The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-29
NO. 2 TRIES TO
SHOOT M'BRIDE
AfterWard They Left the Police
Station Together,
SCoRNED WOMAN DESPERATE
HOW MBRIDE GOT OUT OF
PRISON.

n ORTLAND. Ore. oct. 2s.-In the
hopes Of clearing up the mystery
which surrounds the assault on
Frank L. Mcbride which occurred last
Sunday night at the corner Of Second
and Hall streets. the woman known as
Mrs. Mcbride No. and Mcbride were
summoned TO the Office Of the chief Of
police this afternoon Detective Vein
en- preliminary to the investigation
told Mrs. Mcbride that he intended TO
search her Although she rebelled the
search was made, but without result
Hardly had the detective concluded
when Mrs. Mcbride suddenly drew q
revolver from the bosom OF her dress.
and. pointing it at Mcbride. said. III
Kill you now The detective Sndtched
the gun from the woman, thus pre-
venting the threatened tragedy.
The Interview was conducted behind
closed doors. but il is stated that an
understanding was reached and the
two left the station together. The pO-
lice, however, wear that the woman
VIII yet carry out her threat to kill
Mcbride Missing.
The fact that Mcbride had not re-
turned 90 his lodgings at a late hour
this evening lends strength to the be
lief that a tragedy may have already
been enacted and that MCBride's body
may be found at some lonely spot. the
victim of the murderous mania of the
woman who poses as his second wife.
The police state that the woman has
confessed to the cutting Of Mcbride
throat on Sunday night, and that she
expressed sorrow that she had not
killed him.
Mrs. Mcbride stated TO a reporter
this afternoon that her mother is
kinley, wife Of the late president but
offered no evidence i'm support of her
statement She said that while Nc
Bride was in the Utah penitentiary
serving a sentence for embezzling gov
eminent funds she wrote a letter 10
President Mckinley. begging thai
Clemency be shown her husband and
signed her mothers name to it. As the
result of the forged petition. the wo-
man stated. Mcbride was pardOned
after he had served six months i'm
prisonment.
Not His Legal Wife.
During the interview with District
Attorney Manning. Mcbride stated that
the woman who bears the distinctive
title Of wife No % was not his le-
gal wife but a woman with whom he
had lived for a number of years Ne
Bride asserted that he was legally mar
Tied 10 the woman known rs wife No.
and who nursed him after wife No.
. stabbed him on Sunday night
It was MCBride's disavowal of his
marriage Go her and the parentage of
her little girl which prompted Mrs.
Mcbride No. = to attempt 90 kill Me
Bride this afternoon.
Mcbride Turns Up.
Mcbride returned to the apartments
or the woman who is known as wife
No. I tonight He would vOuchsafe no
information regarding the alleged re-
cancellation effected with wife No. 2
at the Office Of the district attorney
this afternoon.
District Attorney Manning has not
determined what his course OF action
In the case will be. but states that he
does not al this time contemplate max
Ing any arrests. he expresses a hope
that the marital difficulties Of the trio
may I'm some manner be patched M
without the law having to take a fur
thcr hand in the matter.