The sun., 1918-11-01
MRS. SCUTT HELD;
HUSBAND MAY DIE
Hearing Is Adjourned to To-
day to Await Indication
of His Outcome.

With her husband, Howard B. Scutt,
manager of the Erickson Engraving
Company, in the Harlem Hospital In
precarious condition from the bullet
wound she Is alleged to have inflicted
Mrs. Maud scutt. 365 West 117th street.
was arraigned before Magistrate Nc
Quade in tho. Harlem Police Court yes
terday and held without bail on charge
of felonious assault. She was repre-
scented by ex-Police Magistrate Fuchs.
Up to the time of the arrangement the
hospital physicians were unable TO say
whether Scutt had a chance to recover.
For that reason the prosecution asked
an adjournment of the hearing until
2 30 T. NJ. to-day. In granting the mo-
tion Magistrate McQuade registered the
following protest:
Defendants Rights Violated, He
Says.
with all due respect for the Police
Department and the District Attorney
the defendant should have been ar
raigned a long time before this. The
delay was a violation OF the defendants
rights"
Mrs. Scutt was arrested Wednesday
afternoon Immediately after the shoot
ing took place in an automobile in front
Of the offices of the Erickson Engraving
Company. 70 East l30th street. wit
husband and madly protesting her love
hush audand madly protesting her love
| for him when the shot. which entered
Scutt's right side. rang out. The couple
had been living apart.
Mrs. Scutt adroitly parted all at
| tempts on the part OF the detectives to
induce her to discuss the shooting She
| either denied all knowledge of the fac
that Scutt had been shot, saying hci
| mind was a blank. or told her ques'
TONERS to mind their business. She
I maintained this attitude when she was
taken to Police Headquarters. but hel
calm left her when she was interrogate-
| by Assistant District Attorney Nearl
| of the homicide bureau,
| Said TO Have Talked Freely.
| In Mr.. Neary's Office she betrayed tn
nervous tension under which she wal
| laboring She complained of being hun
cry, but when food was brought for ne
she took only few mouthfuls ant
| pushed it aside. She Is said to hav'
talked freely. Mr. Neary admitted sa
had not been sphinx" but refused u
divulge what she had said.
The police believe that whoever sho
Scutt did It premeditatedly. In supper
of this theory they point to the Fac
that the revolver found lying in the ca
was new and apparently haa never bee
used before.
| one OF the tenants In the house wher
Mrs. Scutt lived was reported to hav
said to n reporter that Mrs. Scutt. o
leaving the house Wednesday Afternoon
declared that she would not be back tina
night and that the tenant might haV
her things" The detectives workin
On the case, however. insist no one /
the house had repeated any such CONVEX
sation to them.
So far as the police know there wa
no other motive that could have induce
Mrs. Scutt to shoot her husband tina
unrequited love. Mrs. Scutt was re
ceiving an allowance OF S15 n wee
from her husband. While they wer
living together in Vancouver. she saio
she gave him all her money, about $50
600. She came TO this city from Sea-
tie in the hope. It IL believed. OF Ct
, fecting n reconciliation.
8 Mrs Scutt Ia the daughter of a clel
gyman. now dead, who lived in Pr
Bluff, Ark. In the West she was an al
dent devotee OF outdoor sports and he
wholesome appearance bears testimon
to the time she passed hunting. ridin
and fishing. 4 number of her frient
were in court yesterday when she wa
arraigned.