The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-26
Nab LECTURER WHO SHOT WIFE
N'CONNFLL CAME IN AUTO TO
MIL AND FLED ~ T.
lie tscd to Instruct sunday Morning
Glasses at Dr. NacArthur's Church
In Healing by Electricit, was Writ
ing Ills Life story When Police Came.

In Healing by Electricity Was Writ
Ing Ills Life Stor, When Police Came.
Andrew Mcconnell. who used to talk TO
the Current Events Class Of the Calvary
Baptist Church on Sunday mornings
about vital powers from electricity. was
locked up in the West Forty seventh street
police station YESTERDAY charged with
shooting his wife on Saturday night at
Ocean Grove Mrs Andrew Mcconnell
is in her home at Ocean Grove, with a
bullet wound In her head. The Ocean
Grove police were informed by the New
York Headquarters of the arrest and
they will send on man to-day TO take
cI'onncll back
Mcconnell went to newspaper Office TO
write the history of his case for publica-
tion and the police were telephoned for
According to Detective Devoti who made
the arrest. Mcconnell said to him when in
formed that he was wanted for shooting
his wife.
u shot her because she was ALWAYS try
ing to make me believe that | am insane
She vilifes me to different people and
RUNS nv character | don't want to go
back to Ocean Grove They will put me
away there as they did once before. and |
want to get my own lawyer
The detective asked him where he had
gone after the shooting The lecturer
said that he drove in an automobile from
Ocean Grove to Lakewood on Saturday
night came here on Sunday night and
went to the Hotel Grenoble, where he spent
the night He threw away his revolver
Ia, ,k,. IL. ,,, ,.,l 10 1f Inly
He said that he drove to his wife's cot
tage on Saturday night III an automobile
which he had hired at Avon. telling the
chauffeur that he wanted To 20 TO Ocean
Grove 10 give his wife a Christmas present
When he got TO the house he got out and
walked in, To find his wife alone Not a
word passed between them. said McCon-
nell He pulled out his revolver. shot her
in the back of the head az she turned away
from him and walked out Of the house
Devou asked if he saw the woman fall
"She was just swaying as ! closed the
door Mcconnell told him
Then Mcconnell went on TO make q
rambling statement in which he said that
/ an absolute decree Of divorce had beer
| ohtaine last spring and that his wife hac
! been vIlifyng every one who tried (,
| help him in his work.
| Mrs McC Connell told the police of Ocea n
| Grove after she was shot that although
! the two were separated there was no de-
| cree Of divorce and that II was for the pur
pose of getting her to consent to divorce
proceedings that her husband came t.
see her on Saturday.
The McC Connels came from Georgia :,
this city in 1905. Mcconnell had had 4
nervous breakdown in Atlanta, where h'
| wa, editor of a magazine
/ When ne arrived in New York he hegar
! to lecture on the cure of nervous dsea ses
telling his audiences that he himself haC
been cured 10y what he called the vita
| power of life This he said was cleo.
] triCitv, and a man who had plenty Of IL il
! his system could withstand the tempta
| tIou- Of drink and the lnrOads Of disease.
The Rev. Or Macarthur became in
tereSted in his theories and mad him speal
before the current events class at tn,
Calvary Baptist Church. eNpouuding his
views in a series of three lectures ca lie,
How Christianity and Science Meet il
the Laws Of Health At these talks Nc
Connell announced himself as the founde
Of the Lite Electric Institution AT Washing
ton. u. &. His talks advertised him anC
he took up his headquarters in an otfic,
building at Il Madison Square and esta b
lished bra nches he says. IN Chicag go
Brooklyn. Philadelphia and Boston
Mrs. Met Connell. her mother and a mait
went to Ocean Grove some months ago
4 letter found IN ICConnell's pocke o
- apparently addressed to Presiden
Taft. offering 10 solve the trust problem
for him. Ii contained a scheme for reor
ganiZation Of business whereby investor
in all CORPORATIONS should get a pc
cent. return on their investments ant
az the same tim" the prices of necessitie
should be lowered
OCEAN GROVE Dec IS Mrs McConne
was shot at her mothers house. 30 Oil
street. Mcconnell. who has been in {
hospital for the insane, visited his wife a
intervals last summer, but never to re
main for long time He was evidentl,
laboring under great excitement whei
he arrived on Saturday night. When h
fired the shot he was seated but few fee
from his wife. The ball entered at tn,
back ~ her neck and ploughed it's wa,
passing Just below the right ear, Thel
Mcconnell went away In his automobile
/ DR.. W. A, Robinson and DR.. J. T. Ros
were called, but did not consider tn
wound serious. The police were not ap
prised of the affair until late at night
when officers were detailed TO search 10
Mcconnell
From Spring Lake comes a report tha
Mcconnell conducted q so-called Christia,
/ Science school at that place last sum
mer
Or W. G. Vavalen of $50 West ls5tl
street New York city, visited the McCon
nell home to-day. He told the polio,
/ Mcconnell had been in his sanitariIm |,
| Georgia for treatment for n mental dis
order. Mrs Mcdonnell it appears, ha,
been instrumental in causing his com
rnitmcnt, but five years ago had helped
to secure his release