Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-16
Man Is Reported Dying at
HospitaI-Wife Hit by = .
Bullet in Face. J..
SEPARATED COUPLE FALL
AT K AND 14TH STREETS
Discussion as to Future of Child,
8, Anglers Man-Woman
Tells Her Story.

Shot down by her husband, who later
fired bullet into his own head, Mrs.
Marion Waugh, 80 years old, of 1865 L
street southeast lies at. Providence Hos
pital suffering from bullet wounds in
her face and neck. The husband, John
William Waugh, "a years old, was taken
to Casualty Hospital. where physicians
reported his condition as critical.
The shooting occurred on the corner
of Fourteenth and X streets southeast
and was witnessed. by the S-year-old
daughter of the couple. Barbara. who
told the police their first account Of
the shooting.
Mrs. Waugh, diminutive in statue end
weighing scarcely 100 pounds, re lated
the story of the shooting as she lay
in bed at the hospital after physicians
had dressed the bullet wound which had
pierced her face The bullet entered
the left side and came out through
the other side. She is expected. te
recover.
Separated Several Times.
"My husband and have always been
quarfeling. ever since We were married,
and have been separated several Zines"
she said. Il have been living with
my sister, Mrs. Pauline King, ut the
L street house since our last separa-
ton, and he has beer living with his
mother and father in Chevy Chase,
about q mile this side of the District
line.
II knew that my little girl had to
have shoes and stockings with which
to begin school, SO I called him up last
night, thinking could persuade him
to give me the money. We arranged q
meeting place and told him on the
phone that II he had q gun with him
I would not meet him. He had flashed
q pistol several times before, during
previous arguments.
Il met him this morning on the street
corner at Fourteenth and K streets, in
back of my sisters house and he ap-
preached carrying a bag asked him
what he had and he said it was his
lunch. felt the bag. however, and
found that IT was pistol / told him
IL he did not dispose Of it / would call
the police and have him locked up. He
promised 70 get nd Of the gun and told
me to wait for him while he went to q
pawn shop to sell it. waited for nearly
Q half hour for him and when he re-
turned to all appearances he did not
have the gun with him.
We began discussing the future of
little Barbara and told him that /
had to have money to buy shoes so
Barbara could 60 to school, This
seemed to enrage him and the argu-
ment started. I started down the
street and told him / was going to
leave him and would not talk to MIN.
and told him to 60 on about his busi-
ness. He followed me, shouting all the
while he was trailing me, I'm going to
die riCfrf 4 d{rf V,of kk;xrk he l,a<S
the gun with him, however, so I paid
no attention to 1t. The next thing I
knew heard shot fred and I wheeled
quickly around. As ! turned q bullet
struck me in the face and I must have
tainted and fallen to the ground, be-
cause I don't remember anything else
] am sure, though, that he fired three
times at me because heard two shots
fired before was struck. ''I
think what made him so mad today
was the fact that told him he could
she would not tolerate having him
around. We have been rooming around
different places and would have our
own furnished rooms while he was work.
ing. But he got out of job so often
that little Barbara and always went
back to my sisters. I think he's dead"
police guard Is being maintained
over the husband at Casualty Hospital
and Headquarters Detectives Joseph
and Howard Ogle. who investi-
gated the case, declared that the. man
would be charged with assault with
dangerous weapon and assault with in
tent to kill in the event of his re-
covery.
IL. Ibid Him Dirty"
Waugh admitted readily to police 4
that he had shot his wife and himself.
He declared he shot his wife because
she did him dirty"
Operated on at Casualty Hospital by
Or. Louis Jimal. a steel-jacketed So
caliber bullet was distracted from his
lived, according to doctors.
The gun Is In the possession of
Joseph Russell, policeman attached to
No. precinct who is working on the
case. 1t is .32-caliber revolver with
3 f1ve- bullet chamber. Four of the
shells had bSen exploded and there was
one undischarged cartridge in the cyl
inder.
The scene OF the shooting was on
street. just south Of K, OH
a portion of the street still unimprOyed
and nothing but dirt road. It Is about
a block from the street car stop. where,
BARBARA says, Cney got OH tne cSL. ana
about one block from the home which,
the little girl claims, was first bt,'krn
up when the father went awav about
a month ago. Z.
Little Barbara, who had been with
her mother all the time, saw the whole
affair. She ran screaming at the top
of her voice to the neighbors.. crying,
MY daddy has killed my mother"
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