Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-12-11

TIE SHAMELESS testimony or THE MAN WHO
CAUSED A nj oopY TRAGEDY.

TIE SHAMELESS TESTIMONY OF THE NAN WHO
CAUSED A BtooDr TRAGEDY.
Coroner MESSENGER and jury OF eight men be-
gan yesterday the inquest in the case OF Charles
A. Ray, OF 1908 Madison avenue, who amer TAX
Ing poison and shooting his wife on Thursday
night OF last week, shot and killed himself
The first witness called was David :. Wallace.
whose intimacy with Mrs. Ray provoked the
husbands crimes. He In a young fellow OF -.
WITH dark eyes. a short. black mustache, hair
Very shiny and almost black. parted near the
middle and brushed back In two glossy puffs.
clerk read 10 Wallace and the iury MIA RAYS
account OF the shooting. which she had Given
said:
My husband was insanely jealous OF man
named David Wallace. / have known David
Wallace Vail year. On "Wednesday, Decemeer
street. was mending his clothes We left tho
room together and walked up Broadway tn
Iwenty-third street. and then down to Seven
teenth street and back far as Twenty-third
street. There he kissed me. and said good
night waited few minutes for a Fourth
avenue car and Went home 1 reached home
about hali-past e. On Friday last saw Wal
lace AT o'clock, and was in his company TN D
O'Clock. have often met him about the Same
time, and been I'm his company for several
hours AT a time for the last three months.
Three weeks ago was sick. My husband went
turned he found Mr.. Wallace standing over me.
He had stood up to arrange the heater. IL he
knew was in the habit OF meeting Mr.. Wal
lace he would have had cause enough 90 be
Jealous. was guilty OF adultery, but did not
think he knew IT,
while this was read. He then testified in a son
low tone follows:
IL was introduced TO Mrs. Ray the street
about year ago and met her again in about
two weeks, and, after two more meetings, saw
her by appointment two or three times n week.
We met generally at Broadway and oath
streets and used to walk up and down Broad-
way. took her To my house on four occasions
j went 10 her house twice 1t her request On
a Mi i moi Raw
He told me his wife was sick, out he went up
stairs for her and she came down. L stood
with my hand on the back OF her chair. when
he came In, and. seeing It, he became angry
and accused me OF trying To kiss her. Il denied
IT, We had some words, and he ordered me
out of the house.
.,on the next evening he called ut my houss
and wanted 10 know whether he was right In
his accusation OF the night before. told him
that he was not. He said that ne wa satisfied
he was wrong. but that he loved his wife very
much, and seeing me close To her made him
very Jealous. We had drink, aud AT his re-
quest wrote a note to his wife, telling her that
the difficulty had been satisfactorily arranged.
never saw him again hut saw his wife several
times thereafter, and about two weeks before
the shooting she came TO NV room where we
remained together from 2:15 Ia p. ma. We
met every other day then, and L saw her the
last time on the day before the shooting.
"Thedetectiye said In his report that we seemed
fond OF each other. That was true. Mrs Ray
accused me OF trying to Kiss her. ] did not
know we were being Swallowed. We supposed
that Mr.. Rays suspicious were dispelled. She
always spoke kindly of him, aud do not believe
that She was ever guilty OF any indscretion tul
MIR. RAYS sister. Mrs. Richard ,iuiIbert. said
that her sisters quarrels with her husband he
gan when they went TO live with his mother,
Mrs. Hayden, who struck Mrs. Raw once. black
sisters bedside Yesterday" Mrs. Guilbert said.
land since then Mrs. Hayden has refused I'd let
anything be sent to her room, has taken her
mattress from her cot and refuses TO furnish her
With bed-sleets.