Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-07-31
SHOOTS WOMAN;
CUTS THROAT
Farmland Fatally Wounds Self
~ When Surrounded.
HIS VICTIM WILL RECOVER
He Attempted to Kill Farmers Wife
and Later Fired Two Bullets Into
His Head and Cuts Throat.

Angered by his discharge after tnree
years of service, Happy" Dooley,
farm hand, forty years old. Shot Mrs.
Roy Martin, the wife of his employer,
on her farm near Coatesville, Pa. il
an effort to "get even"
Five hours later, when overtakcn
and surrounded in a strip of forest
in the Black Horse hills, three miles
from the Martin home, he shot him.
self twice in the head and then cut his
throat with pocketknife. He died
in the Coatesville hospital.
The attack upon Mrs. Martin, who
is twenty-eight years old, was made
while her husband was absent and
she was alone on the farm.
Dooley blamed Mrs. Martin for his
dismissal and told Martin when he
left the farm on Tuesday that he
would be revenged. The woman had
gone to a potato patch near the house,
and was bending over the plants w en
she heard a step behind her. THra: :,
she saw Dooley with a revolver ii h.a
hand, smiling ironically at her.
Mrs. Martin sprang toward Doo'cy,
who, she said, leveled the weapon ut
her and fired The bullet struck her
in the cheek, knocking out her teeth.
She grasped the man by the arm and
struggled for the weapon. In the tussle
the weapon was again discharged by
Dooley, and the bullet ploughed
through Mrs. Martins hand.
She continued to hold the weapon
until, weak from the loss of blood, she
tainted and fell to the ground. Dooley
is said to have fired another shot at
her as she lay PROSTATE, but the bullet
missed its mark. He then reloaded
and ran into a strip CT woods.
Several farm hands in a field near
by heard the shots. They carried Mrs.
Martin into her home and flashed the
news of the shooting to Coatesville
and Downingtown and to be on the
watch for Dooley.
Word of the attack made upon Mrs.
Martin spread through the country
side rapidly. Posses were formed In
Coatesville and in Downingtcwn. AS
sured that his wife would not die,
Martin took a shotgun and joined the
searchers for Dooley.
The fugitive made his way north
ward, carefully avoiding farm houses
and keeping to strips of woes wher-
ever possible. He was seen b. several
persons as he was Sinking through a
patch of woods, and the posse from
Coatesville was notified.
In this body were w. l.. Jones, the
burgess of Coatesville; Chief Of Po-
lice Gray, of Downingtown, and Po-
licemen Brawson and Tucker. Racing
over the country roads in a motor car,
they came up with the man near the
Black Horse hills.
AS he heard the sound of the ap-
preaching car, Dooley turned. A swift
glance showed him that the occupants
were pursuing him. Without waiting
for an attack, he leveled his revolver
at the car and fired twice. Then, leap
ing a worm fence, he ran to strip Of
woods.
The small forest in whi Dooley
had secreted himself is ABOUT a quar-
ter of a mile long. Separating, the
members of the posse went at points
where they surveyed the entire cir
cumferencn of the woods, and then at
a signal began working their way
toward the center.
AS they were cautiously advancing
they heard two shots from a thicket
in the center of the trees. Hurrying
their steps, they came uE)n Dooley
lying on the ground, with two bullet
wounds in his head. Beside him was
large pocket knife, and his throat was
cut.
Dooley was unconscious AID he was
at once rushed to the sl:tal in the
motor car.