One Way to Disagree with Your Husband

[W. Gray]

This comes from the Kansas Trails web site



Howard Courant, March 20, 1891
SENSATIONAL SHOOTING SCRAPE

Word was received in town last Saturday morning, the 14th, that Herman Nitsche, living six miles north of Howard, had been shot and perhaps fatally wounded by his wife, Alma Nitsche. We gather these facts: Herman Nitsche is 46 years old; they are a very quarrelsome contentious couple, and their uncongenial matrimonial relations have for a long time been the talk of the neighbors. Nitsche owed two notes at the Howard National Bank, and had agreed, for further time, to give a chattel mortgage on his team. When he asked his wife to sign the mortgage, they had a quarrel but she finally agreed to sign; instead of signing, however, she stepped into an adjoining room, got a revolver, and fired three shots at her husband, the first striking him in the neck, the second in one cheek, the third missing him entirely. Nitsche made his escape from the house, and went to a neighbor's house, about a quarter of a mile away, where he is still lying. Mrs. Nitsche came to town for legal advice, soon after the shooting, and has not yet been arrested.

Capt. White went out and took Nitsche's statement soon after the shooting, when Nitsche was supposed to be fatally injured. Nitsche says he didn't know there was a pistol about the house.

At last accounts the injured man was considerably better, and it is likely he will recover.
Submitted by L. Morgan.