OCR Text |
Show i l lfE Wealthy Club Man Has a Bullet Hole in His Head Philadelphia, Dec. 12 Herbert Mason CUpp. wealthy club man o this city, is In a hospital with a bullet bul-let iu his head and likely to die, and lis wife Is locked up charged with having shot him. According to tho police, the con pi -2 fji'arreled in thir room at 3 30 this r-ornlng and Mrs Clapp seized a heavy revolver and shot twice. Oue bullet crashed through the man's n.oulh, emerging near the left oar. At first the family and Its physicians physi-cians attempted to conceal the facts, saying Clapp. who had been drinking drink-ing and was suffering from nervous-nfss, nervous-nfss, bad accidentally inflicted the w ound. Clapp has had a career which has irequently brought hi in before the pub-lit. pub-lit. He is a grandson of Mason, "the shoeblack king," and inherited much money from that source. Four years ago his wife divorced him in New j York. Shortly after the divorce I Clapp married Marie Lcakell of th) ' city. |