The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-10-26
MURpERESS
WILL NOT HANG
STAY Of EXECUTION GRANTED
vSs. MYERS EXPIRED TO-DAY.
Ee~ the Supreme Court Of the United
States Has lnterNened Giving Her
Another Lease Of Life for a Few
8ortrs-Revier Of Crime.


Liberty. NO. oct DE- -tNcd
! aud fearless. frail but uuafraid. Mrs.
Agnes Marguerite Myers has again
faced death. and again the grim spec.
ter has passed her by Sentenced to
| die mi-erabls on the gallows for the
/ IWuriel OF her husband. the stay ot
execution granted to this little woman
! by Governor FOLK expired today Now
another power that Of the supreme
court Of the United States. has inter
yencd, and Mrs Myers will have an.
other lease Of life for at least two OF
| three months while that august body
is examining the voluminous records
I OF the trial The belief is growing
ere that in case the writ OF error
asked for by Mrs. Myers attorneys
Is not granted, Governor Folk will
| commute the sentence OF the woman
to life Imprisonment. No woman has
ever been hanged in this state. and
the people OF Clay county are not ana
ious TO have the doubtful honor Of
breaking the record.
Before Cod, am not guilty OF the
murder OF my husband Mrs. Myers
tells the numerous visitors who call
upon her in the little cell which has
been her home for over a year The
| condemned woman was arrested short.
y after the murder of her husband
IN Kansas City on May H. 19Oi Since
that time she has been in close con
! fnement, yet her spirit has never
been broken and from the first she
has steadiastly declared her innocence.
At firs, friendless and despised. many
! people have now come to believe her
/ repeated assertions, and uumetous
! sympathizers, mainly women, call up
on her daily, bringing her candy,
fruits and other delicacies, and be-
decking her room with pictures, books
and flagrant flowers which serve to
hide the bare walls of the cells. A
great St Louis newspaper has taken
up the case, and with flaring head.
lines reading, VIII You Give a Dollar
20 Save a Womans Life?" was the
means Of raising sufficient money to
pay the cost Of an appeal To the SUI
ureme court.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Myers sits patient
L. iu her cell and rocks. and reads.
and waits. II she feels any relief at
safely passing what was 70 have been
for hcr the day Of final judgment. itI
Is not likely that she will give itI
expression. Only once in the sight of
men has she broken down, and that
was many months ago when her aged
mother called upon her in the Liberty
Jail. What paroXysms of grief may
vrack her slender form during the ST.
lent watches OF the night. no one
knows. To her visitors she always
presents q cheerful face. and her jail.
ors have come 30 love her for her
patient fortitude Except that she
attracts so many visitors. src causes
the least trouble Of any prisoner We
! lever had says the sheriff
ms Myers was convicted on the
confession of Frank Hoffman. a stu.
pii fellow Of slight wit or wisdom.
who is now in jail in Kansas City
awaiting execution for completely with
Mrs Myers in the murder of Clarence
Myers. Hoffman alleged that he had
been intimate with Mrs, Myers for
some time prior to the murder and
that il was the woman who planned
and executed the crime. Hoffman
testified that he went 70 the house in
Kansas City where Myers lived at
about midnight on the night Of the
murder and was admitted by the wo.
man. Myers was asleep but after
Hoffman had struck him with a bill.
lizard cue he awakened and graDpled
with his assailant.
Up 70 this time, according TO the |
story told by Hoffman, Mrs. Myers
had stood by silently When she saw
that Myers was getting the best of
her paramour she secured a RAZOR. |
with which she cut the throat Of her
husband from ear to ear, while the |
latter was held by Hoffman.
Hoffman was arrested, confessed |
and was sentenced to death. Mrs. !
Myers secured a change of venue 10 !
this county, and was also convicted
after a bitterly fought trial. On the
stand she declared that Hofman's sto-
ry was false, and since then has never
.taltered in protesting her innocence
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