Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-06

OF the M. N. church, visited Mrs.
Stillwell On Tuesday and spent the
entire day rendering professional
assistance and administering to the
spiritual condition OF the dying woman.
Giving her confidence by his words Of
consolation, aud holding out to her the
blessed promise of forgiveness to all
who are truly penitent, he urged her
to unburden her mind freely to him
Of her
PAST EVIL DEEDS.
The woman retold the story with all
its horror, or originally published ia
the Courier journal; but added that
Iithere we're other black crimes bhe
would never tell. The minister urged
her, as she hoped for forgiveness, to
make a tull confession, when she at
last yielded and by his advice, confess
ed that sha had also murdered her
mother at the time she was lying at
Ottumwa, helpless from the effects OF
her injuries in the railroad accident
described 10 her first confession. She
said she nursed her mother until tired
of it, and being fearful that she would
make some confession that would i'm
plicate her, she strangled her in the
absence of her husband She posi-
lively refused to divulge the other
dark crime limited at, but when asked
o fwhat disease her father died she hid
her face in her hands aud finally
sOBBsD OUT "A CUT THROAT"
There can be no doubt that the
other crime was the murder Of her
Father, as he mysteriously disappeared
while living at Maryville, aud was
reported to have gone to California.
DIR. Edwards, who ranks high as a
physician, examined the woman care.
fully as to her mental condition, and
gives it as his professional opinion
that she is of sound mind, and that
her story is the. dying confession of a
guilty woman. A private dispatch
was received by your correspondent
to day from the Prosecuting Attorney
Of Nodaway county, Mo, asking for
additional particulars, in which he
says Swigert was found dead under
suspicious circumstances, the parties
named in the confession being sus-
pected at the time, but not arrested.
MRS. sTILLwELL's HISTORY.
Maryyille MOI Special to ST. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Mrs. Stillwell's history, as far as
traced by your reporter, seems to BE-
about as follows: Her maiden name
was Emma Hoard, or Mary Emma
Hoard. Her mother was a woman
notorious in the cummunity under the
name Of Mrs. Hoard, or Mrs. Snyder
She will be spoken Of by the lattel
name in this report Mrs. Snyder,
maiden name was Martin. She cam,
from either St. 10 or Elkhar
county, Indiana, where she passed heI
girlhood. A brother Of hers nov
lives at B ngo, Elkhart county. A.
nearly as can be learned, she mar riet
Chester Hoard, ST., in either st. j,
or Elkhart county, somewhere in tn
forties OF this marriage there wen
two children Emma Hoard. nov
Mrs. Stillwell. and Chester Hoard
? jr., now living in Maryville, Nc
Hoard, ST., went to California il
1852, and, according to hi
. sons statement, was killed in
| dispute over some old gold mine claim
AT all events he never turned u
, again in Missouri, aud Mrs. Hoard
The widow, married a man name,
Snyder, and, after a brief residence il
Niles, Mich, this pair came to Mary
? vile in 1869 or 1870, where she kent
: clearinghouse on north side Of Thir
street, not far from the Kansas OFT
and St, 10 railroad depot. She al,
did a little doctoring, told fortune
T compounded women's nostrums an
@ was a midwife, whose services seem
. have been much sought after iu unus,
Z ally delicate cases. Her husband, NJ
Snyder, died ia Maryvillo ia 1878
The daughter, Emma seems to ha,
been an ordinary sort oil girl, and
her youth certainly displayed nothi,
Of the ~depravity indicated In her Co
: f%ession. She was born at Niles, Micl
10 1852, aud the books kept in the q