The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-02-10
THE GIRL AND The GUN
Genevieve Fait Shoots Her Step
Father in Defence of
Mother
VIM. ]. Maloney. the Wounded
Man, Slowly Recovering at
St. Luke's

william ]. Mzloney vss shot and
severely woundeI Fridzy night q
about half past fire o'clock bg MS step
daughter. Generie-e Fat. z. his home
in the Dsyton blocE Mzloney vas z
bartender and had worked for several
concerus in the city. He had the rep
utztion Of being IN ugl? customer and
wss known N bs Z wife batter. FIJI
Day NOON he went home and abused
his family, ending By Z threat 70 kick
them down stairs If hs found them
there VIXEN he came houe 20 supper.
He came to supper in & bad humor.
rather earlier than usual Friday. and
began to quarrel with his wife. Qazr-
reling soon led 70 blows and in Z brut-
ish rage he seized his wife and began
choking her. His thirteen !aar old
step daughter. Genevieve, heard the
noise from rooms across the ball
where she was visiting ac the time.
Eurryiug home she saw her moChsr III
q struggle with Maloney and without
Z moments hesitation She told Ma
loney TO stop or she would shoot and
at once got hold Of q twenty-five cali
Der revolver in z trunk il the hall.
When Malouey saw the revolver he
dropped his wife and picked up Z
chair and would have felIed the girl
in another minute. She shot twice.
The first shot missed entirely but the
second struck him on the left side,
glanced from the lower rio and passed
entirely through his stomach. lodging
in the muscles Of the back. Maloneg
kicked the girl before he sank down
from the effects Of the wound.
Doctor McCauley was sent for and
came within Z few minutes after the
shooting. DR.. Murdy also came and
he and DR.. McCsuley made q hurried
examination Of the wound and ordered
him removed To st. Luke's hospital.
which was done. as he was taken
away. Mrs. Malonsy approached him
TO say good bye but. it is said. he re-
pulsed her sven then.
Friday night Doctors Murdy, Nc
Caulsy and Frank Miller performed
an operation on the wounded man and
traced the curse Of the bullet. They
were unable to locate it, however.
They found that the bullet had torn
two holes through his stomach and
had severed q small artery. The CON
tents Of the mans stomach were being
emptied into the abdominal cavity and
had, together with the blood from the
severed artery, been causing him ter
rlble pain, The doctors thoroughly
cleaned out the abdominal cavity.
closed up the holes in his stomach and
put him to bed. The next morning he
complained of a stomach ache but
otherwise felt fairly comfortable.
Maloney lived in Aberdeen some
years ago when he tended bar at the
Sherman bar. He left here and had
lived III various places, coming back
from Doland where he had been run
ming q billiard hall. He va a pretty
good sized man physically but did not
have the best Of regulations araong
those who knew him.
Mrs. Maloney. formerly Mrs Fait. is
an old resident Of Aberdeen, her maid
en- name having been Downs. While
the shooting is everywhere deplored
u regretted the general sentiment is
That 1t was entirely justifable.
MALOSET MAY RECOVER
Maloney seems t have a good
chance to pull through. The wound
which he received would kill almost
any man but his wonderful vitality
may bring him through. The local
physicians who performed the opera-
zion are watching the Ease closely rs
II Is very unusual for any n to re-
cover from a bullet wound through
Inc stomach. 1t was exactly the same
sort OF a wound that killed President
Mckinley.
THROWS BLAME ON WIFE
Maloney gave out a statement SIM
day IN which he attempted to throw
the blame for the affair on his wife
and step daughter. His story differs
from that told by the girl and by
nelghbors, who heard and saw more or
less OF the trouble, in many particulars.
According to his version of the at
falr he had always lived on good terms
with his wife and step daughter and
a taken care Of them to the best Of
his ability. He claims that the
trouble began when he came.home and
found that supper had not been pre-
pared for him. He says ttat his wife
wa probably put out by being told to
get his supper and that when he sat
down to eat she began to "throw it in
to him." as he expressed it, and that
led to a violent quarrel.
He insists that he had not struck
his wife and did not intend when the
Fait girl came in and struck him tell.
Ing him to leave har mother ,1on