The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-19
Emery Answered Door Bells
Ring and Was Killed.
YOUNG WOMAN THE SLAYER
Fired -Four Bu LETS, Three Of Which Tcck
Effect 10 Unfortunate Mans Ro1y.
Motive Not Yet Disclosed.

South Framingham. Mass. May IA
his home at 80 Hartford street on the
outskirts OF this town, where he lived
with his wife and children, Andrew j
Emery was shot by Miss Nina Danforth
OF West Newton shortly before midnight
Saturday, and died almost Immediately.
Miss Danforth fired four shots from a
S2-calibre revolver, three OF which took
effect Chief OF Police Robert S. Place
was notified at once and FASTENED 10 the
scene OF the shooting with Officer Henry
Atchison. They found Miss Danforth al
the house I'm rather dazed condition,
and Immediately placed her under ar
rest
They also secured the revolver with
which the shooting had been done, and
found that il was five-shooter, and four
chambers had been emptied. Miss Dam
forth confessed that she had done the
shooting and made "A statement to the
officers, which they refuse to make pub
llc The motive for the deed is unknown
as yet.
Miss Danforth is about % years old
and is a dwarf She lives with her par
ents MIR. and Mrs. Alfred Danforth, in
West Newton
Emery was about 80 years old and en-
ployed as a fireman on the Boston & Al
bany division OF the New York Central
railroad.
According to Mrs. Emery's story the
door bell rang at ll:55 p. m, and Mr..
Emery, who lives i'm the upstairs tene-
ment. got out of bed and went down
stairs I'm his night clothes and opened
the door.
Four pistol shots then rang out clear
and sharp, one of which entered the vic
tins jaw. one other penetrated the region
of the heart and the third lodged near
the liver. Death according TO DIR. Nor
row, must have been instantaneous. Mrs.
Emery had followed her husband out OF
the room and had started to descend the
stairs, when the shooting occurred. a
small mole In the door glass, II is claimed.
= the result OF a pistol shot aimed at Mrs.
Emery as she was descending the stairs.
This bullet, which was the fourth one
fired. lodged in the wall at the side ana
about halfway up the stairs. Other
neighbors reached the house soon after
Mr.. Dunn, who lives in the next house,
and was one of the first to arrive.
Mr.. Emery's body was left I'm the hall.
where il had fallen. His night robe was
scorched around the place where the bull
the revolver must have been held To him
when the shot was fined.
MAY COLLAPSE.
Miss Danforth passed a restless night
and day under guard OF the police at the
Old Colony House. where she was taken
after the shooting.
She was hysterical most of the night
and at times complained of terrible head
aches. Although she has shown few
signs OF weakening yet. and has talked
but little with the officers, 1T is feareu
that she may utterly collapse.
She has said but little to Special Offi-
Ger Thomas Coyne, who has been detained
by Chief of Police Tface as guard ex-
cept that she has no regrets for her act
She will give no motive for committing
the crime bur from disconnected re-
marks made to the officers Il is believed
that she and her victim had been on
terms OF intimacy. and that the discovery
that Emery had a family, led her to COM
NIT the fatal deed.
A report is also current that Miss DAN
forth was desirous of obtaining funds to
take her to New York city: that she had
met Emery on the street early Saturday
evening and asked him for money, which
he refused, stating, II is said, that he had
not the money To give her
As the result OF communicating with
Miss Danforth's friends at West New
ton, the prisoners brother-in-law came
10 South Framingham early yesterday
morning. When seen he refused TO give
his name. Asked II he could suggest aiiy
motive that might have prompted the
young woman TO do the shooting, he re-
piled that he did not know as he could
He refused to talk further and also re-
fused permission TO talk with the pris-
oner.