The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-03
SHOT HER IN THE BACK
Driscoll Was Crazed by Drink
and Groundless jealousy.
THE WOUND NOT FATAL
Mrs. Driscoll Promptly Forgives Her Hus-
band and Is More Solicitous About
Him Than Herselt-He Is Lodged
in the County Jail.

Crazed by drink and jealousy, Daniel
A. Driscoll shot and tried to kill his
wife at their home at No. 8 West Sum-
NIT street, C~enterville, about 7:15 last
evening. The attempt was not success
full, as the gun used was small, a %
caliber. and the bullet, striking the wo-
man in the muscles of the back, caused
only a slight flesh wound. Driscoll was
arrested and lodged in the county jail.
Driscoll was formerly employed as a
fireman at the Never Sweat mine. on
the Fourth Of July he got drunk and
lost his position, and since that tim
has been drinking very heavily until
his nerves became greatly ~deranged.
Last week Mrs. Driscoll attended the
races three days in succession, and 1t
appears someone told Driscoll she had
not attended the races, but had been out
in company with another man. Last
evening he went home about 7 o'clock
very much intoxicated and commenced
unbraiding his wife. He accused her of
being unfaithful and when she resent
ed his remarks he drew his gun. She
started to run as her husband fired, and
the bullet struck her in the muscles of
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to one side of the spine.
Mrs. Driscoll ran INTO an adjoining
room and shut herself in, and after fir
ing another shot Driscoll left the house.
Charles Jenkins and Charles Goodman,
two boys who were playing at the rear
of the house, heard the words passed
between the husband and wife, followed
by the shooting, n ran at once to
police headquarters and informed the
officers. Sergeant Leyden started up the
hill at once and at the corner of Main
and Woolman streets met Driscoll COM
ing down. The latter submitted to ar
rest without resistance n turned over
a 22-caliber gun, with which he said he
did the shooting. He was taken to the
county Jail and locked up.
When Mrs. Driscoll heard the second
shot she thought her husband had turn
ed the gun on himself and set up a
scream which, with the sound of the
shots, soon called a big crowd to the
house. Several n~eighboring women ran
in and took Mrs. Driscoll in charge.
She had become highly hysterical, and
from her moaning it was supposed she
had been fatally wounded. The report
soon spread that she had been killed.
Coroner Tremblay was notified n
drove rapidly to the Driscoll residence,
arriving about the same time as DR..
Murray, who was also Cor
oner Tremblay, finding there was no &C.
casion for his presence, turned back,
while DIR. Murray examined Mrs. Dris-
coils wound. When informed ii was
not serious and that her husband had
not killed himself, Mrs. DTiscOll became
calmer and related her version of the
affair to a Standard reporter. She said:
MY husband lost his job the Fourth
of July and for the past five weeks has
been constantly drunk. Two of my
& children have hnpn sick with the
measles, a fact that kept me at home.
Last week, after they got well. | went
out to the races three days. This even
ing my husband came home drunk and
commenced abusing me for going away
and leaving my sick children. l told him
l had not lone 50, and then he asked me
If l went to the races. i told him I did,
and he said ii was not so and accused
me of having been in the company Of
another man. I asked him who told
him such a thing and he said his broth
er. | told him ii was not true, and that
IL he had come home 10 make trouble
after the way he had been going on l
would have him arrested. He then drew
his gun and shot as j turned to run
away
Mrs. Drlscoll had already forgiven her
husband and was more solicitous for
him n herself, as was apparent when,
at the end of her narrative, she broke
down and cried and said:
at was not his fault. He was not
responsible. 1t was drink and Jealousy
that caused him to commit the act, and
| hope they viii not be too hard on him,
although, the Lord knows, | never gave
him cause to be jealous"
Driscoll told the officers at the county
Jail he did not intend TO shoot his wife.
At the sheriff's office permission to see
Driscoll was refused.