The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-01-07

every possible occasion and her talk with
the mayor proved herself, II nothing
worse, at least an inherently bad girl and
that official was obliged to threaten her
with workhouse sentence before she
would consent to behave with even com
mon decency.
IL is the testimony of those who know
William Woodberry that he has always
borne the character of young man of
good morals and principles. His business
affairs are In frst-class shape, and his
present crime is tie only charge against
him. He is about "a years of age and has
many and warm friends in the section
where he lives. His story of the matter is
substantially as follows:
~ have known this girl for about ten
months, and during my entire acquaint-
ance with her she has been constantly
hanging around after me, and could
not get rid Of her. Her attentions were
of such character that my wife be-
came acquainted with them and in order
to ke9p peace in the family / had myself
Transferred TO Brilliant, o., where Ihave
been operator for some time past. But
that did not end matters. Mymother and
MANY of my relatives live at Bolivar, and
| was there a good deal. She then re-
newed her advances, and you can con-
ceive the positionI was placed in. But
nothing came of IL until Monday. spent
Sunday with my sick mother in Bolivar,
when she Florence Kline) boarded the
train, came up to me and said that she
was going with me. my God, girir' said
/ don't you know my wife and child an
are there2' But she said that she did not
care, she was going where | did, no mat
ter where that was. BY that time we had
REACHED Valley Junction, and |, foolishly,
consented to get off and go with her. We
came north to Akron and stopped here. |
felt very badly about the matter, and she
advised me to lay down and go to
sleep. This was on Tuesday morning. |
could not sleep so she sent out and pro.
cured some morphine. She was perfectly
familiar with the drug and had taken il
often for sick headache. / took very
little and lay down on the bed. | knew
nothing till the next morning, when
found now near to deaths door had been.
Am certain l could not have taken any
more of the drug, without help and
equally certain that what did take could
not have affected me the way l was
affected.o
From all existing evidence II appears
that Florence Kline gave Woodberry an
additional dose of morphine sometime
between eight and eleven on Tuesday
evening. By the testimony of the physi-
clan in attendance, the dose taken in the
morning, no matter how large it might
have been, would not have produced the
effect which was produced in the evening.
The natural conclusion is that Florence
Kline, knowing the character of the drug
administered to Woodberry dose suffi-
cient to kill him and then took an over
dose herself and gave the alarm so late
that recovery was all but impossible.
When help arrived, Florence Kline was
crying, but the tears did not come and il
appeared to be a mere pretense. When
told to be quiet, she said that she was
afraid that her husband would die and she
would be accused of his murder. Imme-
diately on the arrival of assistance the
Kline girl seized the pocketbook and pap
ers of Woodberry, put them in her pocket
and attempted to leave the room. She was
prevented from doing so by several trav-
cling statesmen, who had arrived on the
scene. Her actions throughout the whole
transaction indicated that her emotion
was fegned, and she succeeded in con-
vincing the city officials that she is at
least open to grave suspicion.
Woodberry's wife and children are left
in an almost destitute condition, and the
poor wife is almost heart.broken by the
crime of her husband. Florence Kline's
cousin, gentleman named Kline, accom-
panied the constable to the city in search
of the guilty. couple. He speaks of the
girl as being wild and wayward, but never
criminal