The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-25
HUSBAND DYING
 WIFE MAY. LIVE
"Bill'' Stanton, Huckster, Lodged Bullet in Own Brain After Shooting
 Sponse Through Lung.
PRACTICED FOR HIS CRIME
She Was Pretty Woman, and He Was Jealous of Her-Two Weeks Ago He
 Threatened fo Commit Uxoricide -
 Woman Makes Post kortem Statement

After several years Of domestic squabbling, which brought them into the police courtuFeveral times. "BilI'' Stanton, huckster. and his wife, Mar garet Benson Stanton, lie at the point of death at the Bridgeport hospital. Stanton has undoubtedly had it in his mind to do away with his wife for some time past. When, yesterday af- ternoon, several people in Sterling street heard the crack of a revolver, they looked around but could see only Stanton, who was driving through the street. He seemed unconcerned and appeared not to have heard the shot. He was practicing then to see if the revolver would work. Last night he went to his boarding place at 2S0 Nichols street, and fired three shots at his wife. Twice he missed her. One bullet entered her body between the third and fourth ribs above the breast, and lodged in the lung. Stan ton turned the revolver on himself, shooting himself in the back of the head.
 , The shots were fired after a quarrel in which the wordy altercation was heard by the neighbors. When the explosions were heard, John Glider next door. rushed into the Stanton house, where they found Stanton sit ting in a chair with the brain matter oozing from a hole in the back of his be found. She had crawled under a bed.
 Sergeant William O'Leary and Pa trolman Bray soon arrived. They sent in a. call for the ambulance. The Stanton5 were taken to the hospital. The woman regained consciousness at o'clock this morning and Patrolman n Bray secured statement from her to the effect that her husband had threatened two weeks ago to shoot her.
 Captain Arnold of the detective bu- reau will attempt to secure and ante mortem statement from both the Stan tons this afternoon if their condition pital find that the woman's chances of recovering are better. but both are addicted to alcoholism and their phy- sica1 condition will not be an aid to their recovery.
 The 32 calibre revolver with which the shooting was done was found on the floor of the Stanton apartments. Five chambers were empty, bearing out the theory that Stanton had fired an experimental shot in the afternoon in Sterling street.
 Stanton and his wife are each about 40 years of age. When she married pretty girl. It is said that Stanton has always been jealous of her. Re- gently she had him arrested for non- support. He claimed that she was lying and was making trouble for him because he complained when she had growler parties.
 Mrs. Stanton worked a great deal of the time during her married life and as an expert sorter of rags in the em- ploy of local dealers. Stanton often earned much money huckstering, but he gave little of it to his wife. He said that he was afraid she would drink it up. The indications are that he believed he was able to do all the drinking for the family. There would be brief periods of reconciliation in which all would be serene in the household.
 Everyone who knew Stanton regard ed him as a quiet. inoffensive fellow. None suspected that he would have the nerve to shoot anyone. At cleo ton times Stanton'S services were all ways in demand at the polls, in East Bridgeport, because he knew the streets thoroughly, and many of the people With team he could locate and bring an amazingly large number of voters to the polls. He worked for the party that paid him.
 Mrs. Stanton has an aged mother, two sisters and a brother who live in this city.