The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-15
WARREN ". HUGHES
SHOOTS HIMSELF
Young Street Car Conductor
Fires Bullet Into Breast After
Quarrel With His Wife.
WOUNDED ABOVE HEART
Mother Says Act Due to Sons
Excitability-Condition Scri-
Gus, but Has Even Chance.

! Following a quarrel with his wife.
Warren w. Hughes. nineteen years old,
street car conductor, fired bullet
into his left breast yesterday after
noon at o'clock at tho home of his
mother. Mrs. Eta n. Hughes. OF 522
North Fourth Street Tho bullet. from
n .S2-calibro revolver, passed about
! two inches above tho heart and lodged
! in his back. At the City Hospital,
where he was taken. ii was said last
night that his condition was serious
Hughes shot himself before the eyes
of his wife, while both were in the
bathroom. His mother and grand
mother. Mrs. l.. y. Norvell. both heard
the shot. but thought the noise was
duo to children playing. They were
rot aware of what had happened until
the young wife, shrieking, ran into the
hallway and swooncd. Both tho mother
and grandmother rushed into the bath
room and found the wounded youth
st:ll standing. but apparently on the
verge of collapse. He was assisted to
Il couch.
Summons Ambulance.
Running to a nearby drug store
Mrs. hughes had a hurry call sent for
the City Hospital ambulance, and DR..
Robert Whitehead responded After =,
brief examination, he pronounced the
wound serious. Having been Il sufferer
from heart trouble for some time. it
was said, fears for the life of the young
man were further increased
81 don't know why | did it," Hughes
told his mother while awaiting the ar
rival of the surgeon. IL was excited
and l didn't know what / was doing"
he added. Mrs. Hughes said that her
son had always been of highly ex-
citablc temperament. and thought this
was primarily the cause of his act
0uurrclcd with Wife.
Warren came in from his work about
$3.50 o'clock" said Mrs. Hughes. ''and
was III the dining-room with his wife
waiting for his dinner | heard them
talking domestic affairs and both seem
ed to be angry. In n few minutes both
went into the bathroom, and my son
almost Immediately returned TO the
dining room and picked up his revolver.
which was lying on the Inantel He
returned TO the bathroom and the
next thing I knew his wife ran out,
screaming that Warren had shot him
self"
/, The young wife who is the mother
of n two-m onths-old infant, was pros
tlated by her husbands attempt upon
his life. With the child she left the
home OF Mrs. Hughes AMI Went to that
CT her mother. on Church Hill. She
! and Mrs. Hughes both visited the
wounded youth at the hospital.
Recently Got Position.
] iNSncS only recently OplAlntu tiu e
ployment with the Virginia Railway
I and Power Company. Several days ago
lac found several coins in his cash box
/ which were pronounced counterfeits.
Believing that some enemies had sin
eled him out, he procured the revolver.
intent upon arrcsting any one he caught
l trying to pass bogus money. lie got
/ the weapon to protect himself In case
any violence should be offered. This
was the gun he turned upon himself
when he was aroused after the quarrel
! with his wife.
At tho hospital it was said that
/ Hughes was resting comfortably, and
| that he had an even chance of rccov-
} cry. Examination showed tho bullet
| to have lodged near the surface Of the
! skin in his back. 1t was not thought
an operation would be necessary.
/ shortly after his removal to the hos
F, pital Hughes was attacked by n sli~ht
Ilicmorrhage. which added TO the gravity
OF his condition.