The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-09-12
SHE WON'[ TELL
Insists She Was the Murderer
of Her Own Betrothed.
AN INNOCENT GIRL

lnaQ Involve lle Msu ludt ohe
Loves More Than Her Own
Life. A Very Strange
Case.
Pretty little Emma Staphany, al
though ill-taught and unused to th:
rays of the great world beyond he'
narrow environment. sits in her cei
in the jail st Pottsville, Pa, a yerit'
able sphinx.
By all the rules by which detectives
experience has taught them to weigh
she probabilities OF guilt or innocence
Emma Stephany Is no murderess
Yet over and over again she has rsiS
ed her hand and declared to then:
81 tell you that I killed him
shot bin With his own re7o, ver."
What did you do with the revol.
yer after the Shooting?'
"I threw it over the fence"
you ought to know that Jsne;
Fr.zzel neVer had a revolver. VIII.
do YOU risk your neck by telling such
story?"
And then the girl, her bssom heaV
irg with agitation, would declsr:
again that it was she who had shot
James Ff.zzell.
"Wby cid you 60 it? he was youl
lover. You we're to be married t.
him" And then, in q frerz5 Of dread
of something which Is tire great n ys
terry OF this strange case she wculo
vail:
"No one else did it! o., ] did It!
I did l.! Il was an accident, but l.
md no one else, Killed James Friz
zel ~
For weeks and weeks her jsilers
nave kep. close watch upon her In
the hope that some ungusrded act.
some uncomfortable access OF emotion
turing her long nights in her disuaa
cell-which ovsrlooks the jail yard ir
sh!ca six Molly Magune terrorisas OF
TIE coal regions were hanged In sin
g:e hour would hetray her and ofai
!, solution of the mystery.
But ell the enlightenment they
gained for their pains was when one
nteht last week she rose from her cot
md walked to the grated window and
after gsz;og out into the j.il ysrt
with It's grewsome memories, mus
INJURED:
IT wonder If they will hang me?'
This remark, made at such an hour
when she believed herself to be qnite
a!one. was interpreted to be the eS
preston OF one who, knowing herself
to ba really innocent, wondered II il
could actually be possible for the law
to send to the gallows guiltless per.
son.
AS none OF the detectives engaged
upon the case had given credence TO
confession" the scene just described
seemsd to add force to their theory
chat the girl bad taken the crime up,
on herself In order to saYe the rea
murderer.
Then whom could the real crimina
bs? This is still a mystery. Is be q
second lover who kept himself IN tie
BACKGROUND so effectually that MOI
sven his nans is known, who hac
won her from FrEzzal.? She is sa G
to have made to member OF her fam
!ly, who reported it to the poltca, on
remark that limited at such a condi
slon Of e -irs.
81 must shield him, or he will not
marry me. !"
But ever since her srrest upon be-
own confession she has steadfastly de
MED caring for any man except tn
one she declares she shot II she Il
shielding the real murderer, she Ger
tainly is doing it thoroughly.
There is no doubt that, whateVe
her own part in the tIsgedy, Enn'
Stephany knows all about the nu1de
Of James Fr.zzell.
Early ii the day Of July 4, tai
| wear, the body OF this ycuag man va
| found In a Pottsville street, sho
Ohrough the heart. Before the bod
was removed a crowd gathered sbou
it. One OF these curious persons wa
Emma stephany. She leaned owe
the prostrate form, shaken, agitateo
do you recogn;za him?' a police
man asked her.
ST do not know this man." she sot
bed, and walked away.
When the Identify OF the dead ma
zss revealed to the poltcs- that b
had lately been the accepted lover {
e 1ma Saephany-they imnedistel
vent TO the girls homs and question
ed her. The result showed her TO b
etthsr 8 murderess or a woman phs
aomtnally gifted with powers OF sui
tie reasoning exertsd with some my
, tericus otjsot in view.
) She sat In silence while her tho
! oughly alarmed mother declared tina
{ her daughter had retired at her usu'
hou1-which wss early-and had NJ
left her room during sll the night
, she murder. The elder Soman yep
LAM cutting:
He was such a fine young ma!
: I am sure he would have made q goc
|, husbsud for my daughter.
i when you looked at the body
5 the street, why did you say that "
!. aid not recognize it?" demanded ci
q OF the policemen OF the girl.
II ass frightened, she murmu,e
: Tns policeman looked at her shar
t ly, sstttag trap.
q who is this other man you ma
s bsen keeping company with lately."
II The shaft went straight home.
Z. TT is tslse," said the girl, turnll
! pale. II have been keeping compa
J, with no other man."
,e Tue police were really nonplusse
oL o+,,to5 m laave the hOus