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- Albuquerque citizen., September 05, 1907
MRS. OLDHAM ASSAULTED BY UNKNOWN MAN
Infuriated Husband Shoots Three Times at Figure on Porch.
POLICE UNABLE TO SOLVE MYSTERY
Russell Oldham, a carpenter in the employe of Wallace Hesselden, the contractor, shot three times at a mysterious man at his home, 1101 South Second street about 10:30 o'clock last night. It is thought by Mr. Oldham that at least one of his bullets struck the man, but whether or not this is true and who the man was is not known.
Police received a report regarding the shooting shortly after it occurred, and found the Oldham family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Oldham, and the family of J. F. Whiteside at whose house the Oldhams make their home, very much excited. Mrs. Oldham, who is a bride of only three months, was almost prostrate with fear.
MA on STEPS
The mysterious caller was standing on the front steps of the house. Mrs. Oldham, who was going outside, saw him just as she unlatched the screen door to the porch. The man had his arm raised as if to catch her about the neck. She says she could not see him very well being blinded by having just come out of a lighted room, but he was very large, his head being even with her's and she standing on the step above him. She screamed and ran into the house where she had left Mr. Oldham a moment before. They were preparing to go to bed, and Mr. Oldham had just brought his pistol from another room and laid it on a dresser by the bed. When he heard his wife scream he picked up the gun and ran to the door., just as she came in. The mysterious man had followed her up on the porch, and was coming toward the door. Mr. Oldham raised his gun and fired. He says that he fired three times, but only two bullet holes can be found in the screen on the porch. This is the reason why Mr. Oldham believes that the man was hit. One bullet took effect.
Was Evidently Hit.
The man yelled three times. According to Mrs. McKee, recently of San Marcial, who is a guest at the Whiteside house, he said "My Gad, My God, My God."
Mrs. McKee was preparing for bed in a room which is bounded on the north by the porch.
After the shooting the man beat a hasty retreat, running south. Wiley Edwards,k who lives the next door south said that he heard some one run by going south immediately after the shooting and parties living further south heard hurried footsteps on the road shortly after the shooting.
That the man was hit though remains as much of a mystery as does his identity. There were no blood stains on the sidewalk in front of the Whiteside house, and the police have thus far been unable to learn of any who is suffering from a gun shot wound.
No Scandal in Case.
When seen this morning Mrs. Oldham said that she was at a loss what the man could have wanted, he was so bold. She thinks that he must have been drunk or else he had made a mistake in the house which he thought he was going to. She was very indignant at the story published in the morning paper insinuating that there was a scandal connected with the shooting. She came to New Mexico from Missouri last May, and was married to Mr. Oldham shortly after. She is scarcely on speaking terms with half a dozen men in Albuquerque. She and her husband have never quarreled. Mrs. Oldham says she will demand that the morning paper retract its statement of the shooting.
Police Making Investigation
Lieutenant Kennedy, of the police department, who was upon the scene of the shooting ten minutes after it occurred, said this morning that when he was first informed of the shooting he was told that a man had been shot at 1101 South Second street and was lying dead in the yard in front of the house at that number. He made a hurried examination of the grounds and talked with Mr. Oldham. There was no man in the yard nor could he find any trace of any one having been shot there. There were footprints in the front yard but they were so numerous that it was hard to distinguish one from the another. There were no marks of blood.
Mr. Oldham seemed cool and not in the least excited at what had occurred, but Mrs. Oldham was on the point of hysterics, so badly was she frightened. She was unable to talk.
The lieutenant examined the gun used by Mr. Oldham and found it to be a .32 calibre, double action pistol, not particularly dangerous. A man might carry away one or more bullets from it for quite a distance should they lodge only in the flesh.
The police are conducting a systematic investigation of the case today, and the identity of the mysterious man may yet be uncovered. Mrs. Oldham says that she believes that he was a native.
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