Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-15
10 FREE DEDLAH FAILS
Father Of the Murderess will Pc.
tition Governor Shawl for
Her Release.
Over 600 Signatures to the Pc.
tition Already Secured
--Her Crime.
Was One Of the Sensations OF
Northeast Iowa-.Exem.
plary Prisoner.
pecial to Times Republican.

/ Special to Times Republican.
Waterloo. April 15.-John Fails, the
father of Delilah Fails, who killed Jer-
ONE Kern in the big woods near Wa
verify three years ago, is making an eff
fort to have his daughter pardoned
4 The crime for which Miss Fails was
i convicted was one of the most sersa
i tiona that ever occurred in this part
of the state. She lured Jerome Kern tol
a lone spot on the farm near his home
and shot him. There was shroud of
mystery around the crime until some
4 weeks afterward confession was ex-
ltracted from a young son of Kern. Il
4 transpired afterwards that the son was
4 in collusion with the girl in the killing
of his father and he was sentenced to.
1.-the penitentiary at the same time she
was sent up. Her cause for the commits
sion of the: crime told in a full confess
q sion to Sheriff Parrottsof Bremen coun-
4 ty, was that Kern had years before
ruined her and that he persisted in his
sIattentions to her till she became frantic
set pei
II cutions except by his DEATH
The case was one of the most gsensa-
tional recorded in this part of the state
for years.
Saturday Fails was in Waterloo with
Ihis petition The petition will be taken
). to Des Moines next Tuesday and pre-
scented 70 Governor Shaw by Col. w. H.
Mcclure Of Cedar Falls. The paper is
addressed 4 o Governor Shaw and recites
a the facts OF arrest and conviction Of
: Delilah Fails ard her sentence on Dec
Ill. 1897, to a term of twenty years in.
the penitentary on the charge of rnuf-
q der in the second degree. Ii states tina 1
v she pleaded guiltvto the Indictment re-
! Itruned against her in the Bremen coun-
ty court on Dec. ., 1897, and that the
sentence followed two DAYS later Fur
:. ther the paper says that at grile lime of
: 1.-the commission oil the crime the girl
was the victim of the man she Killed
land that he had fol. years kept her in
|sutter subjection 10 his will in the most
u degrading manner destroying both soul
!, land body for the gratifying of his foul
Il passion.
Further the paper states: 1--WE learn
: Ittat her conduct White in prison hns
aslsbeen the most exemplary. so much So
s as to gain the sympathy of the prison
: officials as we'll as of Others Who are
! led by their philanthropc 81 ii 10 work
Fin our prisons and elevate The prisoners
a any, SNOW lhs.n me va 8, reform; We
V 49, seaih tna' sultapie snTls1lan
!, home can be provided for the girl in the
! city of Anancsa, which viii remove her
from the environment and association
!, which. have so largely contributed to her
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~ = 1877 ssie sses g, 'fle
4 ~ ti'pse VIC Aass
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: eondone the taking Of the law into her
! own hands by his daughter but he is
: ef'he opinion as ars hundreds OF other
: i's.ople VINO y. KNOW me case nat she was
i a.ifost u not ahs''iu5eiy justified in tax
: ny Nelseshee INTO Aer own hands fof,
+ me 5, sfea. wrongs ss1s haa sutfered. He
,so',' roy 9 WORD :or any one.
9 - : ny 'is,'is ilsl even mention the