Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1928 — Page 8

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FAMED WOMAN HUNTER SHOOTS HUSEANDTWICE Prisoner Says Accusation of Misconduct Caused Her to Fire. i\7 United Press NEW YORK, March 30.—A modern Diana, many years of whose life have been spent tracking wild animals in the darkest of African jungles, today paced a cell, trapped, because she had shot her estranged husband twice. “Why—why?” was Mrs. Esther Wilson’s one question in attempting to reconstruct the mad half hour in the office of her husband, Dallet H. Wilson, when she argued for either reconciliation or divorce. Wilson, an intimate of President Coolidge and Charles M. Schwab, will recover. Mrs. Wilson's home is at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington. She blames the shooting on a scandal letter. Someone. she told Deputy District Attorney Joseph Pascocello, wrote her husband, accused her of misconduct. She came to New York and went to Wilson’s office. “He just waved that letter before mv eyes and I saw' red,” she said. She praised her husband and then berated him. "He sent me away to hunt lions in Africa so he could hunt women,” she said, and then added. “Oh, he was good to me and gave me plenty of money.” Accustomed to withstanding the rigors of tropical heat, for she penetrated farther into Nyassaland in 1925 than any other woman had been, and to the cold of the Arctic —because she has been within 10 degrees of the pole—Mrs. Wilson had difficulty in standing the strain this shooting brought on. She smoked countless cigarets. She was nervous and paced with a long stride about her cell. She asked to see her husband and will be taken to him today. Miss Goldie Hoenig, Wilson's secretary, was in the office when the shooting took place. She told police she heard the huntress ask for a divorce. This was refused. Then she said she heard Mrs. Wilson ask that her alimony be increased fi'om $450 a month to SI,OOO. There w r as considerable argument and then Miss Hoenig said she heard the shots and called police. When an officer arrived, Wilson said his wife ha<J shot him in the chest and In the back.

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Mrs. Gardner Candidate for Renomination by G. 0. P. Mrs. Ella Van Sickle Gardner, Indianapolis, one of the two women members of the Indiana House of Representatives in the 1927 session, today filed for Republican nomination. By her refusal to be what her many women supporters termed a “rubber stamp,” Mrs. Gardner was read from the Marion County delegation upon motion of Representative H. Walker De Haven. She supported Harry Leslie for speaker, while the other delegates backed Lemuel A. Pittinger, Muncie. She gained fame by sponsorship of the “fifty-fifty” bill, which would provide for election of all party organization officials, with equal representation divided between the sexes. The bill passed the House, but failed to get out of committee in the Senate. The only other woman House member was Mrs. Clara Mason of Terre Haute. There were no women in the Senate. Mrs. Gardner lives at 814 E. Twenty-Third St. Her husband is Thomas M. Gardner, consulting en-

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