Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-19

I turned the gun st my husband / guess.
don't know what happened"
Mrs Freeman said she had not gone TO
the place with the intention Of killing her
husband that she had brought the gun
along for protection. Il have had IL since
we moved down on Seventeenth street by
the bridge" she said Il got It because J
had to stay alone nights / knew that
would have to so back there late tonight
and I wanted to be protected when my
husband came in with that woman lust
pulled 1t out and began shooting / didn {
intend TO do II at all
The Freemsns we're married In omaha
I'm 1901 Mru Freeman said her husband
began going with Mrs Hirsch. whom she
knew only as Maggie. since December. at
which time he had begun ignoring her
Deserted His Home.
He has been working for tine street
car company on the West Leavenworth
line for about nine months Since he has
met this woman he has been coming home
only occasionally. | mended his clothes
and cooked for him whenever he would
come home and begged him to leave that
woman, but he would only iaugh at me.
His mother, who lives at 5t27 North Sew
enteenth street, was the first to tell me
that Earl was going with this woman
Whenever l would ask her about IT, she
would say she had been talking to him
trying to get him to leave her alone and
come back to me. But later she got so
that whenever l would call her up
knowing that Earl was at her house, and
ask for him, she would say he was not
there. ! used to give him money when
he was out of work and he would go and
spend it on himself. When we were mar
ried had s. 300 that ! had saved I'D and
he went to ST. Louis and spent all of that
And since we have been married | have
to wash and do anything could get to do
to support us. My son goes to high school
and works after school hours"
Mrs. Hirsch Depot Waitress.
Mrs Hirsch is employed at the lunch
at the Webster street depot She
has been separated from her husband for
several weeks The Hirschs have two
and years old. who have been
cared for by the mother since her residence
at the Anslyn rooming house She and
her children, she said, have been living
with Mr.. and Mrs Harry Mcbride. Harry
Mcbride. who is a friend of Freemans
said last night that he did not know the
man was married. Mrs. Hirsch also averred
she did not know Freeman was married
man.
Il have known Earl since December"
she said, land have not been living with
him. had met him last night at Sixteenth
and Douglas streets and we walked home
together. That is the first time had been
out with him. He is a friend OF the Nc
Brides and that is how l met him. I do
not like him, even"
Freeman has two brothers, win, a car
penter, and Fred, a street car conductor.
He has no children.
Chief of Police Donahue said last night
hat Mrs. Freeman had come to his office
six weeks ago and asked him for advice
n regard to what she should do about her
husband, who refused to support her and
vas living with another woman
Il told her" he said, ito swear out a
warrant and have the woman and him ar
'ested She did not want to do that, she |
old me. She wanted to get him to come |
pack to her peaceably and that to have |
him arrested would only make him angry" |