The evening world., 1903-10-27
MANY TALES MAKE
SHOOTING MYSTERY
Who Wounded Corona Ricardo
Is a Question to Which There
Is No Answer That Can Be
Corroborated.
who shot Corona Ricardo?

Who shot Corona Ricardo?
The time-honored mystery surround
ing the identity of The person who
struck Mr.. william Patterson a a
rival. The W. generations that have
asked the question who struck Billy
Patterson" nave come to regard the
victim OF hat outrage as a myth. but
there is no mythical victim In the pre-
sent mystery.
Miss Ricardo 10 alive. n h has
a bullet wound to prove h was shot
but az to how the wound was re-
ceived-well. there are enough stories
as to how It happened for every n
to have n choice.
Miss Ricardo is at present recover
ing from the wound at her home, No.
f43 West Thirty-sixth street. The bull
let passed between the eighth and
ninth ribs, slightly below tine heart.
and out. 1t has not been found.
First story Told.
The first story told to h police was
that the actress had heard two men
quarpelling outside the front Don "a
the basement IN which she was lying
on q couch, and that she got up to
close the window. AS she did so one
Of the men fred at the other. missed
his aim. and the bullet struck tho &C
tress. The men ran AWAY.
A second version Of the story 10 that
an ardent admirer of the actress fol-
her home from the theatre night
after night and attempted on various
occasions to thrust his society upon
her. He Is supposed to be an italian.
q countryman OF the actress. who. with
the impetuosity Of his race. after being
repulsed, waited his chance at h
In which the actress boards and. OH
seeing her. fired the shot.
A third story Is that Miss Ricardo
window Of e the Af Easement se n' and hea as she she
the window a shot was fired
and she fell. Two men dashed down
the street. The story is told by Miss
Loralie Stuart. who is n member OF the
Marta of the Lowlands" company
with which Miss Riccardo was playing.
Denies She Sought Death.
A fourth story L. that the actress
She denies this and says she has no
reason to be dissatisfied with life.
To-day at the house In which Miss
Riccardo resides there Is a break in
mont which Is said by some Of the in
mates OF the house to have been made
by the bullet. 1t was said when the
story OF the shooting was first old
that there was no broken pane OF glass
in the window, and the police do not
believe the break Is such as would have
been made by q bullet.
Miss Rlccardo refuses to be seen and
maintains a strange silence regarding
the shooting. The police have been told
so many stories regarding the affair
that they are still guessing. The Ques-
ton still remadns:
Who shot Corona RiccardoT
Baked at Every Turn.
Lieut.. Hayes. OF the Tenderloin sta
tion. who has been conducting the in
quiry into the mystery surrounding the
shooting OF The actress. said to-day that
he a been baked at every turn in his
investiEation by Miss Ricardo and Mrs.
Lee. her companion.
"The only avenue of inquiry open TO
mo now" said Lieut.. Hayes, lis to get
a writ of investigation from a Magis-
court and Summon all who were
In the apartments at the time of the
shooting to testify. BY their peculiar
j am led to the belief that
Miss Ricardo attempted to end her life
/ have askei to see the garment she
wore when she was shot. They have
TO show me this. II the bullet
hole in the garment bears powder marks
It will clinch my theory OF suicide"
DR.. Gilday. who has been attending
the actress. said that he did not see the
garment when summoned to the house
the shooting. DR.. Gilday said the
wound Is healing rapidly. and the act-
ress ought to be out-of the house in a