Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-03-04
CHARGES MURDER
AGAINST HUSBAND
DESERTED ACTRESS uNcovERs
CRIME THAT WAS KEPT
CONCEALED.
DECLARES REcREAN- SPOUSE
SHOT HER BROTHER I'M
THE BACK.
BEGINS A LEGAL FIGHT TO
SECURE EXTRACTION ANE
TRIAL.

New York, Feb. 27.-"The TSoie
story" as she called it. was told last
nighs by Glac.a Gala, the beautiful
opera singer, who in the tragic role
of a deserted bride, denouncing her
husband, Paul Roy, as the murderer
of hen brother, George A. Carkins
has excited interest on two CONT
nents.
She says that on the night Of the
tragedy, January 2, her brother, hus-
band and herself intended to attend
a concert; that Roy objected to her
wearing picture hat, accompanying
his objection with the implication
that she intended wearing that par
ticstiar hat to make a conquest. "
She and her husband, she says, had
some words and, her brother nodding
to her, she left the room.
Immediately / heard several
shots" she said, how many / do not
know. cried to the two men.
There was no answer. When /
opened the door of the kitchen where
they had been, my brother staggered
out toward me, extending his right
hand and saying:
"'Peachy I'm shot
"Peachy is my pet name. cried
for help. 1 cried for Paul, But he
did net answer. / cried again for
Paul
paul, I said, Paul, Paul, you
have killed Sonny
Told Her to Keep Still.
q received no answer and ran
hose to nay mothers house. Just as
I was about to climb the porch steps
/ was seized from behind. Turning,
I saw it was my husband. | was
breathiess after the long run and
could not tell him to leave me as 1
wAsAeA. He said: Don't say any
thirg. l did it in self defense. For
God'o sake don't say anything.
% called him coward and said ne
had murdered Sonny"
she then told of running to her
mothers room and telling her of the
shooting.
my mother" she continued,
rushed down to her husbands room
and awakened him. John Kelley
he's my stepfather-was awakened
and ran to a neighbours house and
called DR. w. A. Junkins. 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 repeating:
Said Twas Self Defense.
AZ did it in self defense When
we reached the house Sonny
was lying in the pantry where he
had fallen, face downward My moth
er tried to turn the body over, cry.
ing and asking Sonny to talk to her,
There was bullet hole just above
the bridge of his nose and another
higher up in the forehead. DR..
Iunkins arrived and pronounced my
brother dead.
For 10 hours we were with the
dead body of my only brother before
the coroner arrived My husbands
very presence gave me horrors.
When the coroner said it was sui
eide I made no objection.
when Mr.. Kelley was taking the
clothes of my dead brother to the
barn, Paul said to him: Jack, be
careful. Don't let anyone see those.
THAT was because there was bull
let hole in the back.
When he would come near me
would cry; Get away from me you
coward, you shot him in the hack
"TIl never Il up until ! drive him
to the electric chair"
Carkins' relatives say he never
carried a. weapon, and pronounce
Roy's story of duel nonsense.
viii Demand Extradition.
Portsmouth. n H. Feb. PA
warrant for the arrest of Paul d.
Roy, on the charge that he murdered
his brother-in-law, George A. Carkins,
at Newingto January Q was sworn
out last night by Sheriff Coils. AL
though Roy is in France and is said
TO be citizen of that country, the
authorities have determined to get
him here for trial if possible. The
warrant charging murder was made
out in triplicate. One copy is to
be kept here and two will be sent
to the state capitol at Concord and
forwarded thence to the department
of justice at Washington, which Is
eXuected to communicate with the
French authorities.