The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-10
SHOT HIS WIFE In NECK
EDWARD M'FADDEN, A PEDDLER,
MAKES a COWARDLY ASSAULT.
Had Been Separated from Her-An At
fair in "a West New York.
Street Tenement.

Mrs. Ida McFadden, living at new No.
224 West New York street, was shot by
her husband, Edward McFadden, about $3.50
o'clock last night. The bullet entered the
left side of the womans neck just above
the collar bone and ranged downward and
backward The physicians think she will
recover. The shooting took place in Mrs.
McFadden's rooms.
McFadden and his wife separated four
weeks ago. According to the statement of
the woman, the husband was shiftess and
failed to provide for her. She left him be-
cause she thought she could do better with
out him. The couple have one child,
girl about eighteen years of age, who is
employed at a bicycle chain works. AT
present the daughter is in the country near
Franklin. Mrs. McFadden claims that her
husband, shortly after the separation,
warned her that he would kill her. She
paid no special heed to the warning, be-
lieving that the threat was an idle one.
Last evening shortly before the shooting
Mrs. McFadden was alone in her rooms,
located in the brick tenement on the north
side of New York street between Capitol
and Senate avenues. Three men came to
see her on business. They were William
and Charles Weeks and Jack Zeno, all en-
ployes of the Worlds Fair Store. Mrs.
McFadden has a cage Of parrots, and she
says these men came to see the birds with
the intention of making a purchase. The
parrots are kept in one Of the rear rooms,
and Mrs. McFadden took the men back
there. While they were looking at the
birds Mrs McFadden heard a noise in her
front room, and, leaving the men, started
to the front of the house. In the sitting
room she met her husband who had just
come in. After a word or two McFadden
drew pistol and fired at his wife. The bull
let missed her, and, in stepping backward,
McFadden stumbled over chair and fell
to- the floor. His wife saw that he was
about to use the pistol again, and she at
tempted to keep him from regaining his
feet. They had a short but desperate
the weapon from the Infatuated man.
Finally he broke away from her and fred
again. This time his aim was better, and
she fell to the floor with bullet in her
McFaddem ran from the house, but no enc
saw him leave. He was away before the
people in the neighborhood realized that
anything had happened, The men in the
rear room did not witness the shooting, but
heard the noise Of the scufi1e and the report
back yard one of them going after Dr.
Bremen. Shortly after the shooting the
police of the district went to the house and
found Mrs. McFadden conscious. To them
she related the details of the affair, ana
begged them not to arrest her huspand
would not have made the attempt on her
life The woman was taken to the CITY
Hospital. She was parity conscious do Wh len
Vived sufficiently to talk to the physicians
The bullet was extracted without difficulty
McFa lden is about thirty-seVen years Of
age aud his wife thirty-fve. He is at pres
emit a potato peddler. His mother, It Is said,
lives on South Meridian street; All the pc.
lice in the city were given description or
him Ia st night but at an early hour this
morning he had not been arrested.