The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-05
WEEs ADMIRER
SRO0TSHUSBAND
Love Affair Ends
in Shooting Scrape
Early Today

Going to hts home at Castor
Junction at 2 o'clock this morning
to say goodbye TO his two small
children before leaving the city on
an early morning train, Howard D.
Anderson, became enraged when
he found another man in the house
with his wife, who had mot been
living with him for several months.
Anderson demanded entrance, and
Morgan Hoult, the man. In the
house with his wife, shot at. him
through the locked door. The hul.
let struck him on the right chest
and caused a slight injury. Poiict
were called and placed both men
under arrest.
The two men we're locked up in
the city jail until morning and were
then turned over TO Prosecuting At.
torney Frank r. Amos, who started
an investigation OF the case. The
men were locked up in the county
Jail while the investigation pro-
ceeded.
Deputy Sheriff Charles Bartho-
low and Policeman Joe Hawkins
went to the Anderson home and
brought Mrs. Anderson and Bessie
Dove, her sister, who was also In
the house when the shooting oc.
Cured, to the office OF Prescott.
ing Attorney Amos.
When, questioned at the prose-
cutting attorneys office, Mrs, An
derson said that she had not lived
with her husband since last Sep.
TENDER, when she filed a suit for
a divorce against him. She and hcr
sister and a brother had been max.
Ing their home at CASTOR junction,
and she had been taking care Of the
children.
Last evening her brother, Howard
Dove, went to the home Of their
parents at Colfax. and her sister
was planning to be away from tho
house all night. Hoult, whom she
has been keeping company with
since she started divorce proceed.
inEs against her husband. called
last night. She was afraid to stay
all night alone in the house and
asked him to stay In the house With
her, she said, and he agreed to do
SO.
Houit retired in the room with
the two small children, according
to Mrs. Anderson, and she went
to bed in her own room. About
midnight her sister returned home,
and occupied the room with her.
I'VE were awakened at 2 O'Clock
by a loud knocking on the front
door," Mrs. Anderson continued,
"and when I asked who was there,
the person outside said It was
Howard. Thinking It was my broth
err who had failed 10 90 TO our.
home at Colfax. l again asked who
was knocking. Then the person
outside said It is Howard Ander
son, and II want in to see my chill :
dren as / am leaving town on an
early train, 4
! told him to come back at a dc
cent hour II he wanted to see the
but he refused to so away
but kept pounding on the door
Hoult then told him to leave tho
and when Anderson hear
Hoult's voice he began cursing
Houit and demanding to be let II
at once. Hoult took<my gun of tho
dresser and told him II he did not
go away he would shoot him. To
this remark. Mrs. Anderson said her
husband replied. Shoot you d.
cur" and at that instan:
she heard the report OF the gun.
Hoult had fired through the door at
her husband.
The bullet struck Anderson on
the right chest, and II the bullet
had not spent its force In penetra:.
Ing the door Il would have proha.
bly, caused, a fatal wound as I'll
would have punctured both lungs
and probably the heart as Il was
aimed In a diagonal direction
through the body from the right
chest TO the lower part OF the left
shoulder blade. The force being
spent. the bullet Just broke the skin
and dropped down in Anderson's
underclothing,
Shortly after, the officers arrest.
ed Hoult and Anderson and took
them away. Miss Dove told pract:.
cally the same story as her sister,
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