The morning call., 1890-06-10
SHOT HIS WIFE.
Years of Domestic Infelieity End
in BloOdshed.
Michael Ccniin Jr. Fatally Wounds the Wo
man Who Made His Life Miserable-He
Was Driven to the Crime.

Michael Conlin Jr., a soap-makcr on the
San Bruno road, shot and. it is believed,
mortally wounded his wife. Mary C0nlin,
about $50 o'clock yesterday morning. in
their home on the San Bruno road, near
Cortland avenue.
They have been married for about seven
years. but were never happy together, and
the shooting yesterday WAS the elimination
of years of Jealousy and domestic troubles.
Conlin got up from his bed about O. clock.
and half an hour later his wife went into
the kitchen to prepare breakfast. Mean
while he was away at the factory. He re-
turned soon afterward and met her in the
hall and fired deliberately at her breast.
The bullet entered just above the right nip
pie, and passing clean through her body,
fell upon the floor The lnfuriated man
then realized what he had done and lifted
his wife upon the bed, there to die, as he
believed, alone, save for the presence of
their baby girl.
His crime and guilt pressed heavily OH
the man who imagined himself murderer
and drove him from the house in horror to
confess to friends what he had done. He
drove to his father in Butchertown and re-
lated the story, and thence went to his
W ife's relatives, whom he also informed of
his deed. This over he rushed to the City
Prison and surrendered himself, saying: II
have shot my wife. Look at her blood on
my hands"
AT DEATHS DOOR.
Employees from the soap factory went to
the house in great haste, only to hnd that
COnlin'S words were too true. Mrs. Conlln
was lying apparently Rt deaths door, with
the life blood trickling from wound above
her heart. Medical assistance from the
City and County Hospital was Immediately
summoned, but when the doctors arrived 1t
was found that the woman was not strong
enough to be removed. The doctors at
tended to her, but believe that her chances
of recovery are exceedingly few. By this
time Detective Burke had arrived. and, see
ing that she was likely to die, took her
dying statement.
She denied knowing any reasons for her
husbands muTdeTOuS assault unless that he
was under the influence of liquor. She
stated that he had been drinking for two
days and was greatly excited.
Conlin was very nervous when placed in
a cell and spoke excitedly. The thought Of
his four-year-old child having to suffer for
the affair seemed 10 trouble him more in
tenSely than aught else, but as for cOmpune-
tion there was little. Would he not be
avenged? Had she not driven him 10 ii all?
Then he continued TO the reporters:
CoNLIN's STORY.
"I married her in 1882, and two weeks
later discovered my mistake. Size lett me,
and after days OF anxious search L learned
that she had been on a spree. l took her
home with NE and tried every way posi-
be TO work her redemption. She has al
ways been a heavy drinker, and liquor
caused all our trouble. She would 90 off
on tears, consort with other men and act in
a disgraceful way.
1.-Two years ago | decided to FREQ myself
from her and commenced suit for divorce.
ba tO me- IA hayu tn civ bar
another chance. For the sake of our child
agreed to forget the past. | bought a little
home on the San Bruno road and took her
there hoping to wean her away from her
old associates. For time she behaved well,
but her taste for liquor again got the better
Of her and she Went off on spree.
IN MISERY FOR WEEKS.
81 have been miserable for weeks past,
and when she left home at = o'clock Sun
day afternoon and did not return until
nearly midnight l became desperate. l
had been drinking little since Saturday,
she was drunk. and she told ME she had
spent the afternoon and evening at the
home OF Mrs. Kate Egan, her cousin, who
lives on the Bernal Heights. We quarreled
before retiring, and when we got up this
morning the pickering and grumbling was
resumed. She was in the. hallway when l
WAS seized with an irresistible impulse to
shoot her. | fired at her once, and when
she fell to the floor l realized what had
done, and was sorry for it,
Acquaintances of Conlin corroborated his
story, although the wife denies his implica-
tions cast upon her character. She is sis
ter OF the notorious Barry family. and her
brothers are said to spend most of their
time in jail. With them and companions
of their ilk she spent her time day alter
day, and year alter year. until finally her
husband could not brook her alleged mis-
conduct longer.