The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-12-27
A MURDEROUS FEMALE.
The Exploit of Miss Aivfna g. Mckee,
Chfcaao-She Kills a Constable and Puts
His Posse to Flight.
[From the Chicago Tribune]

Chicaeo-She Kills a Constable and Puts
His Posse to Flight.
IFrom the Chicago Tribune.l
At about 2:20 yesterday afternoon
Constable James E. McEl1igott, of JUS
tice Haines' Court, was shot and mortal
ly wounded by Miss Alvina G. Mckee
while attempting to levy on an execu-
ton for $42 for the rent of the house No.
SO Rush street. The house was occu-
pied by Mrs. Rebecca Louis and her
sister, Miss Mckee, who had been visit
ed SO frequently by constables on SINH
lar occasions that they were thoroughly
on the alert, and so shrewd had they be-
come that the officers had several times
been baffled. Constable McEllgott had
determined that the only way to capture
this redoubtable castle and it's Anna
zoifian defenders WAS by strategy. The
sortie was made about 2 o'clock from
Justice Haines' Office, No. 149 Madison
street, the besieging party consisting OF
Owen McElroy and his express-wagon,
McElligott, Fred Best, a brother of the
constable, and Martin Best, Clerk of
the Police Court, and John McInerney.
Arriving in the neighborhood, the wagon
was left block distant from the house,
and McInerney was sent forward to re-
connoiter. Seeing that all was well, he
rang the door-bell, and moment later
female head popped ont of the
window. Mack said he was look
ing for rooms to rent, and this proved
the "open sesame AS the door
was opened to admit him, the three
others rushed up the steps and forced
their entrance behind him. McElligott
at once began reading his warrant, but
Miss Mckee, for it vas che who had
opened the door, did not wait to hear
word of it. Without speaking, she
ran down stairs into the basement, and
in twink1ing feappesred on the stair
way, and with an oath, ' iou-------!" !"
she pointed revolver through the ban
listers, fired one shot at the constable, and
attempted to fire a second, but the car
fridge hung fire. McElligott threw up
his hands with an exclamation of pain,
and, dropping his wallet aud papers, in
Guiding the execution, he staggered out
of the front door, closely followed by
McElroy, the expressman. He was car
bed to the wagon and taken to the Office
of DR.. G. E. Davis, ON North Clark
street, where it was found that the bullet
had entered the abdomen at point mid.
way between the navel and the left
groin, and had taken an upward course
1t was deeply probed for, but to no ef-
feet, and DIR. Davis at once pronounced
it necessarily fatal. The retreat of Nc
Elligott left the two remaining besiegers
in state Of siege, and that, too, within
the enemy's lines. The irate little
woman locked the door after them
and then cast her "bad" eye
on the youngster Best and the
man who had deceived her at the
door. They caught her glance, and fed
precipitate1y. It was not the glance
that made them flee, but the continual
click of the revolver. They ran into
the parlor and attempted to fortify
themselves, but there was no furniture
or anything else that would serve to
barricade the door. and they were COM
PEELED to make break for upstairs,
which they did successfully. But " the
villain still purst1ed them At this
juncture McInerney clambered out Of
the window and got back to terra frma
as best he could. The Amazon was
after them in hot pursuit Young Best
slammed the door leading into the hall
way, and, with lounge and bedstead,
barricaded it as best he could. No
sooner had he fixed himself in this
quarter than he perceived a female hand
and the revolver fourishing about an
opening between two folding-doors. 1t
vas the work of second to tear a few
feet of BEDFORD from the bedstead and
make fast the two folding doors. The
attack was then directed to the barri-
caded door, Afraid that his pursue1
would fire through the door, Best lay
fiat On the floor and attempted to prop
up the barricades against the door but,
failing In this, and feeling that entrance
was slowly being forced, he summoned
all his courage and took running
Jump out of the window. He landed
safely, beyond slightly spraining his
ankle, but the pain of this rapidly dissi-
pated, for, upon looking upward, there
was a head that resembled that of Cor
gon, a hand, and the dreaded revolver,
at the very window he had jumped from.
1t was sufficient, however, in the minds
of the Amazons, that the besiegers OF
their impregnable fortress had been re-
pulsed with slight loss of life, for they
took mercy on their young victim and
coDtented themselves by a volley of
threatening words at his rapidly-disap-
pearing figure.
BY this time the neighbors had be-
come thoroughly aroused, and had
gathered about the house, but the sight
of Best jumping from the window and
the subsequent apparition at the window,
caused stampede. A few returned,
but none dared go near the house. The
policeman on beat was aroused, and
lazily sauntered up the front steps, and,
ringing the door-bell, was preparing to
ask what all the low was about, when
the revolver again appeared in threat
ening position from out front window.
The officer intrenched himself in the re-
cess of the door, and demanded an un-
conditional surrender, and, after consid-
erable parley, the fortress was thrown
open. Miss Mckee did not deny the
shooting, and readily went with the
officer 10 the station.
Too Smart for Him.
A police inspector on being informed
that restau1ateur in his bialiwick was
serving game out of season, visits the
restaurant in mutt, and orders dinner
Waiter, says he. "can you give me
a salmi of partridgeg'
"Sertingly, sir" replies the waiter,
promptly, and yells to the cook, '' Par
fridge for one."
The inspector finishes his dinner leis-
urely, and then says to the waiter, ''Ask
the boss to step this way minute
"What for?''
81 wish to notify him to appear in
court tomorrow, and answer Cor selling
partridge out of season.
go, L guess it amt worth while both
ering him about that"
"Do as I tell you. / am the police
inspector, and have secured the recessa-
ry evidence against him.
go, / spotted you, and Guessed what
you were after. 1t wasn't partridge you
had