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Show 8hnt Hi. WiN. At a lata hour yesterday afternoon a police call came from Spring street which was answered by Captain Parker Par-ker and Officers Birkner and Saunders. Arriving at the place they found a young benedict in a rather riotous state of mind while hia wife, a young woman was cheeking the How of blood from a shallow furrow along the whole course of her lnfsrin. The presence pres-ence of the oilieer infuriated the bellicose bel-licose husband, w ho. after torribio ro-tiistance, ro-tiistance, wns overpowered nnd locked in tho hurry-up, after which he was carted to the staiiou, whero he refuged to give his name. It was subsequently learned that his Dame was B. C. Rodney, nnd that, wan-(lesing wan-(lesing homo with a prodigious jug on, bo drew a weapon to shoot his wife. She seized his arm in time to thwart hiio, however, and tho bullet, skimming along the cuticle, buried itself in thu ceiling. There is another theory that Rodney was attotnptinj; to cominitRiticido when his w ife in undertaking to prevent him received the wound. Tho examination cf Rodney will take place tomorrow. |