The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-08-18
State Will Seek to Prove Rob-
berry As Motive.
Woman Claims She Shot TO
Avenge An Insult.

California. where he went about two
weeks AGO to look into the circumstances
of the murder of his younger brother
Richard S. Parry. As far as Owen
Parry could make out, the deed was alb
solutely unprovoked, and was in all
likelihood committed for the purpose OF
robbery.
Richard S. Parry was shot down on
the evening of July IL at his boarding
place in Los Angeles by the landlady
Harriet NJ. Williamson. He was in
his room at the time of the shooting.
This room had window opening into
the hall The woman stood in the hall
on the outside of the room. 1t was
through this window that she shot the
man.
The following was published in regard
to the affair in The Los Angeles Exam
liner of July %:
"'How long will it be before I am
free?' asked Harriet NJ. Williamson of
Attorney Jud Rush yesterday afternoon
after she had been held without bail by
Police Justice Chambers to answer to
the Superior court on charge of muir
der for shooting Richard Saunders Par
nv on the night of July IL. and on hear
ing his almost inaudible reply, she bit
her lips and murmered: will that take
lone?'
attorney Rush offered no evidence
for the defense, but by his cross exami-
nation showed that he will contend THAI
robbery had no connection with the case,
and that Miss Williamson shot Parry
after she had become hysterical by rea-
son of his alleged insults.
During the examination of Guy Rob
erty, the seventeen year old newsboy,
who saw the woman Immediately before
and after the shooting, Detective Craig,
who sat beside her, was forced several
times to grasp her by the arm and ask
her to keep quiet.
cit is lie, and l hope God will
strike him dead before he leaves the
chair exclaimed the woman, when the
boy told how she had cooked the revol
yer with both hands.
civilian S. Morse, who lives at 1856
Towne avenue, testified that he had
known the deceased for seven or eight
years at Lake Crystal, Minnesota, where
he was known both as Richard P. Sauny
,lers and Richard S. Parry. He could
not explain the confusion of names, but
over Parry.
Roberts, the newsboy, said: 'As
came up the stors Miss Williamson was
in front of the window of room 27,
where the shooting took place. heard
her say, I'll kill any man who insults
me- She had pistol in her hand She
looked at me over her shoulder and
became scared and hurried toward my
own room. Before / reached it, / turned
around. She then had the pistol in both
hands and cooked it. | heard her say.
See this. Get up and dress yourself
and leave the house. l went into my
room and a moment later the shot was
fired. / heard the man in the room tell
Miss Williamson as / passed that he
wanted to get some water to wash him
self
"Karl Schultz, an iron worker, who
was in his room opposite to the one
i'll which Parry met his death, corrobor-
ated the testimony of Roberts as to the
words uttered by Miss Williamson be
fore the shooting 4 heard a racket in
the hail. said Schultz, 'and went out.
asked Miss Williamson what was wrong,
and she told me the man in the room
had insulted her and she would kill any
man that would do that. A moment lat
er the shot was fired and Miss William
son said she had killed him.
'Dr Freedman and the officers who
were the first to enter the room after
Parry was shot, testified that the man
was dressed in trousers, coat, shirt and
shoes, and that his clothing was not dis
arranged. Craig, Steele and Quinn tes-
titled that Miss Williamson, immediate
" after she was arrested said that
Parry had chased her through the hall
while he was undressed.
Before her removal to the county
Jail. an effort was made to secure her
photograph for the rogue's gallery and
her measurements for the Bertillion
system. Miss Williamson fought and
screamed so that she was committed
without the usual entry and photo
graphs
Owen Parry is firm in his belief that
the murder was committed by the WON