The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-02-29
Mob Attempts to Stone Glacia
Gala and Police Are Called to
Protect Her at Portsmouth, N. H.
Something Of Life History of
Notorious Woman, Who De-
ceived Hundreds of People
As NOblewOman.

Portsmouth, y. H., Feb. 29.-Tho
Scenes Of the era when the people Of
New England stoned witches We're re-
women and children mobbed Glacia
Gala and later stoned the Office In
which she was sitting in conference
with her attorney, John VI. Bartlett.
She remained in the Office three
hours. During that time the mob
outside grew larger and larger. They
shouted and made cat calls. Growing
more impatient they began to throw
snow balls and pieces of ice against
the windows. Finally it became neces-
sary to call the police to dispense the
crowd, as It was feared that Miss
Gala would suffer bodily injury when
she came out.
Miss Gala had an appointment with
her attorney at $3.50 O'Clock, but she
failed to appear. Two hours later
while a thousand men and women
waited, outside the building to see
her, she drove from her Bayside home,
put up her team in a stable AMI
walked through a side street to the
building in which her lawyer had his
office.
Police Services Needed.
The crowd saw her comisg and sur
rounded her, many shouting insults
and she was utterly unable to reach
her destination, just across the street
Finally the police were called and
forced a way for her through the
crowd.
For a time the attorneys client
was closeted with him in an inner
Office, while the outer room and hall
way were filed with newspaper men
and women and a swarm of photog-
lraphers. Miss Gala was in conference
with her attorney nearly three hours.
When she emerged the police wert
|again ordered to scatter the crowds.
Returning to her mothers home
she told the Hearst news service re-
porter that she had not seen the
Baroness Won Orendorf since 1894.
Murray Believes Her story.
New Orleans, La, Feb. civil
liam Murray, the former husband of
Glacia Gala, believes that her version
of the death of her brother, George
C. Carkins. is true. Murray told
something of the man and woman,
along with his reasons for believing
that Paul Roy killed George Carkins.
Murray also positively substantiated
her statement that Carkins was her
brother and not her husband.
Murray said:
81 first met Miss Gala about fifteen
years ago. She had shortly before
run away from home and was at the
time en- route to Atlantic City to join
a small opera troupe. She was a par
ticularly fascinating woman then,
though a bit crude and uncultivated.
Later | met her in Boston. but before
doing so was instrumental in getting
her a place with the Casino company
under the management of Rudolph
Aronson.
"While in New York Miss Gala
met Jack Hathaway, a promoter, and
he fell desperately in love with her.
He took up her education and paid to
have her voice trained as well for her
to do general studying. And through
Influences he brought to bear he had
her advanced in the Casino company.
Roy Was Adventurer.
81 then met her in Boston, where
she was the prima donna in one of
Mr.. Aronson's companies playing
Uncle Celestine.'
Following this was our marriage,
during which we lived together quiet
ly for the most part, though some of
her affairs got both of us into a bit
of notoriety / then allowed her to
get a divorce some nine years ago."