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Show SHOOTING ON ELEVATED TfeAIN CAUSES A PANIC Husband Fatally Wounds Man Whom He Accused of Alienating Wife's Affections. CHICAGO, Jan. 25. Passengers on an east hound Metropolitan elevated train were thrown Into a panic when George H. Gould, cashier of an insurance insur-ance company, shot and fatally wounded wound-ed A. R. Hammond, a guard employed by the road. Hammond was off duty and was returning re-turning home. Gould boarded the train and entered the car where the guard was sitting. Witnesses to the shooting say he at once accused Hammond of alienating the affections of his wife, who, Gould said, left home, deserting her husband and three little children, a week ago. Words followed, and before the train had reached the next station, Gould drew a revolver and fired two shots. There were more than twenty passengers pas-sengers in the car, who fled to other coaches of the train. The train crew telephoned to the police, asking for an ambulance to meet the train at the Marshfleld station. They then hurried the wounded man to that station without with-out making stops. Gould stayed in the car and surrendered himself to the police. po-lice. Mrs. Gould, who met the train at the station, was locked up with her husband. hus-band. Hammond was taken to a hospital, hos-pital, where it was said he could not recover. Before her marriage Mrs. Gould was Mary Leevarts. Her relatives live in Rhode Island. |