Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-29
GIasIa Gala Makes Affidavit Charg
log MURDER Against Husband,
He HAS HAD AN EVEaTHFuL CA8EER
New Hampshire OFFICIALS Think Roy
and the Singers Brother Fought
Duel After oua.rol--woman in the
Case Now at Home.

PORTSMOUTH, n. H., Feb. 2S--
Determined. ahe declares. to 10 every
thing In her power to aid the New
Hampshire authorities In forcing her
husband, Paul Roy. chauffeur and son
OF wealthy Paris livery stable keep
err, to return To this country and stand
trial for shooting her brother, George
Carkins, in her homo ut Newington.
January 2. Glacia Gala, actress ANA
friend of the Baroness Orendorff,
who introduced her 10 Washington
and Paris society. Is here Soon after
her arrival SHE made an affidavit at
tho Office OF County Solicitor Charles
Batcheldcr In which she charges her
husband with murder.
IL have told the whole story in that
affidavit, the Same story MS told to
tho reporter who saw me Mt the home
OF my cousin, Mrs. George f. Hodg-
don, In New York." she said this ar
ternoou. and have pledged my word
to the authorities that when my hus-
band Is placed on trial know that
my evidence may send him TO the gall
lows"
Miss Calais afildavit and andavits
OF her mother. Mrs. John Kelley. who
discovered bullet wounds In Carkjns'
clothing. VIII be taken to Concord to-
morrow ~ Attorney General Edwin
q. Eastman and shown to Edward II.
Pearson. secretary of state. If the
aiiidavits and nm application for the
extradition OF Roy from Paris meet
ne approval OF the secretary OF statc
they Will be forwarded to Washington.
and thence to the United States am
bassndor at Paris, with instructions
to HIM to present them to the French
government
Thinks There Was A Duel.
The highest state authorities aouh,
u Roy can he convicted OF deliberate
murder. They are convinced that
there was n duel between Carlllns ma
Roy which arose over n dispute be-
1weeh brother and husband over Miss
Gala. and they have found evidence
IA inc mouse In which the tragedy oc-
cured TO prove that each man f,red
nve shots. The duel was fought with
oz-caiiber five chamber revolvers,
| ana the two bullets which missed Car
N'hs We're found in the wall behind
where he was standing. Five shots
fred from Carkins' revolver ami
which must have passed within n few
Inches of Roy, were discovered n few
days ago In the opposite wall.
| i am satisfied" Attorney General
Eastman said tonight, that the men
We're standing and that they emptied
me five chambers of their revolvers
at each other"
| the belief of the Attorney General
INA, there was duel Is substantial
ed In the sworn statement of Glacin
! Gala. made today. that when the
quarrel began between her brother
and her husband and she left the room
after receiving slgnal from the for
mer. she saw Carkins draw his re-
| 'olver from his hip pocket.
| i did not sec him fire IT," she said
! saw It in his hand aud tho hand
| was resting on the arm of n cbair
IN which he was sitting. A moment
after ! had left the room | heard
shots. and then my brother tottered
toward me and fell into the butIer's
pantry"
Roy, in statement he made In
Paris few day ago. declared that
nc shot Carkins In self-defensc.
| II ne Is brought back to New
hampshire and placed On trial for
murder the state authorities fear that.
despite her announced desire TO see
MIN punished, Roy's best witness will
be his wife.
II has been stated in many news
papers that Miss Gala and her moth
or. Mrs, Kelley. may be arrested and
charged with being accessories after
the fact. This is positively denied by
Attorney General Eastman and Coun
~ Solicitor Batcheldcr.
Dung man, don't you know that
| It's better TO ba aIono thon IN h,,t