The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-10
AIIer K. Male S Dead and Mrs. Male Not Exoected To
 Recover
DOMESTIC DIFFERENCE
 BROUGHT ON TRAGEDY
Wife Had Refused To Return to Him. Little Four-year-old Son Knows
 Nothing About Ills Loss. The Tragic Story.

Brooding over his failure to effect a reconciliation with his wife from whom he had been separated for about three weeks, Allen K Male, a man about Ss years old, in a fit of desperation shot and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs. Male yesterday morning about 9;30 o'clock and then turned the smoking weapon to his own heart and sent a bullet tearing through his breast
 Male died about two hours after he shot himself and his wife lies at St Vincents hospital in a very precarious condition. It was stated at a late hour last night her condition was uncertain but that she had chance to live.
 From all that could be learned yester- day afternoon MT. and Mrs. Male have been very unhappy of late and about three weeks ago, it Is stated, they sep arated, Mrs. Male going to the home of her parents, MT. and Mrs. A. H. An derson, COZ South Twenty-fifth street, and Mir. Male going to the home of relatives in Texas.
 Yesterday morning, it seems, Male re- turned to Birmingham and called at the residence of his father-in-law, stating his desire to see his wife. Upon enter ing the house Male was met by Mrs. Anderson who, fearing that trouble might grow out of meeting between MT. and Mrs. Male, asked the man not to go upstairs where his wife was at the time. It is understood that Male first stated that he had some fruit for his little 4-year- r-old son, Horace, but later he IS said to have cried in a very dramatic manner that he had come to get his wife and that he wanted her to live with him again.
 Met by Husband.
 Mrs. Male was in a bedroom upstairs at the time and upon hearing the words of her husband called to him that she would not live with him. At this point Mrs Nale 1t seems, walked out to the stairway and stepped down onto a little landing about half way down the steps. Her husband came up to met her and after conversation of only a moments duration Male drew a .S2 calibre Smith , & Wesson Special revolver and began firing.
 Three shots were fired from the pis- tol two being directed at Mrs. Male. The desperate man applied the third bullet to his own breast
 The first shot fired from the revolver, from all that could be learned, passed through Mrs. Males chin. The second bullet took effect in the woman's right breast.
 When Male had fired the two shots his wife ran down the steps to the first floor, crying to her mother that she was shot, urging her to send for a doctor and to get out of the way, evidently fearing that Male would shoot her, too.
 From the stairway leading to the first floor of the house Mrs. Male ran out the front of the house into the yard and had turned in the direction of the house next door when she fell to the ground.
 Turned Revolver on Self.
 In the meantime Male had gone upstairs ing when he shot her. Here he turned the revolver to his heart and pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the left breast about four inches over the heart.
 Mrs Male was picked up and carried into the house In the direction of which she was running. The husband was picked up from the landing on the stair way and carried upstairs to the bedroom from which his wife had come when he called to her.
 An ambulance was summoned from the Green Undertaking company and first Mrs. Male and then her husband was removed to St. vincents hospital
 Immediately after the tragedy oc- cured the police authorities. were nou- fled and Officer George Devine was sent to the scene to make an investigation. He took charge of the pistol from which, he noted, three shots had been fired.
 Male said nothing after he had fired the shots into the body of his wife, but simply went on upstairs and ended his own life.
 At the hospital everything possible was done to save the lives of the man and his wife. Male, however died within about two hours after he shot himself. Mrs Male was operated upop and while 1t is possible that she may recover 1t Is not believed to be probable that she will get well.
 Threats To Commit Suicide.
 
 Male, prior to his death yesterday, Is said to have several times threatened to end his own life because of his family troubles. Sometime ago he applied to Chief Bodeker for a position on the po- lice force and only a short time ago, upon seeing Chief Bodeker. he requested that the application be torn up
 The deceased man was formerly street car conductor in the employ of the Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power com pany, but 1t Is understood that he left the employ of the company several weeks ago.
 While the affair is tragic in It's every phase. one of the saddest and most pa- thetic features is the fact that the little 4-year-old son, Horace, Is unaware of the fact that his father Is dead and that his mother may not live.
 The remains of MT. Male are being held In the morgue of the Green Un- dertaking establishment pending the defi- mite arrangement of funeral services. Ut is probable that the body will be sent to Texas, where quite number of rela- lives of the deceased now reside.
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