The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-04
DID MRS. KING
BURN HUSBAND
WHILE HE
LIVED?
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ttontinurd.l
saoh rars cunning that the close
search has SO far failed % reveal
the hiding place.
The process OF deairuYink the
body must have occupied all Of
Sunday. Sunday night. and prnc.
tlcaiiY all Of Monday At l.ib
o'clock on Monday afternoon. Mira
a. Major passed down the road
leading by the house and noticed
Mrs. kins at a fire on the spot
where the cremation IL Huppo.d
"a have occurred Mrs Major paid
NO particular attention a. the fact
believing that Mrs. King WAS mere.
" destroying some rubbish In the
yard
Saw Red Blanket on Fire.
The woman by the fire hurried
~ stepped out 90 the foad aud
Hpute 60 her nriEhbor Then Mrs
Major noticed that the blaEe waa
practically amOtaefcd BY big red
blanket Mfa King appeared nor.
voua. but Il Was not until later
that the neiEhbor assigned these
actions - any unusual cause.
As Mfa. saior turned TO speak
10 her acquaintance a second time,
Mrs King rub Into the house and
slammed the door shut. Some.
what surprised. Mrs Major pro.
ocgdcd % toNn and returned homo.
requesting the King house about
o'clock The firu was stlil burn.
ina. but there was no odor or any.
thing which would indicate that
Il vas anything bur rubbish burn.
las The bushes and the shed pre-.
vented : very good view Of the fire
The next llnk IN the chain 0f
evidence accumulated 20 date In
that GA the following Wednesday.
Mrs. King wrote 90 her daughter.
Mrs. Aafy Fischer. who lives Ia
West Seattle. asking her 20 come
Ia olalla On Thursday Mrs.. Fs
cher reached the premises and was
Informed that Mr. King had walk.
I'd off into the woods while drunk
and WAS meat likely lost.
Report Disappearance.
On Friday morning a. ii:is
o'clock. the mother and daughter
walked over to where Justice Of
the Peace Green lives. and Mira
Fischer Informed him for the flfHt
time that king had disappeared
Searching parties were immediately
formed and the woods secured for
several mliss In reply to quas
tons. Mira King conftaed herself
10 a statement that her husband
had been drunk and walked away
inso the timber.
On saturday the search was
started again aud when several 81
the men started 90 pass the back
OF the house. Mrs. King became
tery nervous. A short time later
one OF the men kicked around In
the dirt and found several pieces
OF bones. Ia the meantime. Mrs
KinE had Enne to a nelEhhof and
confessed that she had burned her
husband. Later she repeated the
confession 20 Mr.. Green and de-
MED thai she had killed Mr.. King
explaining only that ahe had found
him dead In the chair and had
taken that unusual way Of dispos
Iug Of tho body.
story No, cennrmsa.
G. Il, Sutton. prosecuting attor
ney for kitsap county. rho had
custody OF Mira Kins at Port Or
chArd yesterday. claims that Nrs
King had confessed 30 several
olaila people that che killed her
husband With nAslrun before
burnlus his body. Today no one
at Olaila would arknowledga hav.
ina listened to any such confession
Last evening Mira kiag was
brought to fhiA city and placed In
tina eoaaty jail for shfe Keeping
eha waz accompanied b. her dauxh-
ter. The woman will b. taken back
10 Port Orchard for the preliminary
hearing In the meantime the
ranch IL la charge Of Deputy sheriff
fiadsow. and both he and Justice
of the Peace Green are continuing
the search for any evidence which
might have been overlooked.
Everyone AZ Olalla believes that
Mrs King Ia crazy. She has been
regarded as partially demented for
aornn time. and her mental trouble
In attributed TO the years Of hhrsh
treatment on the part of thu hus-
band
In the county Jail last niEht the
accused woman insisted that she
did not strike King before death
She says she came in and found
him dead. and beenm. SO angry that
she did net know what she waa
doing She acknowledges having
beaten his body In her raEe and
Afterwards having burned II In the
back yard.
she almost screamed Ne she spoke
Of her husbands abuse. and clsim.
I'd that abe actually did not remem.
bcr much Of what had occurred.
The dead man and his wife came
10 this country from France. and
have been married about 35 years