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Attempted Murder and Suicide—A Councilman Shot bj a Ballet Girl.Wm. H. Glass, member of the City Council from the Fourth Ward, was shot in the lower jaw and badly wounded, at half-past three o’clock yesterday afternoon, by Eliza White, a ballet girl, at his confectionury store, on Vine street near Second.It appears that for a long time, an attachment has existed between the parties, and that for the past three weeks, Glass has refused to give the girl any countenance, or to speak to her. At the abo\e mentioned hour, he was standing in his door, and seeing her approach, passed into the engine house adjoining. She, however, lingered around until his return, and followed him into the store, but what passed between them we could 'not learn. Glass came out, called officer Fisher, and told him to persuade Eliza to leave, as she was annoying him. Fisher did so, and she promised to be obedient, if permitted to speak a word to Glass, who had gone into a back room. Permission was granted. She went in. asked him to make up their difficulty and upon his avowing his intention to never speak to her again, she drew a pistol and shot him; the ball passed upwards and through the chin, breaking the lower jaw, and came out at the base of the tongue. It is supposed that the wounded man swallowed the ball, as it has not been found. The wound is severe but not fatal.— ■iFisber immediately arrested the girl, and as he was conveying her to the Station House, she requested permission to stop at her room which is on Third street and in the vicinity; the officer accompanied her to the door, and a moment afterwards she seized a laudanum bottle and drank off its contents. By prompt remedies her life was saved, although she lay for a long time in a very precarious condition. The i*oor girl seems to have a great affection for her victim, and in her waking moments last night was continually lamenting that she was not permitted to die with him; she would not believe but that he was killed. Among her trinkets was a double cased medallion containing their pictures, for which she begged incessantly until the officers returned it to her. It is not probable that the case will be prosecuted.Corporation Finances—Estimates for Oc-
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 24, 1860
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