The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-06-20

house an hour before this. Kate ssk-
ed me to get her nat. and | vent to
the rear of the house In her room for
it. ! was returning with lamp In
my hand when / heard the report of
a gun. and a second afterwards saw
Ernest standing at the top of the
steps leading down into Hull street
with a smoking shotgun in his hands,
Il screamed and said: What have
you done?'
He answered. Il fave shot Kate.
and am going to shoot you" | turn
cd and ran down the back steps. went
through the alley and came out on
Twelfth street and was at the front OF
the house just as they were picking
up my sister and the little baby. She
was bleeding and ! thought she was
dead. MIR. James Baber had rushed
across the street and picked up the
ba by. saw DIR. Jones and then Police
man Mike Moore came. A little while
afterwards Policeman Wnymack ar
rested Ernest and the ambulance took
sister away. l was almost dead and
went home after learned she was not
going TO die"
Indignantly Denied.
As to the statement made by stump
tina, his wife and her sister were at
Forest Hill Park on Thursday night,
Miss Hamilton emphatically and in
dlgnantly denies It. She said that she
and her sister went 10 a moving pic
ture show in Richmond on the night
In question and that they used tickets
furnished them by their rather who
had received the tickets because of
posters OF the show being pasted in
his windows In Richmond
Waymack Made Arrest.
Stump WAS standing at the top of
the stairway in dark hall when
Officer Eddie Waymack arrived on the
scene without a minutes hesitation
he rushed up the steps and took the
repeating magazine gun from the half
crazed man. and escorted him TO the
police station. where he was locked
up His wife was being attended by
DR.. Jones. the blood from the shot
wound in her head having streamed
across her infant as ner husband was
LED away to a CELL He was evidently
under the influence of whiskey. In
fac, he told the policeman that he
had shot his wife and said nothing
about having fired because he thought
he saw a man in the door at the bot
tom Of the steps until he had realized
the gravity Of the charge against him.
Stump has been married ten years
and has four children. the oldest OF
which is not more than seven years
OF age. He was a butcher for good
while In Hull street and after get
ting on a protracted spree about a
year ago sold out his business for $3.50.
With this money he said he was going
to open a flsh business and borrowed
$500 from his father-in-law, Mr..
Hamilton still has note for his money.
meme of it having been paid back. and
the most OF IL spent.
Baby MiracuonsIy Saved.
That some of the shot did not strike
the baby carried in the arms OF Mrs.
stump down the stairs Is due to the
bad aim of the drunken husband. The
infant was apparently on the left arm
OF the mother as she was descending
the stairs. The entire load Of shot
passed her right side, striking her
head from the crown down to her
shoulder. She fell IN a heap from
the third step to the floor, her baby
clasped tightly in her arms, while
blood flower freely from her wounds.
with its little dress scarlet red, the
infant was taken up by Mr.. Baber.
who thought for the time that II too
had been shet. A hasty examination
by DIR. Jones showed that 1t had es-
capped serious injury II was taken TO
the home of one of the brothers OF