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Show HORSE SHOW IS SCENE OF SHOOTING AFFRAY . i : Sequel to Wilson-Schenck j Scandal ; Detective At- i tempts Murder. ij By International News Service. ; NEW YORK. Sept. 17.- A tragic J?- j quel to the romance of Florence Sche-nck !i was enacted at the Westchester county horse show in White Plains today, when Frederick SchulLz, a private detective, attempted at-tempted to kill Charles IT. Wilson, the manager of Alfred Gwynno VandcrblU's , horses. I j Schultz fired five shots at Wilson with- in a few hundred feet of tho throng of! i wealth and fashion which was attending! the show. Wilson' saved himself by dodging dodg-ing behind one of the Vanderbllt thoroughbreds. thor-oughbreds. Waller Kelly, manager of i the stablen of Felix Warburg, the hanker, knocked (he revolver from Solinltz's hand' 1 and overpowered him. The fifth shot. ! caused a Ilcsh wound in Wilson's left ! foot. Great excitement was caused among the women In the show crowd. According to Kelly, Schultz walked up to Wilson and cried: "You wrecked that girl's life. You hired me to kill her. hut you didn't come across. Now I am going to kill you." 1 With that be began shooting, hut he was so excited that the first shots went, wild, I-ater, it Is reported, Schultz said Florence Flor-ence S' henck was the girl he ivferrod to 1 when he first accosted tho Vanderbllt manager. Reginald Vandorbilt had Wllhron tnVen 1 to the White Plains hospital. After his I wound was dressed he returned to the ! show. Wilson was the man whom Florence Scbenck sm-il for SSf'.flnft da ma ges after ; they had traveled in Europe together fnl- lowing her desertion nf her parents for his sake In KHi6. Shortly nfler a mar- riage- ceremony In London was said to j have occurred, Florence Hchonck parted 1 from Wilson and soon sank into oblivion. 1 She died In Norfolk Inst December. |