SHOT BY HIS PARAMOUR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 183, 20 December 1912, Page 3

SHOT BY HIS PARAMOUR.

AX AMERICAN TRAGEDY. San Francisco, December 15. With a bullet in his abdomen, Robert Widney, a wealthy real estate broker, of • Los Angeles, California, lies in hospital. He has only a bare chance of escaping death. < Mrs. Frances Lyons, the wife of Billy Lyons, of Denver, did the shooting, and she is held by the police, pending the outcome of her attacks. The tragedy followed an all-night carousal in the woman's apartments at the Sorento Hotel. Champagne flowed freely, and in a forgetful and inebriated moment Widney happened to call Mrs. Lyons by his wife's name, BesA. Jealousy, it is said, aggravated-, the woman into seizing a revolver, Vith which she shot Widney in tho groin. The vietim went to Los Angeles to bid a last farewell to Mrs. Lyons, who is stated to have been a former paramour of his. She was formerly a chorus girl, and is 22 years of age, -while Widney has had .40 years' experience of life. Mrs. Lyons protests her innocence.' She said:' "Bob was examining the revolver, which was a present from my 1 first husband, when it went off." She adds that Widney exonerated .her after : the shooting. The police know nothing j of this. '