The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-20
WIFE SHOOTS GIRL IN HOTEL.
IMPERIAL STENOGRAPHER MAY
DIE OF HER WOUNDS.
shooting Takes Place In Sight OF Many
Guests-Womded Woman Was En-.
l., pieyed by Young, whose Wife Fired
tho Bullet-He Thinks She Is Insane.

tho Buliet-He Thinks She Is Insane.
Mrs Beatrice Young, the wife Of William
G Young who has the typewritng privilege
at the Hotel Imperial, walked into the hotel
at noon yesterday and shot Mrs. Kathleen
Morgan, a stenographer employed by her
husband. The bullet, which was fired from
above, tore through the right shoulder,
piercing the lung and liver. Mrs. Morgan
will probably die.
Mrs. Young, whose mind seemed to be in
haze, protested afterward that she knew
nothing about the shooting After being
locked up at Police Headquarters for several
hours she became ill and was removed to
Bellevue Hospital.
Mr. Young says that his wife, from whom
he has been separated for month, is in
sane, and that the shooting was the con-
ception of an unbalanced mind. Mrs.
Young evidently had real or fancied
grievance against Mrs. Morgan, for after
the shooting she muttered, incoherently,
that Mrs Morgan had attempted to kidnap,
or had kidnapped, her child.
Mrs Morgan has been employed by
Young for about month at the Hotel
Imperial. She is good looking blonde,
about 20 years old. Young says, and Mrs.
Morgan made a similar statement, that he
employed Mrs. Morgan at the request Of
his wife, who introduced her to him. Mrs.
Morgan has been living at the Hotel Martha
Washin gton for about year. but there
1t was said that little was known about
her except that her home was in Vermont.
She is said to have been employed in a
downtown brokerage Office before she went
to work for Young.
/ Mrs. Young is a slim brunette who has a
good complexion and wears eyeglasses.
She is about 81 years old. Her husband
eays that she has been acting queerly for
almost a year, but that the first serious
outbreak came about month ago, when
she had him arrested ON charge Of assault.
He was held for trial in Special Sessions
and the case has not yet been decided.
Even before the assault charge, Young
says, he had thought of having his wife
examined as to her sanity, but on the advice
of his lawyer he decided to hold the matter
in allegiance pending the settlement of the
assault charge, for fear that any action
ne might take would be construed as ali
attempt on his part to dodge the charge
made by his wife.
Il seems that after Young's arrest Mrs
Young hired furnished room from DR..
H. B. Whitehouse at 40 West Twenty
sixth street. Her 3-year-old son has been
living with her mother in Minnesota. She
has had practically no callers at the house
and kept good deal to herself. She left
the house about $50 o'clock yesterday
morning, and those who saw her say she
seemed troubled and worried.
The time after Mrs. Young left the house
until she went to the Imperial she must
have spent shopping AS result Of the
shopping trip there arrived at the house
in the afternoon several toys for her boy,
including q little wicker carriage such as
little girls have for their dolls. 1t Is prob
able that she bought the revolver on the
shopping trip, too, for the pistol she used
u new one.
1t was few minutes before noon when
she entered the Thirty-second street en-
trance of the hotel. She inquired at the
desk for her husband and then wandered
around the corridor for few minutes.
Then she walked up stairs to the mezzanine
floor, where Young has his typewriting
office. The Office is few steps across the
hall from the writing room and there is
nothing to obstruct the view OF one room
from the other.
Young, who is an expert stenographer
himself and went to Montana to take the
testimony in the Heinze-A malgamated
Copper litigation at Butte has the type
writing privilege at several hotels. At the
Imperial he he's stan Of six stenographers,
but only two were working at noon.
They were Mrs. Morgan and Miss Vivian
Boulon. Mrs. Morgan was sitting at a
desk near the corridor, taking dictation
from Frank Virgins, the assistant manager
of the hotel. Mr.. Virgins was at her right,
with his back to the writing room, which
was we'll filled with men and women.
Mira. Young rushed down the hall and
stopped behind Mr.. W.ggins's chair Sud-
denly revolver was showed over his shoul-
der, close to his face. He grabbed the hand
that held It and at the same time the pistol
went of. Mrs. Young tumbled over on
him, apparently exhausted He twisted
her hand and the revolver dropped to the
floor. With the report OF the revolver
Mrs. Morgan screamed slid out of her chair
and fell on the floor.
Instantly there was great hubbub in
the writing room and all over the hotel.
Mrs. Young cried, 'She wanted to kidnap
my child, she tried to steal my child Mrs.
Morgan, who had tainted from shock
recovered in few minutes and said: Poor
woman, she must have been crazy Some
one summoned DR.. Glday, the hotel
physician, and Policeman William Flood
Of the traffic squad, who was stationed
outside OF the hotel, rushed in.
DR.. Gilday saw at once that Mrs. Morgan
was seriously hurt and called an ambu-
lance from the New York Hospital. Police
man Flood took charge Of Mrs. Young.
She was calm and refused to say anything.
Dr.. Burrou CHS who came with the am
bulance, hustled Mrs. Morgan on to the
hospital, and Mrs. Young was taken to the
headquarters Of the traffic squad in East
Twenty seventh street, but it was hours
before the hotel quieted down.
The sergeant at the traffic squad had
some trouble in getting Mrs. Young to
answer the formal questions for her pedi-
gree. Policeman Flood asked her why
she had shot Mrs. Morgan. Shooting?
Shooting? What shooting?' she said. Then
she was taken to Mrs. Morgan's bedside at
the hospital, where Mrs. Morgan identified
her. say ng, THAT is the woman who shot
me-