The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-11-13
TRIED TO KILL HIM
A Wife Who Wanted to be Rid
Of Her Husband.
POISONED HIM BY DEGREES
She Had His Life Insured and Wanted
to Marry Again. -

The Drugs Obtained from Woman in
Now York, who Also Appears to bo ir
the Plot-she Confessed to the Crime
when She Thought She Was DyIng-A
Farmer Implicated.
Troy, N. Y, Nov. 13.-The police
here have just begun an inve stigatiou
Of remarkable case. In 1885 Charles
Fietz, an employe in Gurley's Mathe-
matical Instrument Works, married
Christina jameson, Dane, who was en-
ployed as a domestic at Sinsheimer &
Clocks Hotel Decho. Her reputa tion
was not of the best, and it did not i'm
prove materially after her marriage.
Fietz and his wife resided at 2O9 Con-
gress street, and for a long time the
neighborhood has gossiped about them,
and some went 50 far as to warn Fietz to
keep close watch on his wife. About
year ago Fietz and the woman quar-
relied, and it is said that she then
threatened to "have him under the
ground before the snow fell"
About three months ago Fietz took
ILL His health, always before Of the
best, began to fail him, and in less than
month he lost twenty pounds in
weight. His heart and kidneys troubled
him, and his system seemed to be broken
up. lie was weak, and eXertion tired
him exceedingly. No suspicion of the
real nature of his ailment dawned upon
him.
About month ago Mrs. Fietz was at
tackled with typhoid fever and was re
moved to the hospital While his wife
continued ill Fietz began 10 improve
and was regaining his health. He Wis
tied Mrs. Fietz daily She gradually
grew worse and the doctors told her that
her case was hopeless Then she calle ed
her husband to her aud made an aston
ishing confession.
She said that she had caused his life
to be insured for 81, 900, and proposed
when he died to get this money and
marry George Hidley, a farmer living
near Wynantskill, from whom she had
taken milk and farm products. Hidley
is a widower. The woman he married
about a year ago died recently
Investigation disclosed the fact that
Mrs. Fietz was in correspondence with
woman in New York city, from whom it
/ is supposed she obtained the poison tina t
she administered to her husband.
Letters that passed between Mrs.
| Fietz and that woman, who signs her
self Hennetta Monkeith, are in the pos
session of the auth critics, having been
found in hand bag belonging to Mrs.
| Fietz. The folio wing is verbatim
copy of letter written by Mrs. Fietz
and addressed to "Hennetta Monkeith,
p. o. New York city :"
TROY, N. Y, Sept s, 1891.
DEAR Mrs MoNKEITH; l am very dis
appointed not to hear from you this
morning, and l suppose you are very
busy. l hope you got my letter that /
wrote you last week. l hope you will
come TO Troy by next Sunday and will
pay your fare. Ifyou only would come.
have got lots of things to tell you.
want you to come as soon as possible to
finish up the things-you know-with
him.
His dangerous day is Monday and
Thursday. This is the day he is around
the machines. George, he wants to &C
away. He wants to go with him, and
of course, if he goes, am afraid l will
lose money, and of course, you know your
self l can't go or do anything of the
kind until the other thing ia over will
him. OF course, l don't blame him
bit that he doesn't want to stay home
any longer OF course l see very wei
what his people are looking for
!
thing TO him about it, and l want you
to fix him what you told me, so as he
cannot help himself. If l was only sin
gle tomorrow everything would be al
right, and l hope you will tend to it.
hope you will come here and finish it
So quick as finished l will pay you wha
l told you.
Now, will you please answer me tn
= same day you get my letter? l am yer
D anxious to hear from you. When vii
you be here, and when can expect any
n thing going on? l wish they were al
over. Yours respectfully,
MRS. FIETz.
= Hidley admits that he was on friendl
terms with Mrs. Fetz; that it was hi
custom to take breakfast at her house
and that he owes her a little money
but he indignantly denies that he ha
any knowledge of a onspiracy TO Xxi
Fietz or that he knew that his life wa
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