A MAN SHOT BY HIS WIFE AT A BALL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1122, 19 June 1867, Page 6

A MAN SHOT BY HIS WIFE AT A BALL.

On Tuesday night, a ball was given by Protection Engine Company, No. I, of Union Hi'J, at Oddfellows Hall, Hoboken, of which company John Geschwindt is treasurer. This man had been married fire weeks before to Miss Dobbs, of Guttenburg. Previous to the ball, 011 Friday night, lie secretly issued au invitation to a young woman he intended to take as a partner at the same time pretending to liis wife that, as the latter had no particular desire to go, he would invite a relative of hers. In order, however, to play the double game effectually, he did not issue the invitation to this relative till two days before the ball, it being then too late for a young lady to make the requisite preparations. Geschwindt went to the ball; but his wife, under the influence of suspicion as well as curiosity, resolved to pay a visit to the scene. When she arrived, all was " merry as a marriage bell," and she proceeded to that part of the room where her husband was about to take his place in the dance, and stood before him, much to his surprise. Recovering from the surprise, and without exhibiting any outward sign of embarrassment, he asked her to go up stairs and take off her hat and shawl, when she replied, " Oh, don't mind ; we'll have our own fun presently." ' He then turned away rather abruptly, in response to the call for the commencement of the dauce, and was in the verv act of making his obeisarice to his fair partner when the crack of a revolver in the hand of his wife startled the assembly. A second and third discharge followed in quick succession; but the erect attitude of the terrified husband showed that these shots had missed. - Two more discharges, and he was pierced on and under ' the lettTshoulder, the ball of one discharge penetrating to the ribs. She was at once disarmed, and otlicer liaiser was called in and she was placed under arrest. The only mortification she felt was that she did not accomplish the deed.— j\ r ew York Herald.