THREATENED HIS WIFE BEFORE.
Pigg Said He Would Make Trouble.
She Is Still Alive.
Evidence secured yesterday by the police shows that James Monroe Pigg, who shot and fatally wounded his wife, Allie F. Pigg, in the front room of her home, 1108 Euclid avenue, early Saturday night, did so after premeditation.
Pigg was in Kansas City Sunday, November 30, and visited in town for several days. On Monday he went to the saloon of J. W. Woods, 700 Independence avenue, whom he knew in Deepwater. He was accompanied by a young man from Deepwater, and Pigg, who was drinking a good deal, made threatening talks about what he was going to do, giving Mr. Woods the impression that he intended to kill his wife and then himself.
Several letters which Pigg had written were shown and he said they told why he was going to make trouble. Pigg was carrying a revolver and Mr. Woods took it from him. The next day Pigg called and was given his revolver. Last night Mr. Woods said that Pigg had spoken to him about his wife and said that she would not live with him in Deepwater. The man also accused his wife, Mr. Woods said, of treating another man with more consideration than she did him.
While Mrs. Pigg is in the women's ward at the city hospital, hovering between life and death, her husband lies strapped to a cot in the male ward. His wound did not prove to be dangerous, but that of his wife is looked upon by surgeons as fatal.
