The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-18
MAN AND GIRL ARE
MYSTER|0USLYSA01
Geo. Emmett and Bertha Nc.
Lean Seriously Wounded
in Rupert Street House

winnipeg, Dec lS.-AS the result OF
q mysterious shooting AFFAIR which
took place yesterday Afternoon about
half-past three at 146 Rupert street,
George Emmett. G. P. r. constable,
and Bertha Mclean, to whom EN-
NETT was to have been married next
month, are both at the general hos
pital with serious bullet wounds in
their heads. Just how serious their
injuries are will not be known until
this morning. whom tho X-rSyf appa-
rstkaf1 VIII show any bullets, afe
lodged ! g iIa their skulls. a 8; o'clock
this morning "a when the x-rxy appas
good condition and fatal results are
not looked for. Just how the affair
happende or what led up to It, has
not yet been ascertained. Both were
roomers at the home Of Peter Matt
land, a jailer at the provincial Jail.
They were in Emmett's room up
stairs, and one Of the extraordinary
features Of the affair is that no one
In the house heard any shots. Mrs.
Maitland, who was in a down stairs
room with her daughter, thought she
heard Miss Mclean calling, and open
ing door leading to the back stairs,
heard sounds that caused her to
hurry to Emmett's room. When she
opened the door she found Miss Nc
Lean sitting on the bed with blood
pouring from her left temple. She
appeared dazed, and was swaying
back and forth. calling continually,
Mother, o Mother" Lying face
downward on the floor in "a pool of
blood in the center Of the room was
Emmett, apparently stunned but not
-.
Found the Revolver.
Mrs. Maitland ran out for help and
Detective StodgNl and Constable
Algeo soon arrived from the police
station, but three or four doors away.
DR.. F. A. Smith was sent for and
ordered both removed to the hospital.
Emmett made a statement in which
he claimed that he was loading q re-
volver when 1t went of accidentally.
He claimed that. only one cartridge
had been discharged. The. revolver
was rot found at the time but q short
time later a young son, of Mrs. Matt
land found 1t under the dressing table
and but q short distance from where
Emmett's head rested on the floor
when he was first found. Four dis
charged shells were found in the re-
volver. r..
Miss Mclean has a wound in the
left temple and another about two
inches further back on the head
where the bullet apparently came out.
Emmett had three separate wounds
on the back Of his head, one behind
each ear and one at the middle Of
the back Of thes head. All seemed to
be superficial: The fact that all
three wounds are at the back of the
head seems to dispose Of the theory
that he first shot Miss Mclean and
then tried to end his own life, a
theory to which both the police and
the Maitland household at first in
clined.
II was known that the lovers had
quarrellcd4 and that Emmett was de-
cidedly "out Of Sorts" He was on
night duty at the c. p. R. and left
the house early this morning. not re-
turning until noon. It.swas well on
in the afternoon that he and Miss
Me- can we're heard talking. up stairs.
but IN thew wore engaged ana spent
a good deal of time together. nd
rotis" was taken Of ,them. From the
pnsiticn Of the wounds 1t seems GER
t"in that Miss Mel can muet .ha-a
dnrc IT," shooting as F1-,r,ctt could
tara'v haze inflicted tho wounds In
tha boz, ~f his h-ed TIVE ,roupd IN
ter loft tern'c mictt Rave heen SET
,T'ct"d. rrt this. .c--atrl h-rsiy ,ree-..s
,',r7',nh'e TIE nrsitio- =. 40 re.,~l-
'-c.' 80, f''|ico+nl ttat 1t --.,-,h. $50 r,,.,-
I, 6 . ..---'' Erlnett's hand as he fell to
t,,e fccr. !; n. 4