Show JEALOUS WOMANS CRIME donned masculine attire and killed her rival albany or sept SO pull particulars of the tragedy by which mrs afro lottle lottie hiatt was shot and fatally injured a at t her home near selo a small and remote town in linn county have just been received and altogether they furnish a very strange story of a womans comans murderous jealousy mrs arg john hannah all 45 years old and the mother ot of a farl family itly donned masculine garb and false whiskers and last thursday n night ight entered the house of mrs lottle lottie hiatt and shot her twice her motive was jealousy mrs gillatt she believed had estranged the affections of her husband th the hiatt family together with mrs elizabeth holman olman II mrs airs hiatte mother lived about a quarter of a mile north of jordans store a little settlement eight miles from selo and on thursday evening last about dusk their house was approached by a man who gruffly demanded admittance this being accorded him he ent entered ered and drawing a pistol told the in mates inmates to throw up their hands and say where they kept their money mrs airs holman olman II aged 82 resented the intrusion and promptly seized a billet of wood and gave the intruder a sound rap in the face with it being instantly knocked down for her temer temerity t y having quieted the aged woman the man turned upon na n A mrs ir 9 H blatt I 1 a tt w with I 1 t h h his IS six shooter and began firing one shot went wild but the second and third struck the unfortunate woman in the head and she sank dying to the floor the robber to make sure of his work bent over the prostrate woman and shook her violently to ascertain whether she was dead or not this act was assed by mrs airs holman who regained consciousness about that time the scoundrel tied led and mrs airs holman made haste to jordans store tor for help several men who were at the store hastened to the house and did all in their power to succor the stricken woman they found on the floor door a hat a false moustache and a pair of eyeglasses eye glasses some one present recognized the hat as the property of young hannah ind and this announcement precipitated a search for the young man who was not found until early morning when charged with the deed and confronted with the hat he denied the killing but admitted the hat was h his is property declaring further that wf h s mother had borrowed the hat the evening before but tor for what purpose he did not know remarking incident incidentally tally t that hat she had not home until I 1 in the morning the searchers immediately sought out mrs john hannah the boys mother and under menacing inquiries she at last broke down and confessed that she had purloined a suit of her husbands clothes and her sons hat donned them and done the work robbery was only a blind in the case and the deeper impulse of passionate jealousy was the real motive of the crime as it has long been known in the countryside there that mrs hannah was jealous of her husband and mrs allatt the would be murderess was turned over to the officers ot of the county and now languishes in jail while her victim though still living Is beyond hope of recovery |