Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-19
FREEMGN'O CHANCES EVEN
Man Shot by Wife May Recover, but
Death is Threatened.
mot GOING TO DIE" HE SAYS
victim Expresses ConfideHce-Hus-
bard of "Other woman" Pleads
for Her ReIease--Mrs. Free
man a. Sorry.

Death threatens Earl Freeman, shot by
his wife who found him in company with
another woman. Monday night He is at
st. Josephs hospital, where he was op-
Grated on by Dr. r. W. Conneu and Dr.
J. T Harris, police surgeon. at II O'Clock
this morning His chances NJ recovery and
death are even, According to his physicians
! m not going TO die and I know It," de-
cared Freeman when he came from the in
Huence Of the anesthetic
freeman made statement concerning
the shooting to one Of the surgeons This
statement is in writing
Freeman Makes Statement,
We had gone after bottle Of hear
said Freeman, in making his statement 70
the physicians at the hospital 1--WE saw
woman in the hall. She was my wife
is that you, Earl? she asked.
Il replied.
Are you coming homer was her NEXT
question
No said.
DO you know that he's my husbahd?'
she said to Mrs Hirsch.
you're not treating him right II he is
and don't care very much about it. any
way Mrs. Hirsch said
Then she shot"
freeman was much exhausted by his ef-
Forts at talking. His statement was "a.
ouced to writing, but 1t was not signed
Two unhappy women are held at the
ma'ron's department of the city Jail. Mrs.
Lizzie freeman who awaits the news
which will make her a murderer. and Mrs
Maggie Hirsch, whose presence caused the
shooting
tn 40 a. - ~
repeats over and over. Il did not mean TO
shoot Earl"
For the woman whom she stternpta 20
shoot Mrs. Freeman shows great fear
Last night drunken negro woman in an
suJoinlng cell created disturbance in the
matron's department. Mrs Freeman fear
ing 1t was Mrs. Hirsch making an ATTEMPT
TO reach her, bcsought the protection of
the matron. Following the visit of James
English, county attorney, Andy Pattulo
ana j. X. Mcdonald, detectives were clos
eted with the two women getting a state
hient OF the shooting and affairs leading
up to It.
Mrs' Hirsch. while asserting her inno-
cence OF wrongdoing, says that the shoot
ing mas taught her lesson.
She shoots on sight.
Enraged at the sight of her husband.
Earl Freeman, street car conductor I'm
company with another woman, Mrs Lizzie
freeman at $40 o'clock last night shot and
probably fatally injured him and ATTEMPTED
TO XIII the woman Mira. Maggie Hirsch,
wife OF Julius Hirsch, 2ll7 Webster street.
After the shooting, which took place on
the steps leading up to the rooming house
operated by Maxwell Anslyn, 111sk Cum
ing street, where Freeman and Mrs.
Hirsch had been living, Mrs Freeman
went to grocery store at Eighteenth and
cunning. told the grocer to call the police
and then went to her home. ll0I South
Seventeenth street, where she was arrested
an hour later by Detectives PattulIo and
Mcdonald She was charged with shoot.
ing with intent to kill.
Freeman MOrtaIIy wounded.
Freeman was attended by Police Surgeon
{. II. Peppers and sent to st. Josephs
hospital. Three of the six steel bullets
fired from the 3,-caliber automatic
Colts revolver took effect, one entering the
stomach and penetrating the left lung and
the other two lodging in the left arm
Mrs. Hrsch was found at the rooming
house shortly after Mrs Freeman was ar
rested and taken to the police station as
a state witness. One OF the bullets had
b'HhhNh AApiA a wal anu SkIuCh nef IN the !
left knee causing a slight bruse, she said. |
When brought to the police station and |
turned over to Mrs. Gibbons, police matron. |
Mrs. Freeman tainted. A son by her first
husband, Art Rouner, 10 years old, sup |
ported his mother to a chair. She was soon |
resuscitated and able to tell the story of
the shooting.
Wife Tells Story.
For the last six weeks" she said, Il
had known my husband was living with |
this woman. He had lived with her in the |
west side of the cottage on the northwest |
corner OF Eighteenth and Cunning streets |
Last night l had started out to rent a |
room close to the place so that / could !
watch him and her. / came to this place
tAnglyn's rooming house, and was about to
start up the steps to inquire for a room. |
when / saw my husband and the woman
coming. l stepped just inside the door |
expecting them to pass, for l thought they |
were still living in the cottage across the |
street When l heard them turn in the |
door | turned my back. / didn't want
them to see me. The woman was suspi-
clous of me- though. Sha said: Who is |
that And Earl my husband, answered: |
oh, that's Just an old woman tying her
shoe Then turned around and Earl
saw me. They had started up the steps. |
the woman few steps above him and
Earl on the second step.
Don't you know that's my husband
you are living with? l shouted to the wo-
man.
don't give q - she answered and
she cursed me- Then / drew out my re- !
vOlver and began shooting. My husband
stretched out his arms, trying to protect
the She m III