Why Did Mackey Shoot Kuene?

New York, 1895

Patrick Mackey lives at Morris Park. On Sunday he was visited by Julius Kuene, a grocer doing business in Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn. In the evening Mackey accompanied Kuene to Brooklyn. Late in the night Kuene was taken to St. Catherine's hospital, Williamsburgh, Suffering from two bullet wounds, one which entered the base of the skull, and will probably prove fatal. The shots were fired by Patrick Mackey.

Mackey had disappeared, and all traces of him were lost. An ambulance surgeon removed the dying man to the hospital.

The cause of the shooting is at present a mystery.

Mackey was formerly a policy dealer in Brooklyn and kept several establishments. He was probably under the impression that Kuene told the police, and that in consequence he was driven out of the business.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page number.