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

lnueeO are the incidents connected
with the suicide of Mrs. Emma
Roach, Of Webster county, at the
penltentiary 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 to kill her former husband.
1t was thru 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, 1906. Commissioners 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. He had
let me come back to my old home
to visit nay dear old father and two
brothers. had with nae my two
lite daughters, Vera, who Is just
blooming into young womanhcod,
and my little brown.eyed baby Ruth.
The court gave me both my little
girls and alimony, which he, Mr..
league, and his sen by former
marriage, tried to beat me out of, as
i n os d letter will show. Mr..
league abused me, until at last |
reached the limit Of human Endurance
my health was all broken dewn and
| appealed to the law for protection
from that mae, AS he was habitual
drunkard. After spending few
happy weeks with my father and two
brothers, made my arrangements
to 90 back to my distant heme.
When Mr.. league found out | was
going he said | should rever take
my baby back with me.
Then he or some one started the
report that / had sold my children
that | fought so hard for all the days
before. | was to start awsy the next
morning. He followed and made all
sorts of threats against me, and being
afraid of him and thinking my life in
danger, and knowing he would try to
take my baby by force, concealed
pistol and took my little girls aud
my two brothers went with me to the
depot to bid me goodbye, Richard
and Robert Crenshaw. AS | was
standing in the waiting room holding
my baby by the hand, he, league,
came up and attempted to snatch her
from me. | held on 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 when my
brothers saw us 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 and nervous,
shot him one time.
My little daughters are and always
have been my most precious treas
ures, and God in heaven knows that
my 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
it's 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 my little delicate, tender child that