The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-03
TRAGEDY COOLLY PLANNED
HOuiN HiDE WIZ BEFORE 90
NC TO NM DR. STEU arr.
bought rev DIV er when she learned mat
Her Paramour Was About To WARY
Another Maman and To Desert Her
sister Refuses To See tier Body.

pIrTSEUEI Aug Disclosures ~
the l'r stewart Edna Wallace tragedy
came RAPIDLY TODAY II waS brought
ont that tia. Young physician had prom
i$.d tn marry the Wallace woman IA sep
t.mh,.r even though h. was un ia. eve
nf marrying Miss Alice simpson ~ Win
, chester Va al-n that recently AN anony-
nous better written from Winchester.
/ Va 80 Edna Malla,s.. IA. dive ksep-r
told her thai Dr stewart To whom she had
considered herself engaged. ~sr~ 10 marry
Miss simpson pu Angus -
rh"n u wA~ that Miss WALLACE t..s-
phunad her attorney To bay her a rrvol-
Yer. winch h" SAWS he did not d. But
she Gpt one. and with the weapon loaded
and hanging m IL holster strapped around
her leg She at down IN her house NJ shame
and had the attorney write her will
This done. she started out To find DIR
Stnwart
III. police learn thai Edna Wallace
"a, IN one - TN. hest cafes IN PIttsburg
wtrh Dr stewart and partook 81 what
IN. uhvslrian intended should b. his
last dinner with the woman There IL
.vId.nc. thai Miss Wallace intended 10
kill Inn a. thus dinner IS she left the table
and '"laphuned To- her house asking
thai messenger h. sent with small
"a tho cpntaning the revolver which
sh. had lef on her dresser Her friends
however refused TO send the revolver
~ m" close - the dinner Miss Walla O..
ACCUSED pr stewart Of trying to pl ay
her false and warned HIM To h~ careful
Albert ' Oh"r. a member OF one OF the
old riru families of Pittsburg. called az
A.WNN Nt...N
m" body a- that ~ his sister in-law
u. S,Id that her real name was Bertha
\euland With this name in mind many
families IT m. north side recalled the
pretty girl 81 good family who some years
ago dropped out 81 sight Mrs Ober
refuses 10 have the hody OF her dead
sister brought INTO her home or 10 s.,e II
The h0dy was removed to an undertaking
establishment. from which " will he taken
To- a CT"Inatorv tomorrow
-Su".ifv that my body shall he cremated
whom | die. she zaId Ia her attorney
when drawing up her will a few days he
fore the tragedy -Mavbe sonnet hing
will hapTsn that they won't want nv
body IN holy ground bIt they cannot
object - ashes ~ much
In" hodv 81 pr Stewart va shipped
TO day 20 his fathers home IN Virginia
some friends ~ the young phyHirisn 10.
dav sought 10 crsst. the impression that
IN" Wallace woman had got into tn"
Stewart home while DIR stewart was
asl..ap and had killai hun This u no,
borne out by those To whom the woman
talked laEt
She told her attorney. VI Thomp-
sOn TO come 30 the home Of pr Stewart
on SUNDAY night, that she would he there
and tina, there would likely be- something
for HIM IN do IN legal way At that time
Thompson who knsS Of IN. intimacy
hatVs.n Dr stewart and Tn. woman.
went quietly 'O the house. AT the appointed
IIn. hut opuld not get m Ne was an
moved by the how ling 10 the doctors
dog nsid. the house and u later dAwned
"a HIM that I--sihly Their. had been a
tragedy Then he had IN. police break
INTO m" house
Attorney Thompson told the police
TODAY that h. had not bought the revolver
for Miss Malice. that h" had refused
o. dp So and hat cautioned her not 10
hay" ANYTHING lk" that aboIt the house
IN. res Oliver herself ALSO -,abhard
~ which she ,-ould larry the weapon
STIR y'sSi b.uW her kn.. live IN
ion"lr part Ot IN" "ity and have been
ait..nH. -, "ral times | want IN hs
prepared she explained 20 the man
Shr Sold her IN" rev Oliver
From real estate men n wa- learn'si
;u-daS that Miss WallaC" had arranged
- soil all her property IN Pittsh'rg, siN
rl"r'S After pouNsrtIng all into cash
IN" and m" Young physician were TO
marry and gp round the World. according
g n"rnher- ~ IN" WAllac" household
Inmates - h.r house -ay that she lock 81
h..rs"i IN hs- room and tried poison
but topk an nv srdo-.. when she heard that
Dr St"Wart vas tn h" married "a another