Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-26
Says His Wife
 Ran Him Down
ANDREW MCCONNELL cONFESsEs
 SHOOTING HER.
WRITER AND LECTURER
Arrested While Writing Confession in Editorial Rooms of New York Times -Mrs. Mcconnell Out of Danger

New York. Dec. 25.-Andrew Mccon- nell. magazine writer and lecturer was arrested at a reporters desk in a morning newspaper office tonight while, it Is alleged, he was writing a confession of shooting and seriously woun6ing his divorced wife. Mrs. Ma iron Mcconnell.
 Arrested In Times Office.
 Mrs. Mcconnell is at her home at Ocean Grove, N. J. The shooting is said to have occurred late Saturday night. Mcconnell was operating typewriter at a reporters desk in the Times office tonight when & detective arrested him. The paper in the ma chine bore these words:
 Had Started a Confession.
 T was forced 10 shoot the woman who was my wife. Absolute divorce Nas obtained last spring. Not one word was said regarding the divorce the night I shot her. She has tried to vihfy an innocent woman"
 This was as far as had been writ ten on the machine, but beside the typewriter the detective found a slip of paper upon which there was scraWly handwriting which was hard to make out as follows:
 Says Wife Ran Him Down.
 Every person who has helped to build up my work has been vilified by a woman who is either hopeIessly in sane or a designing nend. When I made discovery in the electrical basis of life, which Cthree ilIegibIe words) years later"
 Detective Devoti declared that Me Cornell added to his alleged confes- sion by declaring that he shot his wife ecause "She was always making me believe I was insane She viIif1ed me % different people and has run my character down."
 His Story of Shootinq.
 The detective said McCon1eH had told of hiring an automobile at Avon, N. S- yesterday T drove to the house. he said in the confession T rooms. I shot her and went out. I threw the revolver away when driving past a wood near Lakewood"
 Author of Volume of Poems.
 Mcconnell was locked up on charge of felonious assault. He gave his age as 37 years and his address as the Grand Park hotel Chicago, Ill He appears in biographical records as the author of volume of poems. a work on organic electricity, and an other on scientific mind healing In 1908 he was proprietor of the Aka hest, southern magazine published at Atlanta, Ga. He was founder of a cooperative union for re- and also established lyceum system of popular and educational entertain rnents in southern towns
 Had Been Advised to Confess.
 It was said at The Times tonight that Mcconnell drifted in there. mak- ing inquiry to what he had better do regarding stories that had appeared in late editions of the papers regard ing the shooting of his wife. It was that if he were guilty he should confess and be arrested. He agreed to the plan and was engaged fFaa Wh was called.
 Mrs. McConneIPs Version.
 It was learned from Ocean Grove tonight that Mrs. McConnelIs wound is in the neck at the base of the brain but that the bullet emerged after cut tlng under the skin for two inches. It is believed she is in no indediate dan ger. She was able to talk somewhat and said that she and her husband had been separated for several years and that he had been desfrous of obtaining an absolute divorce in order to marry ngatn.