Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-07
HAVIS NIXON SHOT THRU RIGHT FOOT.
 PAINFULLY HURT
Mrs. Nixon Under Bond to Appear For Hearing on
 Charge Assault to Kill.

T. HaviS Nixon, attorney, and former | prosecuting attorney, is at the Davis l hospital, with a bullet hole through | the base of the great toe of his right foot, and Mrs. Nixon is at liberty under
 bond of $1,000, to await hearing on
 charge of assault to murder, as the
 result of a. long-expected clash, in the building where Mir. Nixons office is
 located, in Main street, about 2:15 | o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 Mrs. Nixon stated after the excite ment had quieted down, that the pistol | had exploded while she and MT. Nixon | were scuffling, when he attempted to | take the pistol from her.
 Nixon asserted last night at the | hospital that "it was not an accidental shooting and the public shall not be misled about it."
 There appeared to have been several | witnesses to the affair, though it was | difficult yesterday evening to find any | 1 one who would admit that he saw the shot actually fired. Deputy Sheriff J. l.. McBurnett accompanied Mrs. Nixon to the cffice of her former i pistol until he saw the flash of the 1 gun and heard the shot.
 "I was standing at Main and Second avenue, talking with Policeman Ben Brannon. when Mrs. Nixon came by
 and said she wanted to talk to me" declared MT. McBurnett. "I stepped l i over to her and she told me she was having trouble collecting her alimony.
 I told her 1 had nothing to do with
 that matter. She asked me to go with i her to Mir. Nixon's office, and I told
 her 1 had something else to do. ad- vised her not to go to his office, tell
 ing her they would have a quarrel. Then she told me it was my duty to
 accompany her, as there was al
 gambling game going on there. I
 replied that it was my duty to go
 wherever a law was being violated,
 and on that account I went with her."
 MT. McBurnett said he preceded Mrs.
 Nixon up, the stairs, and that MT.
 Nixon was in his private office.
 "I entered the office, closed the
 door behind me and told Mir. Nixon that
 Mrs. Nixon was in the hall. Mrs. Nix
 On followed me in, and MT. Nixon
 went into another office. Mrs. Nixon
 went to the closed door leading to
 back office, and called out to me, There's the gambling game I went 1 to the door and looked into the room
 but saw nothing of any gambling l same although two or three men were
 standing in the room. Mir. and Mrs.
 Nixon, in the meant:ne, appearld
 have started a scuffle at the outer
 doorway. and fell to the floor, the ] pistol discharging as they fell. I
 grabbed the pistol at once, taking it from Mrs. Nixon, and immediately
 took her to the office cf her brother,
 J. M. Shaw. in the same building, re- | turning at once to see how badly hurt 1 Nixon was"
 Mir. McBurnett admitted that he ; saw Nixon strike Mrs, Nixon, after the pistol had been taken from Mrs. l Nixon.
 Mrs. Nixon stated shortly after the shooting that she had gone to NixDn's Office to collect alimony due her un der the divorce decree granted he. some time ago, and that she carriea the pistol only as means of protec- ton. She asserted also that she would not have asked Deputy Sheriff Nc Burnett to accompany her, If she had gone there with the intention of shooting Mir. Nixon. Trouble Not Unexpected. The sensational divorce proceedings some months ago, pra eded by several clashes between Mir. and Mrs. Nixon, is we'll remembered. Mrs. Nixon in her petition of divorce named
 widely known young woman of Pine Bluff as correspondent. Friends of
 both parties have been anticipatin'; serious trouble, primarily because 0: previous difficulty. On one occasion, , it is said, Mrs. Nixon located her hus. band in room in the Jefferson hotel, under an assumed name but he
 talked himself out" of trouble, as he himself put it. On another occasion