Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-27
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Bartender Attempts to Kill
Wife and Then Com.
mitS Suicide With
a Knife
WOUNDED WOMAN
MAY YET RECOVER
She Lies at Hospital With a Bullet
In Her Head but .Wilh Good
Chance 10 Get Well Un-
less Complications
Dtvelop.

James Mitchell, for the past Ave
years the jovial and ever polite at
tendant at the Alvarado buffet, lies
dead at A. Borders undertaking par
lors, while his wife Lily Mitchell. a
colored actress. Is hoveiing between
life and death at st. Joseph's hospital
because of an unrequited love tne
man felt for the woman. The wo-
man has a bullet hole in her h ~ad.
with possibly a bullet n her b. ain,
while the man IS covered with wounds
self inflicted, some of them on la. Us
of the body to indicate he was insane
when committing the deed.
Mrs. Mitchell was alive at 3 o'clock
this afternoon and may live but the
chances are very mucn against her.
The bullet entered the forehead alb we
the eyebrows and ranged upward,
passing through the skull and, il s
believed, through the IAN cav ty
but this has not been ascer aimed. she
has one chance in a hundred to sur
vive.
DIR. Reidy, who attended her, both
at the home of w. I. Thornton, 72l
South Walter street, imme .ately af
kCi hht Shpotih6 anu AtOSPi al
snf9 p,aaa On the top of the hsa1
uhich may have been made by
bullet and that the leaden missile may
he living just beneath the sku l' II
this is the case and no compl.' ATOMS
arise. Mrs. Mitchell may recover.
She was still conscious TINS mo- IL
ing and talked freely. she SAID ina.
she spent a very good nlsnt anu 'oiu
H. xHrith h
hanI when he shot her. Sne says
that he fred three shots but only two
nan he accounted for. The one Is IN
her head and the other made hole
IN the screen on the porch and pas5eo
out into the street Mrs. M mel
nod not been told Of her husoan a.
suicide at a late hour this afte noon
The doctor thought it best not TO TEL
her as the shock might weaken ne
chances for recovery.
Believe Mitchell Insane.
The self inflicted wounds upon tn
body of Mitchell consist OF Gu
across the throat that severed I'll
windpipe and several )aggy cu's
the nit of the s.omach after TAU
cruelty mutilating himself tne ma ma
went into the bath room, lald 40"
cd hoth the hot and cold water on
comulete the suicide. However,
was so nearly dead wnen the "at
rose around his face su.fici MT
strangIe him, that the throat co
tracted with the death gasp, keeph
the water from his stomach al
lungs.
r.. b. Parks, the colored mi
whom Mitchell had keeping house
MIN at 1OS Haze dine aven ie, was
witness to the mans suic de. Par
saws that Mitchell came home aoe
10 O'Clock. walked in the house
the dark and told HIM to get up
strike a light. Parks stu llt
ana saw that Mitchell was In 81
sleeves and that he had blood all u'
his shirt front. He had taken his c.
OF when he came in and threw II
a char. Parks said he thought
Mitchell had hurt himself and as
MIN. Mitchell, according to fai
said: n,
"No. Rastus; I'm all right D'
get frightened. L won't hurt
You just do as say and al my pi
erty will be yours Bring the
,is into the kitchen"
parks said that he was very m
frightened anu ulN 90
- Mitchell was cool and quet
aa smoke as deliberately as ne acted.
ts went into the kitchen ana GOT
butcher knife. Then he went into
uus own room and laid down on the
Cool and Deliberate
Here Rastus, kill me- l won't
Won. Kin me-" he said.
Parks said that he refused
Mitchell raised the knife in MS
hand and struck at his ck'
blade entered below the point Oh
left Jaw bone and ex ended
around the neck to point beio"
right ear. Twice the insane man
the blade thr1ush the wounl al
seyering the head from the BODY
point of the blade was bent on
..E. neck bone.
.. Parks says that Mitchell gre
h.. y, and rolled from the bed to the
He struggled for a nom n an
up. Noticing that the knife was
ne went into the ktch n and
bread knife with which 10 fnis
IN The man sat On the side