Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-19
MRS. MDONNELL IS
ALLEGED TO HAVE Y.
RELATED NEW STORY
Former Nurse Who Cared
For Woman Believes
Her Insane.
STATEMENT MADE 81 q
MONDAY DENIED
Couple Now in Stuts1nan
County Jail-Trial
Next June.

eAAS DANOVAAAcAA AAAu11ys ~ = TO-.
suit Of inhuman treatment No.
Donnell, is told OF in : ~ oonfes. -
sion which MIS-. McDonneI III
Monday evening to Ms, Jessie
-SchOfeld, Fargo nurse, who va
placed in charge OF the peisoaaee
and who told her story here tor 4
day. ~ =.
Mcdonnell and his wife are II /.
Jaal at jamestown charged with
numbering their II year old
daughter Eta at their home near
Courtensy. last Friday.
About two years ago, according
to the story Mrs. Mcdonnell Il
said to have told Mrs. Scasoaeld,
a 2-year-old child became nj
with the measles and later pneu.
monia developed. One night dur.
ing the cniid's Illness IL w.
breathing very heavily and an
gered Mcdonnell. Mrs McDou.
nell says her husband ordered her
to place the child outside tl1o
house but that she refused. Nc
Donneu then got mp. according ia
the story, placed the child OUT
doors In the cold, locked the door
: and went back to bed, threaten.
ing to kill Mrs. Mcdonnell as,d
the children II she returned tho
child to the room.
Mrs. Mcdonnell ciaims she
brought the child into the houSe
after 1t had been exposed to tho
cold Tor more than an hour. Tlao
following day the child died.
There is no doubt In my mind
that Mrs. Mcdonnell is insano.r
MIS-. Schofield said today. stSlle
Is Liable to become violensly IN.
sane at any minute. During tho
time was in charge OF iser. at
Valley City she took hesitatanx
steps characteristic Of insanity.n
According to Mrs. Schoflead'S
story Mrs. McDpnnell's cgn1as-
: SION t0. her aWAs but little dffERxnA
from that made to Stuttzn1aA
county authorities early Monday
which Eta was killed and w1,6cl
she later repudiatesi. Mrs. Nc:
DonneIFs second confession. it ig
said, also implicated her hnstanH
In the death OF the child, but said
that she attacked the girl first.
Jamestown. n. D., March 1S.-Dai
and his wife, charged Wit
their 12-year-old daughte
Eta. were permitted to remain uu
disturbed in the Stutslnan county ja'
'oday. after having been bound owe
% district court last night.
Omcials had no further conference
With either Of prisoners today, an
Is the case now stands, Mrs. McDor
Tell has confessed the killing Of tn
baby, duplicating her husband, an
las subsequently repudiated that cor
,ession and taken the blame for tn
entire affair herself E.
1t was learned today that McDor
lell and his wife formerly resided q
Park Rapids, Mimi, near which plac
1e was engaged in numbering worl
They came to North Dakota ftftee
7ears ago.
Mrs. : Mcdonnell denied that oh
aid her husband had become enra8e
m discovery Of the condition Of til
'ed and had beaten and kicked th
:hild into unconsciousness, but nd
nitted that she had attacked the Iii
With a board ripped from an app1
'ox. Both Mcdonnell and his vii
IRE charged with hrst degree murde
Fear Of her husband, who insists
lad no hand in the tragedy. prompte
Mrs. Mcdonnell to retract her pre
'ious statement charging her hui
'and with responsibility FOR the Grim,
police authorities believe. ~
Both Mcdonnell and his wife Wes
bound over to the June term Of. al
rict court without bail when a,
aligned before Police Magistrai
here tonight. Both waive
Neither prisoner appears to resrs
he death Of their little daughter.
Before being taken. to. the. count
all for the night they were warne
~ States Attorney Carr that shons
Judge Coffey grant them bail in til
lear future it would be best for then
o keep away from Courtenay.
Sentiment is such at Courtena
hat II you return there you will
he declared. "a neckti
'arty was narrowly averted MondA
md II you return fear that ssnt
nent will again spring into flame an
'esult disastrously for you both y,