The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-09-13
Insists She Was the Murderer
of Her Own Betrothed.
AN INNOCENT GIRL
Who May Go to the Gallows Rathez
Than Involve the Man That She
Loves More Than Her Own
Life. A Very Strangej

though in.tsught and unused to the
ways of the great world beyond hel
narrow environment. sits in her cell
In the jail at Pottsville, Pa, o Verltr
able sphinx.
BY all the rules by which detectives
experience has taught them to weigh
the probabilities Of guilt or innocence,
Emma Stephany ia no mur6eross
Yet over and over again she has rails.
ed her hand and declared to them:
II tell you that I killed him-I
shot him with his own revolver
What did you do with the revol-
YER after tho shooting?'
II threw it over the fence."
"You ought to know that james
Frizzsll never had o revolver. Why
do you risk your neck by telling such
q story?"
And then the girl, her beson heav.
ing with agitation, would declare
again that it was sho who had shot
James Frizzell.
why did you do itp He was your
lover. Y,u were to be married to
,ain." And then, in q frenzy Of dread
Of something which Is the great m7s
terry OF this strange case she would
wall:
"No one else did It'll o., I did 1t!
did It! It was an accident, bnt I,
and no one else, Killed James Friz.
zs]ll"
For weeks and weeks her j2ilers
have kept close watch upon her in
the hops that some unguardsd act,
some uncomfortable accass of emotion
during her long NIGHTS in her dismal
call-wh!ch overlooks tho jail yard 10
whicn six Molly Msgune terrorists Of
the coal regions were hanged In a sin-
gle hour would betrsy her and offer
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 Its greWsome memories, muir.
INJURED:
II wonder If they will hang me?"
This remark, made at such an hour
when she believed herself to be q liGe
alone, was interpreted to be the OK.
preston of one who, knowing herself
to DO really innocent, wondered II 1t
could actually be possible for the law
to send to the gallows q guiltleSS per.
| son.
A. none Of the detectives engaged
upon the case had given credencs to
confession" the soene just described
geemsd to add force to their theory
chat the girl had taken the crime up
on herself in order to save Che real
murderer.
Then whom could the real criminal
be? Thisls still : mystery. Is he
second lover who kept himself n the
background 80 effectually that not
svsn his name Is known, who had
won her from Frjzzsl!? She is sad
to have made to q member OF her fam.
lily, who repor6sd IL to the polic4, one
rsmark that hlnted aJ such q. condi
tlon of 9 # ,lrs.
81 muse sL.eld him, or be will not
marry me-"
But ever sincs her arrest upon hel
OWL confession she has steadfssily de-
MED caring for any man except the
one she declares she shot. II She is
shielding toe real murderer, shs Ger.
tainly is doing 1t thoroughly.
There is no doubt that, whatavel
her own part ln the tragedy, Enna
Staphsny knows ell about the murder
Of James Frizzell
Early III tbs day of July 4, this
year, the body of tuiS younS MN Was
found in Pobtsvllle street, shot
through the heart. Before the body
was removal a ctogd g&tharsd sb0ui
it. Que Of these curious parscns was
Emma Saepaany. She lsaned over
vhs prostrase form, Snaksn, agiaated
do you recognize hiu9' q police
man asked her.
II do not know this man." she sob
bed, and walked sway.
When the Identity OF the dead mar
was revealed to ths pnlica- that he
mad lately been the accepted lover ol
Emma Stephany-they Immediately
vent to the girls homa sni question
ed her. The result showed uer 20 bs
eithsr murdercSs or woman pie
uominally gittsd with powers Of sub
0le reasoning exertsd widh some mys
terious Object IN view.
She sat IN silence while har thor
ougnly alarmed mother declared tina
her daughter had retired at her usua
hou1-which w2s early-snd had no
left her room during ell the night o
the murder. The elder woman Wspt
laueuting:
He was such a flna young man
am sure he would have mads goo:
husband for my daughter.
when you looked at the body Ii
lbs street, why dii y3u say that yol
did not racoga,za it?" demanded on,
OF the policeman Of tho girl.
Il VAS frightened, slo noutmurcd
TIE polio N n looked at hor snarp
| ly, setting Q trap.
who ii this o-hcr. mal you h2V
bs2n keeping o1mp!Dy wltl ia5a,g."
The shasG want St-a:g10 hJn2.
'I5 IL r.lie, sid tle gir,, tQEI!ri