DEAF TO PLEADING YOUNG MAN KILLS WIFE, THEN SELF Gets Her to Meet Him in Home After He Faces Judge Wilson. Having failed to bring about a reconciliation with his 26-year-old wife, Friday morning Samuel Hughes, 32-years old, boilermaker employed at the Navel Station, shot and killed her and then committed suicide. The tragedy occurred at 708 Bartholomew street, where the couple lived with their two small children until a month ago, when they separated. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes had met at the old home by appointment at 10 a. m., and had been in the house a few minutes when the neighbors heard the pistol shots. On entering the house Hughes was found dead and the wife dying. The woman expired before the arrival of the Charity Hospital ambulance. Thomas E. Hughes, 19-year-old brother of the dead man, was in the rear yard, and, the police say, he heard Mrs. Hughes plead for her life. "My God, Sam, don't do it, don't do it," she is said to have cried. Mrs. Hughes is said to have been running away from the crazed husband when shot, for the bullet struck her in the back of the head and lodged in the brain. After the woman fell to the floor Hughes fired one shot into his breast and then placed the pistol's muzzle in his mouth. Dr. E. J. De Burge, assistant coroner, said neither of them lived more than a few minutes after being shot. Jealousy is believed to have been the reason for the shooting. The couple quarrelled continuously and three weeks ago they separated, it is said. Mrs. Hughes took her two children, Harold, 6, and Hazel 4, to live at the home of her mother, Mrs. Margaret Ebermann, at 1231 Bartholomew street. Hughes had been summoned before Judge Andrew Wilson in the Juvenile Court Thursday morning to answer the charges filed against him by his wife to provide for herself and the two children. The court received information that Hughes would not pay alimony and was going to leave New Orleans, it was said. After a talk with Judge Wilson, Hughes is alleged to have denied that he intended leaving the city. He promised he would provide for his children. He had been ordered by the court to pay $10 each week. Mrs. Hughes is said to have asked the court for the furniture and household effects. The husband interrupted and told her that if she would meet him at the house Friday morning she could have everything. Hughes' friends say they believe he had hoped to have a talk with the wife and bring about a reconciliation. Hughes' brother was at the house Friday morning to help his sister-in-law pack up the furniture. He told the police they had only been in the house a few minutes when one of the neighbors called him and said there was shooting in the house. The dead woman's mother was one of the first to reach the house with the two little grandchildren. She said she had warned her daughter not to go to meet Hughes Friday morning. She said she felt that Hughes intended to do her harm.