St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-29
MISS ARNE MAY DIE
HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE
SHOOTS HERSELF WITH DAN
GER OF FATAL RESULTS.
ACCIDENTAL OR INTENDED.
SHE SAYS SHE CAUGHT HER FIN
GER IN THE TRIGGER
GUARD,
WHILE HANDLING A PISTOL,
Others Intimate That She Was De-
spOndent Over Interference
With Love Affair.
ACCIDENTAL OR INTENDED.
WHILE HANDLING A PISTOL.

Alice j. Arne, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of F. NJ. Arne, residing at
$40 temperance street shot herself
yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, as
a result of which she is lying in a
precarious condition at the above ad-
dress, with chances about even for
life or death. Miss Arne was alone
at the time, and no one knows just
how the shooting occurred At 4:3O
yesterday afternoon residents in the
vicinity of Mrs. LeVeroos' boarding
house, at which Mr.. Arne and
his daughter are living, were startled
by screams issuing from the door of
the boarding house. Several neigh
bors rushed to the house and found
MISS Anne standing in the hall. She
begged them to send for a doctor, say
ing she was injured and needed a
physician. By this time Mrs. Lever
oos, the landlady, attracted by the
crowd in front of her home, returned
Ifom visit to a neighbor's and
learned the awful fate which had be-
fallen her young tenant
Miss Arne was led up stairs and
DR.. Whitcemb Immediately summoned.
Upon his arrival DR.. Whitcomb made
an examination, which showed that
the bullet, SS caliber, had entered
the left breast of his patient about
TOUR inches above the nipple, and, pass
ing clear through her body, emerged
from the back near the shoulder blade.
Miss Arne complained of no severe
suffering and the wound was dressed.
arter which the girls father was
sought for He was absent from his
place of business, however, and knew
nothing of the shooting until he came
10 supper at o'clock. He was horri-
ned at what had happened, and i'm
mediately sought DR.. Whitcomb to as
certain the true nature Of his daugh-
ter's injuries.
Miss Arne Is a member l[ the high
school class of '9S and attended schoolas
usual yesterday morning In speaking
OF the accident last evening, Mr.. Arne
said: When | came home and found
Alice had been shot l could hardly be-
lleve 1t true. / asked her how she had
wounded herself and she said she had
been looking in my bureau drawer for
something, and, seeing my revolver a
SO Smith Ss Wesson, had taken it up to
look at 1t. In examining the mechan-
ism of the revolver, she said she at
tempted to break the barrel, when her
finger caught in the guar6 In attempt
ing to extricate her finger, the trigger,
the pistol being self-cocking one, was
drawn back and snapped on the loaded
cartridge. DR.. Whitcomb tells me that
my daughters injuries, while of a most
serious nature, are not necessarily ia
tai. She has strong constitution and
Is generally neaithy and II pneumonia
or other complications can be avoided.
DR.. Whitcomb assures me of her re-
covery."
Mrs. Leveroos was seen by a Globe
reporter, and, being interrogated, said
she knew absolutely nothing about
how it happened. She had been visit
ing neighbor, two doors below her
house, but had heard no screams for
assistance. Noticing a crowd in front
of her house, she had hurried home
and was told by those already there
that Miss Arne had been shot The
injured girl was on the bed in her room
up stairs at this time, and the re-
volver lay on the floor beside her.
Several neighbors give an account
of the shooting entirely different from
that of Mr.. Arne. 1t was said by one
Of these that Miss Arne had had a dis
agreement with her father about the
attentions of a well-known young man,
and in a fit of dependency had at
tempted to take her own life. Mr.. Arne
emphatically denies this statement,
and affirms that the shooting was pure
ly accidental though he admitted that
his daughter knew the revolver was
loaded. Mrs. Leveroos stated that she
had frequently heard Mr.. Arne correct
his daughter, but otherwise, she
thought their relations were most afs
fectionate.