The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-09-28
WOMAN IS SHOT, I
HUSBAND Arrested
Mrs. A. J. McCIelIand, Victim Of
Frenzied Rage, Is Struck BY
Two Bullets But May Live

e. Itr q &C of frenzy because his wife
and her sister refused to accompany
him home, A. J. McClelland a local
carpentet, shot his wife twice in the
body, and beat his father.in law and
motherin law, Mr., and Mrs Philip
Camafa, over the head with the butt
Of the same gun with which he had
shot his wife, according to statements
nhde by the police,
The shooting took place near the cor.
ner Of Beretania and Lisbon Streets,
shortly before ten clock last night.
Mrs McClelland was taken to the
emergency hospital in the ambulance,
and was removed thence to Queens
Hospital. She was found to be suffer
ing fromsa bullet.wound in the left
shoulder, fiesh.wound; and from an s
other bullet wound below the right
shoulder, in the mira scapula region.
DIR. r. 9. Aver stated last night that
the latter wound would not necessarily
prove fatal, although on account of the
woman splitting some blood, he thought
II probable that the bullet bad pene.
trated 20 the right hung
MeClelland was arrested and held at
the police-station. -.
Mrs. MeClcllhnd and Mrs. Lizzie
| Chrones, her sister, were outside the
house of Joseph G.. Faria, 642 South
Beretania Street. About twenty min
utes to ten o'clock McCIeland put in
an appearance and demanded that they
return TO their home at the corner Of
Beretania and Lisbon Streets, where
| they were living with the Camaras.
| Mrs. McClelland told her husband
/ that she wanted to stay and hear a
photograph play as it was playing a
tune she liked very much. With the
| two women at the time were Mr.. and
Mrs. Camara. y.
Three Shots Fired F..
| McClelland is then said to have pull
ed large-caliber, heavy revolver and
to have fred at his wife as she was
standing on the sidewalk This shot
missed her, and the woman started to
run in the direction of the Camara e
| residence. When she was near the
entrance of the ward of the house in
which she lived, McClelland fred again,
the bullet passing through her left
shoulder.
Mrs. McClelland staggered into the
yard of her home and just as she was
being greeted by her daughter, Bea.
trice, girl of thirteen years, McClel
lend fired n third time, and the woman
fell unconscious in her daughter 3 arms
the bullet striking her in. the back
slightly below the right shoulder.
The injured woman was wearing O
white MILDLY waist with a, blue collar
Fat the time and In o few moments il
was soaked with blood. She was car
ried into her house in state of semi
consciousness and the ambulance was
phoned for. ...' <
Meanwhile Mrs. ChTones had run
away in flight and Mr.. and Mrs. Ca
mara, who are an elderly couple, tried
to pacify McClelland, who was in a
state of frenzy, and shouting that hi
would kill the entire family, Philip
Uamara stated, last night, that Nc
4 Clelland pointed the gun at him, ant
would have shot him, had he moi
grabbed him and thrown the weapon W
in the air. s.. @.EE'
Two Others Wounded
Infatuated with Camara s resistance
McClelland is said to have struck the
OF man over the head with the weapon
| WOunuJ uuI
when he had knocked him down, hi
his wife in the same manner, iniictinl
a wound which was worse than that OF
her husband
A Hawaiian man is said TO have
finally succeeded in wrestling tn,
weapon from McClelland.
Mrs. MrCleIland is a woman thirty
eight years Of age, and was formerly
Maria Isabel Camara. Mrs. Lizzi,
Chrones is the wife Of George Chrones
for many wears connected with loca
restaurants. -'"' 'r4.
Mrs. Chrones stated last night tina
McClcllnmd had threatened to kill hi
wife on previous occasion, and tina
one night he threatened to kill her
Mrs. Chroncs. On the latter occasion
she stayed with Beatrice Mcclellan,
until an early hour in the morning
when McCIelland went, to sleep.
Neither Of the Camaras could Civ,
, lany reason for the attack on thei
daughter, last night, They simply sal,
that McCIeIland must have been crazy
n $50. \ ~ N -