Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-09-05
JOHNSON SHOOTING
CALLED An ACCIDENT
Names Of Guests However WITH
held at Instance It Is Said
of Peggy Marsh.

P1attsburg, N. Y, Sept. 6--Hsrold
A. Jerry, District Attorney of Clifton
county. began yesterday an invcst1ga-
ton into tho shooting OF Albert l..
johnson, husband OF Peggy Marsh,
dancer. in an Adirondack camp on
last Thursday. Though he announced
last night that ne was satinfIed that
Johnson's wound was both sslf-infliot-
I'd and seddsntAl-An opinion In which
tho State poi3os eon0aiS After thar
Own examination into xha ctrcum-
stanoss-Afr. JGxy sad that he would
Journey forty miles TO the ChGteaugay
inquiry.
At least ono interesting bit OF IN
formation may DO expected from the
prosecutors trip-the names Of those
who were at tho camp when Johnson.
in the act Of replacing q pistol in It's
case after having cleaned il, shot him
self just as HIS wife and another
reached his door. Mr.. Jerry said last
night that these names-thus far
sedulously kept from the public
would be announced as soon as he had
personally satisfied himself, as to the
identifies OF those in the camp. There
| WAS no real reason for keeping them
secret, he said, though ne refused to
tell them tonight. Peggy Marsh per-
sists in her refusal to disclose them
grounding her reticence on a belief
that Johnson, who ia in the Champlain
Valley Hospital here. would not want
them made known.
Inquiry OF the State police at Malone
met with tho declaration that though
that organization had made it's OWL
investigation and had sent trooper
to Camp jack, where the shooting
happened, It had no record of who was
there. Lieut.. Helm, who was in
charge Of tho post tonight in the
absence Of Captain Broadfeld, sai6
that Sergeant A. Il. Boyce, who was
sent to the camp as soon as news OF
the affair waS received, did not in.
corporate in his report the names Of
those who We're present. Lieutenant
Helm said that Sergeant Boyce NIGH
be anywhere in Clinton or Franklin
counties today and that he could mo-
be located SO that he might supply the
omission in his report. 1t did develoy
today. however, that Jack Clifford
former dancing partner Of Evelyr
Nesbit, and still her husband despit,
long-drawn divorce proceedings, wa
there. Clifford is the owner Of tn
camp.
In the course Of his inquiry yester
day. Mr.. Jerry considered the finding
Of Sergeant Boyce which were com
municated to him. He ALSO visited IN
hospital and talked with Johnson. TIL
wounded man, son of the late Alber
l.. Johnson, once President of tn
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, an
nephew of the late Tom l.. johnson
Cleye1and's famous traction reforr
Mayor. is a little more than holdin
his own now, although he was she
through the intestines. The Distris
Attorney said that Johnson assure
him he had shot himself by acciden
Peggy Marsh. best known because {
her litigation with the Field estate &c
the support Of her son, Henry Anthem
Field. whose father, she says. was tn
late Henry Field I'd, also talked wit
; Mr.. Jerry. She told him, said the prose
cutor, the same version of the ace
dent that she had told previousl,
Tom l.. Johnson. the injured man
brother, represented the family in tall
) ing with the District Attorney I
: obyiate the necessity of an inteCvie
: with his mother. Mrs. G. f. Bayne, WI
q is at her wounded sons bedside. TT
brother told Mr.. Jerry that the famil
b was satisfied that the young man Ia
:, shot himself accidentally.
II learned of no possible motive f
!, an attempt at murder" Mr.. Jerry sa
n in summing up his findings. Nor d
j get so much as a hint OF any RET
son for an attempt at suicide. Jud,
ing from Johnson's condition whe
: medical aid reached him from IL
4 mainland, he had not been drinlxin
3 and there has been no evidence tn;
others in the party had"