The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-08-04
New York Lawyers Life Saved
by His Fountain Pen
SHOOTING AFFRAY In HOTEL
MRS. MARY CASTLE, AN INsUR-
ANcE AGENT, SHOOTS HER pa
RAMouR IN WALDORF ASTORIA
WHEN HE THROWS H-R OVER"
PLEADS FOR FORGIVENESS.

New York, Aug. 4.-There was a
shooting affair in the WaIdorf-Astoria
yesterday in which a woman and
a man figured. The woman did the
shooting; the mans life was saved by
fountain pen, which DETECTED the
bullet, and after infiIcting slight
flesh wound dropped into his coat
pocket.
The pricipals In the affairs are Mrs.
Mary A. Castle, SO years old and Will
liam ID. Craig, lawyer.
Craig, who is a member Of the Rocky
Mountain club, which has a suite OF
rooms in the hotel. was on his way to I
the club rooms to dress for dinner.
Mrs. Castle, who had been waiting for
him, tried to detain him, but Craig
shook off the woman FnC went TO the
elevator. Mrs. Castle kept pace with
him and as he was about to step into
the elevator, she shot at him when
the muzzle Of the revolver was within
an inch of his coat.
Will Press Charges.
When the detectives arrived. the wo.
man was sitting on a lounge weeping
hysterically. Taken to a police sta
tion she said she was an insurance
agent and had brother, Capt Henry
Scott stationed at Fort organ, near
Mobile, Ala. She pointed to Craig
who was standing nearby and after
pleading for him to forgive her, said:
He is the cause of my trouble. He
has thrown me .er." -
Craig said that he ' vould press tha
charge against the woman.
Mrs. Castle an Actress.
San Francisco, Cal. Aug. 4.-Mra
Neville Castle, VINO shot William ID.
Craig in New York, is the daughter
OF II. II. Scott, prominent merchant
Of this city, and her marriage to Ne
vile Castle in 1897 was a brilliant
society event.
Her brotheE Henry Scott. is the
husand of a daughter of the late
Rear Admiral Sampson.
Mrs. Castle studied for the stage af-
ter her husband, who has practiced
law, went 10 the Alaska gold fields to
retrieve mis- fortune She made her
debut on January Is, 1900. playing
with the Frawley company in The
Princess and the Butterfly, In New
York and later went into vaudeville.
Neville Castle was last heard of in
Nome several years ago.
intended for Herself.
New York, Aug. 4.-Mrs. Nevilla
Castle declared that the bullet which
she fired from her little 2-calibre re-
volver and which slightly injured
William d. Craig last evening in tine
corridor OF the waldorf-Astoria was
intended for herself. Mrs. Castles
statement was made at police head
quarters, where she was taken before
arraignment after a night in the
Tombs prison. Heavily veiIed and ap-
parent laboring under a severe men,
tai strain, Mrs. Castle was taken to
headquarters for usual Inspection in
the detective bureau The indignity of
being photographed and measured was
spared her.
To the officers of che bureau, Mrs.
Castle talked freely about herself and
the train of events which led up to the
sensational climax OF yesterday. She
went over her stage experience. which
she said began in San Francisco where
she appeared in The Girl of the Golden
West
Followed for Months.
Craig. who is lawyer practiclng in
this city, she said she had known since
he was a child. Denying the imputa-
tion that she had forced her atten-
tions on him, she declared that on the
other hand he had been following her
so persistently for the last five months
that she was afraid that he would
compromise her.
Craig, who was early on hand at the
police court, would not say anything
as to Mrs. Castles charge that he had
been annoying her or her statement
that the shooting was accidental.
Mrs. Castles maiden name was Mary
Scott. and she is the daughter of H.
III. Scott. a merchant Of San Francisco.
Her husband. at one time a well known
lawyer in San Francisco, is said 10 be
at present in Alaska. The Castles have
been living apart for some time.