The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-13
TELLING IT PIECEM E AL.
,pS BALLID1Y WEAVING SLOWLY
STORY OF THE MURDERS.
ryo Women ana mn Irishman Added to It
RI. Narrative Accompanied ny tavinEr
tI.r Behavior In tho Monticello JAN,

-,,, Women and mn freshman Added to Tt
RI. Narrative Accompanied ny rawlings
Her Behavior In tho Monticello Jnii.
NoxT1cEI1o Sept. 12.-Sane or insane. Liz
,,s halliday the triple murdcress has story
..,oIl which. she evidently believes. will re-
,,.vo her from responsibility for the crimes
.ommittod ins her house She Is telling this
.tory piecemeal. mixing 1t up with real or pre-
,.nded insane rawlings, but mover once forget
ting the text.
Beclnning three days ago with the bare
vords. "Thers were two mon. Nancy. two
mon" she has added daily to the tale. until
now It contains two women as wells an Irish
man who lives in white house with green
minds and an allegation that old Paul Halli-
S,v murdered his half-wittsd son. the youth
rbom she is credited with burning alive. BY
IA. very few friends tho woman has. tho un-
,oll,ns of the story Is being awaited with In
t.rsst second ony to the interest excited by
ths finding OF tho bodies OF Mrs McQuillan
and her daughter and OF old Paul Halliday.
The unrolling OF the story Is being watched.
TN nv the population not counted her friends
INIT with different sort OF interest-a nero
nuriosty to know what kind OF u tale she is
capable OF weaving. and whether 1t will be good
enough to even create doubt that the gem
sral belief in the woman's quilts justihable.
The woman IN MODllceHo jail 40 no uiAelehs
from tho woman who was hold prisoner for
a,e DAYS in Constable SCOTS house in Bur-
iineham as night is from day. There she was
r.ying night and day. No word was got from
hsr that by a stretch OF Imagination could be
construed as intelligent. She kept up an al
most constant struggle with her guards. Here
abe has no guards. She sits alone In little
cell on tho second corridor OF tho Jail. She
raves now only when watched. and then moro
like person whose mind has been wandering
and whose senses are just returning than a
nsrson violently insane She Is consistent in
this. that she always raves when she believes
any one Is near her to hear. while whom she
feels that no one Is about she is as silent rs
mouse.
Her cell opens on the hall OF the house in
which the Jail is situated. Persons have gone
10 this door quietly and listened time and time
again. They have heard nothing until they
placed their hand on the knob. and then the
raying would begin. The woman has defed
every effort made to soc her when she Is quiet
The first thing she did when she was left alone
in her cell was to lift the bed around in such
seen from the door. TO the raht OF the cell.
facing this cot as 1t stands. is grated Win
dow opening on the corridor OF the Jail ,o.
this mite aiter 9o5 by shsri Beecher Early in
ne morning a ladder was placed AGAINST the
after listening at her door for fifteen minutes.
during which not sound was heard. report
s ade4 an pssp eh,oa th S's an
dow. His prorress to the top rung was noise
less. On the top rung he scraped his foot acct:
dontally. Immediately there was the noise OF
the woman ravipg in the cell She was heard
to sit down on the cot, and then she began
Clerk Kinney of the Rockwell House. who
has been. chosen by Mrs. Halliday as the
medium through which to unfold her story.
"a Ava lant inc mi VI n a
she will talk: He paid his fourth visit to her
horters. the Sheriff. and three or four men
Who begged the p privilege i q ioos at the
Heehes and pears. She greeted him with
'Hullo Nancy: I'm. SO glad you have come.
Oh, Nancy must tell your"
Ehs decl ared it was pumpkin. and ate It from
his hand. She called y pear q chipmunk. and
ets that from his hand, and then she began on
she repeated things over and over. She
EEoiaed every direct question: There were
Fought two women there He pulled her out
The Irishman nn pushed her on another bed
She fought him. Then the men fought with
sSo s ovs @ bit her into the the head srt wsn
One Of the men told her she must obey him.
and gave black bag to her, telling her she
some some awful stun. and put him in an awful
would wipe out the whole family. The Irish
man who lived In the white house with green
blinds threw something in her face.
This was her story in brief. She took half an
hour to tell i, and every few seconds, she
Nancy. You can't stop me-, They fought like
raging lions" She was also worried by an
imaginary face in corner Of the cell. It was
left she called be sure and tell this to grand
ma" Kinney will call on her daily until he
has her whole story