Evening journal., 1914-01-26
WOMAN STAYS
MAN WITH HIS
GUN IN FIGHT
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4 lie was employed as q bartender IN tins
city, and on Sundays he would go to
Glasgow to visit his wife and three chill
drcn, two girls aged II and 10 years,
and boy aged S years. Mrs. MeNin-
ney's mother was the widow OF John D.
Reed. an uncle OF the dead man.
Reed built brick house in Glasgow,
adjoining his blacksmith shop, three
years ago and il is since that time that
Mrs Mckinney has been making her
home with him. According TO state.
ments made by neighbors. Reed and
Mrs. Mckinney had frequent quauels.
Reed came home shortly before , o'clock
last evening.
Mrs. Mckinney said that she had
packed her goods preparatory TO leay-
ing Reeds home when he entered the
house. She had set no date for leav-
ing. however Reed became enraged,
she said. and went outside and threw
bricks at her through the window.
Reeds parents. however. are inclined
TO doubt this statement. declaring
that Reed has for somc time been
trying to get Mrs. Mckinney to leave
his home.
Accordingly to Mrs McKinney's
story. after Reed had thrown the
bricks at her he entered the house
and attacked her A general fight
resulted in which furniture was
knocked down and smashed and the
kitchen stove overturned. During
the fight, she declared. Reed went to
the cupboard and took out revolver
and threatened to kill her mother,
herself and her children She i'm
mediately grappled with him and in
the struggle that resulted the revolver
fell to the floor, she said She picked
IL up and another tussie began, he
trying TO regain the weapon and she
trying to retain 1t.
During this struggle the couple
went from the diningroom TO the
front door and she claims she was
standing in the front door and Reed
upon the porch when she fired three
shots at him Two Of the shots
missed their mark. while the third
struck Reed just below the collar bone
and, glancing upward, penetrated the
left lung.
Immediately after the bullet struck
him. Reed entered the house and
walked through TO the kitchen. As
he entered the kitchen door he reel
ed and fell heavily to the floor He
was dead when he struck the floor
Although the shooting occurred
about 5.15 o'clock. no one entered
the house until Dr. Walter II. Steel
of Newark. who had been summoned
by State Senator Zachary Harris. OF
Glasgow. entered between 7.30 and s
o'clock. At that time the man had
been dead more than two hours. ~
examination made by DR.. Steel re.
vealed that the bullet had gone in
the direction Of the left lung. Tho
! doctor stated. however, that the
wound did not resemble on the sur
face one that would cause mstanl
death. He found Reeds :ace was
covered with contusions and there
was a bruise on the woman's fore
head
DR. Steel notified Undertaken Rob
ert T. Jones. OF Newark. who took
charge Of the body. hr'~s sing il &c
Newark last evening. as iunera
] arrangements have not vet beer
made.
4 Constable f. Egbert Shellender
who is also town officer of Newark
went to Glasgow at midnight anC
took Mrs. Mckinney into custody. re.
moving her to Newark. where she
spent the night in the lookup. The
three children were left with theil
grandmother in the Reed home. Mrs
Reed and the three children were
all in the house last night when the
? doctor and undertaken arrived.
Hearing This Morning.
The hearing before Magistrate
Lovett shortly after 10 O'Clock this
morning was attended by the mother
s and father and sisters and brother
, of Reed. Mrs. Mckinney appeared
weary after her night in the tow
C lookup, but was calm at the hear
y ing. She wore a black dress witt
G mourning veil.
D Harry Brown. the first witness, whit
: lives near Glasgow said he had jus
I passed the house and was about twen
! t. yards away when he heard a sho
S fred. lie saw Mrs Mckinney stand
z ing in the doorway with a revolver il
G her hand. he said, and the revOlve
was pointed in the direction of Reed
He did not sec the shot dred, he said
r David a. Ward. of Glasgow. SAT-
( he saw Mrs. Mckinney appear in tn
r door Of the house behind Reed an
+ heard the report of pistol. He wa
too far away to see the revolver, h
said. but he saw Reed stoop over an
then enter the house. but did not ac
a tually see the revolver fred.
{ William Higgins. neighbor, told O
S seeing Mrs. Mckinney when she shoi
!, She was standing in the from. dooi
[ Huggins said he did not actually Sc
the revolver. but heard the report an
z saw a Jet Of fire from the weapon.
n Mrs. Bertha Huggins his wife, sal
n she heard the shots fred She ran int
!. the kitchen. she said. and from theI
% saw Mrs. Mckinney standing in u
: front door She said she heard Mr.
Mckinney cxclaim twice. 81 told you
would do it, Following the shootin;
- Mrs. McKinn-v went down the sire,
!. al ~ her mother and the children VIII
, had left the house at the beginning Z
the quarrel Mrs Huggins said.
M DR.. Steel told OF making an cxamins
tion of Reed that convinced him til
=. wounded man was dead. DIR. steel sal
> he did not trace the course of the bulie
!, but left that to be determined at I'll
~ autopsy this morning. Squire Lovei
!, then held Mrs. Mckinney without bal
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