Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-28
AIMED At HER HEART.
Mrs Pennicard Plants Three Pistol Bull
lets in Her Left Side.

Mrs Pennicard Plant Three Pistol Bull
lets in Her Left Side.
Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicles: At $50
o'clock Sunday morning Milan Vucovich,
who is having some improvements made
on a lot ON North A street, heard the re-
port OF several pistol shots in quick sue.
cession proceeding from Ne. 50, a two
story dwelling on the west side of the street.
A moment later Mrs. Robert Cameron,
who occupies the upper part OF the prem
Uses, called to Mr.. Vucovich and hastily
informed him that Mrs. Charles Pennieard,
occupying the lower story of the building,
had shot. herself.
Mr.. Vucovich at once entered the Penni-
card residence and found Mrs. Pennicard
reclining on a bed with q deathly pallor on
her face and blood flowing from rounds in
her side, while on the floor of the o lay
q pistol. He Immediately summoned police
| officer Henderson and DR.. F. M. Conn, who
arrived on the scene q few minutes later.
Dr.. Conn found three pistol shot wounds
on the womaD's person. One OF the BULLETS
struck the eighth rib on the left side and
| glanced to tine rear. The next is two inches
lower, but the course OF the bullet was not
| ascertained. The third struck the upper
part OF the left hip bone. A fourth bullet
| was found in the bed which had evidently
been also fired at her person by Mrs. PEN
nicard, as four chambers OF the pistol were
empty.
TIE pistol is branded american Bull
Dog" and carries a 80 calibre bullet. That
Mrs. Pennicard intended to kill herself
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| all in the region of the heart. There is only
| one wound that is considered danderous,
which is that located below the eighth rib.
As the course OF that bullet could not be
ascertained, DR.. Conn is o prepared to
say whether the result will prove fatal or
otherwise.
Mrs. Pennicard is still a young woman
and of unusually prepOssessing presence.
| Her husband is top carman at the G. & c.
shaft and was on shift at the time of his
wife's attempt to destroy herself. The
couple have always lived pleasantly to-
gether and the only motive to which Mrs.
Pennicard's desperate attempt to AXE her
life can be attributed is the slanderous
nejghborhood, whose name Mrs. Pennicard
mentioned while her wounds were being
dressed.
The pistol barrel was evidently pressed
| against her person by Mrs. Pennicard, as
the slight clothing she had on at the time
and the wounds were black with powder
smoke, as was also her right HAND in which
she held the pistol while firing the shots.
The fact that she held the pistol in that
hand accounts for the failure OF the shots
to reach her heart-as she intended they
should-as the barrel was evidently held In
a slanting position, and if her life is saved
| she owes it to that circumstance.
DR.. Conn reports that at 3 O'Clock this
afternoon Mrs. Fennicard complained OF
great pain in the region OF her heart. She
was perfectly rational and expressed re-
greet that she had attempted to destroy
herself. She stated hat she had no recol-
lection of shooting herself, and that she
must have been laboring under temporary
arrangement of the mind at the time. She
expressed great anxiety to live.
There were no witnesses of the shooting,
Mrs. Pennicard being the only person in
the apartment when she fired the shots.
She has q daughter about 10 years OF age,
| whom she dispatched on an errand a few
minutes before she shot herself. Mrs. Pen
nicard is evidently a womsn of unusual
nerve, or she would have dropped to the
floor shrieking, woman-like, after the first
bullet penetrated hel body. She never ut.
tered a sound, however, but kept blazing
AWAY at her person as long as she thought
there was a charge left in the pistol, after
which she dropped back on the bed, evil
IDENTIFY satisfied that her wounds were ia
tal.