Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1907-04-11
PATHETIC INCIDENTS
Connected With Suicide Of Mrs. Roach al
The Frankfort PsnItsntlaU
Last Week.
WAS SENTENCED FROM DIXON, KY.

Frankfort, KY, April 2.-Pathetc
indeed are the incidents connected
with the suicide Of Mrs. Emma
Roach, Of Webster county, at the
penitentiary Yesterday. The remains
OF the unfortunate woman have been
shipped to her former home at Dix
on
The letter to the prison commission
er asking Tor parole gives the details
Of the crimes and the things which
led her 10 kill her former husband.
IL was thru a mothers love for her
child, she declared that drove her to
fire the fatal shot. The letter, dated
November 10, 1906, is as follows
Frankfort, Ky, State Prison, Nov.
10, l906.-Commissioner Brown
Kind Sir. | was sentenced from
Dixon KY, for shooting and killing
my divorced husband Gholson league.
| had come from Homer Ill.,, to visit,
where ] was living with my second
husband, Charles Roach. lie had
let me cone back to my old home
to yisit nay dear old father and two
brothers had with me my two
lite daughters, Vera, who Is Just
blooming into young womanhood,
aHd my little brown.eyed baby Ruth.
The court gave me both my little
girls aud alimony, which he, Mr..
league, and his sen by former
marriage, tried to beat me out Of, as
n closed letter will show. Mr..
league abused me, until az last |
reached the limit o. human ipdurance
my health was all broken down aud
] appealed TO the law for protection
from that msu, ~ he was habitual
drunkard. After spending few
happy weeks vlth my fsther and two
brothers, ! made my arrangements
to go back to my distant hene.
When Mr.. league found out | was
going he said ] should sever take
my baby back with me.
Then he or some one started the
report that l had sold ms children
that fought 80 hard for all the days
before wac 10 start awST the next
morning. lie followed and made all
sorts of threats against me, and being
afraid of him aud thinking any life in
danger, and knowing he would try To
take my baby by force, ! concealed a
pistol and took NY little girls aud
my two brothers went with ne to the
depot to bid me goodbye, Richard
aud Robert Creushaw As | was
standing in the waiting room holding
my baby by the hand, he, league.
came up aud attempted to snatch her
from me. held an to her precious
little form, ard oh, how dear she was
to me at that moment, | never loved
my baby quite so much as then. /
begged him to let go. and whcR my
brothers saw u struggling they came
to my rescue Just as they took
hold OF HIM, in that awful, moment
shot him seem to have lost all
reason, and being sick aud nervous, |
shot him one time.
My little daughters are aud always
have been my most precious treas
ures. and God IN heaven knows that
nv poor brothers are innocent and
had no part in the trouble. They are
implicated just because they had their
hands on him, trying to reason with
him, trying get him to give up my
baby but | was so crazed at that time
that was not responsible for what |
did.
You know, Dear Mr. Brown that
Its the nature of the lowest creature
that lives on earth to fight for her
Young and how much more would IT
be the nature of human mother TO
fight for her young | did not to want
hurt the man. was only thinking
Of nv little delicate, tender child that