The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

several women screamed and men rushed from their seats, some to the aid Of tie physician and others in pursuit o1 ms assaalant. shelley, with the revolver In his hand. leaped over 'the body of the physician and started to run out of the church. The choir continued singing in an effort to quiet the congregation.
 Shelley continued shooting. His second shot, directed at members of the congre- gatlon who were pursuing him. went wild. John c. Tiedman, the sexton, dropped to the floor in time to escape the third bullet, which grazed the cheek ot J. Morgan Jones.
 Shelley then ran from the church into Stuyvesant Square. Dr. George k. Brewer was the first man to reach him. He grabbed the mans arm, but shelley man. aged to wriggle himself loose long Aneugh to lire another shot, which ea1sd lfl Brewers thigh.
 POLICE TAKE SLAA ER
 By that time several other r1tsuhera 0f the congregation had thrown aesley so the ground and were holding ni7l d9Nn when a policeman arrived, handeuffea the prisoner and took him to tise pa#s station.
 Meanwhile pr. Markoe had bean - ried o.lt of the church and piaea an automobile. As he was bein fifS into the car he regained consciousness long enough to say, T will be all right and then collapsed.
 He.was rushed to the Lying-In HosnitAt but was dead when brought intc that institution.
 Shelley freely admitted that he shc I,1 Markoe, according to police.
 There are a lot mores who are going to get it, too he is reported to have said, when questioned by detectives
 Search of suit case Shelley had checked at the Pennsylvania Terminal re- vealed, the police say, several radical papers. He also had a draft card show ing he had registered September F, 1918, under the name of Thomas W. Simpkin, 2o3 Fourth street, Sark City. Wis. There were also several business cards reading Thomas w. Simpkin, and in the lower corner representing Swift County Print ing Company and '.Kerkhoven Banner
 A letter addressed to him and found m the suit case had the address 511S Pea body street, Duluth, Minn. The police ne- lieve it was from his wife.
 NOTED GYNECOLOGIST
 Dr. Markoe received his early edu- cation at St. Paul's School Concord, N H., and obtained hls diploma from the College of Physicians and Sur geons here in 1885.
 He spent one year ip research at Munich, Germany, taking post gradu- ate course, and returned to the United States as first house surgeon at the Sloane Maternity hospital New York.
 There, he won a reputation as gynecologist He occupied a chair of medicine at the City College of New York up to the time of his death He vas associated with many state and city medical societies and was a mem ber of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans.
 A widow and daughter, Mrs Charles Sargent. survive him.
 PRISONER TALKS
 Shelley told detectives he had been given the literature by a man named Miller" whose first name he could not remember.
 My memory is very bad" he said.
 Are you an I. w. w.? he was asked.
 No" he replied, q am against the L. W. w., because they don't give credit to the brains of the country"
 Shelley said one of the things he was certain about was that he had never seen pr. Markoe before. He
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