Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-05-12
SHOOTS WIFI AND SELF
Former Resident Of This
City Commits Deed in
North st Paul

EN~1 Ill ~ 7 0Ol
The following taken from the st.
Paul Dispatch of May 4th refers to
former resident of this county and
city, Mr.. and Mrs. Quin having pre-
vlous to moving to st. Paul, resided in
the South end of town near the hos.
pital and previous to that time in the
town of Clough.
flames Arthur Quinn ct North St.
Paul shot and perhaps fatally wounded
his wife about 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and then turned his revolver
90 himself. sending two bullets
through his lungs. The woman is in q
critical condition at the home at
North st. Paul.
Quinn was rushed to the city in a
Stillwater-St. Paul car and was car
ried from the car to the City Hospital
of Police Surgeon A. j. Dohm.
Though twice shot through the
lungs Quinn had not lost consciousness
when be reached the hospital, and was
able to step out of the ambulance.
anu walk into the building without
much assistance.
The physicians say that the mans
chance for recovery are slim. Owing
to the direction of the bullets and the
extent of the wounds it was deemed
inadvisable to operate at once. It IS
doubtful if the man will recover.
Gulnn--was fully conscious when he
was examined at the hospital, and
refused to make any statement to the
doctors regarding the shooting.
At 4 o'clock an ambulance from the
City Hospital called for Mrs. Quinn
and as she was placed in 1T. the ply
sician in charge remarked that he did
not think she could live. The bullet
from duinn's revolver had penetrated
her breast near the heart, and though
that organ, apparently, had not been
touched, the physician dic not hold out
much hope to her friends who stood
around.
Beside the wound in the breast,
Mrs. Quinn was shot once in the hand
and once in tfe neck.
Neither of the two latter wounds are
dangerous.
Quinn and his wife were divorced
about two years ago, and only recently
Quinn prevailed upon his former wife
to return as his housekeeper.
She did so on account. as she said,
Of her little 7-year- OLD son. When she
came back the two began housekeep-.
ing on Seventh street in North St.
Paul in what is known as the old
Muller building.
But the reunion was not to last long.
Three weeks ago, Quinn, who, his
friends say, is Of peculiar dlsposi-
tion, left the new home, and took a
room over a down town store.
Guinr said he had finally decided
that Mrs. Quinn was too old for him.
be happy together.
unsuccessful efforts to procure a
revolver. Finally he purchased 38.
caliber weapon and yesterday IN spite of
the warning of Town Marshall Martin
Conlin, he again determined to try
and effect reconciliation with his
former wife, who hy this time was
determined not to allow Quinn to
come home again.
At O'Clock when their little boy,
Arthur, Jr., was attending school,
Quinn, with his pistol concealed in
his pocket, went to the house.
He said that he would like to try
living with his former wife once more.
Neighbors say Mrs. Quinn refused
to permit him to come back to the
| house.
| Quinn seeing that argument was
useless, drew his pistol and fired three
| times at his wife. Then he turned
the gun on himself and shot himself
twice through the. lungs.
! Friends of Quinn in North st. Paul
say that while he is not drinking
man, he has strange moods, and they
think that it was while in one of these
moods that he fred upon Mrs. Quinn.
Mrs. Quinn is considerably better
and will recover, but not much hope
is held for the life of MIR. Quinn.