Morris tribune., 1899-12-16

The wretched woman gasped. "You
were in the next room; did you see2''
| felt sure of my ground so / nodded
eyes"
Il couldn't help it." she murmured:
"Couldn't help it. She was so tiendish
and depended upon her.
Il will tell you the story. Evelyn
was my step-daughter Did you not
know it? Her father married me when
she was a baby and brought her up.
She was always disagreeable child.
but I loved her.
When her father died he left all
his fortune to her as my request. and
was to live with her as long as ]
| lived.
i urged him to make this will sure
that Evelyn would respect his wishes
Yet no sooner was he dead than she
turned uDon me and told me to leave
the house. In vain / pleaded with
her. She was fend. She called me
names and told me that was no bet
ter than a pauper. God knows how
she abused me.
Last summer she was i'll and Of
fered to nurse her. She brought me
Wy AClO viii ucEs dOI uCI LoIuCA
money was left her for her own dts
posal withous clause, and took care
of her while she rode and drove and
got strong.
Last week she was pronounced out
Of the physicians care and next week
we were to have gone home. Or at
least she was to have gone home. but
had no place to go. That day she
had told me that she would have no
more use for me after next week
81 pleaded with her for the money
was as much mine by right as ner's,
but she laughed at me. Her mother
was heartless woman, so her father
once told me, and Evelyn could not
be expected to be any better.
LAST night asked her for money
to travel QUIT to the home of sister
who would care for me. and she re-
fused. She told me that could earn
the money or go without.
"She sat up in bed railing at me
and calling me names. Then she got
out Of bed to get something off the
bureau. l caught hold of her and |
begged her to reconsider. She raised |
her hand to strike me, think. but she
slipped, and fell forward! NJ
dagger was open. It is broken and |
falls open sometimes, and as she fell |
she struck her face against it. She
,ried out with pain: 1T is my eye," she
said; oh Mother calling me by the
lame she uses when she is in trouble
"But I. maddened by the sound
which smote my ear like mockery.
'epulsed her. Then the Devil entered
ny soul With my hand upon her to
,ush her off. I seized her by the hair
Ind held her fast while with the 9TH
n hand I drove the dagger straight
through her eye and into her brain.
''It was all over in a minute. She
ave a cry which smothered with ny
land. Then she Strengthened out con-
1ulsively and 1 held her fast. AS she
yrithed I pushed the needle further
n my frenzy.
with her eyes still staring at me
he stiffened out and after she had
eased to struggle, drew out the dag
er and lifted her on the bed and COW
red her up.
"Then I went to my own room.
'.AIl night I lay awake waiting for
corning
"This morning 1 entered the room.
fled the sheet and made great OUT
ry. The rest you know"
The story of the awful murder OF
EVELYN White is still fresh in the an
ais of certain State. But the par:
played in the matter was kept quiet.
Through my influence the Wretched
,oman was persuaded to confess to
be police and give herself up to JUS
Ice.
In the days awaiting her execution
he had every luxury; for by her nus
and's will all the property was to
ONE to her, on the death Of her step
anghter.