The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-23
UNWRITTENLAW HIS DEFENCE IN
 SHOOTING CASE
Wife Says Jealous Husband Whot Shot Boarder Also
 Fired at Her
PRISONER TELLS OF EVIDENCE for DIVORCE
Hid in Room of Home He Had Left Then Opened
 Fire on Other Man
Protection of the home undoubted-

Protection of the home undoubted- ly will be Che defense offered in court by John ". Powers, the g year old oysterman. who last night shot and aged 30, whom he found in his wife's bedroom at 3 East Main court
 Sensational confessions from both husband and wife were to-day obtain ed by the police which tend to show that Powers not only attempted to murder the entire family but was compelled to shoot a dog which at tempted to attack him
 That Powers was hidden within the shadow of the building all during the evening. while the police and neigh bors were searching for him, and was twice nearly stepped on by the officers is asserted by the prisoner who was rernanded to jail for trial Sat 1rdays when bonds of $2,5OO were not posted for his release
 Wybert Peters. the injured man is resting comfortably at the Bridge port hospital to-day with two punc- tured wounds in the deshy part of the hip One bullet passed com pIete1y through the rear extremity of the hip while the other is lodged in the thigh and has not been found
 Powers admits the shooting, a1Ieg- ing that he was hidden in the bed- room Of his wife and witnessed fnf1- deIity that would warrant the attack That others in the family were the target for bullets is the assertion of Mrs Powers to the police who bells of the domestic scene just before Pow CTS entrance into the Kitchen revoI- yer in hand, and details her escape from a bullet by falling to the ground Her sister also was fred at, she says but managed to escape by crawling under a table.
 Powers. who 1s frau in stature and weighs but 95 pounds was arrested by Omcer Chapman a watchnaan on the Lewis Oyster Company's docks, where he had sought refuge after the shooting. He refused to admit the shooetngs No revolver was found on his person
 According to those living in the house, Powers is alleged to have craw1ed through a window shortly af- ter 10 o'clock and to have begun the attack which resulted in two bullets entering the body of Peters. Since the separation of Powers and his wife and tho coming of Peters to live in the same house occupied by her Powers has hung around the Co1um- bta Yacht Club guar tera. Both men are employees of the Remington Arms U. M. c. Co.
 The statement of Mrs. John Pow ers given to the police this morning 4ssas foI1owss
 Last ndghk, about 9:45 was tn nny kitchen. Howard and EdWard, my two brothers, and my sister, Mildred Hubbard. 12 years old. were also there My two brothers were on the lounge asleep and Wybert Peters who bearded with my folks, was 1n the kitchen shaving. My husband came in through back bedroom window with a pistol in his hands and said hands upls, ana fired at Peters I ran 0ut t11e back door and I fell as he fired at me. My sister ran under a table as he fired at her. Then be ran after me. I ran into tae stres4 and he ran away. I went back fnfe the house and the police came and then they went looking for him.
 s'I was not living with my husband I am working in the U. M. e. planl and he has often met me on the way home from the shop and said hk would i'll ms full of shot and my folks also. My brothers are 10 and years oId.ss
 z n a confession to the police wfafcf was somewhat anpT1fed to reporters to-day Powers, an oysterman says TT met Afaude Hubbard, niy wife, five or six years ago, An incident oc, cured which do not care to relate that caused ms to leave for Provi dence, R. I. Shortly afterwards 2 warrant was svvoFR out here for In1 arrest and officers came to Rhode Isl and, but thAPe was not sufficient basil for kfae arrest and the ease was drop ned both in Connecticut and also fl Rhode Island where eRe was lkewiss instituted. Later came down here aOt the girl. and e1eped with hei aaai1ast the wishes of her parents, VI s<a1 iza 2az A< went to New Haven and two or thfea waafs later came heFe to live with hel Darents at 2z PierpahE street. ". had little spats which her parent egzed her on, Sine wanted B1easufs and did not apBFeYe of the peep1. sf1e was assaeiating with
 stPebeFs WAS 8 frieHa of mine ant 11e worked t6getheF in the U. M- O Ny wife leRE me last March, sh6Ft1. sfterwards instftutiHg div6Eee pro eeedings alleging jHtemperaaee ana fntolerab1e cruelty. I was supposed tts appear before fhe superior cour f7,e second Tuesday in December bu ai5 not do so. aRdeEstaFd that { decree has not beeH granted.
 ssPeters soon appeared on ffae scene living at the saEHe house with my wife did not knew anything about tneI 1-e1atIaas until recently when my lit f1a five year old boy told rae abou tlaeir actions when he came te see Ha at the Ce1nnbia Yacht club where have been working. I have sought for some time, te get evidence of he infldelity, last night saw them com ing down the street together The. later separated and entered the house vas hidden in tfe house before the, est there. was in tfe bedroom a abeAt ae minutes before 2. saw hel parents % te fhe moving picture
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