Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-08-06

William White, the Atlanta representa-
tive of the Dayton Scale company, shot
and very seriously wounded Michael P.
Anderson, steward of the Aragon hotel.
on the fifth floor of the hotel Monday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. in the pres
ence of Mrs. White, his wife.
White is in the city jail and refused to
make a statement, acting, he says, on
the advice of his attorneys.
Mrs White is in the care of the matron
of the police station. After the tragic
AFFAIR, Of which she is the only witness,
she kept crying repeatedly that she was
innocent OF any wrong, and it is said took
the same pistol with which her husband
shot Anderson and attempted to take her
own life.
Anderson is at the Elkin sanitarium on
Luckie street with a pistol shot in his
abdomen, the ball entering between the
liver and the stomach. He rested quietly
Tuesday night and was in as good con-
dition Wednesday forenoon as could be
hoped for.
SEPARATED FROM WIFE.
Anderson is IS years of age and has
been steward, of the Aragon for IL years.
He has been married, but he and his wife
are now separated.
White is 80 years of age and Mrs. White
is q years and is a pretty and attractive
brunette. The Whites came to Atlanta
from Nashville, Tenn, and since coming
to the Aragon to live, Mrs. White has
been back in Tennessee a part of the
time and has not been at the hotel more
than a month or so altogether. 1t was
known at the hotel that the Whites and
Anderson were on friendly terms, and
NIo
ing together.
Immediately after he was shot, Ander-
son made a statement to A. ]. Manson, j.
I. JONES and others, which is in sub
stance as follows:
WHAT ANDERSON SAYS.
''I was in my room on the fifth floor
of the hotel when Mrs. White came by
and dropped in. We had been talking a
few minutes, when there was a knock on
the door and 1 opened it and White
stepped in.
without a word of explanation or
warning White drew a gun from his pock-
ct and fired directly at me. l knew l
was seriously wounded and do not know
why he did not shoot again, as he still
held the gun on me.
II was unarmed and believing that he
intended 10 keep on firing made a dash
Nne uOOI.
Il knew that 1 was desperately wound
ed but 1 managed to keep on coming
down the stairway until l reached the
second floor. Here 1 became exhausted
and came into the convention hall be-
cause / knew it was unoccupied."
HURRIED TO HOSPITAL.
J. n. Couch, manager of the Majes-
tic hotel, who was in the Aragon at the
time. and j. ]. JONES, bookkeeper at
the Aragon, were the first TO reach Mr..
Anderson. Mr.. Couch ran to the street
and made an effort to get an ambulance,
and failing In this. got CAP and Mr..
Anderson was carried out the Ellis street
entrance and was hurried away to the
hospital
On the way TO the hospital Anderson
repeated the statement several times that
the shooting occurred in his own room at
the Aragon on the fifth floor, and that
no words were exchanged between him
self and White.
When the shooting occurred, consterna-
tion reigned at the Aragon. ]. Lee
Barnes, the manager, was out at his
country place and did not reach the city
for half an hour. Manager Couch, of
the Majestic. who was at the Aragon,
after getting Anderson started for the
hospital, did all he could to allay the ex-