The San Francisco call., 1897-02-28
SAYS HIS WIFE
STABBED HIM
John P. Hagan Has Made
His Ante Mortem
Statement.
Mrs. Hagan Is Detained in the
City Prision Pending De-
velopmentS.
Shs Claims He Threatened 10 Kill
Her With a Hatchet and She
Defended Herself.

John P. Hagan is lowering between life
and death in the Receiving Hospital and
his young wife Mary is in the City Prison,
and should her husband die, she will be
charged with murder.
The police were notified yesterday morn
ing that Hagan's death was only question
of hours, and Corporal Leinden was sent
to take his ante-mortem statement.
Friday night Hagan made contradictory
statements. At first he said he was play
ing on the sofa with his baby girl in his
residence, SO South Park, with a carving
knife in his hand when he slipped from
the sofa and fell upon the knife. Later he
said he was chopplng wood, and his wife
had the carving-knife in her hand. In a
playful struggle for possession of the knife
he was cut.
In his ante-mortem statement he
deliberately charges his wife with cutting
him with the knife, and declares that it is
the truth. The statement is as follows:
Believing that 1 am about to die, I, John P.
Hagan OF 3S South Park, make this, my dying
statement:
About z o'clock last night, after supper, 1
came home. My wife was under the influence
OF liquor. accused her of it anc she began
to throw things at me. explained to ner
that she would be nothing but a common
woman If she kept on associating with the
people that she was associating with She
claimed that my mother put me up 10 say
those things about her. She went to drawer
took out carving-knife and said, e. you,
will cut your heart out" had my two hands
in my pockets when she cut me. as did not
think she would do ii. then ran out into
the street This Is true.
After making the statement his wife
was ushered into his presence, and in
answer to the question as to whether she
had used the knife upon him he replied
Yes
Mrs. Hagan, who is only 21 years of age,
claims that she was forced 10 seize the
knife to defend herself from her hus band,
who was threatening TO kill her with
hatchet
He came home last night in an ugly
mood. After supper he lay down on the
lounge and after he had slept for an hour
or so something the baby did awoke him.
He abused me fer not taking care OF the
baby and began to throw things at me. l
expostulated with him, but it made him
worse and he called me a bad name.
He got hold of me and threw me on
the floor. He picked up the hatchet and
said he had a good mind to kill me. l
was afraid he would, as he had often
threatened TO kill me, and l struggled
with him and got 10 my feet.
He was coming at me again, and / had
the carving-knife in my hand. L pushed
him away from me with the knife and he
went out. The way pushed him with
the knife could not have cut him, and /
believe he stabbed himself, as he was al
ways talking about not caring to live. He
did not get onIwell where he was working
and that seemed to make him respondent.
He only got $50 month and he thought
he should have more.
THE people l associated with are good
people, just as good as he or his people
are, and he had no right to talk that way
about them. he was always jealous, and
one day when l vas talking 10 a man
from Alameda he grabbed him by the
throat, and l thought he would have
killed him. l knew his folks never liked
me, and after l was about year married.
just after my baby was born, l had to
leave him and go to my fathers house. l
was away from him about year and then
went back to him.
81 don't deny that take glass of beer