The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-30
VIM. DORNWELL ATTEMPTS
TO MURDER HIS MISTRESS
AND THEN KILLS
HIMSELF.
THE ROOM PRESENTS AN AWFUL
SIGHT.
The House Surrounded by Curious
Throng Madly Clamoring for
Sight of the Dead Man.

Another crime was added to the
criminal record of Austin yesterday
when VIM. Dornwell, better known as
Buffalo Bill" attempted to kill his
mistress, Maggie Mule, and then
turned the smoking revolver on him
self and blew out his brains.
THE PLACE.
The house in which the deed vas
done is situated at the corner of East
avenue and Fifth street, and known
as the Emigrant hotel. 1t is occupied
by a number of women some of
whom make a questionable liv-
ing by taking boarders, and
it was with one of these, the
woman Mule, that Dornwell had been
living for some time past, having left
his wife and four little children who
survive him and ale now left to care
for themselves.
THE DISTURBANCE.
Clerk McCashin, at the city hall,
informed reporter that at l :45 p
m. yesterday he received telephone
message from Mr.. G. Henderson, who
keeps wagon yard on East Sixth
street, stating that row was in prog
ress at the Emigrant hetel, in which
"Buffalo Bill" was taking very promi-
nent part. Officer Bell was at once sent
down, but he reported that Bill had
left the house and come up town, and
that every thing was quiet.
ANOTHER MESSAGE.
Again at 3 80 p. m. another message
was received at headquarters, this
time from Jacob Stern, who stated
that a shooting match had taken
place at the same house, and request
ing that an officer be sent down. Mr.
McCashin sent officer Gibson, who
found Dornwell lying on the floor gasp.
ing for breath, and the woman
Maggie Mule, on her bed with blood
streaming from hole in her right
cheek.
A STATESMAN reporter reached the
house at 3 :45, and pushing his way
through the crowd that was clamor-
ing for admission, made bis way up the
narrow steps that were built up the
side of the house leading into the
hall. On the landing at the top he
met
DoRNwELL's WIFE,
who had been inside to see the work
of her then dying husband, and was
being led back to her home by friends
Her grief was of the most pathetic
nature, and as she wrung her hands
and sobbed the hearts of all present
were touched in a manner that is fal
beyond description.
THE SIGHT INSIDE.
The reporter then made his way
into the narrow hall into which
two rooms opened, beside one at
either end of the house. In the first
one, the one facing the street, lay
Maggie Mule on the bed with her
clothes satuated with the blood that
was flowing from bullet hole in her
right cheek. Her face was terribly
burned by the powder and as she lay
on the bed moaning she presented a
most pitiful sight. DR.. Hamilton,
who had been called in was by her
side and to him she kept calling, ooh,
doctor, please, please put me to sleep
l)u,me So" DR.. Lewrig hit, who
Ion sent for soon came in and
together they probed for the ball
which was finally found and cut out
from the back of the neck. The ball
entered just below the right eye and
shattered the jaw bone then ranged
down and around the base of the
brain, lodging near the surface
about the middle of the neck.
After it. was extracted she
continued to ask the doctors to put
her to sleep, but soon fell off into a
heavy sleep caused by the an@sthetic
that had been administered while the
probing was being done.
Leaving the room and passing down
the hall the second room was reached
the one in which the shooting was
done. Laying on the floor with his
his head over the door sill and pro-
Getting out into the hall lay the
DYING MAN,
whose body presented sickenlne
spectacle, one that made strong mer
turn their heads away and leave the
house. AS he lay there on his back
blood and brains were oozing from the
bullet wound in the back of his heac
about two inches above the ear, form
ing pool of blood and gore on the
hall fl Dor that was horrible to behold
THE FATAL SHOT
was fired about 800, bu
At intervals Dornwell continued II
gasp and it was not until A :35 that
long drawn breath and an awful grug
ling sound in the throat told thai