Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-19
PHYSICIAN IS
MURDERED IN
FASHIONABLE:
n. !. CHURCH
Or. lanes Markoe Shot and
Killed In a Fashionable
House of Worship While
Taking Morning Offering.
ASSAILANT SEATED
IN CONGREGATION
First Shot Strikes Victim
Over Left Eye and He COL
Iapses; Man Who Did the
Shooting Believed Insane.

tsy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEssEH WIRE
New York, April 1S.-Dr. James
Markoe. a well known surgeon,
was shot and killed today while
taking up the offering at the morn
ing service IN the fashionable ST.
George Protestant Episcopal
church. Fifteenth street ana Stuy-
yesant place, in the old arlstocratic
district of New York
His assailant was captured alter
a short chase by group or parlsh-
oners headed by William FelloWes
Morgan. president of the Merch-
ants Association of New York; Dr.
G.. F.. Brewer and j. Morgan Jones
At the police station the prisoner
gave his name first as Thomas W.
Shelley and later as Thomas w:
Simpkin. The police said he told
them he had escaped Thursday
from a hospital for the insane at
Williamsburg. Va.
DIR. Markoe. a wealthy Vestry-
man of the church, was frienu
and personal physician to ). T.
Morgan, also a parishoner there'
He was Sc years old.
ChuICn was SEONutu'
The church was crowded with
parishoners, many of them repre-
sentatives of the wealthiest faml-
lies of New York. DR.. Markoe was
walking down the left aisle, taking
I'm the collection while the choir
was singing an anthem. Shelley
who was seated next to the aisle.
whinped out revolver and tlfed
at the physician. The bullet struck
him over the left eye and ne col
lapsed.
Several women screamed and
men rushed from their seats. smell
lev with the revolver in his hano.
leaned over the physician and
started 20 run out Of the church
The choir, led by Charles Stafford
continued singing in an effort te
ouiet the congregation.
Shelley continued shooting. His
second shot directed at members
of the congregation who were pur-
suing him. went wild. John Z
Tiedman. the sexton. dropped te
the floor in time to escape tht
third bullet. which srazed the
cheek of j. Morgan Jones.
AssaiIant Ran From Church.
Shelley ran from the church into
stnyyesant square. Dr., Brewer
was the first man to reach MN
He grabbed the mans arm pu
Shelley managed to wriggle him
self loose long enough to fire an
other shot. which grazed DR.
brewers thigh. Several othel
members of the congregation threw
holding him when policeman ar
rived and handcuffed the prisoner
Meanwhile DR. Markoe had beer
carried out of the church an'
placed in an automobile. AS M
was .being lifted into the car he re
gained consciousness long, enough
to say 81 will be all right" and col
lapsed. He was rushed q hospita
but died before arriving.
In the church at the time wer'
George w. Wickersham, forme
United States attorney general
Herbert l.. Satterlee, brother-in'
law of ]. P. Morgan, and Mrs. Sat
terlee, and many other prominen
persons. DR.. Morgan, who is
member of the church and who's
father was vestryman there, wa
not present.
Radical Pamphlets Found.
Shelley admitted that he ha'
shot DR.. Markoe. according to tn
police. There are a lot more VIII
are going to get it too" he is re
ported to have said.
Search of a suit case Shelley ha'
checked at the Pennsylvania term
inal revealed. the police say. sew
eral radical papers and pamphlets
He also had q draft card showin
he had registered September L.
1918, under the name of ThoTa
w. Simpkin.
Says His Memory Is Bad.
The prisoner told detectives h
had been given the literature b
a man named Miller who's
first name he couldn't remember
"My memory IS very bad h
said
asked.
mo" he replied II am agains
the I. W. w. because they don
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