The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-17
She MEANT TO KILL.
Three Shots Fired at Her Hus-
band by an Infuriated Wife.
Held the Pistol Close to His Person
as He Lay in Bed.
All the Bullets Lodged in His Body
with Probably Fatal Effect.

Shortly after / o'clock this morning
three pistol shots rang out through the
tenement 425 Union street. Brooklyn.
They came from the apartments Of
Daniel Coakly, a motorman on the
Seventh avenue line of the Atlantic
Avenue Railroad Company. The shots
were followed by a cry Of pain.
Coakly's wife, Marion, had shot him
his left hip, the third entered the body
In the region OF the lower ribs.
Mrs. Coakly was about shooting her
seven-month-old girl when Patrolman
Faley and Detective O'Rorke, of the
Butler street station. arrived. An am
bulance call was turned in and Surgeon
Jacobson, of the Brooklyn City Hospi-
tai, dressed the injured mans wounds.
Coakly was found lying on the bed,
bleeding profusely, dressed in an under
shirt and trousers. The revolver had
been fired so closely as to burn and
blacken his clothing. The pistol was
lying on a table.
Mrs. Coakly and her baby were taken
to the station-house. She and her hus-
band give different versions OF the shoot
Ing, ~ .,,u, o,u,. ,o,,,
old. She was very pale as she stood be.
fore Justice Tighe, in the Butler Street
Court, this morning with her babe asleeI
untidily. After her plea had been taker
she sat in an adjoining room. She smiled
at the baby, and did not seem to realize
the seriousness of her position:
Mrs Coakly has been married twice
Her first husband, whose name was Sal
vatore, left her with five children, the
Oldest a girl, now nineteen years old
About four yeas ago she married Coax
ly. She says that during the past two
years he has abused her. shamefully
She says that he has struck her almost
every day, and that he Is hard drinker
She has had him arrested several
times for non-support and assault. She
says that of late he has been so cruel
that she, was led to buy the revolver
protect herself
She says that Coakly did not work
yesterday. but dressed In his best clothes
aud left the house early in the day. say
ing that he was going to see some girls
and that all the girls were stuck" or
MIN. He did not get home until about
M Mrs ."' co aG! says her husband wa,
drunk and began to abuse her. He
struck her, and finally threw himself
on the bed bed On s tee of She the
drove her nearly mad. She says sht
does not remember what happened aftel
that until the officers came In and ar
Coakly says he was not drunk. HI
removed some of his clothing and la,
DOWN on the bed, and began to play will
the baby. He says his wife was givinl
him a tongue-lashing all the time. H
did not pay any attention to her, an,
did not know what she was about unit
he heard the first shot.
The police say that they are convince'
that Mrs. Coakly has had her share, Q
abuse, but that she was probably
prompted to the shooting by jealousy
Coakly is younger than his wife. and
Seventh avenue line says he is one O
the most faithful men on the line.
At the hospital this morning 1t wa
d condition. He has been semi-consciou
since his arrival there. An attemI
will De made to recover the bullets &c
day.