Evening star., 1934-05-08
DOUBLE MURDERER
FIGHTS OFF DEATH.
Mother Talks of Illicit Love
Which Drove Son to
Shoot His Wife.
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learned her brother didn't even know
him. He had brought her a box of
candy"
What happened after that was
pieced together as follows by Sheriff
Howard B. Fields:
Hunter and his wife quarreled all
night Mrs. Hunter did not go to
work in the morning. but her hus-
band, a furloughed railroad brake
man, went to the Veterans Admins
tration and induced Corcoran to ac-
company him to the Hunter home, at
TIC Walbrook avenue.
For some time, Hunter, his wife and
Corcoran sat around the dining room
table quarreling. When Ann re-
turned from school her mother whiS-
pered to her to go out and telephone
Dalmas at the BellevieW Hotel, where
he makes his home.
The girl forgot the name Of the
hotel. however, and returned to the
house. The shooting already was in
progress.
Two Guns Brought in Play.
Sanford Sutton. colored, South
Washington was working nearby when
the shooting started. He heard several
shots, he said, and then saw Mrs.
Hunter run out on the porch, followed
by her husband, who had a pistol in
one hand and a shotgun in the other.
Hunter, according to Sutton, shot
his wife with the pistol, then dropped
the smaller weapon and fired charge
into her chest from the shotgun. Tfen,
Sutton said. Hunter placed the butt
of the gun on the floor and the muzzle
under his chin. The discharge raised
Hunter several inches off the floor.
Hunter fell across his wife's body,
Sutton said, and then clambered to
his feet, staggered into the house and
dragged out Corcoran, who had been
shot inside. Dropping Corcoran's body
to the floor, Hunter, according to Sut-
ton. kicked the man in the face and
then collapsed across his wifeS body.
He still lay there when Ann arrived
a few minutes later with R. H. Waple,
neighbor.
Means "My Wife, My Wife,"
The first policeman to arrive, Ed
ward Duncan, found Mrs. Hunter
breathing her last. Her husband, the
officer said, had her hair clasped In
both hands and was moaning, MY
wife, my wife" He fought efforts OF
police and members of the Jefferson
rescue squad, who also responded, TO
release his hands from his dead wife's
hair.
Examination of the weapons dis
closed. police reported, that all six
cartridges in the pistol had been ex-
ploded and both barrels Of the double
barreled shotgun had been discharged.
Corcoran, however, had been shot only
once, the bullet piercing his heart.
according to Dr. w. c. Welburn, who
performed autopSieS on both bodies.
Mrs. Hunter, the physician said. had
been shot twice, once In the MP WIN
the pistol and another time In the
chest with the larger weapon.
Both bodies were taken to the Z. j.
Ives undertaking establishment In
Clarendon.
A short time after the shooting,
Hunters mother arrived and took
charge of the three children. The
only one who actually witnessed the
shooting, she said, was Stuart, 4. and
he didn't realize what was happen
ing"
Mother Survives in Roanoke.
Mrs. Hunter was native OF Roa-
noke, Va, where her mother, Mrs. J.
S. D. Hall, still lives.
"I opposed their marriage in the
beginning" said Hunters mother.
"Once before they were married,
nearly u wars ago. my son caught