New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-10

| present, made no effort to save his mothers
life. Mrs. Maria McKeever, of No. $40
Eighth-ave was stabbed by her husband,
Thomas McKeever, yesterday in butchers
! shop in West Thirty -sixth-st., and received
an almost certainly fatal wound in the abdo-
men. She had not lived with her husband for
several years, and he was jealous of her.
LEFT TO BLEED TO DEATH.
MRS. o'CoSNoR SHOT BY HER DRUNKEN HUSBAND,
AND DENIED MEDICAL AID.
| Some persons living in the tenement-hOuse at No.
40i East Fifty y-nnth-st, informed Captain Gunner,
of the Twenty-eighth Precinct Police, yesterday,
! that Mrs. Ellen OConnOr had died in the basement
of the building from the effects of violence. Cap
tain Gunner went TO the house and found the body
! of Mrs. OConnor living on bed in a basement room.
An examination of the body showed that she had
died from plstol-shot wound in her right side The
| body was cold, and the woman evidently had
| been dead several hours. In the room where the
! body lay John OConnor. the husband of the
| dead woman, and Patrick Angaa, age twenty-one.
her son by former husband. OCOnner was so
| much intoxicated th,t he could not speak plainly.
The son was under the influence of iquOr also, but
! he could talk. He said that his mother had been
shot about midnight on the previous night by his
stcp-father Captain Gunner questioned the young
man closely and drew from him. the following ac-
count Of the tragedy:
OConnor, an Irish carpenter, ffty-six years old,
had lived in the basement of the tenement-house
with his wife and stepson for several months They
all given to free of liquor and were drink
ing together or Saturday night. OCOnnor went
out, and came home about midnight very drunk.
When he entered the basement where hi wife was
she made some remark about his condition and he
in turn charged her with being drunk. They had
short wrangle and OCOnnor, after cursing his wife,
said TO her:
81 might inst as wcl shoot you not"
He went into the bedroom and got large muzzle-
loading pistol Returning to the front room he lev
elled it at his wife and fired before her son
could int ere. The bullet struck Mrs.
OConnor in the right side and made an ugly
wound. Her son helped her to bed, where she lay
for several hours slowly bleeding TO death. The
other inmate of the tenement-houSe took no notice
of the pistol shot and neither Connor nor his STEP
son made any effort to get medical aid. OConnor.
! toward morning went out and summoned his wites
married daughter, Mrs. Kate Hess. When Mrs Hess
went 10 see her mother about AIN. Mrs OConnor
was dead. -,
| late IN the forenoon. Captain Gunner arrested
| O'Connor and his stepson. Young Anglan could
not explain his neg gencc in failing to get surgeon
to attend his mother, and it was believed that II "A
surgeon had been cal ed TO attend her Immediately
after the shooting her life might have been saved.
Coroner He rInan took charge OF the case yesleltay
He ordered OConnor and Anglan to be detained at
the police station pending the investigation.
STABBED BY A JEALOUS HUSBAND.
THOMAS McKELvER ATTACKS HIS WIFE IN A
BUTCHER's sHoP-AN UGLY WOUND IN THE ABB
poMES-cLAMING TO HAVE ACTED IN A
FRENZY.
| Great excitement was occasoncd yesterday morn
ing in the neighborhood of A. T.. Aliens butcher
shop No. 3i1 Vest Thirty on account Of
an attempt made by a Scotchman, Thomas Nc
K-ever 10 take the life of Mrs Maria McKeevcr his
wife. who lives at No. $50 Eighth-ave. Mrs. Nc
Keever who has little money at command which
she saved from her position "a nurse with an Amcr-
can family in Russia years ago, and who
supports herself and sisters by renting furnished
| rooms was married to McKecver in 1869 but has
not lived with him for the last eight years They
had two children both of whom are dead. McKeever
| is mason by trade. On account of his dissolute
habits his wife separated from him and obtained
bill of separation several years ago. He was insaney
Jealous of her. and two years ago attempted TO take
| her life On that occasion ho met her in Eighth
ave. near Thirty-sixth-st.. and drew knife on her.
Mr. sullivan the keeper of a stand at Eighth
| ave- aud Thirty-slXth-st,, who was chatting with
| her at the time said: /" Here comes Mckeever;
| you'd better get into the house." and she did so.
! McKeever angrily approached Sullivan and said: :
"You were mighty smart! lfit hadn't been for you
| I'd have finished her."
Mr. McKeever had not seen or heard of her hus-
band for year or more She went out yesterday
morning TO Aliens butcher shop to make some pur-
clqses She was standing near Mr.. Aliens desk,
with her back to the door when Mckecyer entered
aud laid his hand upon her shoulder. She turned
around when McKeeyer said: I've found you Mt
last. have Ifr She retreated backward few steps,
,,,I his
arm about her neck plunged the blade of clasp
knife which he held in his hand into her abdomen.
She sank down. crying, Pm stabbed" and Nc
Keeyer fled from the store toward Ninth-aye. Mr.
Allen shouted to the passcrs-by to arrest that man
for murder" At Ninth-ave. and Thirty-sixth-st.
McKeeTer was secured by two men and handed over
TO the custody of Roundsman Osborne, OF the lwen-
teth Precinct. The clasp-knile was picked up IN
the street where McKeever had thrown IL. -
Mrs McK"cyeT rallied III Il little time ana walked
to her house near by There she told her sisters TO
send for "A doctor. saying that she had Deen stained.
Ex-Poce Surgeon Lordley was summoned, ana upon
examination found penetrating messed wound
IN the abdomen opening into the abdominal cavity
with the viscera protruding. The woman refused
to be taken to a hospital. Dr. Lordley gave Ger.
thcate to the policeman setting forth the nature Oh
the wound, and stating that the patient was III q
critical condition ROundSman Osborne took ms prs-
to the Jefferson Market Police Court later IN
the morning, when Justice Ottorbourg committed
him 10 await the orders of the Coroner, REMAINING
him for the time to the custody of tho pollce' NC
Keever saws that he has been eight times across the
ocean, and that he only returned to this country
the last time on Wednesday; On saturday night he
slept in Castle Garden, and he started out cary
Yesterday morning for n walk While passing
through West Thirty-sIxth-st he met his wife, At
the time he says hc had his knife IN hand and was
cutting off some plug tobacco to Till hs pipe. A sud.
den frenzy seized him and, without moving what
he did, he rushed madly upon her and stabbed her.
He says that eight years ago she drove MN Hom iue
the house and he was distracted at her conduct with
other men. The neghbors all speak well OF Mrs;
McKeeyer, as a quiet, orderly and well-behayed
person. The prisoner WAS locked up III the lWehu-
ath Drepi