The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-09-14
Insists She Was the Murderer
of Her Own BetrOthed.
AN INNOChNT GIRL
Who MaY Go 10 The GalIows Rather
Than Involve the Man That She
Loves More Than Her Own
life. A Very Strange

Case.
Pretty little Emma Stephany, al.
though ill-taught and unused to the
ways Of the great world beyond her
narrow invironment. sits In her coll
In the jail at Pottsville, Pa, o verit-
able sphinx.
By ell the rules by which detectiv,s g.
experience has taught them to weigh
bhe probabilities Of guilt or innocerce,
Emma Stephany ia no murdefass
Yet ovor and over again she has rais
ed her hand and declared to them:
II tell you that 1 killed him
shot him with his own revo,vir."
What did you do with the revol.
YER after the shooting2"
| / threw 1t over the fenco."
You ought to know that Jane,
Fr:zzell never had q revolver. Why
do you risk your neck by telling sucb
a storyP''
And then the girl, her bosom heav
Ing with agitation, would declare
again that 1t was she who had shot
James Ffizzcll.
Why did you do itp He was your
lover. You @ore to be married IT,
him." And then, in frenzy of dread
Of something which is tie great IL vs.
terry Of this strange case she would
wall:
mo one else did It'll o., 1 did it'll
did H.! 1t was an accident, but
md no one else, Killed James Friz.
zel |"
For weeks and weeks her jailers
'laVe keps close watch upon her In
The hope that some unRuarded act,
some urc)ntrollable access OF emotion
iuring her long NIGHTS in her disma
oell- which overlooks the jail yard In
Which six Molly Msgune terrorIsts Of
the coal regions were hanged in q sin
gle hour would hetray her and off;r
solution Of the mystery.
But all the enlightenment they
gained for their pains was when one
night last week she rose from her cot
and walked to the grated window and
after gazing out into the jail YARD
With tts gf5WsoHae sSss.5S Sss.S- ..ssS<,tss
INJURED:
II wonder IL they will hang mep''
This remark, made at such an hour
when she believed herself to be quite
slone. was interpreted to be the OK
preston Of one who, knowing herself
to be really innocent, wondered II IL
oould actually be possible for the law
TO send to the gallows guiltless por
son.
AS none Of the detr ctives engaged
upon the case had given credence to
Confession" the scene just described
see mad to add force to their theory
chat the girl had taken the crime up
IN herself In order to save the real
murderer.
Then whom could the real criminal
beP This is still q mystery. Is he q
,econd lover who kept himself in tl g
background so effeotually that not
wen his name is known, who had
won her from Ffizz III? Shs Is "a d
TO have made 10 member OF her fam
lily, who reported 1T to the police, one
remark that limited st such o condi
5lon OK Fl .lrs.
IL must shield him. or he will not
marry me-"
But ever since her. nrrest upon her
own confession she has Dteadfastly de.
MED caring for any man except the
one she declares she shot If she ia
shielding the real murderer, she Ger
tainly is doing it thoroughly.
There is no doubt that, whatever
her own part in the tragedy, Emma
Stephany knows all about the murder
Of James Frzzell
Elrly IN the day Of July 4, thia
year, the body OF thia young man was
found in a Pottsville street, shot
through the heart. Before the body
aag removed crowd gathered about
1T. One OF these curious psrbCns was
Emma Stephany. Shs leaned over
the prOstrate form, shaken, agitated
do you recognize himp' D police
man asked her.
" do not know this man." she sob
bed, and walked away.
When the identity OF the dead man
had lately been the accepted lover OF
IG NINA Stephany- Shey lm mediately
vent to the girls homo and question.
ed her. Tho result showed ner TO be
either murderess or . woman phe
nominally gifted with powers Of sub
tie reasoning exertod with some mys
teri0us ohj.ot in view.
She sat In silonce while her thor
oughly alarmed mother declared tnai
her daughter had retired at her usua
hour- which was early y--and had not
left her room during all the night o.
she murder. The elder woman wopt
lamenting:
lie was suoh fine young man
! | am sure ne would have made goot
husband for my daughter"
When you looked at the body ir
, the street, why did you say that yol
did not recogn!aA itp" demanded on,
, OF the policemen Of the girl
II Ras frightened, " she murmured
Tho policeman looked at her sharp
ly, setting q trap.
, Who is this other man you haV
been keeping company with lately"
r The shaft won't straight home.
1t is false" said the GIRL turning
pale. Il have been keeping compan.
r with no other man."
e The police were really nonplussed
y They started TO leave tho house
G Strangely enough, this seemed +
alarm the girl more than ever. The
did not then have any real suspicion
that there had boon rival lovers, 8
u they were taken wholly by BurprlB