The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-31
MAN SHOT BY WIFE
! PLEADING HER LOVE
Bullet Fired During Struggle
In Motor Car Follows
q Kiss.
GIRL is SILENT WITNESS
Mrs. Howard Scutt Held for
Felonious Assault-Hus-
bands Condition Serious.

) and woman's-pitched In the KEY OF
.hysteria, drew Miss Emma Durant from
+. her deslS in the office of the Hudson Dis
tributing Company. 70 East 13oth street.
: late yesterday afternoon. To crafty her
curiosity she hurried to a window and
then to the sidewalk, and this IL what
: she saw:
Against the curb in front OF the build
: ing stood n touring automobile. man
/. sat at the wheel and a young woman
wearing a brown fur stole sat beside
him. But the mans hands we're not on
the wheel. They held the wrists Of
. the young woman The two swayed
back and forth as II struggling. The
man was shouting
: Don't do that! Don't do that"
> The woman was replying In an
. equally excited manner:
II will, will, I will! I love you"
Unable to appraise the situation. ex-
= cept that It was some kind Of quarrel,
Miss Durant stood on the sidewalk and
4 looked on. The man in the automobile
still gripped the womans wrists. In
the midst Of their swaying back and
I forth as " contending for the possession
of something the woman leaned forward
and kissed the man. At the same In
The man In the car slumped down In
. his seat. The woman sat beside him
crying. Miss Durant acted quickly. She
ran to the car. opened the door and
helped. the man out. He could hot stand
: Leaving him on the sidewalk Miss
Durant telephoned for the police.
;; Capt. Noble of the East 126th street
:, station and two other men carried the
man into the building until the ar
!, rival of an ambulance from Harlem
, Hospital.
( Victims Condition Is Serious.
- Capt. Noble found a revolver with one
chamber empty near the car One bull
let had entered the mans right side Just
below the ribs. Miss Durant could not
> say that she saw the weapon at any
time. she only heard the shot. The
woman In the automobile, who stayed
there crying silently until the Captain
: took her to the station house to be
i, charged with felonious assault. would
:, neither deny nor admit that she did the
shooting. In fact, she wouldn't say any
: thing about that She said very little.
: except 81 love him, and will love him
as long as live"
!, The man who was shot is Howard B.
Scutt, 633 West 171st street, manager
for the Erickson Engraving Company, 79
East l30th street.
Surgeons who tried to extract the bull.
let last night said his condition was seri-
Gus. The woman with him is his wife
! She II the daughter of a clergyman, now
dead, who lived in Pine Bluff, Ark. Hus-
band and wife have lived apart for some
time.
The woman was subjected to a long
examination. which finally resulted in
her telling this story. Detectives Queant
z and Assistant District Attorney Neary
. were among the questioners. The young
woman they were trying to fathom was
slim, tail and graceful and soft spoken
Her dark tailored suit fitted her well
Most Of the time she sat at a table with
her face buried in her arms, moaning
She volunteered no information; She
said. in fact. she would give none ; but
eventually. by bits, she said this:
Her story to the Police.
: She had lived in Seattle, had divorced
: her first husband there and had mar.
ried Howard Scutt in Vancouver Ave
. years ago. She had given him her
money to help him in the development OF
. inventions. They moved to New York
A year or two ago they separated, for
reasons she did not reveal She said
she thought last spring they were recon.
- ciled. She went to Seattle. expecting
Scutt to join her in six weeks. He die
not leave New York, she said Friends
placed her as cashier in n natatoriun
in Seattle. She couldn't stand beine
away from Scutt. She came back Il
New York. He wouldn't live with her
but sent her SIS a week. She lived OF
that, taking room in a lodging house
at 365 West 117th street. Frequently
she said. she visited her husbands office
:. asking him to come back. Yesterday
!. she said, she heard he was riding with
friends and went to his office. Sh,
:. waited for him and accompanied him t
. his car.
She said her mother lived at POI.
Eighth street. Pine Bluff. Ark. wher,
: her father, who is dead, was Methods
minister. She was divorced in Portland
Ore, from Albert Reudell. At the SAM
time, she said. Scutt and his first wifi,
were divorced in Seattle. Then she mar
ried Scutt. She denied she shot hin
and said she never had n revolver. Sh,
said her husband returned to work yes
terday after being Ill of influenza thre,
= weeks.
There her story ended. She said sh,
had a brother in France in the 1871
United States Aero Squadron. A de
y tective, learning elsewhere that he
father had been a minister in Pin,
:. Bluff. asked her about 1t. She said (
: was true.
Lived a a1fet Life.
Her fellow dodgers In West ll7tl
street spoke we'll of her. They said sh,
talked little, and that little only Of hel
husband, who she said had wronged he
but still '1oved madly." The other lodg
ers couldn't get her to go to parties Of
/. the theatre. She had few friends II
New York, apparently, and kept away
- from those she had. She Is 81 year,
old. She has no children.
According to the police Scutt tolt
them little except that his wife hat
been "nsgging'' him and that she sho
him. He said he lived at 343 st. Mich
!. olas avenue. He formerly lived at /.
West .109th street. but a month ag,
took the bachelor apartments at SO;
West 171st street when his friend. SEM
: Lippman, who had lived there, went 4
war Both at the apartment house anC
at Harlem Hospital his shame Is recorded
as Howard B. Scott" but his wife,
visiting cards have Mrs. Howard n
- Scott" Her maiden name was Maud,
b. Jeffers.
Late last evening she was taken I,
Harlem Hospital and then placed in {
- cell In the West 123d street police sta
ton, where there is a matron.
At Harlem Hospital Scutt said hi
wife had shot him.
Expert Electrical Burglar Sought
Detectives were sent yesterday to seei
robbers who got $4,000 in cash an,