The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-01

10 nave been engaged proved or tough
er material. possibly because he had a
real, not an imaginary, existence; at
any rate he Tilted her.
Her Friend s.sfrs. Williams"
She provided herself with a number
of friends. also, and these all proved
of the most useful character mag
Unable. Mrs. George W. Williams, .
for instance, not only entertained Miss
DeCris at various and sundry social
functons-purely imaginary-but also
made her handsome gifts from time
to time-the presents were real
The young woman's gifts for con-
structing romance are of so high an
order, so logical are her conclusions,
and so cleverly can she construct a
plot that the role of playwright or
novelist would seem TO have been her
natural sphere had she not elected 10
play the part of adventures instead.
Her dramatic instincts are shown in
arranging the little play that has just
resulted in her arrest, and that will
cost her her liberty She had the dia-
monds, the result of her successful ruse
played at the expense of the LEGAL
jewellers. To wear them without be-
ing able to account for her possession
of them in a Legitimate way would
naturally cause suspicion and bring
about her arrest.
scheme to Wear the stolen Jewels.
All this she evidently realized and
set her wits to work to straighten out
matters to her purpose First she wore
the diamond solitaire. OF course, il
attracted attention and naturally her
friends asked her how she came
| to possess 1t. 1T is my
engagement ring, she replied.
WHO is the lucky man?'' would nat
urally be the next question.
"Dr. H. N. Hayward of Washing
| ton." would come the shy reply
When she first wore the ring some
months ago. she had given out as the
| date Of the intended Wedding Jan. "A.
evidently thinking that she had plen-
ty OF time in which to develop ner
! plot and kill off the lover who, while
! useful as a source of diamond supply,
might become rather troublesome
about the date OF the proposed we'd
| ding.
| lated the dramatic prophecies Had
she let DIR. Hayward die quietly in
Washington, shed a few becoming tears
and quietly gone on about her work,
no suspicion would have been aroused.
She would haze been secure in the
possession of the stolen goods, of
which the brooch and some of the
OtncI l1AtlBb HiQ petH pIGSeuteu 0eT
by DR.. Heyward's imaginary mother,
and everything would have gone along
| smoothly.
Plannt Her Last Tragedy.
But Miss Nan Williams had died of
| nothing more serious than malaria,
| and while It was true that miss Nan
| Gordon" had died suddenly and been
buried in her wedding fnery, It was
time that there be something more
| stirring injected in the story She
would kill DR.. Hayward and that near
enough home and in way that would
create a thrill of interest.
Atlanta would do very we'll for the
| purpose, but what excuse should be
offered for trip to that city, and how
have DR.. Hayward be there at the
same time? At once she arranged a
wedding between Atlanta friends get
an invitation to 1t, took the useful
| Mrs, Williams along as a chaperone
to observe the propreues. and after
| the wedding had DIR. Hayward and his
mother die to get rid Of the tangIe
Thinking that a simple statement of
| the facts in letters to friends here
| would hardly be- sufficient to establish
| the deaths she decided to add cor
| roborative evidence to an othervv Use
bald and uninteresting narrative" by
having the account. OF the accident pub
| lished in the Morning News. 1t was the
same line of reasonfngin regard to the
wedding" that led her to write to the
Morning News and thus start an in
| Quiry that has resulted so disastrously
| for herself.