The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-13
SHOT IN A FAMILY ROW
Mrs. Shannon Got a Bullet in the
Right Breast.
TOM SHANNON WOUNDED
His Brother James Pumped a Bullet Into
Him as the Result of Hot Words
Relative to James Wife-The
Father Also In the Mix-Up.

AS the elimination of a family quar-
rel between James and Thomas Shan
non. two brothers employed at the Dia-
non mine, the former shot and
wounded his wife and the brother
about $50 o'clock yesterday morning
at the home of James at COS
North Arizona street. Mrs. Is
being cared for at Murray e. Freund's
hospital n the brothers are locked up
at the county Jail. James shannon is
under arrest for the shooting and Tom
is being held as a witness. Neither of
the wounds is regarded as serious.
The u of the shooting was a gem
eral disagreement between the brothers
James and Tom and James wife. James
owns a handsome home at the place
mentioned, and for a long time Tom
had boarded and roomed with James
and his wife. Recently the father of
the boys came out from Pennsylvania
to visit them. Mrs. shannon, for rea-
sons satisfactory to herself. did not
like her husbands relatives and a frfc-
ton which sprang up a few days
eliminated in the shooting.
Last Tuesday Tom complained to
Mrs. shannon of the board she fur
| nASlltu. Iht Jus ~ was w. 49,
enough for the price he was paying.
! Mrs. shannon resented the complaint
and told Tom the board was better
| than he and his father had been accus-
toned TO at home. There was more
trouble on the following day when the
father inquired why a cuspfdore in his
room had not been cleaned. Mrs. Shan
non also resented this and. ii liz said,
made things so unpleasant for the old
gentleman that he decided to leave and
go back home to Pennsylvania. He ar
ranged to leave last evening, and Tom,
who. owing to the friction. had quit
boarding at his brothers house and
left on Thursday, drew his time yester-
day to procure funds for his fathers
journey. After getting his check,
which amounted to $1fS, cashed he went
up to his brothers house to see his
father. James met him at the door.
1t appears Mrs. shannon had COM
planned to her husband that Tom had
used insulting language to her at the
time they had words, and in meeting
Tom in the hall James said he wanted
to talk with him and took Tom up
stairs to ~ u~noccupied room, intend
] ing to call him to account for his con-
duct. Tom, it is said. was not disposed
TO consider himself in the wrong and
hot words ensued. of What followed
James Shannon refuses to talk. but ac-
| corning 10 1Olls WIN COilStliltu " ildht
a statement. James told him he would
have to leave town. Tom replied that
he could not as he had no money, as he
intended TO give his father all he had
TO defray his expenses back East.
We'll, you've got to CO." was James
determined response. You nave time
coming and you u draw your mon
ey n get out"
Tom says James then left the room
and went downstairs. Tom followed,
intending, as he says, to go to his IA
theirs room and then leave the house.
As they reached the lower landing Mrs.
Shannon stood at the front door. James
ran suddenly toward the rear of the
house, and Tom, fearing trouble, start
ed to go out the front door, but Mrs
shannon had 1t locked and barred the
way. Tom then went in the direction
his brother had taken and followed him
into a bedroom off the dining room
where he found James struggling with
the father for the possession of a gun
The father was pleading with James to
give up the gun and was clinging with
desperation to his arm. Tom attempted
to assist his father when Mrs. Shan
non appeared and Joined in the tussle
grabbing Tom by the arm and attempt
ing to hold him. James still held the
gun and threatened to shoot Tom.
Mrs. Shannon got between her hus
band and Tom just as the weapon wal
discharged and received the bullet IN
her right breast. AS she fell to the foo
James fired the second shot, the bulle
striking Tom in the left arm near tn
elbow. A third shot was fired, but /
did not TAX effect. As Mrs. shannon
sank to the fool she screamed to he
husband. saying he had shot her. Jane
dropped the u and, grasping his wifi
in his arms, said: My God! Ami
! did not mean IT,"
The father took possession of the gul
and told Tom to go for a doctor. Turn
ing to Tom he asked IL he should ge
a doctor, and, receiving an affirmative
reply, started. After Tom had depart
ed James ran upstairs and aske'
Laughlin McCaully, who lives with hi
family on the second floor, to com
down and stay with his wife while h
went for a physician. Mr.. McCauli,
complied and in a few minute Jane
returned with DIR. Murray, who imme
diately ordered Mrs. Shannon taken I
the Murray & Freund hospital. Ton
proceeded at once to DR.. Alexander
office and the latter responded, but Mrs
Shannon had left the house when h
reached there. He then went to tn
Sisters hospital with Tom and dresse
his wound. He found the bullet had en-
tered Just above the elbow on the unde
side of the left arm, and, striking tn
bone, glanced up and lodged In the arm
pit. As II could do no harm in the plac
where IL had found Judgment. and Their
would be more danger in attempting I
extract IL from among the arteries tina
in allowing it to remain, it was no
taken out.
The shooting attracted the ~neighbor;
quite a number of whom assembled /
front of the Shannon house. and whe
James went for a doctor n or tw
entered. They found Mrs. Shame
grooming and her father-in-law attempt
ing to soothe her. She thought she wa
dying and Father DeSiere was sent fol
Mrs. Shannon kept repeating that he
husband had not intended to shoot he
When DIR. Murray arrived she was abb
to walk to the carriage with the assist
ance OF her husband and his father. A
the hospital Mrs. Shannon was give
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