The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-12-03
PRETTY CLOTHES
CAUSE MURDER
Sixteen Year Old Girl is
Charged With Poison
ing Sister.

beth, three years her SENIOR, with
strychnine because she was jealous
over her sisters wardrobe, more
brilliant than her own?
This is the problem which has
been the staple of discussion among
the people OF Stark county and its
vicinity ever since the body Of Eliza
beth MANI was found in her home
one night last March, and which is
expected to be solved, with the aid
of alienists, when the younger sister
is placed on trial here Monday On
the charge Of murder. The case has
attracted wide attention and every
one-with the possible exception of
the young girl accused of the crime
is looking forward to the trial
with much interest. AS for Katie,
her only anxiety in regards to the
trial appears to be fear that the
| clothes she has may not make her
/ look quite stunning enough when
she faces the Judge and. jury and the
court room filled with curious spec
i tators.
/ The prosecution believes 1t has
Sufficient evidence to convict the
young girl of first degree murder.
It has been established that imme-
diately following the mysterious
death of Elizabeth MANI, her sister
Katie fled from the home in Massil.
on ak:ng with her the best Of her
@iser's clothes. The next day she
was found in Akron, where she had
1 applied for work under an assumed
name. She faced her aceusers calm
IL. and told them that her sister was
dead before she left the house.
The most damaging admission
made by the girl is the fact that she
purchased strychnine at Massillon
drug store shortly before her sister
death, and also bought small guam
tity OF chiorofornl The girl de-
eiared she bought the strychnine for
a man, whose name she could not
give. This man, she declared, sub
sequently handed her two capsules,
which she believed to contain dui-
nne. One OF these tablets she laid
on the table beside her sister when
she left the house on the day Of the
tragedy. The chloroform. she said,
was bought for cleaning house.
According to the statements OF
mutual friends Katie had for long
time harbored grudge against her
elder sister. The i'll feeling is said
to have had it's origin in the fact
that Katie had run away from home
and after an absence Of some time
had been located in New Philadel-
phia and forced to return home
through the efforts of her sister
Elizabeth. In consequence OF this
Katie is said to have often made
threats to "get even" with her sis
ter. This feeling of animosity,
combined with jealousy of her sis.
ter's good looks and pretty clothes,
is believed by the authorities to have
been the motive of the alleged MUIR
der
The family of the accused girl
have hired able lawyers to defend
her. 1t is believed that plea OF
insanity will be made in her defense
The mother of the two girls has been
dead for many years, and according
to the father. Katie grew up head
strong and absolutely beyond his
control.
Despite the fact that she is far
from being beautiful, Katie Manz
undoubtedly possesses peculiar pow
ers of fascination. So pronounced
is her attractiveness that the coun-
ty authorities fear the effects of ii
upon a jury Of twelve men when she
faces trial. Evidences Of her pow
ers of fascination have been rumer-
Gus and striking during the eight
or nine months she has been confined
4 in the Stark county jail
Only short time ago the author
tiles discovered the existence of a
elandestine love affair between the
accused girl and young man liv-
ing in Saginaw, Mich. Though the
two had never met they had cores
pended regularly and it was found
that the young man had sent her
money to buy books and candy and
some new clothes SO that she might
look stunning" when brought into
court.
Ceteus Willaman, awaiting execu-
tion in the Stark county Jail for
murder, became fascinated with the
girl and presented her with the
jewelry which had belonged to his
murdered wife Warden Isaac Slus-
ser was ousted by the sheriff on the
ground that Katie had worked on
Slusser's synpathies and had been
accorded unwarranted privileges.
Slusser promptly retaliated by de-
claring that the sheriff, who is mar
riod and As years old, had been very
familiar with Katie since her con-
:inement in Jail and on several oc-
casions had taken the girl out rid
ing in his automobile Altogether
the sixteen.year-old girl has sue
ceedei in throwing the usual stern
discipline OF the county Jail into ut
ter confusion during the period OF
her residence there and the authori-
! tiec express the hobe that thew NAV