The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1923-04-20
MY HUSBAND
SHOT ME, WIFE
WRITES FROM BED
Mrs. Gill Details Story of Sor-
did Tragedy.

In statement made to detectives
Friday afternoon at st. .Joseph,s
Hospital, Memphis, Mrs. J. C. Gill.
VINO was shot by her husband at their
home at Ruleville, Miss, refuted the
story told by Gill that the shooting
was accidental.
Mrs Gill's condition is serious and
she has failed materially to improve
since coming to Memphis. Fearing
that death awaited her, she asked hos
pital authorities yesterday to call the
police so that she might give them her
story OF the shooting. Detective Sergt.
Gibson went to Mrs. Gill's bedside.
Gill, barber, told authorities at
Ruleville after his wife was wounded
that the shooting was accidental. Gill
is held by officers.
Mrs. Gill's treatment as made to po
lice was as follows:
what he told is false. 1t was not
accidental. He came home at 10
O'Clock and / was lying down. He
made me get up and said somebody
was going to die that night Said he
Or, or me, would die that night.
He did it to get revenge because l
. found him at Mrs.--'s house He
told my neighbor, Mrs. -, that he
was spending money on Mrs. -. /
found letters from him to her stating
that he was paying her way to the
show.
"If mentioned her name he cursed
me, beat me and said that I was a
liar if I ever told him had anything
on them. He has threatened to shoot
several times, but for my precious
baby's sake bore all this abuse,
thinking it would get better, but in
stead it only grew worse for he does
love bis father and he seems so de-
voted to James.
He forced me to get up and sit and
talk to him.
Wife Begs For Mercy.
"Then he choked me and whipped
me. He had the gun in his hand dur
ing this time. I begged him to put
up the gun and come on to bed. He
said: "Hell, no; you are going to die"
He shot me when he let me up.
81 fell. asked him to put me on
the bed. He didn't offer to get
doctor until I asked him to, and then
he called a neighbor. He tried to
make me tell it was an accident, but
said: II can't tell a story"
"He asked me to forgive him and
that it was all done through his raw
ing temper. told him I would. I
had always loved him, for the sake of
my child, or else would not have
borne the treatment he had given me,
for felt that God would work out
all things for the best.
"He would leave the shop and be
with this woman whenever he could
and he thought that MIX was be-
trying his every action.
"He also accused me of not being
straight with Mr.. but God in
heaven knows there were never any
such thoughts on my part and Mr.
always acted perfect gentleman in
every way.
"He only told me few things that
happened between himself and
Mrs. -. They are the only two peo
pie that ever wronged me. He held
my arm and wrung it. That caused
this blue spot when he was whipping
me I have had blue spots on my
limbs where he kicked me across the
room and he would whip me in the
face with his supporter.
swell, that is enough, for am too
weak to talk and it was even worse
and if I survive win tell this same
thing against him, for can never
live with him again.
.This is sworn to be true state
ment by me.
MRS. j. C. GILL.
Mrs. Gill requested that the state
ment be kept for her baby to read in
case that she should die. Mrs. Gill's
statement was mailed to authorities
at Ruleville, Miss, by Inspector of
Detectives w. T. Griffin yesterday
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