The Washington times., 1922-10-01
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up to q big mattress SO that his
wound would not be Jared.
"Dr. Thurber and the other man
rowed the boat while / sat by my
husband and tried to encourage
him. 1 was nearly crazy myself
by that time. did not help row
the boat as has been reported.
When we reached DR.. Thur.
ber's we got into a car and slowly
made our way to the hospital
here. When we arrived here AL
bert looked as though he were
dead. The hospital physicians op'
Grated Immediately.
"The intestines in the right
side had been perforated, but the
most serious wound was in the
stomach. They cut out the in
fected portions and then closed
the aperture. Then per1tonitis.
and for a long time he was close
to death.
II stayed at his bedside, not
sleeping or eating much. After
all this horrible experience one
can imagine my dismay when 1
learned that certain persons had
been unkind enough to intimate
that Albert might have shot him.
self with suicidal intent or that
some other person might have
done Ii.
Had he wished to end his
own life he would not have shot
himself through the abdomen.
Also there was no other person
in the party who could have want
ed to shoot him.
NO WILD PARTY, SHE SAYS.
"All this talk of a wild party,
that is bosh. 1t was to escape
Just such friends that we came
all the way up to this wilderness.
I hope the newspapers will
print this, my true story of
the affair, so that l won't oe
bothered by endless interrogation
which newspapermen seem bound
to subject me to-"
At that point, as though the
young wife's last word was a cue,
came the strains of a Salvation
Army band outside the hospital
and the air was Sweet Beulah
Land" The mau on the cot near
Peggy turned and said:
Honey. you tell the man thet
I was about as close to the gates
Of Sweet Beulah Land as any
one ever got without going
through"
Peggy March smiled and
squeezed his hand. She was clad
in sport silks and diamonds
sparkled on her fingers. To her
the affair, which had loomed like
q tragedy a few hours before, was
turning toward a happy ending
then!
STILL UNEXPLAINED.
But like many another mystery
drama, there were loose ends ID
be Strengthened out. Peggy. hav-
ing spoken, withdrew from the
center Of the stage and would not
again put herself in a position to
be questioned publicly. Indeed,
the young dancer did not permit
cross.examination at all, but
talked straight> through and let
her story go as it lay.
Jack Clifford did not see the
shooting, she had said, very plain
ly. But Sergeant Boyce learned
that Clifford was at the camp.
The unidentified attache OF the
camp, who had seen the shooting.
had gone for aid and returned
with the doctor, Peggy had as.
serted, and she should know.
But the unronantic sergeant
found out that Clifford had gone
in the boat, and it did seem more
likely that he had, since the boat
had lost its way on the small
lake. A camp attache could
scarcely have become lost in such
circumstances, but Broadway
habitue might easily have done 30.
Why then had Peggy been so
insistent that Jack Clifford was
not there? Could she possibly
have mistaken Clifford, whom
she knew 80 well, for the camp
attache whom she did not know
at all? II so, could she have
mistaken Clifford for the attache
when they entered the room Of
her husband together just as the
shot was fired7
WHO WERE THERE!
Nobody else had been at the
lodge at the time, except serv-
ants, Peggy said, and she should
know. Her memory was clear
to the last detail regarding the
turning Of the revolver cylinders
in opposite directions-but John
son Is a service man and fire
arms have long been familiar to