The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-27
BY A. o. Anderson.

Special Correspondence to The Press.
LIBERTY, Mo-, June 27.-CaImer
than most women waiting to take a
train. Mrs. Aggie Myers, convicted Of
butchering to death her husband
Clarence, with the aid of her para
mour, Frank Hoffman, unconcernedly
awaits her death sentence, while &C.
cupying comfortable room in the
county courthouse here. Mrs. Myers
is not wailing and crashing her teeth
at the prospect Of being the second
woman in Missouri to expiate a muir
der on the gallows; she is not Sob
bling her eyes out at the terrible
death of her youthful, loving hus-
band.
Aggie Myers is different from
other people, 1.-The strangest of crea-
lures" to quote 1. b. Kimbrell, who
prosecuted her. The least of her
troubles apparently is the murder
conviction. Loss of the lid to a jar
of face cream or misplacing of her
supply of toilet articles would worry
her more than the awful crime ever
has.
Vanity to a superlative degree Is
Mrs Myers great weakness. She
primps from morning to night. When
she appeared for trial her face bore
the apparent bloom of youth, but it
was due to skillful massaging.
Her hair was smooth and glossy
after hours of combing and brushing.
Her eyebrows were trained just right.
Her lips had the redness which press
ure with the teeth or application of
| rouge will cause. The black bows
| in her couture were tied just right.
The shiny pinkness of her finger
nails, the same finger nails from be-
! meath which CONCEALED blood of her
, husband was taken after the murder
by officers, could not be eXcelled, and
every detail of her costume was as
| perfect as her limited means and un-
! limited care could make it,
, Vanity was the motive for the only
| two unusual things Mrs. Myers has
done since the crime. She had a new
| photograph taken just before she
| went on trial for her life. One copy
she kept. one went to her parents
and the third to a woman friend. A
copy of it accompanies this article
| The other incident was when Holt.
man said she was getting old. She
promptly sent him a note with q
threat.
II hear you have been saying I an
| :, e.
me a man in your fix had better keeI
his mouth shut" Until the trial il
was believed Mrs. Myers was II as
she claims. When she is fixed up
her appearance bears out this claim
But she is 80.
The sheriff has put her in a SECOND
story corner room ordinarily used as
a Jury room. 1t is furnished with &
dressing table and several mirrors
two rockers, two straight chairs
table, couch and rug. In one corner
is the steel cage in which her be
is. At night she is locked up.
The unbarred windows are cur
tanned and on the stills stand pot
of flowers. Her fare is the ordinary
country fare and is sent to her room
She is allowed a limited number OF
visitors and with them her manner is
that of the ordinary woman meeting
ordinary strangers. 1t is someWha
stilted and the burden of converse
ton rests on the callers.
She rarely talks about her convic
ton, but when she does she says tina
she is innocent and believes that sh'
will yet go free,
After a young woman of prett,
fair appearance hacks her HUSBAND
to death with scissors and razor, trie
to beat out his brains with a clul
and is convicted of first degree mur
der, thus gaining much publicity