Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-10-19
MRS, E, RUSER MAY co FREE
County Attorney Willing if Husband.
Forgives Faithless Wife.
IF NOT SHE MUST STAND TRIAL
John Slayer, Who COnspired with
woman 10 XIII Husband for
Illicit Love, Fnvors Her
Prosecution.

II Emil Ruser the Chalco farmer. for
gives his 2O-year-old wife. who planned
with her paramour, John Slayer, to take
her husbands s life and the Rusers con-
tinue to live together, the unfaithful wife
will not be prosecuted for completely in
the attempted murder.
1t is In the power of the wronged hus-
band, who is Influenced by the 1-year-old
baby which his wife bore him, to save
Mrs. Ruser from trial, possible conviction
and the penitentary.
This is the attitude taken by f. r.
Rlngo, prosecuting attorney of Sarpy
county, who will see Ruser today or to-
morrow and discuss the situation with
him
The Rusers spent the day Sunday at
their farLi home southwest of Chalco. ac-
cording to the Sarpy county officials,
and so far as they know no one stayed
with them nor visited them.
County Attorney Ringo made this state
ment late last evening in the face of the
indignation felt by the people in the
neighborhood and in Papillion:
II have decided that whether Mrs,
! Ruser Is prosecuted or not depends on
the wishes of her husband. I understand
tonight that the couple will separate in
which case I Will prosecute Mrs. Ruser
with John Slayer for the attempted muir
der of Emil Ruser early on the morning
OF October 10.
But this is a hard case. The woman
has a baby scarcely year old. From
her statements made TO Detectives Haze
and Cormack she is guilty of planning to
take her husbands life that she might
marry John Slayer, the Ruser farm hand
But have decided to leave It very largely
with Emil Ruser and the future conduct
of the woman. If IT Is possible for the
Rusers to effect reconciliation after
/ John Slayer has been removed from their
lives, / am for letting the young woman
make home for her husband and her
baby. 1t seems the humane thing to do
the best thing to do, perhaps, under the
circumstances"
Slayer is UncOncerned.
! Slayer spent Sunday in the Douglas
county jail and is as unconcerned over the
charge against him as the men who are
doing time for vagrancy or petty steal
ing.
! With eyes red from cigarette smoking
he peered between the bars last evening
and said;
! Il haven't done nothin' yet and haven't
wired to my father nor brother. | don't
know whether l need an attorney or not
l supposed It was all over when Matilda
and me told the officers the truth yes
| terday and didn't tell no lies"
did you sleep well last night" Slayer
was asked.
"Why, of course"
Eat three square meals today?"
! mo, didn't get but two offered to me"
do you know that the prosecuting at
torney is going to prosecute Mrs, Rusel
along with your
II supposed he was-she's just as guilty
as me-"
DO you want to see her prosecutor"
II don't know-she's just the same a
me"
"Tf Ruscr takes her back and makes he
a home would you not be glad to see he
get off without trouble?"
! Don't know whether / would or not
she's just the same as me, and we agree
to tell things as they was and take whs
was comm to us"
Their Slayer asked where Mrs. Ruser wa
and II she was In Jail at Papillion or wha
the officers had done with her When tol,
she was not in jail he seemed quite sur
prised and still more surprised when toll
! she was with her husband.
! Thus the man who dcfiled the Rusc
!
that he might marry his wife and get fiv
head Of horses and the farm machincr
on the Chalco farm showed plainly tina
he wanted the woman prosecuted ard IL h
Is convicted and sent to the penitentiar
ne would like to see her suffer and go I
prison with him.
Slayer devoured tho morning papers carl
Sunday morning and remarked that II va
a great mix-up for him to be in, but "th
papers treated me all right" he said.
Mrs. Matilda Ruser was Matilda Brand
before her marriage to the poCr har
working husband whose life she was will
iTS TO sacrifice for Illicit love The Brand
family, which lives near Chalco aud /.
Platte, Is widely known IN slrpy count,
and officials say II Is prominent. She ma
one brother Earnest Brandt who live
near Chalco. The only contradiction whlc
officers have discovered In the stories O
the couple is that Mrs. Rus,r is said I
have admitted planning for some time IN
death OF her husband and expected slage
to shoot Ruser at least once before, bu
Slayer denies that he over planned 20 q
the deed before the morning OF October Il
and that the woman did not anticipate tina
his arm would be thrust into the bedroor
window any night last week to COMM