Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
WHO ATTEMPTED LIFE
OF JULIUS PETERS SUCCEEDS
ON SECOND ATTEMPT.
STORY CITY SHOOTING
RECALLED eY MURDER
Mrs. Heitsman, Abandoned BY Peters,
Tried to Kill Him in Presence Of
6ride-Three Shots Fail to Take Eff
feet-FoIlows Him to St. Louis and
Her Aim is Better.
Special to Times-Republican.

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Nevada, Feb. 10.-The recent killing
In st. Louis Of julius Peters by Mrs.
Mae Heitsman, Lincoln, Neb., wom-
an, recalls an ineffectual attempt that
the woman made upon the life of the
man in this county on Sept 8, 1908.
Upon being released after the grand
jury had failed to indict her for the
attempt upon his life, she made the
remark that she would get Peters yet,
and the. killing of him in the Missouri
town last week made her threat good.
Shot Three Times at Him.
Peters was a telephone lineman who
was working for the Mutual people
up at Story City. Some days before the
incident happened when he was the
victim of the woman's wrath he left
Story for a few days and returned
with a woman whom he claimed as
his bride, saying that he had married
her down at Upton, Iowa. On the
morning Of Sept. 8 a lone woman,
handsome in face and figure, stylishly
gowned and bedecked with jewelry,
stepped off of an early train. made her
way to the hotel where she inquired as
to the whereabouts of Peters. Being
told that he and his bride boarded at
a restaurant across the way, she
stepped over to the restaurant and en-
tering the dining room, awaited their
coming to breakfast.
When Peters entered the room with
one glance at the woman, he exclaimed,
my God, woman, what are you doing
here?" II came after you julius. Come
over here and sit down." she command
ed. AS Peters faltered, then started to
take seat at another table with his
bride, the woman reached inside her
waist for the gun and Peters started
to flee from the room. Three times the
woman fired after him, but failed to hit
the rapidly rstreating figure.
Gave Herself Up.
AS the man flew up a neighboring
stairway to safety, the woman re-
traced her steps to the hotel and
awaited the coming Of the officer. She
mary was held that forenoon It was
then that she barred the secret Of her
life. Her name was Mae Heitsman and
she was the daughter of highly re-
spected parents. She had become the
along well with him and had for some
time been separated. Later she fell in
with Peters, became his mistress and
had supplied him with money with the
understanding that as soon as she Sc
cured a divorce from Heistman, she
was to become the lawful wife of Pc
tiers. The man had returned to Iowa to
work. tired Of the woman and married
another. 1t was then that she decided
to end his life.
Was Not Indicted.
The woman was bound over to the
grand jury ami was placed in the
woman's ward of the Jail in this city,
where she remained for some weeks,
her Lincoln husband refusing to supply
bonds for her When the grand Jury
investigation came she was allowed to
tell her story before that body and as
no harm had come from the attempt
of the woman to shoot Peters, she was
released. Her husband sent an attorney
here to look after her interests and she
returned to Lincoln with him.
Killed Him at Last.
She eventually followed the man
whom she insisted had betrayed her
trust and had married another woman,
to st. Louis, where she killed him out
right by shooting him, upon meeting
him upon the street. She is now in
Jail awaiting trial upon charge Of
murder.