Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-24
Estranged Wife of Augustus
Haag and Friend in Hos
pitaI With Wounds.
CLAIM WOMAN TRIED
TO SHIELD COMPANION
Divorced Wife of Wounded Man
Takes Charge of Two Haag
Children.

Arrested before dawn today in con-
nection with the shooting of his
estranged wife and her man friend at
428i, Thirteenth street northeast last
night, Augustus Haag. 81 years old. OF
Hvattsville. Md, was being held at the
ninth precinct station today pending
the outcome of the woman'S condition.
Mrs Irene Hutchinson Haag, %, the
wife, received bullet that fractured
her skull when, it was claimed, she
tried to prevent her husband from
shooting Thomas Taylor, 38 years old,
her companion In the scuttie to get
possession of the pistol a bullet grazed
Taylors forehead over the eye. Taylor
2raSped HaagS gun and fired AT the
husband as the latter escaped, without
hitting him.
Passed Police on Road.
Late last night the police missed
HaaC by a minute or two at HyattS-
Vile when they were held up a. tbs
railway crossing by Baltimore &
Ohio train. He had just left his IA
theirs house i'll a machine. accom-
panied by two women, and II was
learned later passed the police on the
road.
He was found at 2 o'clock this morn
ing by Acting Sergt. John Sirola OF the
ninth precinct as he was climbing over
a shed in the rear of 1905 Sixteenth
street northeast and placed under arrest.
Police are awaiting the outcome OF Mrs.
Haag'S condition before placing charges
against him. Taylor'S condition is not
serious.
Another side of the domestic triangle
injected itself into the picture this
morning, when Taylors divorced wife.
Mrs. Catherine Neugebauer OF 2l4
Eleventh street northeast, called at the
Casualty Hospital to see her former
husband and take care of Mrs. HaagS
4-year-old boy. The child was taken to
the hospital in a shocked condition last
night. and his baby brother, 6 months
Old, was left in Mrs. Neugebauer's care.
She hopes to take the older child to her
home during the day.
Owes Life to Mrs. Haag.
Taylor was able to give comprehen-
siye story of the shooting when seen at
the hospital this morning, and believes
he owes his life to the bravery OF Mrs.
Haag.
This is the second time that Haag has
shot his wife. According to the police,
he shot her IN the leg. May "a. 1926. as
she was sitting on the porch OF her
mothers home at Cottage City, Md,
with q former DOdlueE.
The shooting last night, according TO
Taylor. followed visit from Haag, about
10 O'Clock. Mrs. Haag and Taylor had
returned from an automobile ride after
leaving one of his two children at
movie. They found Haag waiting in
the front OF the apartment house on
Thirteenth street, where both make
their residence.
Neighbors, who heard the shooting
Io+o ct,, Il m
see Mrs. Haag stagger down the steps
holding her 4-year-old child in her
arms. Blood was streaming from a
wound in her head. Taylor followed,
carrying the infant.
Told Husband to Leave.
Taylor said this morning that Haag
went with them into his wife's apart
ment on the second floor. Leaving wife
md husband together in the living room,
he waited in the kitchen. There was no
quarrel, he said, but Haag had said he
was hungry and was begging his wife to
let him sleep in the apartment, being
out of work. She gave him So and told
him he must leave.
When Haag refused to bulge from
his chair, Taylor said he entered the
room and told Mrs. Haag that she
ought to stand up for her rights" and
suggested that Haag might come only
to see his choildren.
Il turned my back upon him and
started back to the kitchen when 1
heard a scream and a shot fired" Tay-
lor explained. II think Haag intended
the shot for me and his wife threw
herself between us and was shot
through the head.
Il struggled with Haag to get the
pistol. With the muzzle about three
inches from my forehead. he fired. The
shot glanced over my left eye. He put
the muzzle against my head a second
time and pulled the trigger, but the
pistol didn't go off. BY that time
wrenched the pistol from his hand and
rs he ran off fired a shot into the bath
room as he was trying to escape"
Haag Leaped From Window.
Haag jumped IA feet from the win
dow to the ground and neighbors saw
him climbing the fence.
The bullet in Mrs. Haag's head had
not been extracted this morning. She
was said to be holding her own, but her
condition is serious.
The domestic troubles of the Haags
have been continuing for some years.
HE has never done anything to sup
port her" Taylor said, land told her
she shouldn't feel compelled to help him
out" At the hospital the wife told
DR.. J. Rogers Young, who treated Ter.
that she and her husband have had
frequent quarrelS for the past three
years. Taylor claimed that Haag on
several occasions had threatened to
shoot his wife.
Mrs. Haag was reported to be en-
ployed in laundry on II street north
east. and Taylor is said to work 1or an