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Show NEWSPAPER Mi CONFESSES TO SHOOTING WIFE NEW YORK. Dec 25. An- drowMcConnell.magazIne writ- -f er and lecturer, was arrested -t- 4- at a reporter's desk In a morn- - lng newspaper office tonight - while It Is alleged he was writ- 4- -f lng a confession of shooting 4- and wounding his divorced wife, Mrs. Marlon D. McPon- nell, at Ocean Grove, N. J. -- The shooting is said to ;iave -- 4- occurred late Saturday night. 4 , 4- 41 44-4444444444-44-44 McConnell was operating a typewriter type-writer in tho Times office whon a detective arrested him. The paper bore these words: "I was forced to shoot the woman who was my wife. Absolute divorce was obtained last spring Not one word was said regarding the divorce the night I 3hot her. She has tried to vdlllfy an Innocent woman " Beside the typewriter the detective detec-tive found a paper upon which was written In an almost Illegible hand, "Every person who has helped to build my work has been vllllfled "by a woman who is either hopelessly Insane In-sane or a designing fiend. When I made discovery In the electrical basis of life which (three illegible words) years later Made Him Believe He Was Insane. 'The detective said that McConnell had amplified his alleged confession bv declaring he shot his wife "because "be-cause she was always making me believe be-lieve I was Insane. She vllllfled me to different people and has run my chnracter down.'' McConnell was locked up on a charge of felonous assault He gave his ago as 37 years and his address as the Grand Park hotel, Chicago. Ho appears In biographical records as author of a volume of poems, a work on organic electricity and another an-other on scientific mind healing. in 1898 he was proprietor of the Alkahest, a magazine published at Atlanta, At-lanta, Ga. Ho was the founder of a consumers' co-operative union for reducing re-ducing tho expenses of worklngmen and also established a lyceum system sys-tem of popular and educational entertainments en-tertainments In southern towns. For many years he made Birmingham. Ala.," hlB home. Ho camo to New York In 1908. Agreed to Write Confession. It was said at the Times tonleht that iMcConnoll drifted In there making mak-ing Inquiry as to what ho had better do regarding stories in local papers regarding tho shooting of hl8 wife. It waB suggested that if he were gulltv he should confess and bo arrested. ar-rested. He agreed to tho plan and was engaged on the confession when tho dotectlvo was called. It was larnd from Ocisn Grnvo late tonight that Mrs. McConnell's wound 1b In the neck. It Is bellpv-ed bellpv-ed she Is In no great danger. She was ablo to talk somewhat and said Bhe and her husband had boon separated sep-arated for several years and said ho had been desirous of securing an absolute ab-solute divorce in order to marry again. |