The sun., 1890-05-13
WHO SHOT, JUDGE OR WOMAN
MURAT MASTERSON or ARIZONA IN
A MAD TANGLE HERE.

Supreme Court. and who, 1t is snid was after
ward Judge sitting ut Prescott where
be was horn is also, he says. n wealthy
owner of mines in chihuahua. He
paid u visit at Ct, o'clock last night to the fiat
at 60 West Thirty-siXth street. The fiat is oc-
curied by Mrs. Alice l.. nopkinson. who is a
wcll-known fre Iuenter OF the local race tracks
and who says she owns n number OF racers.
There was q violent row in the fiat a few min
utes later. aud the other tenants were startled
bv the report Of a pistol. Ten minutes later
Masterson ran into the Thirtieth street police
station, and ilngirg revolver on the desk
before Sergeant sheldon. cried out that a
"wpll.k known backmailer " had Just tried to
Kill him and failed.
Ma>torson is q brond- -shouldered man OF AZ
years, with IA heavy gray moustache. He was
dressed in black. and ho lifted his slouched hat
TO the Sergeant. His griazed face was pale.
md he jammcd his hands into his trousers
rockets and paced up and down the floor
swiftly He pulled out his hands again in a
minute and flung big certificate on the desk.
1t showed that he had been admitted TO the
bar at Prescott, Arizona. some years ago.
"M Mrs. IiopkinsOn fired twice, but failed In
her design to kill me-" he said. I" l want you
TO lot me have policeman to arrest her."
The revolver was 32-caibre flve-chsm-
bered i-iashioncd Smith 4 Wesson. 1t con-
tanned four loaded cartridges and one that had
leon discharged. The cap of one OF the loaded
ones bore the mark Of the hammer. showing
trat the weapon had been snapped once before
the exploded cartridge was fired.
81 wrestod that from her" Masterson said.
"or she would have killed me-"
Policemen Warner and Collins went around
TO IS " ost Thirty-siXth street with Alasterson.
The building is a big double fiat called The
q and Central" Mrs. Hopkinson's fiat was at
the hcnd of the first fight OF stairs. The police
men found George Bradley, a young colored
nun, and his wifo in the rooms. The l!radleys
are servants OF Mrs. uopkinson. Mrs Hopkin-
son came out OF one OF the rooms suddenly
when the policemen began to search for her.
Sho is brunette Of % years. She gathered
things wien the, policeman told her she was
under arrest, and she put on spring bonnet
"a .arrScC She denonnSed I Mastersoa @ in the
III st dramatic style and with great Vehemence.
charging that t, he htmsef had d5ewn the r, re-
lins took Masterson back to the station house
or. foot.
terson. leaning over the railing and talking
to Sergeant Sheldon, "and have been played
for dure by this woman. 1 met her first in
600 III bonds that are worth $50 600 in cash to-
day, and $500 in cash that l sent here by
] am the old tool in the matter. She has
thrown me over for younger men. ! have
Fa0 know me here Ask 1hsst At
have an Office at Wall street. You will find
thai that oT1 oT an an onyx " mine in Mexico, and am am
money back from this woman, for she has de-
eeiyed me and got them by false pretepces."
She looked us II she had been a comely woman.
but recent sickness had told on her good looks.
man mai bis II my cousin SherGean3 3 she sad nf
him to disproye It. He tried to kill me. He
broke in the door Of my fiat to get at me, It Is
l. .lgeness for the assault aud another from
injuries this man inflicted"
sfdih Shs handed the letters 10y. eyer to Sergeant
ico and his twelye;;year boy. Howard. is
lliylng with him at 32 West Thirty second street
sskms II % is on SfSe leteer rS Send Of
the ritth Avenue Hotel. and dated " Palm sun
day." II read:
had me
.s n m HTns ny DO G&' Gd just
OF it my III treating the only woman ever truly loved
hsaI w.ay q n{ K & have S Sy
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@ tne' ns, rDS sS voasG in T my
must galler tor ny ungentIemany condGcE and VIII
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IshOpd ever rSss Ian hand 70 nn1 a%r you my little pct
stand me. Your devoted MuRAr
DIR ,Richardss. letter spoke of an injury to
Slasterson vehementy denied all this and
especially the statement that the prisoner was
his cousin. lie said that she entertained a
well-known piano MAX at her flat: and re-
eel ell the attentions of other men. Then he
charge Whatever to make against her, that he
was sorry she had not killed him. and that he
wanted her set free. and never wanted to see
Sergeant Sheldon sent Mrs. Hopkinson to q
cell and detained Alasterson. Masterson WAS
make him bitterly regret that no had ever
opened his lips against her. Size. said she
wanted & to sec sec n5sPecN2r Byrnes who was the
Capt Reilly arrived and sent Detectives Brett
S91 rsS to T6e tS a4Gty
WIZ, who i Mrs ii iHopEinS9ns maid. ~ Mrs' r"
when h" oInd that he could not get tho key.
spd vent INTO Mrs. Hopkinson's bedroom.
Mrs. llopkns"n was in bed There was bit
ter quarrel about money matters, and the pis-
tol was fired. George Bradley says that when
he reached the, loonT he saw N!asterson with q
that she could not SEQ who fired The pistol, al
th%@Hgh %gh she was in the fat near at hand.
burst into the fiat and Knocked Mrs. Honkn-
son down and beat hc. face brutally. A Miss
Tay3r. who lives on Greenwich street was
iaforo the detectives got back with these
witnesses Masters2n had broken down. He
he sci free. The arrival Of tho witnesses re-
suited in Masterson's being sent to Il cell him
teif on MIS-. Iiopkinson's counter charge OF
felonIous assault. Howard Mastcrson, his
son. ran into the station house at 10 O'clock.
His father had sent for him but the boy was
sent homo again. lie declared that, he could
not SEQ how H. iather could POSSIBLY have shot
NJ Mrs. opkinoon. as he neyer carried pistol.
Mrs l!onknson is in he direc ory a. the
ness used 10 he at 2Dl liroadway; elective
Hayes recognized her at once. He had seen
her often at the races Mrs IIOpkinson told
TnE Sun reporter that Mastersous charge
was n wicked fasehood, and she bust into a
torrent OF Iears over what she said was his
cruelty to her,
1t was exclaimed that Masterson addressed
her as " Rose because he was In the habit Of
calling her Ny Pretty llOse.' 1t seems that
after the first assault on her she shut up her
fat AMI went to Red Bank to reruperate, She
returned yesterday and was packing up TO 30
TO Washington where her father, she SAYS. had
lust lleI
MIR. Randolph says He Isn't Coming Hack.
CHICAGO. May l2.-CharIes Randolph. en-
Secretary of III" Bori Of Trade who has been msEing
for several Ner'... has turned NJ Portland A