St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-12
WITH A BULLDOG REVOLVER.
80 ursII D.oLnb1x, nso


Adolph Maguhn Empties One Into His Head
and Will Probably Die.
The neighborhood of Carroll and Louis
streets was startled about 4:30 yesterday
afternoon by the sound of pistol shots mingled
with the screams of woman. who shortly
came rushing from the house No. 2s3 Louis
street CRYING that her husband had shot him
self and tried to kill her. A crowd quickly
gathered, but no one could be found who
would venture into the house until the ar
rival of an officer. The latter on going in
found man in a sitting posture on the floor
with his back braced against table, his face
covered with blood, a pool of blood beside
him, and a revolver in his hand. He was
conscious, aud upon the arrival of DR.. Carl
Wirth it was found that one shot had plowed
across the right cheek bone and another had
gone in at the right temple and had come out
at the outer corner of the left eye, and third
had gone through the mouth. The physician
dressed the wounds and the man was re-
moved in the police ambulance to the city
hospital
The man is Adolph Maguhn, a middle
aged German. He was for time employed
as teacher in the Lutheran school on Wa.
basha street and afterwards in the public
schools of the city until the teaching of Ger
man was dropped from their curriculum.
For some time he has been very dissipated
in his habits and has neglected his family.
His wife has left him several times, the last
occasion being about the middle of Jan uary.
THE FAMILY HAD LEFT
st. Paul some time ago and had moved from
place to place until last fall, when she left
and returned to the city, her friends setting
her up in the millinery business at No. 347
West Seventh street. Here Mrs.
Maguhn was getting along nicely when he
returned and induced her to live with him
again. This was last fall, and he worked for
time as a canvasser, but soon relapsed into
the old habits and abused and even whipped
Mrs. Maguhn. He finally took possession of
the place and sold such things as he chose.
The woman has been very good-ooking
person, but her face shows the ravaging touch
of care aud trouble, and her story of the
treatment of herself and the four children,
two of whom are boys by former marriage,
is pitiful. These two little boys have stuck
to their step-mother, and have contributed
to the support of the family by selling papers.
She seems to have been afraid of Maguhn, and
tried to keep the knowledge of her residence
from him, and he has on several occasions
met the boys and showed them a revolver,
with threats to kill them if they
did not tell where she was. Saturday
Mrs. Maguhn applied for a divorce,
and on Monday Maguhn followed one of the
children home and besought her to return to
him, as he had received some money from
Germany and they could get along nicely.
She told him to seek work, stop drinking for
year or two anu prove that he conld sup
port her and she would then talk to him up
on the subject. This afternoon he returned,
his appearance indicating that he had been
drinking heavily and insisted on being adj
mitted to the house, as he was going to leave
the city and wished to bid herself and the
children
ADIEU.
Upon this assurance she opened the glass
paneled door and re-seated herself at the
window and resumed sewing. Maguhn
entered, removed his overcoat, seated him
self and demanded that she re-
turn to him. She declined and
ordered him to take his coat and
his departure. After some argument he
arose, took out of his pocket package, from
which he began to remove the newspaper
wrapper, disclosing revolver, and deiber-
ately pulled back the hammer. The wife
sPRANG TO her FEET
and rushed to the door of another room,
upon reaching which the first shot was fred
With the instinct of maternity she returned
and seized the smallest child, which was at
play in the room. Just then the second shot
was fired, and she AYERS that he shot twice at
her. 1t is the opinion of those who exam
ined the situation, however, that each of the
five shots fired were aimed at himself, for
there are marks of five shots about the room
and each one shows a different direction
from that in which Mrs. Maguhn fed. One
shot went through the window and
buried itself in the side of the,
adjoining house. Mrs. Maguhn was
seized with commissions shortly after the
tragic occurrence, but at o'clock last night
was In a com parativey calm condition and
could talk with ease.
DR.. Ancker, who has charge Of Maguhn's
case at the city hospital, last night said that
he considered the mans chances for recov-
cry as hopeless, one of the shots entering the
right side of the head about an inch from the
temple and ranging inward and upward, an
other entering from the left side at the
corner of the eye aud also ranging inward
and upward toward the brain and a third shot
going through the muscles of the mouth.
AThe revolver used by Maguhn is an ordi-
nary 32-caliber ive-chambered weapon upon
the pattern known as "bull-dog."
DEFUNCT OPERA.