The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21
Police Seek Woman In Mysterious Shooting
 of Unidentified Man
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 that time was sitting on the edge of the bed ,and allowed Pember to meas ure the window in an unconcerned manner. Pember does not recall talk ing to him, bot observed that he was folly dressed and apparently waiting for him to finish the task.
 A quarter of an hour later Mary Brown, a maid, tried the door wdth her pass-key. It yielded and she walked in. What she saw caused her to shriek with fright and swoon upon the floor. The victim was partially beneath the bed with pillow above his head Her screams evidently reused Minor into some sem b1ance of sensibfnty for when John Downing, the proprietor of the hotel, and his bartender rushed to the scene they found Minor standing erect on the left hand side of the bed in the corner of the room and between the bed and the wall. Blood was gush- the wound in his temple. They sum noned the ambulance at once and re- ported that ain 'saccddent'' had taken place in the hotel. Statements from each of the employees were at once talk en by Sergeant Wheeler who was first to arrive on the scene following the ambulance.
 At the hospital it was discovered that Miner had between $150 and $160 in his pockets at the time. The later o1Sc0VSry or two II D11lS and a 50 cent piece behind the radiator, covered with blood and tightly squeez-. ed as if c1utched in the hand added mystery to the shooting. This was doubled when it was found that none in the building had seen the woman leave the hotel Sergeant Wheeler closely questioned every emp1oye, and while some said that Miner | was known to them, all discla4rned knowledge Of the woman whose iden- ! tfty yet rexnains und1sclosed. The revolver with which the shoot l ing was done is of the .38 calfbre type, made by Hopkins & Allen of | Worcester, Mass. Though the victim said that he had procured 1t from 1 the bartender last Sunday, this fact is denied by employees of the hotel.
 The fact that Miner" in subse- l quent statements to Capt John Began said that he did the shooting act Kwhen answering '<yes'' to every ques- ton and later said somebody else
 must have shot me- has greatly con- fused the authorities.
 Ernest Manchester, the night clerk T when awakened from sleep at his residence, across the street from the hotel Astor told Sergeant Wheeler to-
 day that he had seen the man or T several occasions, but did not know him personally. The woman who ac. l companied him was apparently vel
 educated and a woman of refinement At the suggestion of the police. ht 1 patrolled the streets today in an eff
 fort to recognize her.
 The only house answering the de
 scr1ption of a ssred brick building
 next to a lunch-cart on Broad St." il
 that on the corner of Fairfield ave
 nue and Main streets At this ad dress Mrs. H. E. BoIter keeps lodging
 above the Bla.ckman real estat,
 agency. To reporters today she sait
 that she had a. man answering tha description who came to her hom last week. He had been roornini
 with another man and she understood that both had been working on cleo , trical work at the Jennings place 7 Fairfield. :. She was unaware of thei names or whether both men had beel lin the house last night. At least one of them however, ha, , been in the room for the bed was dis
 ordered. TheEe was no baggage il l the room by which their identit
 might be ascertained. The descrip
 tion of the injured man however fit
 ted closely with one of those roomin
 with her.
 At the 0. G. sJennings place, Fair ) field, it was learned that a. gang 0
 marble workers is employed. Tn = foreman said that all the men had re 3 ported for work today.