Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-05
.SAGLE DESCRIBES
Staying OF Wife
Declares He Fired Shot After
She Changed Mind About
Reconciliation.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
RICHMOND, Va. May S.-LyinE In
the emergency ward of Memorial Hos
pital, with a fair chance of recovery
! from q bullet wound in the abdomen.
Don w. Sagle of Washington, who on
Sunday night shot and killed his wife
and then turned the revolver upon him.
/ self, told a Star representative OF the
circumstances leading to the shooting.
He said that, influenced by her peo-
Pile" his wife had refused to live with
him, but was living at the residence OF
her grandmother, Mrs. Annie Lowe.
l406 Floyd avenue, here. Saturday q
week ago he had come to Richmond
from Washington and talked with his
wife. Upon his return 70 Washington
he said he had talked with his wife
several times over long-diStance tele-
phone during the week and on last Sun
day made a second trip to Richmond,
arriving by bus at ? o'clock in the aft
ernoon, and registering at local hotel.
Says Wife Changed Mind.
He went to the Floyd avenue resi-
dence that night about 8 o'clock, he
said. and had long talk with his wife
on the porch. According to his state
ment, she agreed to go with him and
went in the house to get her hat and
coat he accompanying her, but little
later she changed her mind. The shoot
ing, which occurred at this point, he
had described to the police, who arrived
Sunday night. The officers stated that
he told them that he fired one shot, the
bullet striking his wife in the back OF
the head, tnflicting wound from which
she died 80 minutes later. and that he
then turned the revolver upon himself
and fired.
Worked rs Carpenter.
The wounded man gave his hons
address as SIT East Franklin street, Ha-
gerstown, Md, but said THAT he had
lived for some time in Washington with
his father j. w. Sagle. He had been
engaged in carpenter work with his
father. he said, and to the question as
to how long he had lived in the Capt.
tai City, ne replied, Long enough to
build FIVE houses" He gave his birth
place as Hancock, Md. He and his wife
were married during the Christmas hol-
! idays. She had been a waitress in q
restaurant, he said, having gone to
Washington late last Summer, at
which time he met her. They lived to-
gether in Washington some time and
then she came to Richmond.
Reads Story Of Shooting.
When seen Sagle was reading a news
paper story of the shooting He did
not seem to be suffering great pain,
but talked with some difnculty. He was
I operated upon during the afternoon
and his condition was marked Is "fair'
on the hospital records. In the morn
ing he had been pronounced in q eriti-
| cal condition by the physician attend
ing him, who declared that he was IA
/ tally wounded. But the wounded man
! showed marked improvement following
the operation and It was then believed
that he had a good chance of recovery.
A uniformed police oficer stands
guard at the door of the ward, as Sagle
Is under arrest charged with the muir
| der OF his wife. When the case was
called in Police Court yesterday it was
continued until May Is, pending the
wounded mans condition.
Wife's Funeral Today.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sagie will
be held this. afternoon at o'clock, with
| internent in Riverview Cemetery Rev
q. T. Forester will conduct the serv-
ices. She was Miss Agnes Jenkins be-
fore her marriage Her parents are
dead, her father dying only about three
months ago.
Police have not divulged the contents
| of two letters left by Sagle-one to his
father. marked Rush; when you get
this, if ever, I'll be dead" and one to
| his wife. In the letter to his father
were two photographs of his wife, on
one of which was written, "A romance
that's a failure. My wife, Mrs. d. w.
Sagle 213 H street, Washington, D. c."
Another letter left 70 the press asked
that he be given some real publicity"