The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-19
AN UXpALATAnLE COURSE.
A Sensational scene at q Dinner Table
In Brooklyn.


NEw YoRK, January 1s.-As Mrs. Cath
arine Carberry was at dinner at 5 o'clock
Monday evening, in her house at Gales and
Marcy avenues, Brooklyn, herwidowed as-
ter, Mrs. Ann Wilkins, arose deliberately
from the table, and, walking around to d
point behind her, drew pistol and shot
her in the head. Mrs. Carberry, uttering
scream, sprangup from the chair and fell
over TO the floor exclaiming, MY sister has
shot me-" sY'
Information was carried into the Gates
avenue police station, which is next door,
and q policeman who ran into Mrs. Carber-
ry's house found Mrs. Wilkins standing in
the dining room with the pistol in her
hand, looking upon her sister, who was
PROSTATE and bleeding from wound in
the head. Mrs. wilkins, when taken into
the police station, was entirely seli-pos-
sessed. When policeman entered and
sad, "She is not dead, +" Mrs. Wilkins start
ed up and said: Z
"I am very sorry for that. II l had
killed her l could then have seen the
newspaper reporters and told them the
story Of my wrongs"
To Captain Mclaughlin she said that
her sister.had defrauded her out Of proper
ty in this city and New Jersey. Mr.. John
Carberry, her brother-in.law, who soon ar
rived, explained that Alrs. Wilkins was in.
sane, but that her mental arrangement
had been SO slight that his wife hoped to
cure her in her own home instead OF send
ing her 10 an asylum. She was rational
part OF the time, and was then atfectionate
and agreeable, but when her mind became
affected she imagined that she had been
defrauded out Of her property. For some
days her mind has been possessed with
this mania.
Mrs. Wilkins said she resolved to kill
her sister, and she went to store on Full
ton street, and purchased small pistol.
After she got home, apon examining the
weapon, she concluded it was not large
enough, and she at once returned and ex.
changed it for u large Smith 4 Wesson re.
yolver. She purchased ten cenis' worth Of
cartridges, and upon her return home she
loaded the pistol herself. Then, she saws.
she patiently waited for the dinner hour.
so that she could get up from the table he.
fore her sister arose, and fire the shot, She
waited Until the servant, joanna Nash.
went into the cellar, and then she got up
and fred the shot. r
The ball entered the back Of the head
near the base Of the brain, and It seems 10
have followed the skull around and TO have
Chipped off piece of the cheek bone under
the left eye. DTs. Burdick and Palmer
probed for the ball, but failing get abold
on it. cut through the face beneath the left
eye. They thought last night that the
wound was not fatal, and that even tho
sight Of the eye would not be impaired
Mrs. Wilkins Is about 45 years old. She
has remarkable blue eyes that are compared
to the polished bars Of steel.
II wish l had killed her." she said re.
peatediy, Aand l would not have to shoot
her again."
She has been patient Of DIR. Charles
Corey, an insanity expert for some time.
and when the subject OF sending her to an
asylum was discussed, her sister objected.
Mrs. Carberry, who is about thirty.eipht
years old, is the wife Of John Carberry, a
liquor dealer. Ifshe escapes inflammation
her recoyeryis probable, but the course q
the ball seemed q miracle in view OF the
pains her sister took in her aim. Mir
Wilkins was locked up in the police sta
ton. She persisted in q story that her IN.
ter had cheated her out OF $50 900 worth Of
property, but her relatives say that she
never had thatmuch property, and that she
never lost any through her sister.