{"id":644,"date":"2017-04-23T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=644"},"modified":"2017-04-23T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:00:36","slug":"shot-him-while-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Shot Him While Asleep."},"content":{"rendered":"
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December 7, 1886
\nSHOT HIM WHILE ASLEEP.
\n<\/strong>A Buffalo Woman Sends a Bullet Through Her Husband’s Heart.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\nBUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 7\u2014<\/strong>A deliberate and cold-blooded murder was committed in this city at an early hour this morning. At about eight o’clock a boy rushed into No. 8 police station and stated that a man had been shot by his wife in rooms occupied by Emil Penseyres and his wife in the Miller block. Officers immediately proceeded to the place. They were met by a woman who appeared to be in a high state of excitement. She said her husband was in a bedroom , the door of which stood partly open. A cloth had been nailed up over the window. In the bed lay the body of Emil Penseyres. A bullet had penetrated his heart. The shooting occurred at about 6 A.M., according to the best reports, and the man was evidently lying asleep in bed when the murderess fired the fatal shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>There were no evidences of a struggle and every indication was that the woman deliberately shot the man in his sleep. The discovery of her terrible deed seemed to drive her into a frenzy of rage. The pistol she had used had been thrown under the bed, and she managed to regain possession of it before the officers were aware of her purpose. She flourished the revolver in the faces of the officers and screamed that she would never be arrested. They rushed at the furious woman and felled her to the floor, and after a severe struggle succeeded in getting the revolver away from her. She still resisted, but in vain, and was informed that she was under arrest and must go to the station-house.<\/span><\/div>\n
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She gave her name as Hattie F. Penseyeres, and her age as thirty-three years. Her occupation, she said, was that of a housekeeper. The only remark she made on the way to the station was that her husband “never used her right.” He was some years her junior, and was a wood-worker by trade. It appears that he married the woman who took his life in February, 1885. They had no children, but the woman has a son and daughter by a former marriage. It is said that her reputation was not good, and that she was formerly an inmate of a house of ill-fame.<\/span><\/div>\n
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From the Collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
\nThe 1886 Morbid Scrapbook<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 7, 1886 SHOT HIM WHILE ASLEEP. A Buffalo Woman Sends a Bullet Through Her Husband’s Heart. BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 7\u2014A deliberate and cold-blooded murder was committed in this city at an early hour this morning. At about eight o’clock a boy rushed into No. 8 police station and stated that a man had … Continue reading Shot Him While Asleep.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familial-murder","category-homicidal-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}