New Britain herald., 1929-04-25
ACCUSES DRUNKEN
 WIFE OF SHOOTING
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dollar bill, and she then told him she wanted small coins, so that she coud use the pay station telephone in the lobby of the Stratford tele- phone exchange.
 T want to call doctor: my hus- band just shot himself" the woman informed Patrolman Natrn.
 Mrs. Beardslee telephoned for Dr. Luther Heidger and then walked back to her home, about three blocks distant. accompanied by Pa trolman Nairn.
 Dr. Heidger hastened to the scene, arriving simultaneously with Patrolman Nairn and Mrs. Boards lee. He found the wounded man lying in his night clothes on the floor of the bathroom on the second story. He at once called for the am bulance and SerEt. Patrick Flana- gan, who was on desk duty at Strat. ford police headquarters. responded. Flanagan and Nairn lifted up the wounded man into the ambulance and took him to Bridgeport hospi- tal where an X-ray examination disclosed that a .22 caliber bullet. which had entered the mans left temple, had lodged in the brain Tn such a position as to make m operation out Of the question.
 Beardslee was semi-conscloua when he arrived at the hospital.
 Victim Accuses Wife
 He denied ownership of the re- yolver which was found in his bed' where bloodstains indicated the shooting had taken place.
 Did you shoot yourself?" Flana gan asked him.
 No" Beardslee replied.
 Did your wife shoot you?"
 Beardslee mumbIed an affirma. tive answer. according to the officer, and shortly afterward lapsed into unconsciousness
 Hoping that Mrs. Beardslee would be able to tell what had happened after she had sobered up. police after questioning her at hcadquar- t,rs took her home, and brought her hack to the police station several hours later
 She drank some black coffee and water ana still insisted that her hus- band had shot himself.
 He had part of the gun. and Tad hidden the other part Of it, she said.
 "He must have found it and put il together"
 She just shook her head and look cd blank when police asked her what led up 10 the shooting.
 Adjoining Room Wrecked
 That there was a quarrel in the house was indicated by the fact that the room next to the bedroom had been wrecked. An electric iron had been torn from its socket. dishes had been broken, and the room was cluttered with overturned furniture
 Beardslee had obviously been shot in bed. as the pillow was stained with blood and there was trail of blood leading from the bedroom to the bathroom.
 Beardslee had lived quiet, se- cludad life, until his parents died and left him what was regarded in Stratford as fortune. He had been considered the towns foremost woman hater." particularly when he came out and worked against the woman suffrage amendment. swear ing that if it was adopted he would never again vote.
 shortly after he came into his in- heritance, estimated at sl00.0o0. he was introduced to his present wife.
 They traveled to New York and other cities. and Heardslee ''sa " life" for the first time. spending thousands Of dollars within a com- parativciy short spoce of time.
 The Beardslees were married al the Municipal Building. New York August 1a. 1926. and separated for the first time less than month later when John C. Wilcoxson of S,ratford was appointed conservato or over Beardslee.
 Domestic tangIes had been a part of Oliver Beardsiee's life since he married Gladys NJ. Foster. 25. oI Hartford, in 1926 Within two months he had brought suit foi divorce against her charging cruelty and habitual intemperance which ec. ton he later withdrew when they reached a reconciliation. At the time Beardslee denied tha' a writ had been issued. and go did his wife, but his attorney. Dwight D. Graves. said service had beer made. Mrs. Beardslee then pubiici. announced she was living happily with her husband,
 T love my husband and don'1 know anything about a divorce" sh. said.
 Ia>i>i,c.i Gems Upon Her
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