Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-07-10
A TERRIBLE CRIME.
cpmstock Woman Nearly
Murders Her Daughter and
Tries to Suicide.


daughters throat with knife and in
4licted deep wound on her own neck
with the same weapon at an early hour
this morning. The cut on her daught-
er's throat, though not necessarily ia
tai, is serious. while the cash in the
mothers neck is less dangerous.
Daniel McQuarrie, husband OF the
knife 'wiedler, says that he was asleep
in the second story Of the family house
about i O'Clock this morning when he
was awakened by his son Dan, youth
OF sixteen, who said that Gertie, his
sister, was screaming for help. Mr..
McQuarrie, who was partially blinded
by an accident in Coinstock mine
several years ago, CROPPED his way
down stairs to. the sleeping apartment
OF his wife and daughter on the first
floor OF the premises and after light
ing candle found his daughter stag
gering about and screaming with blood
flowing from a wound in her throat
After staunching the flow Mr.. Nc
Quarrie entered the apartment OF his
wife where she and her daughter occu-
pied the same bed He found his wife
Frustrated on the floor, her clothing
saturated with blood from the cash in
| her neck. s-.-e..
\ physician was summoned and
| found both mother and daughter still
bleeding copiously. He found that the
wound in the girls throat required sew
eral stitches to close it and that the
windpipe had been cut. The cash in
Mrs. McQuarrie's throat was more in
the nature of stab. the knife having
also penetrated the windpipe and sew
cred some veins in the neck that
caused pro;use flow of blood. The
attending physician was not prepared
to give positive opinion as to the I'll
innate recovery OF the mother, and
daughter from the wounds inflicted
ed the most dangerous.
Mr. McQuarrie attributes the muir
derous attack of his wife on her dau-
ghter and the subsequent attempt to
take her own life, to temporary insan-
ity, of which she had recently exhi-
lifted evidence OF mild type through
screaming at night, which was at the
time attributed to nightmare.
The weapon used in inf1icting he
knife with blade about an inch and
half i'll length, but not sharp enough
to make an incision without using con
siderable pressure. The fact that the
cutting was done in the dark probabl,
saved the life of both mother and the
daughter. Before attempting the des
perate deed that SO nearly ended in ;
shocking double tragedy, Mrs. Nc
Quarrie evidently attempted to light /:
candle on a stand at the bedside, bu
III her frenzied condition dropped til,
matches on the floor at the foot of thu
stand where they were found when he
husband and son entered the room.
Gertie, the wounded girl, is age.
about thirteen years. Mrs. McQuar
: RE is OF middle age The family resi-
dence is on the south side of Washing
ton street between E and F street
\ and is the only house in the block Of
that side Of thes treet.
Mrs. McQuarrie is the daughter 0
Mrs w. J. Hill by former HUSBAND
at whose residence she had been visi,
: ing yesterday afternoon and partook o
dinner there. Mr.. Hill, stepfather o
; Mrs. McQuarrie, says that his step
daughter had been acting strangely 70
several months and that careful sur
1,eiilance over her had been maintain
ed, although she never disclosed an
sign that her dementia would be likel
S to eliminate in what came near bein
u a double tragedy. Mr.. Hill exhibite
q the knife with which the wounds wer
y made by his stepdaughter and said thu
e it belonged to him and that he. ha
II missed it at least Eve months agd an
/ infers from this that Mrs. 'lMcQ uarr1
had some vague idea of using It fo
some purpose when she picked it up :
Ibis residence several months before
In an interview this afternoon, Nj
McQuarrie says that after he wa
awakened by his son.. he heard hi
daughter shrek my throat is cut an
on descending the stairs found hi
standing in the bedroom where s!l
slept with her mother clasping her 9TH
caughter's) bleeding throat with he