The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-07
FOLLOWED
A|N|AR, but
REFUSED
TOWED
Didn't Want to Be "OWned"
by Any Man-Druggist
Tells of Quarrels

bootleg whiskey, caused pretty
twenty four year. old Catherine
Elizabeth Stevens, 800 Massachu-
sets avenue northeast, to fire q
poisoned bullet into her stomach
early Sunday morning, from which
she died at Casualty Hospital
yesterday, it was stated today
by Bertrand Aimar, handsome
young druggist, with whom the
girl lived as his wife for. the
past three years.
In an interview with a Wash
ington Times reporter at the
Ninth Precinct Police Station,
where he is being held for the
coroner's investigation this after
noon, he related today an unusual
story Of love, desertion, two
previous suicide attempts in
Charleston, South Carolina, and
finally of the quarrel early Sum
day morning which resulted, he
claims, in the self-inflicted pistol
wound from which she died.
Threatened His Life.
"I'll blow your brains out" he
says Mrs. Stevens threatened when
he arrived home about o'clock
Sunday morning, fIourishing .
rs caliber Spanish type of pistol
given to her last summer by a
marine officer from Quantico.
you're too yellow to shoot"
Aimar says he replied, whereupOn
she laughed and said:
That's right, honey, / WOuIdu't
shoot you. 1 love you too much"
However, a short time later, he
says, she continued the quarrel,
several times threatening to shoot
him, with the result that he left
the house about 4 o'clock Sunday
morning, about an hour before the
shooting.
Aimar of Prominent Family.
Ain1ar, who comes from a prom
inent Charleston, 8. c.. family, then
related the events which he claims
took place before the fatal shoot
ing. His story follows:
IT came home about / o'clock,
and I was very tired, having had
an unusually busy day at the drug
store. When / came in I could
see that Catherine had been drink
ing. She was holding the pistol
which had been given to her in
July by a marine officer.
1.-THE pistol had two poisoned bull
let's in it. It originally had five, but
1 fired three of them off New
Year Eve. Lately she had been i'm
the habit of holding the pistol
every time she took a drink. and
threatening to shoot me or herself.
I never took her threats seriously.
Took Some More Drinks.
"T tried to lie on a couch and
she said she wasn't going to let
me rest, that she was going to
worry me to death. She then took
some more drinks and began to nag
about nv coming home so late.
she kept playing with the pistol,
and Nick Thomas, who was In the
room, asked her to give it to him:
She said, No, I'm going to keep it..
She then tried to push me Off the
couch.
II got up and tried to push her
away. When did so, she rell.
didn't push her hard, but guess
the drinks she had were too nuch
for her. When she fell, Thomas
picked her up and placed her on
the couch. 1 then left the house
and walked over to the Union Sta.
ton, where I got a shine and had
something to eat.
Runs Into Thomas.
Later, about o'clock. started
for my drug store, but on the
way stopped in at a lunch room
nearby where I saw Thomas. 1
walked in, but he made no mention
of Catherine shooting herself.
suppose he didn't know about 1t
any more than I did. then went
to my drug store, where found
a note from Mrs. Thomas. saying
that Catherine had shot herself
and was at the Casualty Hospital.
I got in my car and drove over
there, but she was on the operat-
ing table. The next day she died"
Aimar's eyes filled with tears.
1--WE were both very much in
love with each other, and I often
asked Catherine to marry mo, but
she refused" he said, relating the
story of how he met the youns.
woman In Charleston s. Co On the