Evening journal., 1890-05-14
nc CHANGED HIS TUNE.
Judge Masterson Refused to
Prosecute Alice 1opkinson,
AND ALICE HAD NOTHING TO SAY

The Shooting Mystery sun Mystery,
for Both Parties Eepcnted When The,
Faced the Court-The Arizona Million.
aire Has a Wife in Texas.
NEW York, May l4-When Murat Mas
terson, judge, capitalist and mine owner
rushed into the West Thirtieth street sta
ton house Monday night with the revolver
in his hand with which, he averred, Mrs
Alice l.. liopkinson had attempted to kill
him, one OF his noteworthy utteranees was
that his life had been threatened by d
well known hlaclSmailern But at the
Jefferson Market Police court yesterday
Judge Masterson had quite changed his
tune
No Charge to Make.
u have no charge to make against her,
he s'.id, in answer to Justice Hogans ques
tion. u don't remember what occurred.
Then Justice Hogan turned to Mrs. Hop
kinson and asked whether she had shot at
Mustorson the night before with the pistol
he showed her.
"Why, responded the lady nnocently
Il never saw that pistol before in all my
life" George Bradley, Mrs Hopkinson's
eolored servant, testified to going to Mr.
Masterson's residence ON Monday evening
with some letters He heard high words
on his return between Mrs. Hopkinson and
Judge Masterson, who had arrived while
he was absent. He heard the Judge call
the woman hlaekmailer and say. IAN j
want from you is my hundred thousand
dollars
Very Extraordinary Case.
Mrs. Hopkinson answered that she had
worked hard for il and didn't propose to
give il mp, and Immediately after that
pistol shot was heard. Bradley saw Mas
terson come down the stairs and 20 into
the street with the pistol in his hand. Jus.
tice Hogan WAS forced TO dismiss the case.
which he did with the following suggestive
language; This is a very extraordinary
case, and think the colored man is the
only one who has told the truth.
No sooner had Justice Hogan pronounced
the dismissal of the case than each Of the
principals hurried off IN opposite directions.
Mr.. Masterson with his i2-vearold boy.
Howard, and several friends returned IL
his quarters at No 22 West Thirty-second
street, and Mrs. Hopkinaon went back to
a
Alice Talks Freely.
Mrs Hopkinson talked with apparent
| freedom about the affair "The charge, =
said She that blaclanailed Judge Mas.
terson is utter nonsense. / got 500 O0C
worth OF mining stocks from him as tn,
fair share Of my efforts IN business tran
gaetion Judge Masterson was drunk or n,
never would have made such a fool Of him
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Masterson was really her cousin, and thai
there had never been any love passages he
tween them She said that Judge Master
son hadnssaulted her on previous occa.
sion.
Mrs. Hopkinson declared that her hus.
band who was dead, had been a large dry
| goods merchant az No. POS Broadway, and
that on his death she had invested the
money he left with Judge Masterson, who
had made a fortune from mines in New
Mexico Mrs. Hopkinson said that Judge
Masterson was wildly jealous because she
intended to marry again. One Of the first
things Judge Masterson did on arrvinn
home was TO write letter to Mrs HopSin.
sons husband warming him OF the course
his wife was pursuing. This hardly accords
with Mrs. Hopkinson's claim that SHE is d
widow
His Version Of the Shooting.
Judge Masterson's version Of the shoot
ing is that when he went TO Mrs Hopkin.
sons room on Monday evening she began
reproaching him with getting letters from
other women. A quarrel ensued and the
first thing he knew a bullet went whizzina
past his ear Judge Masterton said be
wouldn't swear that Mrs. Hopkinson fired
the shot. He could not tell where it came
from. He had ouareled with Mrs HoplSin.
son before becauseahe had once found her
in her fiat drinking champagne with a
young man named George Carroll
Il met her il Chicago a year ago. he
said, ''and having been told by my mother
that she was relative Of mine / helped her
along by taking her into mining in.
vestment with me, through which she
made good deal of money. I love her.
hlE. she has fooled me, and i am done with
her