Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-17
MRS. NEICA!F' 5 LIE.
Woman Who Tried to Shoot
Lawyer Hamill Blames Her
Woes to Attorney
READY TO STAND
RIAL
Processes Anxiety for Chance to In
form Court of Her Relations With
HamiII Woman Creates Scene
Whom She is Brought Into Court =
No Promise of Bail.

No Promise of Bail.
Chicago. Jan. 17.-Mrs. Beatrice
Metcalf who is still a prisoner in the
county Jail on a charge of attempting
to shoot Attorney Samuel h. Hamili,
of the Walsh case, against accused the
attorney Wednesday of being the cause
of her. separation from her husband
and of using his influence to suppress
details of the shooting and hurry her
the bane of her life and "usurper of
her soul"
Mrs. Metcalf, in signed statement,
accused a supposed deputy marshal OF
urging her to refuse to see reporters,
pledgng himself to procure her free
dom within two days if she obeyed.
The man asserted she said, that she
would not be placed in jail and would
be released on nominal bond.
Neither United States Marshal Hoy
nor District Attorney Sims We're pres
ent after Mrs. Metcalf was placed in
communicate Tuesday night, and are
seeking light on the actions of their
subordinates during the evening.
William Burns, hardware merchant
in southern state. a brother of the
prisoner, has been notified of her ar
rest, and is expected to arrive in Chi
! cago tomorrow
Blame for Attorney.
Mrs. Metcalf's statement tells more
of her alleged relations with Mr..
Hamill.
Mrs. Metcalf evidently had spent
much of the night in preparing the
notes from which she read. Her nerv-
BUSINESS had disappeared and she
smiled, parred questions and made
humorous comments on her own as
sertions and condition as she read.
at has been said that the meanest
man in the world is the man who de-
stroys a human beings faith in any
| thing" she said. Sam Hamill is a
meaner man than that, for he de-
stroyed my faith in everything
did you love him." was asked
| mo, I don't think I ever did, she
said. He promised to aid me to get
my beautiful boy. who was taken from
me when I was divorced from my hrst
husband AS a lawyer he showed me
how I had been tricked in that case
and promised to get me justice and my
boy.
The truth shall be by defense IN
| this case. He is the author of my UNI
happy state. the bane of my life, the
usurper of my soul.
| Mrs. Metcalf's nonchalant demeanor
disappeared as she spoke and she
sobbed for several minutes before re-
Stunning her statement. She declared
she will welcome a trial that she may
tell the full story of her relations with
| Hamill.
The accused lawyer was present at
the Walsh trial yesterday. He refused
to discuss Mrs. Metcalf's assertions.
Attorney Marks declared that his
client is sane and intimated that there
was basis for civil suit against Mr.
Hamil.
Deny Promise Of Bail.
Marshal Hoy and District Attorney
Sims denied the truth of Mrs. Met
| calf's statement that the government
promised to have her released on bail
/! 1t developed yesterday that the at
| torneys for John r. Walsh induced the
! federal authorities at conference al
the district attorneys office Tuesday
evening to suppress the facts OF the
shooting as far as possible for fear
of the effect the affair might have on
the Walsh trial. The assistant district
| attorneys, it is said, agreed to do all
| they could to suppress the case for the
present, being alarmed when cited to
decisions granting reversals in criminal
cases when assaults had been commit
ted during the trials.
Mr. Sims is very sure, however. that
the activities of his assistants did not
90 so far as to make a promise for
Mrs Metcalfs release.
"I do not believe" he said, that
the affair had an possible connection
with the Walsh trial"
Mrs Metcalf created a scene in an
Indianapolis court about year ago
Her nephew, Earl Morris, was on trial
before Judge Afford on the charge OF
having stolen S. from her. Mrs. Met
| calf opposed the suit, which was
brought by the boys father, who want
ed to have him sent to the Indiana
Boys School as an incorrigible.
When the father had finished his re-
cital Mrs. Metcalf rushed up to the
witness stand and cried: 'You, you
YOU. the grocery king of Terre Haute!
You have neglected your son. You have
not cared for him as you should. and
YOU know IT. Now you would send him
to prison"
Judge Afford refused to send the
boy to the reform school, and told
his father to take better care of him