Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-24
HUSTLING IN HAWAII I'm HOSTILE mood
Russian and American Colo
MES in Paris Clash.
ASE OF MRS. GORE
EFFORTS TO BESMIRCH HER
CHARACTER FAIL.
Friends of the Dead Woman Believe
the Russian Rydzensky
Murdered Her.

murdered Her.
A Paris dispatch to the New York Amert-
can says: The mysterious death of Mrs.
Ellen Gore, the beautiful California girl
who died, shot through the brain, in the
apartments of De Rydsensky, the Russian
baritone, has ranged America and Russia in
opposition camps in Paris.
Americans declare the story of the young
opera singer, who is in the prison hospital,
absurd and impossible, and are pressing to
have him prosecuted for murder.
The State Department at Washington has
become interested in the case. Consul Cow
dy today received a cable message from
Assistant Secretary Hill asking him to see
that a proper investigation was made. He
replied that he was making such an investi-
cation.
On the other hand, a counsellor of state
of the Russian court has visited the exam
lining magistrate in the interest of the pris
oner.
De Rydsensky, it now appears, Is a
nephew Of Constantin de Rydsensky, aid
de-camp to the car and a member of the
cabinet, and official and unofficial Russians
are moving heaven and earth to help their
compatrot. They thorng the prison hos
pital. and more Russians of title are to be
found there than any other place in Paris.
A Conflict of Partisans.
They have inaugurated a regular cam
paign to clear De Rydsensky, and do not
scrupIe to asail the character Of the dead
woman.
The Americans, headed by Consul General
Gowdy, are defending the dead womans
character and are able to show by her &C
quaintances that she had always conducted
herself as a modest, yirtuous woman, in
tensely in earnest in her musical studies,
and in way the sort of woman the
Russians are trying to make her out. 1t
is said she was engaged to a wealthy man
in Brussels and they were to have been
married.
They have to advance against the cruel
aspersions that are being cast by the i'm
prisoned Russians friends the fact that
Mrs. Gore refused to marry him, and even
threatened to move away from Paris If he
persisted in his declared intention of taking
rooms at the pension where she resided.
Seeking to Hide Evidence
The Russians first tried to bury the
whole thing and nearly succeeded in over
riding all opposition. They got an order
from magistrate to bury the body of the
dead woman in quicklme as a friendless
pauper, though she was woman Of prop
erty. Consul Gowdys protest stopped this
procedure, and instantly on the news of
her death becoming known cablegrams ar
rived from Mexico. New York, California
and Washington directing that fitting dis
position be made of the talented woman's
body. Consul Gowdy demanded that the
body be held for further instructions and
examination, so to preserve the physical
evidence of the manner of her death.
Their plan of covering up the affair hav-
ing failed. the friends of the Russian bari
tone dismissed the obscure lawyers who
boz
Maitre Cruppi. the distinguished deputy Of
the Haute Garonne. who is now building up
the theory of death by accident, abandon
ing the suicide idea, though the landlady of
the house in which De Rydzensky lived per-
sists in her statement that the singers first
words to her were that Mrs. Gore had killed
herself
Surgeons Disagree.
There is a contest Of urgeons-American
against French-as to the course of the bull
let through the woman's head. The Yam
kee practitioners say the ball traversed the
skull almost horizontally, thus showing
that 1t is impossible she could have been
killed, as De Rydzensky says, by the re-
volver falling to the floor and being dis
charged as it struck.
The American theory is that the Rus
sian used the pistol in effort to terrify
the woman into submission, and that there
was Scuff1e and then a shot. The weapon
Is d large military arm, ana on no other
theory can the surgeons account for De
RydZensky's having it on his table where
he says he had it, Mrs. Cores coming
was expected, being In response to a tele-
gram from him, saying that he was too Ill
to come to her. She had written that she
wanted to see him.
The Russians are saying that check for
300 francs signed by Rydzensly was found
among Mrs. Cores effects. The Americans
say that the story of the check is a Rus
invention 10
check 1t represents the repayment of loan
from Mrs. Gore to the baritone.
Funeral Set for Tuesday.
The funeral of Mrs. Gore has been set
for next Tuesday. The funeral services
will be conducted by Rev. Mr.. Thurber of
the American Church.
Nine. Tennevat, the owner of the house
where the tragedy occurred, and Marie
Thomas. the maid. have been repeatedly
questioned by the authorities as to the
events of the fatal day. They are not to be
shaken in their accounts. They say that
Immediately after they were startled by
the report of the pistol De Rydzensky, in
state Of intense excitement. throw open
his door and cried:
Come quickly! Madame has shot herself
with revolver! She has killed herselfw
Subsequently he told a story of having
reached out to the table and knocked the
pistol to the floor.
Mrs. Gore had been with De Rydzensky
an hour when the shot was fired.
Mrs. Gore Feared Rydzenski.
dispatch to the New York Sun from
San Francisco yesterday says: Mrs. P. T.
Dickinson of Alameda, aunt of Mrs. Ellen
Gore, who was shot in the apartments of
Russian BARITONE named Rydzenski In Paris
on Wednesday, is sure that her niece was
murdered. She bases her opinion largely
on letters received from Mrs. Gore
Mrs. Gore was brought up In Alameda
Her maiden name was Stogdill.
Letters from the dead woman written
within two months to her aunt tell the
story of Rydzenskfs mad infatuation for
her, how she refused his opportunities to
make her his bride and held him in check.
The letters also tell of prosecutions by the
Russian, who was determined to win her
despite all obstacles, of her fear of him
and her resolution to have as little to do
with him as possible. going to the length
of telling her servants to refuse him admis-
sion when he called.
All these confidential disclosures to an
aunt who was as loving as a mother to the
talented young woman now throw light on
her death,