Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-19
vestryInanShot While
 Taking Up Offering

LIT. James Markoe Killed by an
 Insane Man in St. Georges
 P. E. Church, New York
 City.
 New York, April 1S.-Dr. James Mar koe, we'll known surgeon. was shot and killed today while takini up the offering of the morning service in the fashionable St. Georges Protestant Episcopal church, Fifteenth Street and Stuyvesant Place, in the old aristocratic 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 Association of New York; Dr. George E. Brewer and J. Morgon Jones. At the East Twenty second Street police station the prison CT gave his name first as Thomas w. Shelley and later as Thomas w. Sinp- kin The police said he told them he had escaped Thursday from the Eastern State Hospital for the Insane at Will liamsburg, Virginia.
 Dr. Markoe a wealthy vestryman of the church, was a friend and personal physician to J. Pierpont Morgan, also a 1 parishioner there. He was 56 years 
 l old.
 The church was crowded with parish toners, many of them representatives of | the weaithiest families in New York when the shooting took place. Dr. Mar koe was walking down the left aisle taking up the collection while the choir was singing an anthem. As he reached the twelfth pew from the rear anC leaned over to pass the plate, Shelley who was seated next to the aisle, whip | ped out a revolver and fired at the physician. The bullet struck him ovel l the left eye and he collapsed in thu 1 aisle.
 Several women screamed and meI rushed from their seas. so to the aiC of the physician and others in pursui of his assailant Shelley, with the re volver in his hand, leaped over the body of the physician and started t run out of the church. The choir, let by Stafford, continued singing in an eff fort to quiet the congregation. Shelley continued shooting. His sec ond shot directed at members of tn congregation who were pursuing hin went wild John C. Tiedman, the sex ton, dropped to the floor in time to es cape being hid by the third bullet. whic grazed the cheek of J. Morgan Jones.
 Shelley then ran from the church int
 Stuyvesant square. Dr. Brewer was tn
 first man to reach him. He grabbed tn
 ans arm but Shelley managed to wrig gle himself loose long enough to fir another shot, which grazed Dr. Brew CTS thigh. By that time several othe members of the congregation had throw Shelly to the ground and were hold
 ing him down when policeman al | Ta1 him to the police station. Meanwhile Dr. Markoe had been cal
 ried out of the church and placed in a automobile. As he was being lifted ir to the ear he regained consciousness long enough to say: 'T will be a right and then collapsed. He wa rushed to the Lying-In hospital Eighteenth street and Second avenu 5 but was dead when brought into that il stitution.
 In the church the time were Georg w Wickersham, former United State attorney general; Herbert L. Satterle \ brothnr-in-'~'r- ~f T Pio~nont Morga and Mrs. Satterlee; R. Fulton Cuttin 4 president or the Eureau of Municip ! Research and many other prominel
 persons. MT. Morgan. who is a memb'
 of the church and whose father was
 
 l the shooting occurred.
 : Shelley freely admitted that he hs
 shot Dr. Marlloe. according to the D I lice There are a lot more who al j. going to get it too,'' he is reported T have said when questioned by police d }, tectives
 | Shelley told detectives he had bet t given the literature by a man name t Miller" who first name he couldr t remember.
 My memory is very bad,'' he said.
 Are you an l. w. WI" he was aske t 'No," he replied, T am against u Il I. w W, because they don't gi7 credit to the brains of the country" Shelley said one of the things he "; Il certain about was that he had new
 seen Dr. Markoe before. He told
 rambling story of his movements co e ering the seven years he has been Il l Canada and the United States V came to America from London, En
 land where he was born. . He said he had been at St. George church on previous visit to New Yol # on February 1s 1919. After arriviI n here this morning from Richmond, Vi l. ginia. he said. he breakfasted and we
 to the church.
 Search of a suit case Shelley h; l T
 revealed the police say, several radio ! papers and pamphlets. He also had
 draft card showing he had register ) September 12, 1918, under the name e Thomas W. Simpkin. 205 Fourth e Sauk City. Wisconsin. There were { T. so several business cards readil st Thomas w ,Simpkin," and in the lo' IS CT corner "Represerting Swift Coun y Printing Company" and Kerkhoven Ba 7, ner
 ys letter addressed to him and foul ,h in the suit case hmad the address 51 - Peabody Street. Duluth, Minnesota. T :, police believe it was from his wife. n Shelley later told the police he broug | his wife and two children to Cana :, seven years ago He enlisted in the C ss nadian army and was about to sail ove ,f seas. he said. when he learned his W
 had become mother. He asked, for
 transfer to an organization station
 near his wife's home. but was refused
 being ''too valuable man. he said. D T figured" he explained, that if
 was too good a man for the outfit to 10 a I was too good for my wife to lose. l. jumped the outfit and entered the Unit .d States and later brought my wife a la children over"