The sun., 1908-02-28
|GLACIA GALA SWEARS TO IT
INSISTS on HER VERSION or TEE
KILLING OF SONNY CARKINS.
he Wasn't Her Husband. whatever Col.
MaplesOn Thought She Makes n stately
PrngTess 10 Portsmouth. whence Come
More Details Of Her FlOurshInk Career.

yaRtertay Win the nope CnaI GlaCla NAliAs
In her tight fitting gown Of black vOile
4 and lace, would be found reclining upon
the Immensely becoming red silk couch
readv to add to her story Of the killing OF
her brother. Sonny Carkins by Paul Roy,
her french husband, were exceedingly
disappointed.
The American Beauty had made good
4, her promise that she was going straight
hack 10 Portsmouth to make az much
frouble as she could for Monsieur Roy.
she had gone, with her rope Of pearls, her
hiI length coat OF Russian sable. her smile
and her remarkable gift for dramatic mar
rativp. But she had left behind message.
She yanted il distinctly understood that
sho was on the level as to the tale she told
about the shooting Of her brother and that
sha had nothing to gain by the telling Of it
save justice.
furthermore. she had heard before she
took The midnight train for Boston on
Wednesday night that Col. Mapleson,
orera manager in London, who sold her
house in Paris. had been saying by cable
that Sonny wasn't her brother at ALL but
George A. Carkins. her first husband. with
whom she had been living for a time in
Paris. H. was absolutely untrue. that
s,atement Miss Gala left word, and every
body in old Portsmouth or In the suburb
or Newington, where her own home was,
knew the facts about her family.
The American Beauty was heard from
here pretty soon after a train landed her
in Portsmouth yesterday morning. Half
the reporters in Boston had taken passage
IN thai train and were very anxious to
interview her. She consented cheerfully.
and submitted TO the snapshotters. She
also settled hot argument about the long
and handsome sable coat. Somebody bet
that il must have cost $1,000, whereupon
the singer volunteered the information
that il stood her 81 800. plus the duty on
this side Would she care to talk further
shout her husband. Paul? She wouldn't,
and got into a carriage.
Dispatches to The sun from Portsmouth
said that Glacia. who seemed spTightly
and certainly looked well. was met At the
railroad station by Lawyer Harry Torrey.
from the Office of her personal counsel.
John H. Bartlett. With Mr.. Torrey she
drove 10 the Office OF County Attorney
Charles n Batchelder. In his Office she
made an affidavit. swearing that the cir
Cunstances of her brothers death at the
hands Of her husband we're such as she
had narrated. While there somebody
kOpWeO neE I o. NldplteOn = bJdJelHenbs
Col NIapleson is mistaken in his story,
she said Il did purchase the property
he speaks of-his Blanc Castel-but when
the deeds were made out | asked him to
be sure and put them in the name of Lillian
Carkins, as Glacia Gala was my profess
sional name. He must have confused my
hrothers name. Col. Mapleson was a
good friend Of mine and he gave me lot
Of good advice, which I wish had followed.
If | had poor George would have been
here now"
Mrs John p. Kelly, Glacia Calla's mother.
also made affidavit at the Office of the county
attorney, covering what she knew about
the shooting and what she had heard Roy
say as TO how the shooting happened. Mrs.
Roy told hsf mother she purposed 10 get
divorce from Roy as sooD as she could
bring it about.
County Attorney Batchelder said that il
wouldn't he necessary to arrest Glacia
Gala, since she is perfectly willing TO ap-
pear whenever she is wanted. A warrant
Tor Rov's arrest was sworn out for service
IN Paris.
From Portsmouth yesterday came ad-
dtional information about the young
woman She was born in Newington in
1872. She and her brothers. George and
James. were the children Of Mr.. and Mrs
Odell Carkins, and We're born in the old
WelCh House on Goshng road She left
home when she was II years old. telling
people she was going TO New York to study
for the stage. She was a remarkably pretty
girl About 1891 she went back to Ports
mouth, where her good looks and up TO
date dresses made a real sensation. There
was a young lieutenant OF marines at the
kittery Navy Yard, T. &. Lover Fillette,
who paid her noticeable attentions and
eventually got himself into difficulties.
He left the service.
She went OF the stage after this and be-
came known as Gladys Hodgdon, taking
part in performances with Loie Fuller.
While she was playing in Worcester. she
met William A. Murray, who sometimes
used the name of William Claiming South
ern. Mr. Murray-SoutheTn was Interested
in horse racing She married him at New
buryport and for a time they lived in Boston.
Later on she left Murray, went to Paris and
became known as The American Beauty
from the portrait by Joubert. She has
never seemed TO lack money. In Paris she
cut big splurge.
70 this country on La Lorraine from Havre
in conn any with a well gowned woman
NJ middle age who called herself the Baron
ess Won Orendortf widow Of the late Ger
man Ambassador to Russia The Baron
ess was shadowed at the dock by a black
mustached man who said he was Pinkerton
detective. and a slim young man kept an
eye on Miss Glacia Gala. Neither woman
appeared 70 be perturbed. The baroness
went on TO Washington, Miss Gala TO Boston.
The Almanach de Gotha contained no
record Of Baron Won Orendorf who had
boen German Ambassador at the court
Ut Russia, and the Baroness's other state
rant that she was originally a Miss BOhrer
NJ Virginia. whose father and grandfather
had been high officers in the United States
Navy, was not substantiated by the records.
there was a good deal of mystery about
the Baroness and Miss Gala
Miss Gala denied yesterday that it vas
hor mother who had posed as the Baroness
Won Orendortf Her mother was much
Younger than the Baroness. she said, and
the Baroness is a real noblewoman who
IL now living abroad she added.
tol. Mapleson said in London yesterday
mar he first met Glacia Gala in Paris IN
loul and that he engaged her TO sing under
ms management. He knew, he said, that
Alle was the wife Of a man named Sergius,
who he found out afterward was Paul Roy,
Son Of well known dealer in horses and
'hJnagcs. She agreed TO sing in Lucia"