Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-19
little GOVERNESS."
A Tragic Scene in a New York
Dentists Office.
A Young Lady Shoots Her Supposed Riva
for the Affections Of an
Old Lawyer.

New louK, June ls.-Mrs. Sarah G..
Smith, wife OF Clarence III. Smith, a wine
merchant, OF No. 35 Peck Slip and No. GD1
Fifth avenue, was shot in the left side Sat
urday afternoon W lille in the Office OF DIR.
Eugene Btondel at No. IL East Nineteenth
street. Her assailant was Helen Leonard,
or Harrington, 20 years old graduate Of
ST. Joseph's Academy, Toronto, Canada, a
governess who. for about a week, had lived
at Mrs. T.. II. Gales', No. l22 Lexington
avenue. Mrs. Smith was taken in the
evening to st. Nincent's hospital, but Miss
Leonard was allowed to leave the house in
which she
Attempted 10 Assassinate y Woman
whom she believed to be rival in the
affections OF Patrick Csllaghan, a seKage.
marian lawyer, whose office Is at No. ll5
Nassau street, but De,ectiveSergeants Sic.
vim, O'Connor and Mclaughlin arrested
her this morning, and she is In the Jeifer.
son Market prison, in default OF 500 bail,
tOawait the result of Mrs. Smiths injuries.
Mrs smith is the daughter Of a broker.
She is appreciated in society, and has q
daughter T. years old aud q son eight
wears old. Her husband Is in the bushes s
# his father. Is &C A. Smith. and he il
considered prosperous ani honorable.
The AssEiIRot.
Miss Leonard is a handsome, willowy
girl, graceful and active. She has an aunt
who is well OIL in Toronto and her sister
is nun in the Convent Of 81 Joseph there.
She was graduated when she was Sc Jeyenteen.
and, to use her words, "a glowing recon.
mendation from the convent procured her
a situation as goyerness in the family OF
Judge Brent, a relative OF "Dick" Merhck,
in Maryland. She was. always spoken OF
as "our little goyerness,' because OF her
almost childish appearance. In September,
ISL, she had left them. In a boarding
house in New York she met Ray Aitken, a
son Of the Hon. w. Aitken, OF Michigan.
He Was Infatuated with Her.
and she did not at first dislike him. She
coniided 10 him her aspirations and
troubles. She answered many advertise
ments for governess. Upon the suggestion
Of Mr.. Aitken she finally agreed. Miss
Leonard says, to live as steP.brother and
sister at Mrs. ". Bussings. No PAL West
Fourteenth street, and their relations were
as IL they had been really what they repre-.
ssnted themselves to be. She answered
advertisements until she received from
Litcbfeld, Conn. an invitation 10 visit Mr.
Walter Munson, OF firm OF sugar-growers
Of Cuba A month later she went 10 He.
wanna with the Munson family. Then she
bad ceased 10 have any regard for Mr.. Ait
ken. In the spring Of 1882 she came 70
New York with the Munsons, and Ms,
Munson vas 80 much interested in her thai
she endeavsred to secure her pleasant sd
ustion. Miss Leonard was then boarriiT
OIL East Sixteenth street, near Irving plS e
A Gsy Cd hey.
She frequently passed the WestninJ tel
Hotel and early In May remarked ths's or
old gentleman ogled her from o uindsyW o
the LotsL This annoyance was saef eedet
by his following her and vorinsg 10 at
tr.et her attention. At last shs D9 mite.
him 10 speak 10 her, she says, % that Oh
might TELL him not to oontinus 10 moles
her. She was, she says. conD1stely fasci
mated by his manner. He wn p strich Cal
| laehan, respectful and apo3oF stic. The,
| met bali dozen times befers he said ths
| he vas sidower, proposed y .srriage, and
| she asserts, effected her ruir. in 4 house 4
7 West Forty.fifth street. II e in Septembe
/ took her to Ponghkeepsie, declaring that
when they returned nnss "a 70 e" Yoit III he 20
| lsehan. "Cal," ss she called him. eyade,
the marriage st Pougb' keepsie, and they n
[ turned 10 New York. His treatment OF be
| grew wore. and Dv cember be sbsndoue
her. She began ~, ,uit for so. 900 for bresc
Of promise OF ms niske against caliaxhar
but il was absnf .oned.
/ MF. bmffh,
Er. Smith isited his once this morn
ing, obta!ne|i some money, and then wen
awsy viths ut telling bis sssociates uher
be was 20 .nz. lie was very much excites
and vhr a ssked by his brother about %
case. sid that the woman who shot hi
wife yyss undoubtedly crazy. He had q
tins, he added, to make sny further g
piS ration. Er. Smith has been marie
V.tnty years AID has grown children, 4
The Westminster hotel il was believed :
} soausintances OF CaIlsghan that be b
4 EnyorS