome. When he came again she says she or dered him of the place, and when he refused to go she took up q revolver that was lying on a rack in the hall and shot at him. Constable Hanson, who arrested Simpson in 1906 when the dentist shot Mrs. Horner's hus. band, arrested Mrs. Horner She was charged with felOnious assault After | Justice R W. Hawkins had fixed bail at 5000. Mrs. Simpson. the prisoners daughter. gave bond and secured the release of her mother.
 Mrs. Simpson said that while she was not present when her mother fired the shot at Dr. Simpson she believed her mother was absolutely justified and said Dr simpson got what he de served She says she was in a real room of the house at the time. but upon hearing shot she dropped whai she was doing and ran tO see if hel
 Lothpr had been shot. When sht found that fl was her husband sh' says she was relieved.
 When my mother ordered Dr. Simp
 son off the place he made as thOugl
 10 put his hand In his pistol pocket.
 said Mrs. Simpson. Mother believed
 he was going to shoot her. so she sho
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