The Washington times., 1917-06-28
SHOOTS HUSBAND
TIED ON HIS BED
Maryland Woman Driven to
Deed by Brutality.
EMBRACES MANS DEAD FORM
Drunkard Had Thrown Her From
Porch and Destroyed Garden.

SOMbEhLAND, Mo-, June Z6.-hrb.
Minnie Carter, twenty-eight years
old, shot and killed her husband,
Hugh Enoeh Carter, thirty years
old, while he slept in their home, at
Hoffman, a mining village not far
from Frostburg, about 3 o'clock yes
terday morning.
| 1t is alleged the woman was driven
almost insane by ill-treatment from
her husband. Before she fired the
shots she tied her husband to the bed
with a clothes line. The first bullet
vent through the brain, lodging under
the skin on the other side OF the head,
while the other two shots were fred
| into the heart
Any one of the three shots would
have been fatal.
Fled After Shooting.
After firing the shots Mrs. Carter,
with a butcher knife, cut the cords
that bound the body to the bed an1
then ruShed from the house, shouting
to neighbors. She found her way over
the mountain to the home of Frank
Klosterman, a distance OF three miles.
where she aroused the inmates and
told the story of her tragic deed.
| Klosterman, at her request, tele-
phoned for the authorities. County
Detective Walter W. Clay placed her
under arrest. She said she was glad
to be taken to Jail.
When the officers told Mrs. Carter
they were going to her home, she
asked that she might accompany
them and point out the house. but she
wanted protection from a sister OF her
I "a nh h. -
there She waE assured that she
would be kept from harm. When the
party reached Hoffman she pointed
out the house, saying:
go around to the back door and
go into the bedroom and you will find
him lying on the bed, dead"
Kissed LIfeIeas Body.
She led the way. and when they
reached the bed the woman threw
herself on the lifeless form of her
husband. Catching him around the
neck, she pulled his face to hers and
kissed him most affectionately. She
wept bitterly. When she was lifted
up by the officers her hands were
covered with blood that had oozed
| from the wounds on the head and
heart. Mrs. Carter then told Detec-
tive Clay the full story OF the AFFAIR
my husband came home last night
in company with a friend, Joe
Brode," she said, "and both were very
drunk. 1 told Brode to leave my
home. Ny husband refused to let
him go and began TO quarrel with
me. became frightened and, hoping
to avert a scene in the presence OF
| Brode, 1 left the house and went to
the home of a neighbor, Katie Sell
farth, whom told of the trouble.
She begged me to stay all night with
her, but I returned home.
Thrown Over Porch.
when I got back, Enoch began
to quarrel and ordered me from the
house. did not go and he pushed
me to the door and threw me over
the porch. I fell to the ground and
was unable to get UP. so he came
with q bucket of cold water and
threw IT on me. He then picked me
up ana carried me back into the
house and laid me on the floor.
must have been made senseless by
the fall from the porcn, for when I
got up my husband was sitting az
the table. I struggled to my feet and
sat down near the table.
"He got a can of corn and with q
large butcher knife opened It. He
began to eat, and when he had nm
ished. he asked me to go to bed.
told him / was not going to bed, and
he went into the room.
when retired he began quarrel
ing again. We talked and argued
for some time. He became quiet and
fell asleep.
"He Made Me Do IT,
'When / thought he was sound
asleep I crept out OF bed and went
to the kitchen and secured the clothes
line. came back into the bedroom
and went over to see IL he was still
asleep. and finding that he was. tied
one end Of the rope around his wrist
and threw the other part OF the rope
under the bed. Going to the other
side. too'5 his other hand and tied
II tight SO that he could not move.
81 then went to the buffet drawer,
secured the pistol and box of cart
ridges and loaded the gun. I carried
II to the bedroom and put II under
my pillow and lay down again to give
him time to get sound asleep. When
I thought he was sound asleep got
up. took the pistol, and went to the
side where he was lying. / put the
pistol close to his head and fired. I
fred two more shots at his heart Be-
lieving that had killed him, 1 took
the butcher knife that he had opened
the can OF corn with and cut the
ropes. I ran from the house after
calling several times for the neigh
bors.
He made me do IT"
"GoOd Man When Sober"
Upon reaching the Klostcrman
home. after her flight over the noun
tain. Mrs. Carter told Mrs. Rloster-
man:
"I am frail and weak. Ny husband