Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1898-10-27
Killed herself with Spiders.

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Cora Smith. who was serving life
sentence in Iowa for the murder
of her father. killed herself few
DAYS ago by eating live spiders, She
had been irving for weeks to find way
to take her life, aud seeing one day the
spiders crawling on the walls of the
prison yard it occurred to her that they
would serve
She gathered spiders day by day until
she had large number tied up in
handerkerchief Then she wrote
letter to Attorney-General Remley
begging for clemency for her mother,
Betsy Smith. who was in the same prlS-
on in Anamosa with her serving life
sentence for the same murder On
Sunday night she ate the spiders and
Monday morning was found dead in her
cell. The handkerchief with the re-
naming spiders was found by her side
Her letter to the Attorney-General re
peated her confession, made more than
three years ago that she, and not her
mother. gave her father the poison that
killed him.
Michael Smith, the father, was
prosperous railway engineer. Because
he demonstrated with his wife and
daughter about the life they led they
made several attempts to kill him. His
wife was convicted of his murder and
sent to the nenitentiary for-life-
Shortly afterward the daughter con
fessed that she and not her mother
killed her father, and this sent her to
the penitentiary for life. The mother
obtained IA new trial, and was again
convicted few months ago
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