The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-10-24
PRETTY GIRL SHOT
HIN, YOUTH CLAIMS
1norts 90 Find One VINO Welded
Gun In rounasso~n Tragedy
Unsuecessfui.
POLICE DO NOT FAVOR
TRIANGLE" EXPLANATION
Heeert Mecresdy Of Beaver Falls
"a, 70 Dying BOY; Companion
From Sharon Pa.

fOUNGBTOWN. O.. Oct 23.-The
mystery surrounding the shooting OF
Robert Roy McCresdy. ls years old.
student OF Beaver Fails. Pa. and
lydia Grummeii. OF sharon, Pa. In
hotel here ~ midnight. SUNDAY. Is
growing because OF McCreadys ia
slstenee that he was shot neither by
himsslf nor by the girl. Miss Crum-
nell will recover.
The youth Was alive tonight. al
thongh SURGEONS express surprise be
cause the bullet entered 80 close 10
ne heart that an operation would be
fatal
The police say they have abandon
ed the theory that second glri was
connected With the shooting. although
the young man murmurrd when taken
10 the hospital. Where Ii that pret.
~ girl who shot msT"
A third person Is being watched.
however
In the clothes OF McCreAdy we're
found two cocaine powders and the
police think be- may have been la the
habit or using the drug and that this
mlght explain the shooting
- Gun and Trousers Thrown.
Five shots we're nred and as the re-
port OF the discharge OF the weapon
reverberated through the room Nc.
Cready's trousers and the weapon
with which the shooting was done.
were dropped into an alley In the
rear OF the hotel They had evidently
been thrown from window In the
room In which the shooting occurred
MeCready came here yesterday art
crnoon and about . O'Clock regiater.t
a, the Saiow hotel Two hours after
Mccready registered the woman ar
rived.
shortly after midnight guests oi
The hotel were aroused b. ave shot.
hrsd IN rapid succession. A score oI
nofe Of the guests and hotel employees
>12{Eief 70 the room aud found tps tUe
on the foor was Mecready.
The woman said she had beer
awakened by crash and found Nc
Cready on the floor The light. which
had been left burning. was oNtin
gulshed. In the confusion and dark
ness she said she could not tell how
many shots were t-ed. o. who fired
fhem.
The police found dve shots had
been fired. One pierced McCready's
heart. x second struck the woman aud
a third had shot out the light In the
room. The other two have not yol
been accounted for.
The police abandoned the theory
hat another woman. Jealous of the
attentions McCrcasy was paying the
Crunneli woman. forced her way into
the room and shot the couple a. they
lay asleep I'm bed Another repOrl
Witch the police are trying 20 vcrify
} n 20 the effect that the woman's lOvci
|, hred the shots.
1BEAvER FALLS. Pa. oct ga
Robert n. McCready h the son OF L.
McCready. of 1907 Seventh avenue
this place. and real estate and In.
surance broker. His father was mott.
aed OF the shooting a. I o'clock this
morning and left almost Immediately
FOR Youngstown The Young man was
. drug clerk employed In the store
Of hts brother-in law. Guy r Layda
He formerly VAS employed by the
Mayo Drug Company
SHARON. Pm. oct % when Mrs
Ilofne MfuNufiis vt lHNff tilils fulr
nlace. Was told OF the circumstances
surrounding tho shooting Of her
daughter. Lydia. she expressed no
emotion but answered "1t would
have been better m she had died
when a child" According 20 mo
mother. she viii NOT go to her
daughter In Youngstown unless the
daughter sends FOR her
The mother stated that her
dsnehfcr was - years old
Two years aEo Lydia eiopcd VITA
fIal Alicndcrfcr Of Washington. Pa.
and they we're married. The married
life % the couple. W Is alleged. was
shori and stormy The couple resided
together for only a short time whom
LYDIA left
sen Murders Parent