The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-18

ia terror AS he stepped from a drug
store on the corner.
Bullet hits Conductor.
Lowry saw his wife Just Il second
before she caught sight of him. lie
stepped quickly towards her ard
whipped revolver from his pocket
Tie took deliberate aim and hred. The
bullet missed its mark, crashed through
the rear eNd OF platform of passing
street car and struck Conductor organ
just below the knee, 1t passed en-
trely through the fleshy portion of tho
limu and lodged in the rear of the car
Io~rys wife had already reached
tn" northeast corner of the street. She
lodged behind n hedge-row, and be
gan tn run along Twenty first street,
IN "a hendinE position Her husband
turned hte revolver in her direction
and again took deliberate aim and
fired He shot again. and It lis sup
posed that he grew nervous after this
shot for the other three shots follow ed
In quick succession. After emptying
his revolver lie turned and dashed
through Jefferson Park. Several citi-
zeus Joined In chose after him, which
lasted for several blocks. but Lowry.
who Is tall. active man, soon dis.
tanced his pursuers-
Organ l. Treated
store on he corner and had call put
IN for t'ae city ambulance In few
minutes Ambulance surgeon Walker
reached the scene, and after stoppin &
the flow Of blood from the wound.
rushed the injured man to Grace
Hospital.
Mrs LowVry turned after ter hus-
band ran. nd she came back to the
corner. Persons near rushed to her
of course. that she had been
MT, They assisted her into a drug
store and after being given stimu-
liant she was able to continue on her
way home alone. t-pon her arrival
there, however, her physician, DR.,
Boyle was summoned. Late last night
she was reported AS being hysterical
and in a serious condition.
t.owery, Is boilermaker by trade,
and has NJ different times been en-
ployed at factories about the city. He
is twenty seven years old Several
months ago Re and his wife separated.
She IL now living at .72i North TWEEN
ty-third street,
Disorderiy On Christmas.
On Christmas Day Lowery was in
police Court to answer the charge of
being dipnrderly The warrant was
sworn out by his wife. who alleged
that her husband bs came ngered at
p trifing ma tter, and tried to brea K
-eex9fal articles of furniture in their,
home She also testified at the hear
ing that Lowcry cut To pieces n new
elk dress that she had purchased only
a few days before Lowery was put
under bond at that time Since then
there has been other trouble. Al the
time of the shooting ne is said to have
been paying IS week towards the
support of his wife and their one
child.
Ii IL alleged that "a last sunday that
LoWery. while walking In the country
came upon his wife, who was out
WALKING with another man lie is said
to have been ncensed at this Since
saturday il II said that Mrs Lowery
has constantly doGged her husband
tearing that he might do her bodily
harm.
Mrs Lnwery has beer working and
Detective Gordon II. IF the First
Police Precinct, who investigated the
case. learned from her that for several
days she had taken new route home
from work each afternoon
Dra2net for Iowers
4 police aragnet was thrown out
over the entire city last night Ia an
effort to arrest Lowery, but without
success. He IS wanted ON two charges
II hut of att, nptlns tn shoot his wife,
ana also for shooting the conductor.
Detective Sergeant krengel. from
HEADQUARTERS last niSht wired all sur
rounding cities n description of Low
ery He IL described az being 1--WE