Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-04
A Globe Reporter Interviews the
Murderess OF Charley STILES in
the Chicago Jail.
PLANS OF HANDSOME CULPRIT.
She Expects to be Acquitted ana Go to
Europe for Her Health.
GLEANINGs OF THE COUNTRY.
a Divorced Husband Kills His Babes.
A Kerosene Murder and High
way Robbery.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. ]

OdAOAGO, Oept. Oil the caieuudr IOf
the criminal court, the September term of
which opens tomorrow, the case of Teresa
Sturla, alias Madeline Stiles, indicted for
the murder of Chas. Stiles, is set for Sep
TENDER II, before Judge Moran.
The case is one in which the public will
take great interest, although it would be
difficult to give an adequate and satisfac-
tory reason why it should be so.
The county jail has had no inmate for
years over whom so much curiosity was
manifested as over Teresa Sturla. At the
time of the shooting, and shortly after, a
great deal was published regarding her,
but recently but little has been said. Now
that the trial is so near, the interest in all
that concerns her seems to be reviving.
The GLOBE correspondent saw her
to-day at the jail She has
changed considerable since her
imprisonment. She is thinner, and evil
IDENTIFY the life of Gagged bird does not
agree with her. Naturally, she is more
composed than during the few days after
her imprisonment, the time at which the
interviews that have been published were
had. She appears quite cheerful and yet
does not act III a way which could possibly
be regarded as frivolous. She was dressed
plainly in black. Her hair, which was IN
der strong light, is a dark, rich. glossy
brown, was coiled loose ou the back of her
head. On her forehead the bangs came to
her eyebrows,
Il suppose when you get out you will
not be in hurry to take up with another
MANI" the reporter said.
Il should like to see the man that I
would ever trust again. l should like
to see the color Of his hair
she answered determinedly and she en-
phasized the remark by stamping her slip
pered foot, exhibiting, as she did SO,
finely arched instep.
When asked to say what it was that
caused her to be so infatuated with Stiles
that she would endure such harsh, brutal
treatment from him, she said that she
could not say what it was. but that it must
have been false.
When asked how she expected to pay ner
expenses when she should go to Europe for
several years study, she replied that she
had two or three friends, particularly
lady friend, "a nice. respectable lady, too"
who had offered her the necessary money.
She said, in answer to inquiry,
that although she did not have
as many visitors as when
she first entered the Jail still good many
came to see her. She did not have any
conversation with most of them, but sim
ply said to them: How do you do?.'
Those who came to see her were of all
classes, many of them were respectable
people who came out of curiosity, some
were her own countrymen whom she had
known in the East. She said he brother in
Philadelphia wanted to come and visit her,
but she wrote to him not to do so, promis-
ing to send for him if she needed him.
She correspondent with him regularly and
he felt terribly about the trouble she had.
Her mother knew nothing about it yet,
and she said she would not like to have
kill her. She could not read English and
so was not likely to hear of it unless some
one told her. Her friends did not
know about it, ''for the name you know is
different" she said.
But many people have believed that
Sturla is your real name," the reporter
said.
But it isn't" she answered. my name.
if it were spelled, would be that long," and
she held her hands nearly three inches
apart, smiling knowingly as she
did so. During the conversation
she asked if anything more had been heard
of Mr.. Hessing's fate, and showed by other
remarks that she kept pretty we'll posted
as to what was transporting in the world
outside.
Concerning the shooting, and all that
bore a close relation to the act she refused
to speak, saying that such action was by
direction of her counsel. Any one who
should see this girl of twenty two,
who is awaiting trial for committing muir
der, and should talk with her. could not
but be impressed with the fact that she at
least knew how to act the lady, and he
would think it next to impossible that such
person could commit the act that she did.
She however is a true Italian and her eyes
suggest the hidden fire that is known to
characterize the nationality. In her love
one could easily believe that nothing but
a great injury would arouse it to deed of
blood.