The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-26
Mrs. Almina Bennett Will
fore Bled Considerably
and Was Hysterical
POLICE THINK THE
WOMAN SHOT .RSELF'
Farewell N $ 20 Luigi Is
Said t ! in Hands
cs lthorities

With two bullet holes in her left arm
and another bullet buried in the living
room of her apartment at the east end
of Addison place, Mrs. Almina Bennett
| Wilfore left in an ambulance for the
city hospital yesterday afternoon with
out divulging to the police, who found
her in an hysterical condition on couch,
just how the shooting came about. This
| forenoon, statements ascribed to the
woman and jotted down in the chiefs
notebook tended to confirm a suspicion
which the officers could not brush aside
when search of the apartments re-
vealed a note in which Almina, after
proclaiming her love for man whose
first name is Luigi, wrote that she was
doing it" for his sake and asked to be
forgiven and forgotten. But the doctors
say that Almina will recover.
At police headquarters is 32-calibre
revolver which the police believe was
used sometime around 4 o'clock Three
cartridges in a chamber filled with empty
and unexploded missiles have been fired.
DR.. j. A. Wark, the city physician, called
the police after Mrs. Wilfore, with blood
dripping down her sleeve, had walked
across the street to the home of a neigh
Dor and called him. People in Addison
place, hearing the revolver reports, had
begun to gather about the big tenement
which hides itself under seminary hill,
when the woman calmly stepped from
the porch of her own apartments and
walked to those of a neighbor. They
were there when DR.. Wark arrived and
found Mrs. Wilfore lying on the couch.
The physician Immediately notified police
headquarters and Chief Sinclair and Off
Ger David Henderson were soon on the
premises.
Almina talked volubly in French and
Italian but nobody seemed to under
stand what she was saying. DIR. Wark
had bandaged two bullet wounds between
the woman's elbow and shoulder when
the officers got there and search in
stituted by the latter showed where an
other bullet had entered the wall. Strewn
about the floor near the couch where
the woman lay were three pieces of note
paper which the police took with them
when the left Efforts to pry Informal
ton from the victim of the shooting
were futile and Just before the police
loaded her into the Perry & Noonan
ambulance she instructed neighbors and
others gathered there in the house to
iisvow all knowledge of the affair.
Examination of the messages left by
he woman did much to convince the
,olice that the shooting should not be
'targed up to an interloper. Stationery
marked in the upper lefthand corner
With the initial "A" was used in jotting
lown letter to Luigi" for whom the
igner vowed undying affection. Evident
V the notes were written after the
hootinp and in a shaky hand. One of
hem was unfinished and the contents of
mother are not legible.
The woman's husband was interviewed
" the police last night, but he could
id little to the sum total of their infor-
nation. Wilfore said he left home at
o'clock in the afternoon, going to
,rooklvn street, where he kept horse
a barn leased by Napoleon Pacquin.
Te said his wife had been absent from
ONE during a part af the day. On his
raw back to Addison place after o'clock
pmeone told him of the shooting and
tier he got in touch with the police,
-ho had exerted themselves to locate
i'm.
1t is said that Mrs. Wilfore this
forming confessed to making an attempt
, end her lite. The statement credited
, her to-day is said to have been made
oluntarily Wilfore is quoted as saying
,at someone else must have done the
roofing, as his wife's conduct had con-
need him that she lacked the neces-
nv courage" The wounds are not
serious nature and unless entirely
nlooked for complications develop, Mrs.
-ilfore will probably be out of the hos
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