New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-20
RICHMOND PROSECUTOR
SHOT DOWN BY WOMAN
Albert c. Each Had Refused to
Push Further Suits Against
AsSaiIant'S Husband.
VICTIM MAY YET RECOVER
Dentists Wife Lodged in Jail
The District Attorney Fired
On as He Sits in
Office.

Office.
Brooding over the failure TO get Legal
separation from her husband until her
d,sannointment took the form Of a
hatred of Judges and lawyers in gem
eral Mrs. Elizabeth Edmunds yester-
dev walked into the office of Albert
c. Each, District ATTORNEY of Rich-
mond. and shot him twice because he
refused her renewed demands that he
take up her fancied wrongs. Mr. Each
was taken to a hospital in so serious a
condition that at first il was thought
hs could not recover. but he later raj
lied. and his chances for getting wen
seemed good last night. Mrs Ed
munds made no effort TO escape ana
was locked up in the county jail on
Staten Island on a charge OF felonlous
a assault pending changes in Mr.. Fach
condition.
The woman. who was at one time IN
circus doing an act consisting OF
riding around on galloping horse aho
shooting glass balls with rifle as
they were thrown into the air, was
married in 1897, in Reno, to Or. John
Marion Edmunds. a dentist. FROM
this remote event grew the shooting OF
Yesterday. for II was not long before
the couple separated. and Mrs. Ed
munds began long and unsuccessful
f1ght TO obtain legal freedom from her
husband.
They came TO New York few years
after their marriage. and shortly after
this began TO live apart. In 1910 Mrs.
Edmunds sued her husband for d.
vorce before Justice Maddox. IN
Stapleton. but the suit was dismissed
by the court on the ground that the
evidence was insufficient Then began
a series of arrests for the husband
brought about by the woman in her
effort to get legal redress of some sort.
When DR.. Edmunds was seen yester-
day at his offices at No. Go Sixth ave-
nue.. he told of this part % his troubles
with his wife.
In 1909" he said, "the first trouble
between us started. | had given her a
saddle horse. and soon learned that
while riding in the park she had firted
with a Noah Palmer a wealthy manu-
facturer. now dead. and was going out
with him. l found them one night to-
gether in a Chinatown restaurant In
a stormy scene she said she was going
10 leave and go Is Europe with Palmer,
but he failed to meet her on sailing
day.
Broke Cane Over Escorts Head.
She left my house, however. and l
soon learned she was going around
with a man named Thiery. l met them
on Broadway one night and broke 4
cane over his head. / was arrested on
my wlfe's complaint for assault upon
her, but was discharged by Magistrate
Cornell. After she lost her first suit
] was arrested at her instigation on a
charge of abandonment, but was al
once discharged by Magistrate Marsh
at Stapleton, and twice more she had
me arrested on the same charge, but
each time l was dismissed
In January Of this year she again
sought court assistance, and brought
action before Justice Kelly, in Brook
Ign, for separation. A motion for coun-
sci fee and alimony was denied by the
judge. and the suit was dropped.
II was after this last failure TO get
help from the courts that the woman s
hatred of them became so thoroughly
aroused that she wrote a threatening
letter 10 Justice Kelly, declaring that
the courts were used as a means of OPP
preston TO the weak instead Of pro-
lection. This letter was sent by the
justice 10 the woman's counsel, George
T. Parsons with memorandum on il
that if his client was going to write
such missives her mental coundition
should be investigated, and if the facts
warranted she should be sent 10 an
asylum for the insane
Finding herself still foiled in her eff
fort 10 obtain release or support from
her husband whom she had abandoned,
Mrs. Edmunds at last turned to Mr..
Each. She has been living in Staple
ton for about a year, being much of
the time hard put for the necessaries
Of life, a circumstance which seems to
have added to her desperation. At in
tervals during the last few weeks she
made repeated visits TO Mr. Each and
begged him. as District Attorney, to
take up her case. and gain for her the
justice that she fancied the courts, in
conspiracy with the lawyers, had de-
MED her. Mr.. Each, however, told her
each time she came to him that there
was nothing he could do for her. Her
words and manner became so threaten
ing at times that ne told friends he was
beginning TO be AFRAID of her.
Wrote Erratic Letters to Each.
Then she began q write erratic letters
10 him, one of which he received last
Tuesday. II read as follows, scrubbed
in lead pencil:
There is no use arguing one way or
another; something has got 10 lie done 10
relieve the condition brought upon me.
Having repeatedly written Mr. Bernhard
of nv distress and that nv Situation 10