The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-09
HOPE FOR HIS LIFE.
Possibility That Mcneil May
Yet Recover.
HIS WIFE'S SEEMING GRIEF
Violent elimination of Many Domestic
Brawls-Mrs. Mcneil Locked Up
In the County Jail.

John Mcneil, proprietor of the Golden
State hotel, who was shot by mis- wife, May
Mcneil, Tuesday afternoon, rested easily
Tuesday night and all day yesterday. The
ball has not yet been taken from his body,
and his chances of recovery are about even.
DIR. Ii. +. Jacobson, who is in attendance
on Mcneil, says that though he has not
been able to locate the ball by probing
still he is confident that its location will
not materially decrease the patients
chances of recovery.
al have found that the ball has not
lodged in neither the lungs, the abdomen
nor the intestines,' said DR.. Jacobson,
land therefore its lodging place is not in
vital spot and its removal is of minor I'M
portance. | cannot say that Mcneil will
recover. Time will tell and mark the
change"
When a PosT-INTELLIGENCER reporter
called at the Golden State hotel yesterday
afternoon Mcneil could not be seen.
"He is sleeping" said the clerk, Sand
the doctor says no one can see him."
Later in the evening a reporter called,
and though the wounded man was awake
he was so weak and exhausted that he was
not allowed to talk. Inasmuch as Mcneil
was very hard drinker. and was always
more or less under the influence of liquor,
those who are attending him, besides his
attending physician, entertain but small
hopes of his recovery.
Mrs. Mcneil, who fired the shots. will
not be given hearing, much less chance
to furnish bonds, until change occurs in
her husbands condition. Yesterday
morning she was removed from the city
Jail to the county Jail, in the new court
house, and she now occupies a cell with
Mary Irving, alias Cowboy Mary" who is
serving out a sentence of twenty-three
days for petty larceny. At A O'Clock last
evening Mrs. Mcneil was found in her cell
and was much depressed in spirits, while
Cowboy Mary" was endeavoring to cheer
her by telling all the comical occurrences
nocent girl. When the outer door was
opened, Mrs. Mcneil came quickly forward,
and her first words were:
How is he? Tell me; is he dead?''
Upon being informed that he was not
dead, she looked much relieved, and made
some incoherent remarks about doing the
shooting in self-defense.
81 want to make a denial" said the
woman, ABOUT the statement IN the pa
pers to the effect that used bad language
when arrested, and that l am confirmed
morphine taker. have never taken NOR
phine but twice, and it was then in large
doses. / had suffered blows and abuses
until my heart was broken, and it was then
that 1 took morphine, hoping to end my
existence, but both times, regret to say,
failed. Mr.. Mcneil has frequently fol-
lowed me about the hotel and threatened
to kill me, and | was momentarily in dread
that he would carry his threats into execu-
ton. Only last week he stabbed me here -
(pointing TO a red unhealed spot near the
bridge of her nose), ''the blood spurted
all over me and all over him.
ran to the opposite end
of the hotel and fell in a faint from pain
and loss of blood. Previous to this he hit
me and my blackened eyes and the bruises
on my face show how / was treated.
After that l tried to sneak away from the
hot ell with my clothes, but he followed me
| and when he reached for his hip pocket I
| grabbed up revolver, pointed it at him,
hid my face and eyes with my left hand
and commenced firing with my right.
! could not see where / shot and it must
| have been the last ball that took effect.
81 don't want to be a murderess and