The Detroit times., 1908-07-30
SHOOTS WIFE DEAD
THEN ATTEMPS
SUICIDE
T. J. LINEHAN COMMITS AWFUL
CRIME IN PARk-PL. BOOMING
HOUSE - sLAMEs UNNAMED
THIRD PARTY FOR TRAGEDY.

Mrs. Margaret Linehan was shot
and instantly killed in her room at
No. 81 Park-pl. east, shortly after
o'clock, Wednesday afternoon. Her
husband and alleged slayer, Timothy
j. Linehan, Is In st. Mary's hospital
with a dangerous bullet wound In his
brain, selfinfiicted to all appearances,
though Linehan insists that the shoot
ing was done by third party whose
name he does not divulge. This man
is believed to be fiction. at least.
insofar as the shooting Is concerned.
for all the evidence points conclu-
sively to the husband as the man re-
sponsible for the double tragedy.
Linehan has remained conscious
since the shooting and DIR. Glemet, OF
the hospital star. who is attending the
man, says he has a good chance to
recover unless the wound becomes In.
Ffected. II he RECEIVERS he will prob.
ably be placed on trial for murder,
rs the police place no credence in his
story Of third party. No guard has
been placed at the bedside as yet, for
Linehan Is In no condition to attempt
escape. Should he continue to i'm
be placed under surveillance.
The shooting. as nearly as can be
ascertained, was the elimination OF
quarrel Only last Friday Linehan
Is alleged to have struck his wife a
vicious blow in the face In dispute
over. the sale of her restaurant. the
Eureka. on Shelby-st., opposite the
postofice, to Charles Woods, of No.
IaR
originally purchased ii last May.
Lfnehan had been working for the
Home Telephone Co. as a lineman I'M
I'll Tuesday, when he asked for his
time. giving no reason for quitting.
Since then he had spent more time In
his room than formerly.
Two Shots are Heard.
Both Linehan and his wife went
out early Wednesday morning. They
returned together shortly after the
noon hour and retired at once to their
room at the end of the hall on the
main floor. About 4:10 Linehan went
out alone, returning FIVE minutes Ia
ter. Almost Immediately afterwards.
Mrs. Ruth Leake, the landlady, heard
two shots.
Except for the Linehans the house
was practically deserted at that hour.
Mrs. Leake ran to their room and
found the door locked. She ratified
at the door Ia vain at the same time
demanding excitedly:
What's the matter in there?"
Receiving no response she went to
the rear of the house and, mounting
a stepladder, peered through an open
window into the bed chamber. Line
han was lying across the bed, with
blood oozing from a wound In his
head. A revolver lay on the floor be-
side the bed. From her position Mrs.
Leake could not see Mrs. Linehan.
whose body lay on the floor face
downward directly in front of the
window.
Mrs. Leake ran to a store nearby
and asked that an ambulance be sum.
moned. Re-entering her home she
met harles Conroy, another roomer,
coming out and asked him to go for
a policeman. Lieut.. John Jantz. of
the recorders court, CHANGED to be
passing and Mrs. Leake took him TO
the rear of the house for a glimpse
OF the death chambes. He called out
to the man on the bed and the latter
moved slightly.
LHCHdU OnioCkb LOOT.
1 Lieut.. Jantz ran into the house and
ratified at the door. He was prepar-
ing to force an entrance when Line
han, dragging himself from the bed
with great difficulty himself unlocked
the door and admitted the officer. Il
was then that the body OF the wife
was discovered.
East End ambulance removed the
man to st. Mary's hospital. Coroner
Parker took charge OF the woman's
body and had II removed to- the county
morgue. where Country Physicians
Stapleton and Grimes performed a
post norton examination, Wednesday
night
Mrs. Leake's recollection Of the num-
Der OF shots fired Is corroborated by
the finding OF two empty shells in the
revolver that lay beside the bed. One
OF these, the post-mortem examination
showed entered just below the We
mans left eye and passed in direct
line through the brain. lodging against
the base OF the skull, which was shat
tered A bullet hole through the
heshy part OF the left thumb showed
that the woman had raised her arm
to defend herself just as the shot was
fired. That the shot was fred at very
close range was evident from powder
burns both on the womans hand and
cheek