| Show boys murder of carkins has excited interest on two continents new york feb 26 tho whole story as sho called it was told tonight by glagla calla the beautiful opera singer who in the tragic rolo of a deserted bride denounced her husband aa the murderer of her brother has excited interest on two continents her in pals her marriage to paul roy at boston the quarrel at the new summer home followed by a duel her flight in the night to her mothers home and the ten agonizing hours spent beside the corpse while the recital ot suicide way being decided upon were given by the woman with all the dramatic art of which ahe is she agreed to ehlend her husband she explained sanse oh when you love a man now that her husband has left r and denied the legality of their larr lago and has even asserted that 10 Is several years past her adelt d ago the singer says that she has ad a d almo to realize the horror of it II 11 and will never let up until I 1 driven him to the electric chair miss calla as she prefers to bo closed the interview with the tatem that she had already told cr story to the authorities of now lampshire amp shire and to my attorney hero y both ot whom I 1 had been forbidden talk about tho matter miss calla who jn private life is rs paul roy came hero several days go and has since made her homo her cousin george E hodgdon dealer in automobile supplies A w days bedora her husband sailed r france she called at his apart lents but he was not in she did not 30 him at any time here and had ot lived with him she said since be death of her brother georgo A arkans on january 2 she engaged bounsel in this city and obtained a arrant for the arrest of her husband chich was afterward sent to rome ho statement by her husband cabled i rom paris today in which he asserts aaa his brother in law was killed in elf defense led miss calla to give er version of the tragedy ill tell you the whole story said ho singer 1 I met my husband in ris where his father is a large in horses wo married i the city hall in boston last october went to newington N H where ty mother has a bouse on the night of january 2 my arother mr roy and myself intended 0 go to a concert my husband wanted me to wear an automobile veil is we were going to the concert in aur automobile I 1 said id wear a hat what a large picture hat so that aull make a conquest said mr roy we then had some words A at my brother and he glanced at me he slightly nodded his lead I 1 knew he wanted me lo 10 leave he room and so I 1 stepped into the milers pantry immediately I 1 beard several shots low many I 1 do not know I 1 cried to he two men there was no answer ahen I 1 opened the door ot the kitchen chere they and been my brother staggered out toward me extending his ight hand and saying im ahot peachy is my pet name I 1 cried or help I 1 cried for paul but ho did lot answer I 1 cried again for paul paul I 1 said paul paul youve tilled sonny 1 I received no answer and I 1 ran rom the house to my mothers home saw a light in her window just us I 1 was about to climb the steps I 1 was seized from behind I 1 saw it was my husband was breathless after a long run over luch roads and acroca a bridga md up tho steep hill on which my house is situated and could lot tell him to leave me as I 1 wished said dont say anything I 1 did t in self defelipe for gods sake lont say anything 1 I called him a coward and said ho lad murdered sonny 1 I then ran upstairs to my mothers ooch I 1 cried my god botner sonny Is shot my mother rushed down to her hua ands room and awakened him john lelly he is my stepfather step father was wakened and ran to a neighbors wise and called dr W A junkans my mother took a lantern and both ran back to the house behind is was paul he several times ran ip to me and told me not to say any hang he kept on repeating 1 I did t in self defense when we reached the house sonny was lying in the pantry where ho had fallen face my mother tried to turn he body over and begged sonny to alk to her there was a bullet hole above the bridge of hs nose and another higher up in the forehead ar junkins then arrived and pro bounced my brother dead for len hours we with the lead body of my only brother before the coroner arrived my husbands very presence gave me the horrors when the coroner said it was a suicide I 1 made no objection when mr kelly was taking the clothes of my dead brother to the barn paul said to him jack be careful dont let any one see those that was because there was a bullet hole in the back when he would come near me I 1 would cr get away from me you coward you shot him in the back 1 I will never let up until I 1 drive him electric chair asked why she had not told the au thorit les her present story sooner miss calla said mother and I 1 were frightened out of our lives why when we were on our way back to the house mother and I 1 after roy brother was ahot my husband said to me 1 I ought to have shot you and then myself v oh whon you love a man so it takes a long time to realize tho horror of it all mrs roy cousin mr hodgdon said today that his colein lived unhappily with her husband mr carkins was a most inoffensive and to my knowledge never carried a weapon ho said this talk about a duel is all nonsense if ever mr carkins fought any one it would have been with bare fists he was a gentleman through and through roy appeared in new york two months ago and sought employment as a chauffeur at a broadway establishment A month later he got such a position with a park avenue house to his associates ho frequently spoke of wealthy parents in france and hinted that he planned ah early trip abroad when he left his lodgings he directed that his trunk be sent to 42 marbett Mar beut paris |
