Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-01-12
MICHIGAN
''''"E EVENTS NOTED
DOYLE, WHO SHOT HIS WIFE AID
HER SISTER, BECOMES
PENITENT.
CHILD WIFE'S HARD LIFE
A. Troubled Home Leads to a Separa-
ton, and Possibly a Double Muir.
der.
Patrick DoyIe's Story.


Patrick F. Doyle, who Thursday af-
ternoon attempted to kill his wife,
Louise Doyle, and her sister. Mrs.
Mary Bondy, in the main hall of Vhe
Home of the Friendless, was in a pei
tent mood Friday morning, after
SPEEDING the night praying in his
gloomy little cell that his victims
might recover. He blamed drink for
his murderous rage. Doyle is SO years
old and a Cheboygan, Mich, lumber
man. AS a result of his crime. Mrs.
Mary Bondy lies at the point of death
in Harper hospital with a bullet in
her lung. Mrs. Doyle is in the same
ward with a bullet in her shoulder.
Doyle says: =,
81 don't know whS,i did it," he said.
II must have been crazy. Nothing was
further from my mind when / came
to town and / only carried the revolv-
er because / had been in the habit of
doing so in the woods. When she told
me that she would not go back with
me and that l could not see the chill
dren, everything went black before
me and / don't remember much until
the police came.
"She always had a good home and
everything she wanted But her sister
was always trying to get her to do
wrong. They went out nights and
drank and did everything that was
bad and. of course, l objected. But
still l didn't mean to kill her l hope
to heaven she gets better, no matter
what becomes of me.
II always loved the little ones, and
God knows what will become of them
now. While she remained in Cheboy-
! gan, even after she left me, | gave her
| money"
The shooting was deliberate and
| long considered. The would-be slayer
stood over his wife threatening her
with the revolver for nearly five min
utes, while the terrified woman knelt
on the floor and begged for mercy.
Finally he shot her and followed by
shooting Mrs. Bondy. He also threat
ened Mary Dawson, a maid at the
home, and Mrs. Fife Moore. the ma
iron. The Doyles separated last JlS ~
and Mrs. Doyle came here. She placed
their two children, Pearl, aged 9, and
Frank, G. in the home on December
26. Doyle followed his wife here. ar
irving Sunday. He tried to effect
reconciliation, and 1t was his failure
| to induce his wife to return with him
that brought on the shooting, although
| the immediate cause of the terrible
deed was the demand of the mother
that he not see the children again at
| the home.
Doyle was but &c and his bride a
child of 16 when he led her to the
altar in the little church in Cheboy-
gan. He was an ardent lover but, acI
cording to the sobbing story OF Mrs.
Doyle, a year had hardly passed when
he began to ill-treat her. Then little
Pearl came as an olive branch to the
troubled home. But it was not for long
that the husband restrained himself,
and his attitude towards his wife -
came worse.
Last July the woman decided she
could stand it no longer, and left the
house, after a bitter quarrel, taking
with her the two children. For several
months she struggled, trying to sup
port herself and the children by sew
ing. But Cheboygan offered little, and
three months ago she came to Detroit
to the home of her sister, Mrs. Mary
Bondy, 80 Porter street. She secured
employment with Mrs. Bondy at the
Cadillac as a parlor maid, but, finding
that her work gave her no time to
look after the children, placed them
in the Home of the Friendless, Deem
Der 26.