The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-24
SHOT BY A JEALOUS WOMAN.
the oUARRELs or 1HE aICBAELs TO
END PERHIPS Nv MURDER

Because OF n Careless WORD ths supposed
wife Triea to Xiii Her Husband Tn tho
Ceiipr where Hr Worked and Lived.
James MIchaels. an italian barber. was shot
last night and probably mortally wounded by
Margaret Cuff. young blaok-haired Irish
American girl. who lived with him az his wife.
The shooting occurred IL the basement Of 758
Seventh avenue where Michaels had both his
chop and his living apartments. lie Is a
Sicilian and has been In this country about
seven years His friends say he has q wife
and two children in Italy The girl who shot
him is % years old, and is known to the police.
Three years ago she was an inmate OF dis
orderly house at 257 West Ffty-fourth street.
kept by Mary Scanlon. The house was raided
by the police. and Mrs Scanlon was sent to
the penitentlary for q year. and died there.
Margaret Cuff was a witness against her. and
after the trial was discharged from the House
OF Detention. The next that Capt Schmitt-
berRers men knew OF her was about n year
ago. She was living with Michaels then. and
he had shop on Sixth avenue. between
Forty sixth and Forty-seventh streets. A
policeman was called in there to stop a row
between the man and woman. She had razor
and was threatening to cut hIs.throat with It
She says she was married to Michaels at the
City Hall two years ago. According to his
friends their life together has been a stormy
one. and IL Ia said that they were mutually
jealous They moved to 750 Seventh avenue
last June. There are three chairs in the shop.
and Mchaels had an assistant, Giuseppe Colaro
In the enrer part OF Yesterday all three were
In the basement. Mterward Mlchaels went
out. and lust before he returned in the alter
noon Maggie went out. According to her own
story and that OF Colaro she went to a news
stand TO exchange some gift enterprise cou-
pons for Il chrome picture. but when ehe got
back Michaels wanted to know whore she had
been. Colaro says Michaels exclaimed an
grlly:
Where have you been2 You are always
going out"
be be, 9nt as well as your Where have you been,
I'd like to know
"Oh, I've been to see my girl"
Thereupon, Coaro says. Maggie ran Into
bedroom. got the pistol. and pushing open the
Michaels in the right side Of the abdomen.
He and Colaro ran up into the street AT the
top OF the steps he staggered and cried for
help. while Colaro ran to Policemen Glass. who
was on the corner Glass found Michaels sup
ported by couple OF citizens. and. learning
what had happened. he went into the base
She had thrown the pistol on the floor and
taken refuge behind a door. She fought Ikea
tigress and 1t was only when a citizen came
to his help that Glass was able to drag her up
the steps Michnels identified her as the per-
son who had shot him.
In the mean time other citizens had teie-
phoned to Roosevelt Hospital for an ambu-
lance, and Michaels was taken 70 Roosevelt
Hospital
The woman vas taken to the police station.
where she told Capt Schmittberger that she
had only meant TO fire the pistol to make
self. He came to the bedroom door. she said.
Just the cartridge exploded. and he was
shot. The condition OF the cartridges In tho
1t was said at the hospital late last night
that Michaels m light recover