The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-28
5 Minneapolis News. 5
SHOT HER N JEALOUS Fl
HENRY SHANNON SHOT BELLE BEN
SON AND THEN TRIED
SUICIDE
NEITHER FATALLY WOUNDED
Sensational Shooting ARRAY in a
Boarding House on First
Avenue North Last
Night.
NEITHER FATALLY WOUNDED

Jealousy arising over love affair, a
revolver and two wounded lovers form
the basis of another Minneapolis sensa-
ton.
Henry Shannon and Belle Benson are
lying at the city hospital in the Mill City
with bullet wounds inflicted by Shan
non, who first attempted the murder Of
the girl and then made an unsuccessful
effort to take his own life.
Shannon was q shoe po1isher and his
sweetheart a waitress in the Golden
Gate restaurant on Fourth street, next
to the Brunswick hotel. The girl has
told friends that her sutton had made
frequent threats that he would kill her
and she lived in constant fear of these
threats. Last night she received a call
from a young man named Frank Fair,
who is the steward of the restaurant
where the girl had worked This proved
the girls undoing and the provocation
for the tragedy which was enacted in
her own room
At about 1920 a knock was given on
the young woman's door and she her
self answered the rap. Before her stood
her lover, Shannon, on the threshold.
He was angry, and his passion grew into
a varitable rage when he spied another
man inside the room. The girl remem-
bered his threats, and feared that her
time had come, but she determined to
make an effort to reach the mercy of her
lover After persistent pleas she sue
ceeded in inducing him to step aside
while Fair made his exit from the house.
When Fair had gone Shannon entered.
Forthwith he began abusing the girl and
reminding her of his threats. She tren-
blingly witnessed him destroy number
of photographs, some of which belonged
to her sister, Bertha. 1t happened that
r.
Shannon was tearing up her property.
She began to upraid him, and ne gave
way to his wrath. The enraged man
whipped the revolver from his pocket
and fired the shot that wounded his
sweetheart. The sister, Bertha, claims
that he intended to shoot her and
that this was prevented by her sis
ter Belle. stepping between them. After
he had shot his sweetheart the fellow
turned his gun on himself and~sent a
bullet into his own body. The injured
sister disagrees with Bertha in that the
first shot was intended for the latter,
but maintains that Shannon fired three
shots, presumably one for each. They
failed to go around, however, and the
younger sister got off unframed. The
guests of the hotel who heard the shoot
ing say there were but two shots fired.
DR.. w. H. Murray was summoned, and
when he arrived found that the bullet
that had pierced the body of Shannon
had left nothing but a flesh wound, en-
teFing the middle of he breast and pass
ing out to one side. The girls was a
more serious injury, however The bull
let went in on the. right side and either
penetrated the lung or SKINNED along
the region of this organ, so as to leave
dangerous effects. The bullet lodged
under the left shoulder blade.
The wounded were both removed to the
city hospital.
The girl is twenty-three years of age
and her lover and assailant is about
thirty.