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CRAzED RED KILLS
MAN IN CHURCH
ShOO.s Vestryman Taking Up
The Collection.
LEAPS OVER BODY AND RUNS
BoIshevist, Who Escaped From Asy-
Ium, Maddened by Pastors Plea For
More Money.

New York, April 19.-Dr. James
Malkoe, a well-known surgeon, was
snot and killed, While ,aklhg up Tue
o.. er.ug at the mJrung service III the
fashionable ST. Geo. 2e's protestant
Ep.scopal church, Fifteenth stree aha
S.uy, es;lnL place, III The old aflsto-
cratIc district of New York.
His assa.lant was captured. f,ef
sh.,t chase, by group of Pensioners
headed BY W ih.am FelloWes Mo. gan
Dr., 5. dent of the Merchants Ass~cla-
ton of New Yo.k; Dr. George l..
Brewer and j. Morgan Jones. AT the
police station, the prisoner gave MS
name first as Thomas w. Shelley ana
Ia,er us Thomas w. Simpkin. Inc po-
lice sad he told them he had esc1peu
Thursday from the Eastern STATE HOS
pital for the Insane "a Williamsburg,
Va. He also said he had escaped from
the Fergus Falls, Mimi, Insane Asy-
lum and had been working as a PRINT
er.
Doctor Markoe, wealthy Yestry-
man Of the church, was a friend anu
personal physician TO ]. Pterpont Nor
gan. also a parishtoner there. He was
fifty-siX years old.
The church was crowded with par
iisilOnerS, many of them representa-
tives of the wealthiest families in New
York, when the shooting took place.
Iii
left side taking up the collection While
the choir was singing an anthem.
Rev. DR.. Karl Reiland, the rector,
had just finished his sermon, the clos
ing words of which were an appeal
for help for the needy and a spiritual
awakening This appeared 10 unleash
Shelleys man aeal instinct. He grew
more and more restless during the TAX
Ing of the collection.
AS Doctor Mmkne reached the
twelfth pew from the rear and leaned
over TO pass the plate, Shelley, who
was seated next to the aisle, VIII 'pped
out a revolver and fired at the ply
can, shouting: Down With the
church,. Down with wealth Down
with America !'
The bullet struck Doctor Markoe
over the left eye and he collapsed in
the aisle
Several women screamed and men
rushed from Their seats, some to the
a.d of the phys an and oilers in Per
silt Of his ASA liant. She ley, with the
smoking revolver in his hand, leaped
| over the body of the physician and
started TO run out of the church. The
choir, led by Charles Stafford, centin-
ued singing in an effort to- quet the
con g egltion.
Shelley continued shooting H S see
ond Slot. directed at manherS Of the
congregation who were pursuing him,
Went wild. John G. I'ieilinan, the sex
ton. dropped 10 me IooF ii tiTne TO
escape the third bullet. ssffbieh grazesl
tthe cheek of ]. Morgan jones
Shelley then ran from the church
into Stuyvesant square Doctor Brew
err was the first man to reach him. He
grabbed the mans arm, but Shelley
managed to wriggle himself loose leng
| enough to fire another shot, which
grayed Doctor Brewers thigh. By that
t.lae. several other meia5e $ of the con-
gTe,:ir.cn had thrown Shelley to The
| ground and We're holding him down
WI noliceman arriYe, han cgfea
the l,lS nor and took him TO the po-
lice alton.
Ssalle:s- freely admt-ed that he had
shot D3ctcY Markoe cord ng TO the
| police. There are a lot msre VIII
| are going - fre5.it 90" he is reported
to have sad Wien questioned by de-
tectives.