The Raleigh Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
Friday, March 24, 1916, page 7
Frederick, Md, March 18. - Mrs Eloise Young English shot and killed her husband, Arthur E English, a lawyer of New York, at their home near here today. The shooting was done in the presence of their six-year-old daughter, and said to have occurred during a quarrel. English was the son of Thomas Dunn English, former congressman from New Jersey, and the author of the song, "Ben Bolt."
Mrs English claims that she shot in self-defense, when her husband, in a fit of anger pointed a revolver at her. An examination of the body of English showed that a bullet had gone through the heart and four other bullets had taken effect. The furniture in the room in which the body was found was in great disorder, indicating that a struggle had taken place.
After the shooting Mrs. English took her four children to the home of a neighbor to whom she related the story of the tragedy. She telephoned to a physician in Frederick to hurry to the side of her husband whom she said she had shot. She then called police headquarters in Frederick and asked that a warrant be sworn out for her husband, who she stated had threatened to take her life. She also told police that she had shot her husband.
Mrs. English was exonerated from blame for the killing of her husband by a coroner's jury here tonight, after she and three of her children had testified as to English's alleged brutality and frequent threats to kill his wife.
The young woman testified that while their two sons were cutting wood this morning she requested her husband to permit the elder boy to quit on account of illness. She said this angered her husband who began to smash dishes and furniture in his rage. Mrs. English secured a revolver, hid it in her dress and later when her husband took his revolver and threatened to kill her, she testified, she emptied the five chambers of her revolver into his body.
Friday, March 24, 1916, page 7
Frederick, Md, March 18. - Mrs Eloise Young English shot and killed her husband, Arthur E English, a lawyer of New York, at their home near here today. The shooting was done in the presence of their six-year-old daughter, and said to have occurred during a quarrel. English was the son of Thomas Dunn English, former congressman from New Jersey, and the author of the song, "Ben Bolt."
Mrs English claims that she shot in self-defense, when her husband, in a fit of anger pointed a revolver at her. An examination of the body of English showed that a bullet had gone through the heart and four other bullets had taken effect. The furniture in the room in which the body was found was in great disorder, indicating that a struggle had taken place.
After the shooting Mrs. English took her four children to the home of a neighbor to whom she related the story of the tragedy. She telephoned to a physician in Frederick to hurry to the side of her husband whom she said she had shot. She then called police headquarters in Frederick and asked that a warrant be sworn out for her husband, who she stated had threatened to take her life. She also told police that she had shot her husband.
Mrs. English was exonerated from blame for the killing of her husband by a coroner's jury here tonight, after she and three of her children had testified as to English's alleged brutality and frequent threats to kill his wife.
The young woman testified that while their two sons were cutting wood this morning she requested her husband to permit the elder boy to quit on account of illness. She said this angered her husband who began to smash dishes and furniture in his rage. Mrs. English secured a revolver, hid it in her dress and later when her husband took his revolver and threatened to kill her, she testified, she emptied the five chambers of her revolver into his body.
The Raleigh Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
Friday, March 24, 1916, page 7
Frederick, Md, March 18. - Mrs Eloise Young English shot and killed her husband, Arthur E English, a lawyer of New York, at their home near here today. The shooting was done in the presence of their six-year-old daughter, and said to have occurred during a quarrel. English was the son of Thomas Dunn English, former congressman from New Jersey, and the author of the song, "Ben Bolt."
Mrs English claims that she shot in self-defense, when her husband, in a fit of anger pointed a revolver at her. An examination of the body of English showed that a bullet had gone through the heart and four other bullets had taken effect. The furniture in the room in which the body was found was in great disorder, indicating that a struggle had taken place.
After the shooting Mrs. English took her four children to the home of a neighbor to whom she related the story of the tragedy. She telephoned to a physician in Frederick to hurry to the side of her husband whom she said she had shot. She then called police headquarters in Frederick and asked that a warrant be sworn out for her husband, who she stated had threatened to take her life. She also told police that she had shot her husband.
Mrs. English was exonerated from blame for the killing of her husband by a coroner's jury here tonight, after she and three of her children had testified as to English's alleged brutality and frequent threats to kill his wife.
The young woman testified that while their two sons were cutting wood this morning she requested her husband to permit the elder boy to quit on account of illness. She said this angered her husband who began to smash dishes and furniture in his rage. Mrs. English secured a revolver, hid it in her dress and later when her husband took his revolver and threatened to kill her, she testified, she emptied the five chambers of her revolver into his body.
Friday, March 24, 1916, page 7
Frederick, Md, March 18. - Mrs Eloise Young English shot and killed her husband, Arthur E English, a lawyer of New York, at their home near here today. The shooting was done in the presence of their six-year-old daughter, and said to have occurred during a quarrel. English was the son of Thomas Dunn English, former congressman from New Jersey, and the author of the song, "Ben Bolt."
Mrs English claims that she shot in self-defense, when her husband, in a fit of anger pointed a revolver at her. An examination of the body of English showed that a bullet had gone through the heart and four other bullets had taken effect. The furniture in the room in which the body was found was in great disorder, indicating that a struggle had taken place.
After the shooting Mrs. English took her four children to the home of a neighbor to whom she related the story of the tragedy. She telephoned to a physician in Frederick to hurry to the side of her husband whom she said she had shot. She then called police headquarters in Frederick and asked that a warrant be sworn out for her husband, who she stated had threatened to take her life. She also told police that she had shot her husband.
Mrs. English was exonerated from blame for the killing of her husband by a coroner's jury here tonight, after she and three of her children had testified as to English's alleged brutality and frequent threats to kill his wife.
The young woman testified that while their two sons were cutting wood this morning she requested her husband to permit the elder boy to quit on account of illness. She said this angered her husband who began to smash dishes and furniture in his rage. Mrs. English secured a revolver, hid it in her dress and later when her husband took his revolver and threatened to kill her, she testified, she emptied the five chambers of her revolver into his body.
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