New-York tribune., 1882-03-01
THE WALL SHOOTING CASE.
THE WIFE ACCUSED OF MURDER.
JUSTICE CHURCH TAKES HER sTATEMENr-M
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| Justice Church, by whose commitment Mrs. wall
| was placed under arrest in the Town Hall of New
| Utrecht on Monday, came to this city yesterday,
| but before starting he saw Mrs. Wall. She said
| that she did not wish TO make any public state
ment; but later in the day, after consultation
| with her counsel, Peter Mitchell, she al
| ter ed her mind. She has been kept under
the strictcst surveillance lest she should repeat
| her suicidal attempts. The building In which
she is detained Is large frame one In Eightysxth-
st. The basement rooms used as cells the win
dows having iron bars In the parlor Mrs. Wall
was found by q TRIBUNE reporter In the
| afternoon. In the room were MIR. MITCHELL
her lawyer the keeper Of the building,
Mr.. Drury and his two daughters. Mr. Mitchell
stated that what Mrs. Wall would say would be
through him, but after few questions she disre-
garded this rule and told her own story. She said;
my husband and myself were going to
New-York on Sunday. as / wished to give
q diamond cross TO friend OF mine
who was going out of the city, and who, have no
| doubt, thinks me very dshonorable in not having
| done so. But We failed 10 reach the ii o'clock
| train, and so we returned home. then told my
| husband that would go across to Hamiiton-ave
| and take tho o'clock ear. He then went out for
| walk. and / started out in few minutes also,
but meeting him returned to tho house for my rub
|
as the bed was disarrangod and we had no servant,
| told him that / would do up the
room. He took seat at the window and began read
ing magazine I had taken off my dress in order
| to make the bed and had on my underskirt and
leather waist. The pistol lying on the table
near the bed. 1t cooked. as ID always was and
/ picked il up intending TO place 1t In the bureau
drawer When took hold ofit-my hands at my
side-I don't know how it was now 1t was 80 quick;
it went off like that and my dear husband fell To
the floor. Oh, my God! twas horrible-with the
| blood squirting out of his neck" Hero Mrs. wars
| voice qnavered and she buried her face
| in her hands and sobbed, apparently overcome by
| the remembrance of the There was no help
| near mer she went on, :" but the servant Jane,
whom hurriedly sent for the doctors, while sat
there holding my fnger-oh horrible just mink
gushed ont upon my hands and clothing, don't
alc %hom Sie oyed eiy SO 10 dearly viii only hve wish
| deny most emphatically that my husband land lved
unhapPly togethcr Why that % yGry mpInng aH we
for the future, and oh so happy. My heart Is
breaking when think of IT,"
| Mrs Wall has been an actress. Every tone OF her
voice, every infection Of her body, as she walked
the room back aud forth, recalled her profession.
She wrung her b hands and mGanea 9h' my dear
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families because of the dislike of the minister tony
profession. Oh if you see my husband or his
brothers will you tell them am heart broken ~
mSriem Hsslss statement % Of NJ Mr. Wall The Justice said
"When it became evident that he might die at any
| moment. approached the bed and asked him if he
was conscious that his wound was mortal. He re-
piled that ne was, and then took down his words
as hc uttered them. They were not in reply 20
| questions, but one involuntary statement, l am
| convinccd he was perfectly rational and IN sound
mind while doing So" His statement reads as fol-
| lows:
I, George Barry Wall, OF the town OF New,Utrecht
having been wounded by n pistol ball, and suffering un
the injuries thereby caused being advised ana De-
aud that about die therefrom, do make the io
empeT osins control of herself frcasn Yesterday
morning sho attacked me- saving that was eoin aid
therefore he would revenge herself and would leave
It, Gao back 9Sf d s iGf sf
Of her losing the train she then struck me III b se
insisted on my leaving this until after o'clock
| To avoid any more trouble left the room walked
after me- continuing her conduct We reached this room
down in the rocking chair at the little table now At
nv right She made talk about miserable condi-
tion eto l don't know exactly what It was without
word Of warn1s nd the psGd pond 9ee s on '9 boagR h
discharged and fell over to the floor she was on her
pidy. Among other things she said Tell them it
an accident and she begged to assure her was an
was At i ana to ave- avoid scandal The
pistol ball from the pistol which she iiro as have said
in telling the truth now and in trying to calm my wife as
Isirnedi G.B WALL
When this dying declaration was read to Mrs.
Wall last evening she said: "My husband surely
could not have been in his senses when ne made ,D
sin upon his soulf Oh surely he can be made to
| retract it before he diesW ~
| In the afternoon ii. l.. Cole, j. w. Gilbert ana S
| FL Gilbert the two latter the sons of Justice Gil
| bert of the Supreme Court all of whom are in the
office in Wa-st. to which young Wal, belonged
| visited the prisoner the Town Hail. They repre-
| sented that they came from the father and family
| of the wounded husband, and they wished to take
charge of her interests and possible, have the mat
ter hushed up and avoid all publicity. AT hrst Mrs
| Wall consented. but afterward reconsidered her
determination and chose the adyic aud counsel OF
Peter Mitchell OF No. 237 Broadway, and of john
| H. Bird of No. 1877 Broadway, in this city. JUS
tice Church said that he would await the result of
Wallis injuries and should he die he would turn the
papers over to District-AttOrney Catin, OF Kings
County He would leave the question OF (urlsdic-
tion to be determined by the ftict District
Attorneys Of NeTl9k and A9Ss d tbsra Srs
many little things connected with the tragedy
which, if they became known would materially
alter the force of Mr.. Wallis ante-mortem statement
TEey saw the Walls have acted cruelty toward Mrs.
Wall because of their antipathy to her former pro,
fesslon Since the affair she has been pennllesS and
none of them has come near her or informed her OF
the condition of her wounded husband. IL could be
clearly proven that the couple lived happily To-
gcther. .,.
stated that Mr. Wall was rapidly sinking and his
chances of recovery were about one In million;
His father was completely prcstrated and scarcely
able to attend to his duties superintendent OF the
hospital. The fam ly refused to say anything WHAT
ever concerning the tragedy. ~ =,
The wounded man was born in 1873, IN NeWoern.
N. c. His family on his mothers side is from North
Caroliua and on his fathers side from Nova Scotia
The Walls came North at the outbreak Of the Re
bellion and since then have lived in this city. G
Barry Wall was graduated from the Stevens lnst- %
tute of Technology in Hoboken, IN 1879. IN loII
he wa, admitted to the bar in this city. lie was
married to Elizabeth Mccall not quite two years
ago They had no children. Last summer, with ms
wife. he boarded at Bath, and later III the season
they went to New-Utrecht TO live. The sister OF