The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-18
WOMAN IS SHOT
AFTER QUARREL
Mrs. Harry Taylor Declares Husband
Fired Three Shots at Her Yes
terday, One Taking
Effect.
Taylor IS ARRESTED
Information Charging Him With A.
.s sauIt With Intent to Kill -,.s
Filed In Superior
Court.

[ Following quarrel in their home
lat 1912 Ridge street yesterday after
noon between and o'clock, Harry
Taylor. colored, chicken picker at
Swift e Company, shot at his wife,
Mrs. Edna Taylor, three times with
ian automatic revolver, one of the
shots taking effect in her left arm,
and struck her over the left eye with
1.-THE butt of the gun, according to the
story Mrs. Taylor told the police
authorities.
| Neighbors called the police and
also physician. Taylor was arrest
cd, taken to the station and locked
fup, and this morning an information
charging him with assault with in
ftent to kill was filed in the superior
tcourt. He will not be arraigned I'M
til he has had time to consult counsel.
| The shooting occurred in an up
stairs room at the house. 1t is said
that Taylor had been drinking. Mrs.
Taylor grabbed the gun and two OF
| the bullets went wild, a third cut
ting through the feshy part of her
| left arm, above the elbow. A bad
(! cut was inflicted over the, woman's
left eye when her husband struck
| her.
T Taylor was still at home when the
police arrived and offered no oppo-
sition to their admittance after he
discoCered who they were. The ar
rest was made by Assistant Chief
Pearson and Officer Wilson. Taylor
wouldn't admit that he had fired the
shots. The gun, twenty-five auto
matte, was not found in the house,
but was picked up later in ths yard.
| A physician was attending to Mrs.
Taylor's injuries when the authorities
arrived. She was taken into the
home of J. R. South, 1914 Ridge
street, for the night. Last night she
was weak, but this morning was i'm
proved. Her injuries are not danger
GUS. Taylor is said to have excIaim-
| ed that he wished he had killed her.
Very Much In Bad.
Frank BRASIL had four counts
against him when he was arraigned
| in the superior court this morning. all
| the result of disturbance he created
last night in the home Of H. A. Lem
| ing, 32S Exchange street, after he had
returned with the family from fish
| ing trip. He was charged with dis
turbing the peace of 1928 Exchange
street, of threatening the life of An
M Evans. OF breaking and entering
1913 Exchange street for purposes OF
Assault and for assaulting Ralph
Chestnut about the face and head. He
pleaded guilty to the first three counts
and was held in 500 bond on the
first; $500 bond to keep the peace on
the second, and $500 bond on the
third. He pleaded guilty to assaulting
Chestnut and was sentenced to thirty
Gays in jail, to be suspended on the
payment of fine of 500. Friends
are arranging for his release on bond.
Taken on Hamilton Warrant.
| After being released on bond here
yesterday afternoon Jesse Ray was
re-arrested in the evening on a war
rant issued by the justice of the peace
at Hamilton, in which he Is accused of
the theft of a Maxwell automobile,
and taken to Hamilton by the Hamil-
ton marshal. The alleged theft oc-
Cured at Mccall, Illinois.
Case Set for Trial.
The case Of M. r. Angel VS.. H. n.
Friedman and A. Conan has been as
signed to trial before jury in the. SUI
perior court July ID at 10 a. M by
Judge Mcnamara The defendants to-
day filed substitute answer to tie
plaintiffs petition, withdrawing their
demurrer, previously fled.
SHIP BUILDING