Arizona republican., 1920-04-19
NOTED SURGEON
 SLAIN WHILE AT. CHURCH SERVICE
Without Warning, Assailant Opens Fire from Pew of Fashionable New York Edifice; Parishioners Ef- feet Capture; May Be a Radical
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IRepubIican A. p. Leased Wire1 NEW YORK, April 1S.-Dr. James l Markoe, well known surgeon, was i shot and killed today while taking up l the offering at the morning service in | the fashionable St. George Protestant Episcopal church, Fifteenth street and l Stuyvesant Place. in the old aristo- l cratic district of New York.
 His assailant was captured after a short chase by a group of parishioners, | headed by William Fellowes Morgan, | president of the Merchants Associa- l ton of New York; Dr.. G. E. Brewer and J. Morgan Jones. At the police station the prisoner gave his name first as Thomas w. Shelley and later as 1 Thomas w. Simpkin. The police said l he told them he had escaped Thursday from a hospital for the insane at Will l liamsburg, Virginia
 Was Physician To Morgan Dr. Markoe, a wealthy vestryman of the church. was friend and personal l physician to J. P. Morgan. also a par ishioner there. He was 56 years old. The church was crowded with par ishioners. many of them representa- tives of the wealthiest families in New York. Dr. Markoe was walking down the left aisle, taking up the collection while the choir was singing an anthem. Shelley, who was seated next to the aisle. whipped out revolver and fired at the physician. The bullet struck him over the left eye and he collapsed. Several women screamed and men rushed from their seats. Shelley, with the revolver in his hand. leaped over the physician and started to run out of the church. The choir, led by Charles Stafford. continued singing in an effort to quiet the congregation.
 Fires At Pursuers
 Shelley continued shooting. His second shot. directed at members of the congregation who were pursuing him, went wild. John c. fiedman, the sexton, dropped to the floor in time to escape the third bullet, which grazed the cheek of J. Morgan Jones.
 Shelley ran from the church into Stuyvesant Square. Dr. Brewer was the first man to reach him. He grabbed the mans arm but Shelley managed to wriggle himself loose long enough to fire another shot. which graZed Dr. Brewers thigh. Several other mem bers of the congregation threw Shelley to the ground and were holding him when a policeman arrived and hand cuffed the prisoner.
 Meanwhile Dr. Markoe had been carried out of the church and placed in an automobile. As he was being sciousness long enough to say .I will be all right" and collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital but died before arriving. In the church at the time were George w. Wickersham, former United States attorney general; Her bert l.. Satterlee, brother-in-law of J.. P. Morgan and Mrs. Satterlee and many other prominent persons. MT. Morgan. who is a member of the church and whose father was a ves- tryman there, was not present.
 Find Radical Literature
 Shelley admitted that he had shot Dr. Markoe, according to the police. There. are a lot more who are going to get 1t too," he is reported to have said.
 Search of a suit case Shelley had checked at the Pennsylvania terminal revealed, the police say, several radi- cal papers and pamphlets. He also had a draft card showing he had regis tered September F, 1918 under the name of Thomas w. Simpkin.
 Was Adjudsed Insane
 DULUTH. Minn., April IS.-Thomas w. Simpkin came to Duluth with his wife and three children from Calgary, Alberta, in September, 1916. He was employed in several job printing plants here. In April, 1917, he was adjudged insane and sent to the state asylum at Fergus Falls, but escaped a year later.
 His wife continued to live here until ADTli, 1J19, when Sne WAS ueDSfIGQ to England as a dependent British sub ject. Simpl1in went under the alias of Shelley, which was his wife's maiden name. Persons in Duluth who knew Simpkin said he took good care of his family. He talked continually on reli- zion and it is said claimed to be in communication with spirits
 Denies I. w. w. AffiIiation
 The prisoner told detectives he had been given the literature by a man named Miller whose first name he couldn't remember.
 My memory is very bad he said.
 Are you an l. w VIZ" he asked.
 ''No" he replied. 'I am against the w. w. because they don't give cred it to the brains of the country
 He said one of the things he was certain about was that he had never seen Dr. Markoe before. He told rambling story of his movements COW ering the seven years he has been in Canada and the United States. He came to America from London, Eng land, where he was born. He enlisted in the Canadian army and was about to sail overseas. he said. when he learned his wife had become mother He asked for a transfer to an organ ization station near his wife's home but was refused as being too valuable a man." he said.
 T figured he explained. that if was too good man for the outfit too lose, l was too good for my wife too lse. I jumped the outfit and entered the United States and later brought my wife and children over"
 After relating his escape from the insane asylum at Fergus Falls. Minn. he said:
 ''They say there is a physical cause for every mental reaction I was tu- bercular and they cured me. Then got cancer and I was operated on for that. So I guess those are the sauses."
 ..The preacher in his sermon in the church. he said, told them to be good to strangers but no one spoke to me so resented it."
 Rev pr. Earl Reiland. rector of St GeorGes, in part of his sermon had urged the wealthy congregation to be- friend strangers and show Christian courtesy
 We know very little of how lonely or oppressed some one sitting beside us may he. and a kind word might carry cheer" he had said. The clergy man was prostrated after the tragedy