Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-14
She Tells of Her Strange mfatu-
alton For q Fellow
Convict
HER QUARREL WITH WILL KERN
Frman. the Man Whom She Married
After Leaving the Penitentiary She
Claims Was the Only One Who Ever
Assisted Her in Any .Way-Going
Back to Prison.

Cedar Rapids, Dec. 14.-Tho she has
seen so much of hardship and sorrow,
Delilah Fails might still be called n
good looking woman. She has q
wealth of brown hair her deep brown
eyes are yet brilliant and the arch Of
her eyebrows tells Of beauty that
might have been unusual but for the
experiences thru which she has passed.
Her features are regular, her skin free
from blemish and her complexion
good Hire hands. however, are large
and toll worn and stained.
Not morsel Of food has passed the
lips of the woman since she has been
incarcernted in the woman's depart
ment Of the city Jail. She spends most
Of her time weeping and begging to
see her husband, Firman, alias Bum,
whom she declares Is the best friend
she has on earth She is weak and
faint and lies down on the bed in her
cell most of the time.
With the preternatural brilliance of
her eyes dirnmed by tears which
sometimes flowed freely. and COM
PEELED her to pause, Delilah Falls told
the story Of her life, of her ruin when
child by Jerome Kern, of his brutal
treatment and of his death at her
hands. She said:
II can see now where / made my
mistake. If had gone and given
myself up directly after / had killed
Kern, and told Just why did 1t,
should have been believed. But after
ward no one believed me. At least,
they didn't seem to.
"The matter was kept quiet until
some time afterward. 1 was taking a
music lesson, and VIII Kern was there
at the home of the music teacher. In
the meantime he and / had engaged
ourselves to be married. There was an
odd young man in the neighborhood
called Greeley and he used many
,dd expressions. At the piano VIII
FERN used one of these expressions,
and said to him, Why Greeley you've
said it. That made him angry. and
he said, You will call me Greeley, Will
you? Then he picked UP a ruler and
struck me on the head with it until the
music teacher made him stop. After
I had recovered little told him
that would never marry man who
could be so brutal, and would never
have anything more to do with him.
Then it was that he went to town ana
caused me to be arrested.
II told the county attorney the truth
and he advised me to plead guilty to
charge of murder In the second degree.
He told me that II would do this he
would promise me that / should not get
a sentence Of more than ten years and
that after being in prison two years. he
would secure the signatures necessary
to get me pardoned was sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. 1T
seemed to me as If the earth had open
ed and swallowed me up. The horrors
of that moment / shall never forget.
"Yet hoped that the county attorn-
ey would remember his promise and
that at the end of two years he would
ask those who knew Of the case and
those who had engaged In the trial
to sign the papers for my pardon or
parole. But they did nothing. For
seven long years / was at the prison.
And they promised me that il would
plead guilty should not get more than
two years" And here the woman's
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