The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-20
WIFE SHOOTS GIRL IN HOTEL.
IMPERIAL STENOGRAPHER MAY
DIE or HER WOUNDS.
shooting Takes Place In sight q Many
Guests-Wounded woman was Em'
pioyed by Young. whose Wne Fired
the Bullet-He Thinks she 10 Insane.

Guests-W 0un0od woman was Ems
pioyed by Young. whose VINO Fired
the Bullet-He Thinks she 10 Insane.
Mrs. Beatrice Young, the wife OF William
q. Young, who has the typewritins privilege
Mt the Hotel Imperial, walked into the hotel
nd noon yesterday and shot Mrs. Kathleen
Morgan, q stenogYapher 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 DO In
a haze, protested afterward that she knew
nothing about the shooting After being
locked up at Police Headquarters for several
hours she became LII and vas removed TO
Bellevue Hospital.
Mr.. Young says that his wife, from whom
he has been separated for . month, Is inf
, sane. and that the shooting was tho con-
ception OF an unbalanced mind. Mrs.
Young evidently had q real or fancied
grievance against Mrs. Morgan, for after
the shooting she muttered, incohercntly,
that Mrs Morgan had attempted to kidnsp'
or had kidnapped, her child.
Mrs. Morgan has been employed by
Young for about q month at the Hotel
Imperial. She 10 q good looking blonde,
about 30 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 10 him. Mrs.
Morgan has bean living at the Hotel Martha
Washington for about . year, but there
1t was said that little was known about
her except that her homo was In Vermont
Mrs. Young Is slim brunette who has
good complexion and wears eyeglasses.
She Is about II years old. Her husband
says 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.
1t seems that after Young's arrest Mrs.
Young hired furnished room from DR..
H. B. Whitehouse at 70 West Twenty
sixth street. Her s-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 ESQ o'clock yesterday
morning, and those who saw her say she
seemed troubled and worried.
The time after Mrs. Young left the house
have spent shopping As result Of the
shopping trip there arrived at the house
in the afternoon several toys for her boy,
including a little wicker carriage such a.
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
ID q new one.
1t was q few minutes before noon when
Al
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 mezzanins
floor where Young has his typownting
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 has the typewriting privilege at
several hotels At the Imperial he has a
staff Of six stenographers, but only two were
working at noon
They were Mrs. Morgan and Miss Vivian
Boulon. Mrs. Morgan was sitting at
desk near the corridor, taking dictation
from Frank Virgins. the assistant manager
of the hotel. Mr.. Wiggins was at her right,
with his back to the writing room. which
was we'll filed with men and women.
Mrs. Young rushed down the hall and
stopped behind Mr.. Wigginss chair. Sud-
denly revolver was showed over his shout
der. close to his faoe- He grabbed the hand
that held it and at the Same time tho pistol
went or Mn. Young tumbled over on
him. apparently exhausted. He twisted
her hand and the revolver dropped 10 the
floor. With the report OF the revolver
Mrs. Morgan screamed, aid out OF her chair
and fell on the floor.
Instantly there was q great hubbub In
the writing room and all over the hotel
Mrs. Young cried, sShe 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.. Gilday, the hotel
physician, and Policeman William Flood
Of the traffic squad, who was stationed
outside of the hotel. rushed in.
DR.. Gikiay saw 1t onoe that Mrs.. Morgan
was seriously hurt and called An ambu-
lance from the New York Hospital. Police
man Flood took charge Of Mn. Young.
She was calm and refused to say anything.
DR.. Burroughs, who came with the am
bulanoe. hustled Mrs. Morgan OF to the
hospital, and Mrs. Young was taken to the
headquarters Of tho trafio squad In East
Twenty seventh street. but It was hours
before tho hotel quisted down.
The sergeant Ut tho trafic 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 shooting2' she said. Then
she was taken to An. Aorgan's bedside at
the hospital, where Mrs. Morgan identified
her, saying. THAT is the woman who shot
me-"
Young was at his olics at 80 Fifth avenue,
where he has the Fifth Avenue 6tenographio
Bureau, when his vito was 1t tho Imperial.
He was notified at once and sent for
his lawyer, Alexander G. Young, who is
no relative Of his. After . talk with his
lawyer and Miss Boulon, the stehographer
who was at the Imperial, Mr.. Young made
this statement:
For some time ! have had knowledge
OF what thought to be insanity In my
wife. have guarded carefully against