Flint is well known for its modern violent crimes but Flint's history is filled with little known stories that read stranger than fiction. Gruesome murders, weird accidents, and violent deaths. Join us every Thursday as Joe Schipani details some of the odd but true deaths he found in Flint's archives.
The
Jealous Wife July
14th, 1917
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shanaghan moved
to their downtown Flint apartment on Union Street from New Lothrop in 1915.
City life had made Mrs. Shanaghan
a jealous wife.
When they first moved to Flint Fred
Shanaghan worked for James Goodwin on Saginaw Street. Then he got a job as the
manager of the Harry W Watson Cigar store on Saginaw Street.
A woman living in an apartment
building across from the Shanaghan’s, said she would see Mrs. Shanaghan sitting
at the window all day watching the cigar store.
When Mr. Shanaghan would arrive
home from work, the neighbor claimed she could hear Mrs. Shanaghan screaming at
Fred and accusing him of being unfaithful and gambling.
When the police asked friends of
the couple if the accusations were true, the friends would say he never had
time because he was either at work or by her side to keep her happy.
One morning during a Shanaghan
screaming match, Mrs. Shanaghan threatened to kill Fred then kill herself.
Fred screamed that she would
never have the chance to say something like that to him again because he was leaving.
Fred stormed out of the
apartment. Just as he turned to close the door Mrs. Shanaghan grabbed the gun,
fired a shot and hit him in the eye.
She fired a second shot that went
straight through his heart.
Fred staggered back about fifteen
feet and fell at the top of the stairway. She fired a third shot and missed.
She ran back to the apartment, locked
herself in the bedroom, put the gun below her breast and fired.
A few minutes later the police
arrived.
Then the ambulance arrived. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Shanaghan were still alive and rushed to Hurley hospital.
Mr. Shanaghan died before
reaching the hospital.
Mrs. Shanaghan was raced to the
operating room.
She died in the middle of
surgery.
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