Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-15
OTIS HEDY DIES AT HOSPITAL
Victim Of Mrs. Bertha Motifs Shoot.
ing Passes Away.
MURDER CHARGE TO BE FILED
Woman Again Gives Her version,
Insisting that she Fired After
He Made Advances to 'a
Her.

Otis Hedy. the waiter who was shot or
the back porch OF the double apartmen,
house, s21-Sss South Nineteenth street
Thursday evening by Mrs, Bertha Mott
died in St. Joseph's hospital last night
Hedy was optimistic until the very last
conscious moment. This was between IL
and II o'clock yesterday morning. Follow
ing an acute seizure he collapsed and never
rallied until the spark Of life went out AT
the bedside was his wife and little boy.
A charge OF second degree murder will
probably be preferred against Mrs. Mott.
This was the statement Of County Attorney
English last night
Mr.. English visited the hospital yesterday
in the afternoon with view to getting
an ante-mortem statement from Hedy. He
was then, however, unconscious.
Hedy Repeats Statement.
When the county attorney saw Hedy
Thursday he feft~so confident OF living that
no legal statement could be recorded
Hedy in conversation repeated the version
OF the transaction that eliminated IN his
death that he gave out Friday morning
when he had recovered from the effects
Of the operation performed by Police Sur
geon Harris. He stated that the accused
woman entered his room when there was
no one there but himself and his little boy,
that he asked her TO leave and when they
got out ON the porch she fired.
Mrs. Mott. who Is confined in the matron' 8
department Of the city Jail, is fast becom-
ing nervous wreck. She is a slightly
built young woman. nothing but girl.
and when seen last night she was moaning
Historically. When sufficiently oalmed to
the shooting she gave to the police at the
time Of her arrest and told afterwards Ia
her husband. There were statements tina,
Mott had fled the city after the tragic
event in which his wife was one OF the
principal actors. but he merely shifted their
slight belongings from ssl South Nineteenth
street, and went to live with his mother
at 1o12 South Forty-eighth street. He has
visited his wife at the Jail every day since
her committaL Her mother called with
him yesterday. Mrs Motifs father, ]. I.
Wise, is employed on the Missouri Pacific
railroad at Weeping Water, Neb.
Mrs. Mott Tells Her story.
In recountinG the facts of the tragedy.
Mrs. Mott said when Hedy entered the
room her back was turned toward hin,
and the first intimation she had of his
proposal She saad she did not know what
he meant but as strange man in her
room. she told him to get out. He wouldn't
go, but insulted her, and she ran for her
husbands gun and following him out, shot
him.
Mrs. Mott is positive that the shooting
occurred following the mans visit to her
room and that there was no one on the
porch but Hedy and herself.
Where was Hedy's little boyT" she was
asked. tstl
He was down stairs in the basement"
was her reply. ,1 .,ea...4
How do you know that7" was the next
question. and her answer was that she
heard his voice. ~ A..o..,,
Mrs Mott had not been told last night
OF Hedy's death. The thought that he
would die seemed her Overwhelming fear.