Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 53
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 23, 1907
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WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND
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Fired Three Bullets Into Her Own
Body--Will Die.
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New York, Nov. 20.--Mrs. Lottie Hitchcock shot and instantly killed her husband,
R. L. Hitchcock, a compositor, as he lay sleeping in bed in their in the borough
of the Bronx today. Then turning the revolver upon herself, Mrs. Hitchcock
inflicted several wounds from which it is expected she will die.
The man and woman were married about a year
ago. Recently they have had frequent quarrels and Mrs. Hitchcock had
repeatedly complained to her neighbors that her husband had been spending his
evenings with another woman when not at work. Hitchcock returned from work
at 4 o'clock this morning and went to bed. While he was sleeping his wife
arose, placed the muzzle of a revolver to his breast, and sent two bullets
through his heart, causing instant death. Sitting on the bed she fired
three bullets into her breast, and this failing to kill her, tried to shoot
herself in the head, but caused only a scalp wound. She told the police
that she did the shooting and was glad of it, and then fainted. Nearby was
an Episcopal prayer book open at the prayer reading:
"O Lord we beseech Thee, absolve Thy people
from their offenses that through Thy bountiful goodness we may all be delivered
from the bonds of the sins which we have committed."
After she had been removed to a hospital,
Mrs. Hitchcock told a detective that one reason why she had killed her husband
was because she had heard him talking with a man and woman about sending her to
a sanitarium for treatment for the drug habit, of which she was a victim.
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