Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-27

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until / drive him TO the electric chair. .
Miss Gala. as she prefers to be call
ed, closed the interview with the state
ment that She has already told her
story To the authorities Of New Hamp-
shire and to her attorney here, Dy
both OF whom she had been forbidden
To talk about the matter.
Miss Gala, who in private life Is
Mrs. Paul T., Roy. came here several
days ago ard has since made her home
with her cousin, George r. Hodgdon,
q dealer in automobile supplies A few
days before her husband sailed for
France she called at his apartment but
he Mas rot in. She did not see him at
any tim, here and had not lived with,
she said, since the death Of her broth
cr. George A. Carkins. on Jan. 2. She
engaged counsel in this CITY and Sc
cured 4 warrant for the arrest Of her
husband, the warrant later being sent
TO Rome. The statement by her nus
band cabled from Paris today, IN
which roy asserts that lis brotherin-
law was killed in sclf-dcfcnce, led Miss
Gala To give her version Of the trag-
cdy.
I'll tn you the whole story" said
the actress. II met my husband i'll
Paris where his father is :; large
dealer in horses. We were married in
the City hall in Boston last October
NC went t. NcWnSton, \. H..
where Iny mother has q house It quar-
ter # :. mil" from her own.
''Ol the night of Jan my brother
Mr.. HOY and myself intended to 50
Ia !, concert My husband wanted me-
to wear IN automobile veil. as we wcre
going 10 the concert incur automobile
| sail IA wear Il hat.
"'N kat Il large picture HAT. 50
that youIl make 4 conquest said Nj,
Roy.
we then had some words. ! glanced
at my brother and he glanced ut me.
" c slightly nodded or heads. ! knew
he wanted me to leave the room and
50 | topped into the buffers pantry.
Il Immediately heard several shots.
How many DO not know. l cried to
the two men. There WIS no answer.
When | opened the door Of the kitch-
eli where thCy had been, my brother
staggered out coward me-. extending
his right hand and saying:
'Peachy. I'm shot.
'Fcachy is my pet name. | cried for
help. cried for Paul. But u" did not
answer. cried again for Paul.
Paul l said: 'FaUl, paul. you've
killed Sonny
Il received no answer and ran from
the home to my mothers house. saw
a light III her window. Tusr as ! was
about TO climb the porch steps vas seiz-
ed from behind. Turning. saw it was
my husband. I was GREATNESS after a /
long run over shrubs and across Il briiC
aud up the steep hill on which my moth |
er's house is situated and could rot tell
him to leave me as l wished n do. He |
said: Don't say anything. | did it in
self-Gefence. For Gods sake. don't say !
anything.
II called him coward and said he had /
murdered Sonny.
II then IAN upstairs t. my mother |
room.
Il cried: My God. mother. Sonny is /,
shot
My mother rushed down to her hus- |
bands room and awakened him. >iohn /
kclly-he's my stepfathcr-was awakened |
and lie ran to n neiGhbor's house and !
called pr. W. y. Junkins. Ny mother
took lantern and both Of us ran back !
to the house. Behind us was Paul. He
several times ran up to me and told me
not to say anything. He kept on repeat j
ing: T did it in self-defencc.' When we
reached the house Sonny was lying in the |
pantry. where lie had fallen fact down !
ward. My mother tried to turn the body !
over. crying and asking Sonny to talk !
to her There was bullet hole just /
above the bridge of his nose ana another |!
higher up in the forehead. Dr. Junllins !
then arrived and pronounced my brother
dead.
For 10 hours we were with the dead |
body of my only brother before the cor
oner arrived. My husbands very pres
ence gave me the horrors. When the
coroner said it was u suicide | made no
objection.
when Mr.. Kelly was taking the |
clothes Of my dead brother to the ham
Paul said to him: Jack be careful; don't 4
let anyone see these
That was because there was a bullet
hole in The lack.
When he would como near me I would
cry: Get away from ne YOU coward. 4
\ OH shot him i'll the back. ! will never
let IN until l drive him TO tile electric
chair
Asked why she had not earlier told the
authorities hey present story. Miss Gala
said:
Mother ana l were frightened out OF.
our lives. Why, VIXEN We We're on our
WAY back to the house. mother and l.
lfter my brother was shot. ny husband
said to ne:
II ought to have shot You and then
myself
"OE, when YOU love a man SO it takes
7 long time 10 realize the horror Of i, /
NJ
Mrs. Roy's cousin, Mr.. Hodgdon. said
oday that his cousin had lived an I'M
lapry existence with her husband MI
-arltins was Il most inoffensive person.
md to my knowledge never Carried 4
Weapon he said. This talk about a
luel is all nonsense. If ever MI. Car
sins fought anyone it would have been
With bare fists. He was a gentleman
through and through
Row arneared in New York two ,,,opfbs |