The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-25
ALABAMA MAN
 SHOOTS HIS WIFE Vim. H. Short Then Kills Him.
 self In Washington
HE LIVED Al LIVINGSTON
Wife Had Joined Theatrical Company While He Was In Jail and Refused to Live With Him After His
 Release-Wife May Die.

Washington, October 24-Enraged be- cause his girl wife preferred life on the stage to his companionship, Wm H. Short of New York city today shot and perhaps fatally wounded her at the union station here. and then sent a bullet crashing through his temple. He died an hour later at the Casualty hospital.
 The tragedy created a sensation among the large crowds at the station. Mrs. Short had just aighted from cab which was also occupied by her husband and girl friend, and was hurrying to catch train to Pittsburg, when Short whipped a revolver from his pocket and fired three bullets into his wife's back.
 The woman, who now lies near death in the Casualty hospital, is known on the stage as Evlyn Howard, and played in Washington last week with the Motor Girl" company She was formerly Evlyn Lewis of Jacksonville, Fla and married Short, who Is a native of Livingston, Ala, about seven years ago. They lived in New York, where he was employed as a bookkeeper in & bank but soon after their marriage the man got into the clutches of the law through alleged mis- appropriation of funds Mrs Short told the pvlice when she regained conscious ness at the hospital and served term in Sing Sing. Through sheer necessity Mrs. Short said she drifted to the stage as means of livelihood
 Short recently was pardoned from prison, Mrs. Short said, and began a new start in life. He importuned his wife to return to him, but she declined. and he followed her here. Reaching this city Friday afternoon, Short registered under an assumed name at the hotel where his wife was stopping He endeavored to persuade his wife to quit the stage and return to New York with him.
 Mrs. Short persisted that she had wor her right to her own independence, anc again refused. Accompanied by Miss Maud Caldwell, another member of the company she left the hotel this morning for the station. She yainly tried to elude her husband but the latter followed ana told her he would plead with her again to turn from the stage. When they reached the station Short made his final entreaty, and when he was again re- buffed, the tragedy ensued. <hioS OdiQWCll WdS uCldlDcd dS an eye witness, but upon Shorts death she was released and permitted to proceed with her company to Pittsburg.
 Short was apparently without funds Mrs. Mary Lewis, living at No. East One Hundred and Eleventh street New York city, who is believed to be the mother of Mrs. Short, was notified of the tragedy, and was expected tonight Shorts body is at the morgue awaiting advices as to it's disposition.
 Livingston, October 24-(Special) )-Will 1 Short, who figured in the tragedy in 1 Washington this afternoon, comes from one of the best-known families in Sum- ter county. He is 2 son of Marshall Short, who for number of years was connected with the Alabama Great South ern railroad, and who served in the Amer | can army in the Philippines. Members of the family are prominent and well known in this section of the state. Will ! Short spent all of his boyhood days here, but after reaching manhood left Living ston, and has been in many parts of the 1 United States.