The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-03

Miss Anna HiIdebrecht Probably
Fatally Wounds J.B. McCa||am.
She is a Trained Nurse.

Miss Anna Eildebrecht, q. trained
nurse, shot and probably fatally wound
ed Joseph B. McCallam yesterday morn
ing at his boarding place. No. IS Snyder
York Herald After doing this she
mounted her bicycle and rode to the po
lice atio.l, two blocks distant. wfert
she saw Chief McCnesncy. Captain
Leary and Detective Drabell standing
To them she exclaimed:
- have shot Joseph McCallana. T die
it. I intended doing il. I am satisfied
She then swooned, and would have fa1-
len but for the policemen, who carried
her into the witness room and revived
her Later the facts in the case de-
veloped.
All day Monday Miss HildebreCht fol-
lowed McCallam about the Oranges He
was employed as an outside man by the
Essex and Hudson Gas Company, and
had occasion to visit houses and business
places in all the Oranges. Riding her
bicycle. she followed him from place to
place, stopping to wait for him wherever
he stayed Yesterday morning she rode
to the gas office and paid her bill. In
the office she saw McCallam and went
over to speak to him. Before that she
had visited his boarding place and seen
Mrs S. D. Philpot, who lives there, to
whom she told her story.
At the gas office, SC clerks say. she
told McCaIlam she wanted an umbrella
he had, and he, after receiving permits
sion to leave the office. went to the
boarding place. He went in by the back
door, while she waited outside, but soon
after he entered the house she rang the
bell Mrs Philpot, besides knowing the
girls story, had seen her frequently, as
the pair were supposed to be engaged,
and admitted her to the house. In a
few minutes Mrs. Philpot was sum
moned by McCallam, who shouted,
please send for a policeman
AS Mrs Philpot ran into the hall she
saw the couple standing on the stairs.
Miss E1ildebrecht was pointing her finger
at McCallam. Mrs. Philpot says she saw
no wea pom, but in a second there was
pistol shot, and Miss Hildehrech- dropped
a revolver on the stairs and walked out
of the house McCallam declares that in
all their walk from the gas office to his
house the woman was entreatinS him to
marry her.
CONSEQUENCES, Miss Hidebrecht said tina
McCallam had been q constant caller. on
her for more than a year and that they
We're engaged to be married.
McCallam told Detective Drabell at the
Memorial Hospital whittier he was taken,
that he had occasion to call at Miss Hill
debrecht's home at No e. Sterling Street.
East Orange, on business connected with
the gas company. Inc youlis woman
mother Is also a trained nurse He de-
clared that the younger woman had given
evidences of affection for him which he
had not reciprocated and that she had
asked him to marry her. but that he had
refused. He denied that there was any
cause for her shooting him.
Miss IIildebrecht is a graduate Of the
Post Graduate Hospital Training School.
New York. of the class Of 1893. She is
thirty Years Of age. He has no relatives
in Orange but his brother lives in Wilkes
barre. Pa.
effort was made to trace its course. as
there was no evidence Of internal hem
orrhage. His condition. however, is criti-
cal.