Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
A MAN SHOT BY HIS WIFE.

A MAN SHOT BY HIS WIFE.
Bridget McCabe Shoots Her Husband
Michael In the Thigh.
Yesterday afternoon about 8 o'clock the
good people Of Centerville were aroused by
the report Of a pistol. Several persons
ran at once to where the report had come
from, when they saw Michael McCabe run
ming out of his house and chasing his wife
Bridget up the hill, but when he attempted
to go up he stopped and sat down on a
min arrived at this time and asked him
what was the matter, when he replied,
Bridget has shot me in the thigh"
They seized him one under each arm and
carried him into the house, when DR.. o.
b. Whitford was summoned to extract
the ball. A MINER reporter found Michael
McCabe lying on a cot in his home in Cen
t~erville. about an hour after the shooting
surrounded by his stepson Johnnie, q lad
about 8 years old and a number OF friends.
The doctor 500 arrived and extracted the
ball which evidently had been fred out OF
a No. 30 calibre pistol and had gone almost
through the thigh just escaping the bone
and main artery.
Michael McCabe's story is asfoliows when
interviewed: Il married Bridget in scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, several years
ago. She was q widow with two
boys. On the 22d OF March
we arrived in Butte with something like
$500, and we paid about $135 for furni-
| get work, so the money soon began to dwin-
| do wNpkoH annQ aix WQoka for PofSy
| Clark as top man, also for the St. Law.
renee. but when the mine shut DOWN. went
to Anaconda to work there, but only
earned twelve dollars. eight dollars Of
which l sent to her. When I came home
night before last / fonnd everything packed
up ready to be taken out OF the house.
When ! asked her what it all meant, she re.
piled that the county was going to furnish
her and the young ones a pass to go back
to her mother in Scranton.
Finally she sent out for two bits worth
OF whisky and two bits of beer and she
drank most all of it making her stupid.
Whenever 1 said anything to her she would
scream and holler so all the neighbors could
hear her. She began smashing everything
she could lay her hands on and crying that
I had never done anything for her. To-day
she was stupid again and me and the boy
did all the work. "Did we not Johnnie?"
Addressing the boy who replied: Eyes,"
FINALLY l went out and took a sup my
self, and when I came back she began again
to scream, when l tried to stop her from
crying. She accused me OF drinking the
last drop OF whisky, n accused me of be-
grudging the bite they ate, and to tell you
the truth, for some time past, when, as l
saw how che was carrying on, l determined
to 60 it and have half of everything myself,
and l began to drink. As to prosecuting
her, l won't do anything of the kind, and
l don't want to see her while l am lying
on my back. See where she hit me with
the fat-iron" (here showing a large lump
on his head.
Everything about the premises vas all
upside down. Furniture, clothes boxes
and mattresses were piled on top of each
other. When asked whether he had any
money he replied: Not a cent" she has
taken the last IS with her to the Jail.
Here the boy pulled out a quarter OF a
dollar saying, 'There father, I've got
some" He grasped it eagerly from the
little fellow and hid it under the mattress.
Some of the neighbors said that Michael
could get no work, and that the woman
and her husband used to send the Oldest
boy after whisky until both were drunk.
Then the fight would commence, sometimes
the woman receiving a whipping,
1t was go-as-you-please fight.
and Sometimes IS he Cd did, 'b but t tbey always
made it up again until yesterday when it
terminated in the shooting OF the husband
through the thigh.
Deputy Sheriff Shortsleeves had been
notified who went up to Centerville and
arrested the woman, she being grief stricken
at what she had done. She asked the
officer to allow her to bring her little son
Daniel along with her who is only a lad OF
5 years old. Mrs. McCabe was found in the
Jail about 6 o'clock last evening. When
asked by q MINER reporter to relate the
circumstances she asked, HAS Michael
said anything to you about it?" When
told that he had she said she preferred
to suffer sooner than see any harm befau
him or the children.
"Oh!" she said, "let them give me a
hearing and let me 60 to him. 1 did not !
do it Intentionally, and I did not know the
thing was loaded. Mike came home last
night drunk, when he imagined some one
was on the roof making a noise. I was sit
ting on the lounge at the time. So he went
and got the pistol and commenced to load it
and it went off and went into the foot OF
the lounge where I was sitting. So /
thought the thing was empty. So to-day
he came in shortly after dinner and began
Az duA Y luC CtrId CIllG6 |
on the head with q club, there she showed |
a number of bruises on the head) and l |
then screamed and hollered to Johnnie to |
get the neighbors to come, as Mike was
killing me. Johnnie replied that it served
her right, as she deserved it. When / finally
tore away from him l picked up a lat-iron.
and when he was following me, I let him
have it on the head, which staggered MIN.
and then l ran in the other room and
placed a large box in front of the door.
He then came to the door and said if l did
not let him in that he would smash in the
door. He finally showed the door back.
When he entered the the first thing
be did was to grasp me by the hair of the
head and one hand on my throat, when |
the pistol. I thought l would
him with it, when the thing
vent off. and he let go OF me.
then ran up the hill. He followed me
Dart OF the way when he stopped and sat
Town. They then told me I had shot him.
)h, let me 20 to him! Get me out Of this
'lace; I did not do it on purpose;
would not harm a hair Of his head"
One of the other female inmates here
poke up and said: II would get divorce
rom him and leave him."
NO" said the grief stricken woman, .
my place is with him. I would now take l
hree or four beatings than be in this place. t
'h, sir, see the judge and when he hears
l have suffered since I married this q
in Scranton, Pennsylvania. some four r
ears ago he will let me go.
l had plenty OF fine property which my r
rst husband left me, but now it is all gone c
othing is left. If only could get out and
D to my mother with my two little boys l y
mink that l would be all right again. Look =
this large bunch OF hair that he pulled "
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