The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-19
$4,000 LEGACY
BELIEVED To
BE FAKE
check-up Is Being Made Of
Mrs. Plugs Story She
Inherited Sum.


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She became unconscious after swal.
lowing Veronal tablets about q half
hour after she shot and killed her
husband.
POllcewomen On Guard.
Policewomen continue to keep
close guard at her bedside day and
night. The woman's condition Il 30
serious that near relatives have
BEEN refused permission to see her.
William e. Leahy, prominent at
torney here. has been retained to
defend Mrs. Plug.
Il am making no move until Mrs.
Plug RECEIVERS sufficiently to talk
to her." he said. Physicians at
the hospital give no encouragement
and for this reason / am waiting
for something definite about the
possibility of her recovery"
In the meantime, relatives Of Mrs.
Plug are gathering in family con,
ference here to plan q course 0t
action. II the woman RECEIVERS, q
defense Of either insanity or self.
defense win be laid out, probably
Sn0 FORMER.
Mother Il Here.
Mrs. Carrie p. Bailey, mother OF
Mrs. Plug, reached WASHINGTON
last night from Oxford. s. c. She
went Immediately to her daughters
apartment In the Northumberland
Mrs. Bailey, seventy years old, col
lapsed when told her daughters
act.
pected In Washington Monday to
take charge OF the body, which has
peen removed to q local undertaking
institution.
Police continue their investiga.
t1on, but they are handicapped
through inability to interview Mrs.
Pdug. DR.. ]. Ramsay hewitt, Dis.
trict coroner, is holding up the In
quest over DR.. Plugs body. pend.
ing the outcome Of Mrs. Plugs III.
ness.
Three Wounds Found.
A jury will be- sworn over the
body today In order to permit relA.
yves to bury DR.. Plug. An au.
topsy was performed yesterday and
revealed. It is said, three pistol
shot wounds.
The incoherent story Of the shoot.
ing as told by Mrs. Plug IL contra.
olcted by several persons who
talked with DR.. Plug just before
ne died. Mrs. Plugs story was
incomplete. She did say, however.
tnat DR.. Plug beat her and that
she bought a revolver intending to
shoot him IL he struck her again.
Persons who talked with DR..
Plug said the dentist declared iuet
before he died that his wife. de.
iberately shot him.
There seems to be some doubt AZ
to the events immediately proceed
ing the shooting. One story has
1t that Mrs. Plug came into the
apartment about 61E o'clock and
Immediately fired at DR.. Plug, the
bullet penetrating his back.
Another story has Il that Mrs.
Plug came to her husbands office
early in the afternoon and finding
him out waited for several hours
for him. She is reported to have
answered a number of telephone
calls, saying that her husband was Ill.
May Have Been Prisoner.
There was an intimation today
that Mrs. Plug may have kept her
husband q prisoner 1t the point OF
a revolver for several hours before
shooting him.
Reports that Mrs. Plug was at
one time confined to u sanitarium
in Richmond, Va. were emphatical.
ly denied today by the Weatbreak
Sanitarium, the institution she was
said to have been confined in. All
other Richmond hospitals declare
they never had Mrs. Plug as
patient.
DR.. e. L. Mason, who attended
DR.. Plug a few minutes after he
was shot, denied today that he
ever made the statement that Mrs.
Plug was constant drinker.
II haven't seen the woman for
two years and know nothing about
her." he said.
DR.. Mason further denied that
he scored" Capt. Robert Il. Doyle,
of the Erhth police urecinct. for
a statement the latter made TO tho
effect that Mrs. Plug reported to
him that her husband httaf har