The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-14
BENNErTsv1LLE S Q, FRIDAY, sEPrEMBER H. 1906
/ was, butt was out Take me with
you. Iksllsd James Jf.'zz,ll"

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The policemen ware dumbfounded
The poor mother fell on her daught
sr's neckj Shalt fainting
"How3did you do itp" demande,
The cfflosf,
II shot him with his own revolver,
She saidsy 1T was an accident. TAX,
me with1yop; will explain later"
The cfhcers had no alternative
They had to carry the girl cfr to jail
charged}by her own confession with
having killed her lover.
But shs m do no. further exp,ana
ZION except to deolere chat she haH
/ thrown the revolver ''ovsr the fence. y
She becstna the Sphirx of the Potts
vile ja'Awhose pale face still gives nc
answer TO those who try to read it.
In jafltbe girls cunning in her Of
| 'orts to 8hjeld the real murderer-Ao
crrding TO the accepted police theory.
grew shsSpor Knowing that any let
Ger she wrote would be opened and
cad by the authorities, she penned
and addressed to her mother con.
fession that she really ra1 killed Fr
zell. Sha had used T. zzells own re.
volver, which she had hidden in her
room,
Be quick" she wrot "take james
revolversand hide 1t. raeu put In its
place my fathers revolver. W:1en tho
police search my room .hoy will fin,'
1T, and this will o;ear me."
This was not vary good logic, but 1t
Helped confuse the authorities. The
letter was never delivered to tn
mother. The police searched the
girls room-and found no revolver OF
any description.
Taey also searched the vicinity OF
The murder, where there was q board
'ence inclosirg q vacant lot. They
searched every inch of ground beyond
ohe fence. but found no revolver.
At length they learned on good
authority that Fr'zzsll, most peace
ably inclined young man, had never
'arrieda revolver.
All these circumstances STRENGTHEN
cd the growing theory In the mIuds of
oolfce and detectives that the girl was
innocent of oil except knowledge o.
dhe crimt; that she had some powerfui
motive for shielding the real MUIR
derer.
But here they lost the trail, which
5ney not yet been able to recover.
They we're uns BILE to dnd any one who
nad seen or heard Of e nma Stephany
10 company with any man except
James Ff'zz III.
Tneg had to work upon only the
framework OF mysterious romance
dealing with . strange man, living,
perhaps, In O. neighhoring city, who
occasionally met K NINA Stephan,
iecret}y; that 1t was him she really
loved ;snat she still kept company
with James Frlzz Ill for the sake of ap.
pearapces and to satisfy her parents,
who wished her to marry him; that on
the ns8ht Of the tragedy, not expect.
lnl, ~ S''''. Gus lover, she had
walked out With Frizell; that the
stranger, finding them together, flew
into Q rage, shot his rival dead and
Il sd the city.
DOCTOR A FEW DOORS AWAY
AS 1t was on the eve of Independ.
snce Day, with crackers of all sizss
exploding in ell directions, the report
of the shot that killed Fr.Zz3ll was
not distinguished from numert u /,
similar explosions. The shooting oc
curing In street little frequsnted
the body of the murdered man wa,
not discovered un6ll the next morn
ng
There Is still another reason for dis
belle wing e NINA Stephany's "oonfes-
sion. f" She declared that she had
shot Fr zl.ll by accident. IL Shis had
oeen true, and she loved him, and
HIM only, wou she not imme tlately
nave sought assistance In order that
his life might be saved, If possible.
In the same block, only q few doors
away-as Emma Slophany must have
knoWn-lived the most famous sur
9eon In that part of the State. IL
live minutes she could have had him
on the spot, for he was at homo all
the night.
II, as the authorities suspect. Fr
q Ill was shot to death by his mysterl.
our rival who was the man really
loved by this strange girl, 1T Is nat
ural to suppose that her frat impulse
would be to save the slayer. To Gall
q doctor. to raise an alarm would have
been fatal to this OBJ .ct.
Therefore e. xzsll's body was lef,
lying In that obscure strac'. ard dur
Ing the half dlz.l hUu,s dat inter
Vened before It's discopatS 6 mur
| ierer was able to tff c,s himself. Sc
tho police argue.
In the gray sadn s OF the morning
| the girl could not resist the impulse
so oom mon to these VINO have guilty
knowledge OF such crtnc to creep Dacb
TO the scene Of 1t; and there she saow
cd, bending over the dead body, heI
tree pale and drawn, her eyes starln:
Almost the only weakness In her who {
line Of conduct, when she sobhed OIL
huskily: Il do not know tlis man"
Ever since her arrest E nma step
any's manner has been Spni is>
except for her confession that $40 wa.
tho murderess. Eyen that oor ,ssiOn
admitting that Ii is false, adds q re
semblance to the Egyptian emblem O.
mystery, for 1t is the most bs III ng cir
Oumstance with which the detectives
have to deal.
II wonder Il they will hang mep'
she asks Of horself.
III do not shield him, he will no
marry me-" she Ia reported to hav,
said.
VIII she go TO the gallows rathe
than involve the man she lovesY NJ
one who has studied her ventures t,
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