The San Francisco call., 1908-12-15
Family Grief Stricken

The family of Mrs. Mccormick were
grief stNcken yesterday over the sor-
row that had befallen their daughter.
They were inclined TO attribute her
predicament TO a weakened mentality.
and they say that her condition is due
to the injury she received in Denver
two wears ago.
1T is not true that we have repu
dated my daughter said James NJ.
Long. the father. I'VE had not seen her
nor had heard OF her for two years
prior to this occurrence, but her plight
is due TO the accident which befell her
in Denver. Before that time she was
normal in all respects
The story published in The Call this
morning concerning my sister is prac-
tically true said Frank Long, a broth
er. Yesterday. we shall do for her,
he continued. but we sorely deprecate
this publicity. We wish il had not
come out
The most manly word spoken regard
ing the peculiar story of Mrs. McCor-
mick is that by her son, Madison Vim
cent. He IS in his seventeenth year
and came to San Francisco alone about
two years ago. He secured rooms at
a hotel in Mission street and imme-
diately found employment. With an
independent spirit the lad did not go
to the big syrup plant operated by the
Longs at Sixteenth and Division streets.
but found a job on his own account, and
has done well. He said last evening:
Is Mothers Champion
Mamma has been i'll at different
times for several years past. ! would
not consider her at all times to be
entirely rational, because her sickness
and troubles have been such as to
cause any one TO be in a state of mind
which was not entirely normal. I
came to SAN Francisco about two years
ago to try and make a home for my
mother. as I have always loved her
dearly, as do now. I sent word TO her
and she came here in 1906. | do not
care to discuss this matter at all.
thinking it better that any statement
that may be made should come from
my mothers people.
Il would only say that if my mother
at any time has done anything wrong
it has been because of her enfeebled
condition"
At the University of California hos
pital yesterday it was reported that at
the present time Mccormick is doing
fairly well, but there is yet danger that
infection viii spread from the long
neglected wound which the woman in
1icted in his thigh Assistant District
Attorney Roche and Detectives de la
Guerra and Purcell went to the hospital
again yesterday to take a statement
from him. but he said that he was not.
dying and that he refused to prosecute
the woman. He wanted to be let alone.
Was Newspaper Editor
i have been a newspaper editor and
q clerk said Mccormick at the hos
pital yesterday. Il owned an interest
in paper in Idaho. Then did clerical
work in Denver, but found that I could
make more money as a waiter NY
wife's trouble is due to the accident
that befell her two years ago in Den
YER 7 did not know her before that
time. but / knew of her.
Neighbors of the McCormiclSs when
they lived in Vulcan street say that the
couple had a terrible quarrel on the
night Of Saturday, December 5. During
the quarrel Mccormick was heard to
cry out suddenly and subsequently to
groan as if in great pain. 1t is thought
that at that time. the woman wounded
him. The neighbors say that the pair
were drinking at the time.
The next morning Mrs. Mccormick
left the house, chatted in an appar-
emily rational manner with her neigh
Dor and went away, leaving her hus-
band almost dead on the floor of the
dining room. She did not report the
case, and it was but through an acci-
dent that DR.. Beihls the landlord, went
to the house Monday night and found
Mccormick is a most serious condition.
The time for the examination into
not yet been set
Was Noted Beauty
DENVER Colo Dec 14-Mrs Ida