The evening world., 1889-04-04
OR LIARS.
That's Just What Two Pretty
Girls of Summit Are.
The Younger Of Them Is Something OF a
Fighter, Too.
A Rather Queer Confession Which May
Not Il, Sustained by Facts.

An EVENING WORLD reporter went TO the little
jail in Elizabeth, n. j., this morning aud visited
Emma T.. and Henrietta L. Day, who are prison.
ers there az frcbugs.
The inhabitants of Summit and Plainfeld and
the adjoining towns have been thrown into a
pitch of excitement over the arrest OF
the girls, who are charged with set
ting fire to the Post-Onice and Ran
dolph blocks in Summit, endangering the
lives Of many families, and the remarkable
confession made by the girls in which they adj
nit the Post Office fires and declare that they
we're guilty Of firing another building last Sum-
mer, for which an innocent man is now In
prison.
About two weeks ago the Post Office block In
summit was discovered to be on fre. By quick
work the fire was put out, and II was then dis.
covered that n quantity of rags and paper had
been soaked in Kerosene and dropped in the
Mrs. Susie Campbell, and then lighted.
This was only a few days aft.r the fire in the
was Thought to be Of incendiary origin, and the
two fires coming no close together naturally set
tho Sn S@ faoTg6y T@l iss alert Kelly, who is also n
Justice, overheard a remark that connected the
Day sisters with the fires, and he mmon
II j. said that by telling them that a confession
would amount to nothing and would not stand
against them he secured. from henrietta, the
younger sister, the following confession:
Ny y name is 4 ,Td rt"-n t5sn &c, M Day; o, am nv sixteen s'.,Sq
s E% 3 d Z N RSy, f9 nd t Syi POST, " 0tSGc Oi ,@i fHE %ion square, 81
s Ts t" d@Sr and a Si fGyn SiI a GSan nRS Of oPS eaFpat rags %s G fSsrsin a
En- Emma %,,I HSSgred and f"r2 fnsfiy oy yscces sas rags iR st st5qSs
s'b!a1%%. We then shut III, closet door, eft the baby n
ffs fy'f %1Eiie fRf in T ;Ss same no I b%il dHn% and E' ~" %ai f's'H' When STSsi
Tor when young William Van Nest is serving a term in
Emma Day also made a confession in which
she says that before going to Mrs. CqmPbells
Henrietta says that she has been implicated in
several other fires in Plainteld, and both girls
seeing the b laze and the excitement. -,
The girls have led rnther q Wild life both in
Plalnticld and Summit, one of them having re-
Gently caused the arrest Of a young man named
Wolf for an alleged assault upon her:
On the Ta 'S from Court t.. to the !. e. JAIL IL H nsRGtgt q
On Tuesday, night they upset, a stove and as
T They We're taken to Elizabeth last night and
were seen by an EVENING World reporter this
morning.
porter sat down in the Warden's Office, and the
prisoners were brought in.
They sat in chairs on the opposite side of the
Emma Day, the eldest. is about nineteen years
old, and was dressed in dark clothing. She has
dark hair, cut short, which hangs down to. the
back of her neck, is rather pale in the face,
which gives her a somewhat fast appearance,
Her sister. Henrietta, is short and plump, has
bright rosy cheeks, brilliant eyes and a wealth
of black hair, which was tied up neatly in a
knot at the back of her head.
'What made you set fire to all these build
ings o. asked the reporter.
~ don't know answered Emma, in a tone
that showed she took the matter AZ n Joke.
"Why did You confess that you were guilty ~
Henrirtta was asked.
"Oh, / don't know, :" said she. Ask me nc
questions and III tell you no lies"
- Have You seen II lAwyer?'
mo, not yet, - said Henrietta; " but there,
now am not going to FAY another word" And
she didn't, Several other questions were put,
but neither of the girls would open hel
"1hcre's no use in asking questions of them,
interpOscd Warden Dudd, who was present.
"Thcy are the shRrpest pair | ever saw
The girls were then led back to their cells.
The Post-Onicc Building, which they admit hav'
ing fired, contains eleven families and many
others.
William ynn Ness, whom the girls say is limo
cent of the crime of setting fire to the Drake
laundry. is confined in the Reform School
whore he was sent last summer.
The girls will remain in the jail until May l,
when they will go before the Grand Jury.
Warden DOdd said that he thought that thu
girls We're not telling the truth about the fires
He didn't believe that they had ANYTHING i
do with the Drake laundry fire. for which youni
Van Ncsr was sent to the rotornatory.
Summit peOplo think the girls are crazy.