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Show MRS. DUKE SHOT AT HIM. Colorado Lawyer Describes an Experience Expe-rience With Woman in the Case. COLORADO SPRINGS, f'olo . Jan. 15. Mural Masterson tnkrs exceptions to the Statements attributed to Mr. Alice i bb now Mis Hrodle L. Duke, to the effect that he shot her In tho hand In JMM). Mr Master-on gae out the following signed statement : '"I first met Mrs Webb, then Mrs llop-kinson llop-kinson In the summer of 1890, In Ctli-i Ctli-i Lgo r was legal counsel for Don Luis Duller, one of the largest land and mine owners of Mexico. We had several deals under way and Mrs Mopklnson introduced intro-duced me to several capitalists In New-York New-York I waited until May. 1891. and then asked her for the papers which I had turned over to her to present to her backers back-ers She declined to give up the papers ' When I went to her rooms I found two men. stringers to me, there I saw that I was going to have trouble to secure the papers, which were on the mantel 1 was inarmed, but finally drove hi r two friends from the room. When I returned Mrs Hopklnsoh had a pistol and tired point-blank point-blank at inc, the bullet whizzing past my li.ad I wr.n. bed tin weapon from her, threw It Into the hall, and tin n took possession pos-session of the documents and left the house. Unth Mrs. Mopklnson ami myself were arrested, but the ens.- was dismissed, dis-missed, and that was the end of It. ' |