The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-15
CHEER GIRL Who
SHOT HER FATHER
WOMEN ADMIRERS SHOW DlSAP.
PROVAL WHEN SHE is
HELD BY COURT.
PASTOR IS DETERMINED
To Send His Daughter to Prison for
Attempting His Life-Witnesses
Say Shooting Followed His
Attack On His Wife.


/ Philadelphia, pa. Dec. li--Peltel
With roses by mob Of women sym.
pathizers, Miss May McAtee, bowing
her thanks, elbowed her way through
/ the hearing room at the Central sta
ton City Hall. She had just been
/ held in ST 600 bail on the charge of
shooting her father, the Rev. John
Quincy McAtee, the well known
Lutheran clergyman.
There was sympathetic audience
one which Magistrate Eisenbrown
| threatened time and again with eX
pulsion, so unrestra,ned was it in its
d'splay Of emotion There was a dra-
matte moment when a witness, in a
vivid. story Of the hosting, came to
! the point where miss McAtee p.assed
| the trigger
The audience held its breath as
Magistrate f senbrown the iceberg
of the local judiciary. laconicllly an
nounced $1,000 bail for further
nearing December "a"
Then there arose murmur that
spread to the court room and the.e
sWaeed into q howl of disapproval.
Most of the women felt confidant tha
Miss McAtee would be released. A
squad of reserve policemen prevented
actual disorder, bar the women in
sisted upon showeIing fowers-some
of them American beauties at $3.50 a
dozen at that-upon the young WON
an and upon trying TO embrace and
kiss her.
Spent Night in Cell.
Promptly at the hour set for the
hearing Miss McAtee and her mother
entered the hearing room through a
side door A night spent in cell,
particularly the coffin-like boxes that
serve at the city hall, is hardly con-
ducive to feminine neatness. But
Miss McAteee looked as though she
We're about to set upon Christmas
shopping tour Even her Marcel wave
seemed undsturbed.
She carried huge bunch OF
American Beauties that had been
thrust upon her by a richly dressed
woman in the corridor a moment be
fore. with the words, God speed you,
my dear
1t was testified that the Rev John
Quincy MeAtee was suffering from
the effects of two shot wounds in
nieted by a little revolver. The bul
lets plowed along his scalp. and had
il not been for loss OF blood and his
advanced years, sixiy-eight, he would
have been able to appear at the hear
ing. AS it is. the physicians at St. Ag-
nes' hospital say he will be able to sit
up in two or three days.
1t was tes flied that the shooting
followed a quarrel, u1G that Miss Nc
Atee feared that her father would
throw her mother down the cellar
stairs. Quarrels 'had been frequent. !
the pol ce declare, by McAtee's drink /
ing.
Joseph McSwain. Miss McAtee's |
brctherin-aw. testified that she did |
the shooting in defense Of her mother. /
"Fiance" Gives Out Statement. ]
Robert w. Pierce 2G2 South Fourth /
street, was in court looking pale and I
haegard He gave ont this sta ement |
before The hearing:
Il wish to natly contradict the re-
port that Miss McAtee and "vs"f :
were to be married In a few days or
that a wedding date had even been
set. Therefore Mr. McAtee's sat
ment that quarrel was. started on
account ef money being reque ted for
the expenses Of said wedding are ab-
solutely untrue"
His statement was I'm reference TO
the deposition that Magistrate Briggs
took from Mr.. McAtee. The wounded
man said he and his wife and daugh
ter had quarreled because his wife
and daughter began 20 demand money
for Christmas shopping and for the
approaching welding of hi daughter,
OF which he knew nothing until yes
te-day.
Mrs. McAt5e's whole married life
e thirty-five years mas been made
unhappy" continued p erce. Il have
known it as long rs ! have known
Nav. and hat has been several years
The father had an independent IN
come besides his lecturing fees.
Il told her that she and Der mother
shouldn't be unprotected. I told her 7 /
was going To get a little revolver and /
So, did. That is the one she II cd ari
that's how she happened 10 have IT,
Summoned BY Screams.
De ective Lidner told how the DO
lice had been summoned by screams
from the McAtee house and how upon
arriving he had found the oid minis
Ter wounded ard the wife ami dauEh-
ter weeping. At this point Miss Nc
Afoo aroza