New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
POLICEMAN SHOT AS HE
AIDS DESERTED WIFE
Wounded Twice by Bullets
Aimed at Her Who Sought
His Protection.
'0THER WOMAN G0ADS MAN
Partner of Wounded officer
Used Fists Effectively in
Battle with Armed
Assailant.

AsSailant.
Because he tried TO aid a woman
whose hubsand had deserted her, and
forced his way into an apartment
where the husband was living with an
other woman, stephen b. McManus'
broad shouldered young policeman at
tached to the East 9th street police
station. is dying in Flower Hospital
John r. Higgins, the husband. fred TWO
bullets into McManus's body last night
as the policeman entered his door
McManus staggered to a drug store,
and his side partner" Patrolman
Loughran. rushed into the cheap little
Second avenue fat and beat Higgins
almost into insensibility with mis- bare
fists.
McManus was on fixed post at list
street and Second avenue last night
about $50 o'clock when woman hold
ing three year-old boy by the hand
went up TO him. She threw her shaWl
back from her face, and the policeman
saw her eyes were red and swollen.
Choking down her soDs' she toiu MN
that her husband was living al No.
1857 Second avenue with another
woman. named Margaret Mccarthy.
Il want you to help me get the -
the Domestic Relations court o'u''ou
him 10 pay me 10 support iiS o''ii''' '"'
she said
Policeman Protects woman
McManus looked over lhe papers inc
woman had ana went WIFI her ~ 'io
fat on the second hoor OF the House'
She knocked on the door ana II opened
lust a crack.
who's there" a mans voice in
quired.
IT'S me. John, your VIE, answered.
Mrs. Higgins.
That's her, damn her. Let HeI nave
it," cried a female voice.
NcManus showed his way in front or
Mrs. Higgins. but he had not put his
foot across the threshold when the man
inside fired his revolver. The first shot
went into McManus's right lung, ana
the second into his left side, and. rang
ing mn came out through the skin of
his neck. He was stunned and bleed
ing but somehow he managed to .et
down stairs and felt his stumbling way
70 tho drug store. lust as he was
going inside Patrolman Loughran, who
alternated with him on fixed post, came
nm NcNanus was lust able to tell
o,,cbrar his story and then he lapsed
into urconsciousness
Iouphran. great. strapping six
footer, picked McManus up under ms
arm and carried NM i"'o .n'
store a 'lerN IAN MN -., ~
counter anu 90 "' ~
wounded man l-'"'9 III q"
door behind MN he ulu "o' sup
telephone lot reSei We U'O
rap ms hlshts''cN oii INC
STEAD ne maui g"
MOUSE ia0o" up l''O :,
on the ooor Oh ''iesli''' '''''
was l"cheu' anu HISS"
open .,ao.
Louslrah P"' no =,
against inc s'ue - '''' U :,
burst from t'e n'ilse'' ,r,
aside ana jumped I''o NV
stocky higgins was '''"O''9 1T.
slde the woman no
mana. WIN "Si"s ''"p'
man pore inc man - a.
ne couid Snoo' nv -.
Dleeoins N'"''''' ,,,.,,,.s
NUN" 90 ,1,..,..,,,.,, r,.o
again ana ."s''' '''''
Other Woman prisoner
In the mean time, some one had tele-
phoned TO the East 67th street station,
and while Loughran was holding his
...;.o,,o, ,,,o notroI wagon arrived. With
o..o.,t,.o,. c,l,o1i,, aud
men he&ueo pS
Gallagher. Higgins was taken 10 u''
station. There was a dramatic scene,
49, 10 ,.oll,ad in escorted bv two de-
- a,a his ,,co mass Of bruises.
'eO'iNo'' anu ,,l,1..,,,.. -,
A moment idtti INC o." NC''' wy 'O''''