Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-29
H. MASON CLAPP HELD
ON HIS W|FE'S CHARGES
Latter Tells Her Version of the
Shooting of Her Husband
Night of December 3.

PHILADELPHIA. December 29-Bu,
Tor misunderstanding as to who caused
the arrest of Mrs. Herbert Mason Clapp
after the shooting of her husband Deem
Der 3. the white dove of peace would
now be fiuttering over the Clapp domicile
As it is, the misunderstanding is said to
have SO widened the breach between the
heir to the fortune of Mason, the backing
king, and his wife that a reconciliation
is now despaired Of
After Clapp had been arraigned before
Magistrate Harris. at 1925 Market street,
yesterday afternoon, on four charges
made by his wife, as the result of the
holding of the woman under 500 bail
by Magistrate Morris December %, on
the charge of attempting to kill her hus-
band, Cldpp declared that he was not
back of the case being pressed against
his wife. He insisted that he had no
charge To make against the woman.
Had Mrs Clapp known of her husband s
unwillhsness 10 prosecute her, it was
said yesterday, she would not have has
tened TO Magistrate Harris and obtained
the four warrants.
In giving list of her grievances, Mrs.
Clapp charged her husband with:
Pulling her hair. Shaping her, b.acken-
ing her eye, calling her offensive names,
p4nching her and threatening to kill her.
Story of the Shooting.
Relating the incidents of the night on
which Clapp was shot, she said that her
husband Tell asleep about D O'Clock and
that she went out, entering ClappS au-
tomobile at the garage and going to visit
the chauffeurS mother at liz SAMSON
street The chauffeur, she said, was after
ward discharged. She returned about IL
O'Clock al night and left, the automobile
at the corner OF 18th street and Girard
avenue.
Clapp, she said. was at the window
Wheh sne approached the house and was
waving ms hands in an excited manner
There was a quarrel when she got in
side, she d, and Clapp attempted to cut
on her hair Then he seized a revolver
hanging from the bed post and threat
ehed to XIII her She SAID she seized the
weapon just as he was about to nre il
and forced his hand upward. The bullet
entered the ceiling. After that she said
she got possession of the revolver and
hred at Clapp, wounding him in the
neck
Speaking of the leopard skin coat
which won her the name of the tiger
lady, she said that for long time she
hau lived in the garment. wearing it
upon almost all occasions, because she
had nothing else to put on. She said
that II attracted attention, and her I'M
Willingness to wear it the Sunday be-
fore the shooting was the cause OF a
quarrel
Mrs. Clapp denied that she was in the
habit of calling her husband vile names
But whenever he called me a bad
name. she said, Il always answered:
so are you"
Husband Held Under Bonds.
+. ]. Funk. court stenographer, testi-
fed that he had taken shorthand notes
Of the testimony given by Clapp at the
hearing of the case against Mrs. Clapp
before Magistrate Morris. December -.
which resulted in the holding of the
woman under $500 bail for trial on a
charge of assault with intent to kill
Lawyer Meagher then read Clapp's tes-
umOny, in which tine husband stated that
as he was leaving the bathroom at the
Girard avenue apartment, after a quarrel
with h s wife. the woman pointed the re-
voiver at him and fired, saying that she
was going 10 kill him, and that after he
fell 10 the moor Mrs. Clapp pointed the re-
volver to the ceiling and fired the second
shot
would hold Clapp under $1,000 bail on the
charges of assault and battery, aggrayat-
ed assault and battery and assault and
battery with intent 10 kill and $50 bail
on the charge of desertion and non-sup-
port. Bail was furnished by j. G. Don
Oghue-