Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1913 — BURNS TO FIGHT TO AVOID THE PEN [ARTICLE]

BURNS TO FIGHT TO AVOID THE PEN

Desperado Will Claim That Wile Shot at Him and That His Act Was in Self Defense.

Hammond Times. Seeing his chances for recovery improve, Hugh Burns, who terrorized the town of Schneider a wefek ago, following a futile attempt to assassinate has wife, is beginning to look forward to the legal defense that he will have to make. For several days now Burns has maintained that his wife tried to kill him on Monday night. He says that she, too, h#i a revolver and that she fired two bullets at him, both of which took effect in his chest. One of the bullets has been extracted. He said that his wife used steel-capped bullets in her gun, and the bullet which was found proved to be such. This so far is the only circumstantial evidence on which his charge is based, but Schneider people say that his wife had no gun, and that he got the bullet from one of the half dozen of guns that were fired at him by the Schneider eitizens when they cornered him in the station.