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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
12
Miss Calla tells Portsmouth Post how her husband, Paul, shot her brother Sonny during a dispute at home. She describes his dual nature, loud threats, and fear of further violence, and says she loves him yet fears him as authorities investigate the case.
Paul L. Roy, in Neuilly, asserts his brother-in-law George A. Carkins fired first on January 2 in Newington, New Hampshire, prompting Roy to shoot in self defense and both men to exchange shots. He describes wounds, flight to New York, and later Lusitania plans, with wife as key figure in the dispute.
A chronology tracing Gracia Calla Ray from 1872 birth in Newington New Hampshire through stage training in New York 1889 1892 work with Loie Fuller and a marriage to William Southern aka W C Murray in 1893 to 1895 including a divorce and legal actions of alienation of affections blackmail and larceny cases and a 1908 incident of a brother's killing alleged by her husband with subsequent travels to Paris Boston Portsmouth and New York.
A lengthy profile tracks Gladys Hodgdon and Lillian Carkins through a life of aliases and scandal. It recounts arrests for blackmail, multiple claimed marriages, stage fame with Loie Fuller, and a late murder tale tied to Mrs. Paul L. Roy before she faded from Portsmouth society.
Washington observers recall the Baroness von Orendorf and Gracia Calla amid distant rumors of social intrigues. The pair once hosted receptions with government clerks in attendance and even drew Pinkerton espionage attention while living at 2000 S Street, Washington.
City Hall and Registry of Marriages could not find any record of Paul L. Roy and Lillian Carkins wed on October 7 last year. Officials and staff checked 1903 through 1907 lists and Sulloway’s marriage log, but found no matching entry. Law requires official reporting of all marriages to the registry.
Gracia Calla known as Mrs. Paul E Roy returns to Portsmouth at her attorney Col John H Bartlett request. She plans to affidavits for an extradition warrant against Roy in Paris. Attorney General Eastman and County Solicitor Batchelder see aims to move Roy to Exeter for trial amid claims of self defense and possible marriage mysteries surrounding Gracia Calla.
Paul L. Roy, at his father’s Neuilly home, says Carkins fired first and was killed in self defense. U.S. extradition not permitted. Roy to be tried in France. No record of Roy Carkins marriage in Boston. Mrs. Roy collapses in New York. Baroness von Orendorff, once Gracia Calla’s chaperone, may be sister or aunt Anna Hodgdon. Roy brothers claim marriage invalid and plan divorce.
In a White House address to the National Education Society delegates, President Roosevelt pledges no let up in his policy against evildoers. He urges a values readjustment and says the mission is to teach youth to earn their own livelihood.
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