The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-02-26

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the bullet while standing two, steps
below the frenzied father. While
the ball, has not yet been located it
is thought that it-is lodged beneath
the right clavicle..
In the sitting, squalid rooms over
the Eagle Cash grocery, 400 West
Seventh street, Stephen Muck, a
we'll known blind violin player,
dangerously wounded his daughter,
Eva 16 years old, then turning the
revolver upon his own person blew
his brains out,in mad and myster-
ious frenzy. The fendish CRIME
was committed yesterday afternoon.
Without a word of explanation
Muck stepped from the bedroom in
! the front part Of the house, walked
through the~dining room where his
aged wife and his son, William
Muck were sitting, went into the
hallway leading to the court below,
and calling his daughter to him
grasped her by the arm. Without
saying word he poked a 80 calibre
Smith and Wesson revolver to her
breast and fired. With cry Of
fright the girl pulled away and fell
bleeding down the stairway:
A second shot was then heard.
and William Muck, the son, pulled
open the door leading from the din
ing-room to the hallway. -.
Az ths door opened ). the elder
Maok fell gasping in a pool Of his
own blood, where he remained until
he breathed his last at exactly 1
O'Clock. >
:. No cause can be explained for the
act Eva was the favorite daughter
of the old man and had always been
his conidant. Even in his most
frenzied moments-times when he
lost all sense of reason, and there
had been many of them in the last
few months-the young girl never
showed fear of the old man and was
usually the means of quieting the
disturbed father, when crazed by
liquor or an insane jealousy of the
other members OF the family. y
AS the young girl gathered herself
together at the foot of the stairway
she started screaming across the
street, gasping for breath and with
the blood flowing from q hideous
wound IN her breast. At~the middle
of the street the girl staggered and
would have fallen but for James r.
Hackett, barber next door to the
grocery, who caught her in his arms
and assisted her into Thompson's 8
drug store, 40r West Seventh street.
DR.. M. E. Silver happened opportune-
sly to be near at hand. ~-
/ The young woman g clothes were
by this time afire from the powder
shot from the father revolver. She
was wringing her hands in her
apron, which was fast being colored
by the blood flowing from the
wound. }.>-~-.. ...
r ''Oh, my God - she cried in her.
frenzy and pain, why can't some-
body. do something for mes. Why
don't you let me lie down and die
without pain2 Oh, father, why did
you do it, Oh, doctor, can't you
help mea" :. '.. -. - -. -. .
~ Moaning and fast losing her
strength from the pain the young
woman became deiirious. G1abb-
ing his overcoat from off the hook,
George Howes, the drug clerk, fold
ed it around the form of the girl.
DR.. Silver picked her up and drove
with her to the Samaritan hospital.
All the way to the hospital the girl
screamed: ''Oh, where is father9 !
forgive him. I forgive him. "
DIR. Maxwell E. Silver said yester-
day afternoon, after coming from the
Samaritan hospital, where he had
taken the girl: ,...x = II r.. Il.
&: ssThe chances for her recovery are
poor. The wound is on the right
side Of the sternum and one half
inch below the right nipple. The,