Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-25
GIRL |MPLICATES
MAN IN THE CASE
CATHERINE MANI, HELD FOR
MURDER, SAYS SHE WAS
TOLD TO GIVE PILLS
TO SISTER.
ADMITS PURCHASE OF POISON
Tells officers at Massillon She Doesn't
Know Whether Capsules Left
In Kitchen Contained Strych-
nine or Quinine-Caueht
In Akron.


Massillon, O.-"The man gave me
the capsules and told me to give them
to sister," Thus, according to the po-
lice, does Catherine MANI, slender,
blue eyed girl of 16, explain her part
in the death mystery of her sister,
Elizabeth.
Elizabeth MANI, %, was found
dead on the kitchen floor of her home
Friday. Now her younger sister,
Catherine, sits in cell here, charge
of murder hanging over her head
The Man In the Case.
Late in the afternoon Mayor
Charles Remley announced that
Catherine MANI, 16-year-old girl now
officially charged with the murder of
her elder sister, Elizabeth, had made
statement. 1t was not confes-
sion. 1t was story that set the po-
lice off on new angle. According to
the girl arrested, a man whose de-
scription she gives, but whose name
she will not tell, is responsible for
what part she played in her sisters
death. According to the mayor,
Catherine admitted to him that she
did buy strychnine in a drug store
here on February 81. She declares
that she bought it and gave it to the
man in question. On the night of
March II, nearly a month after the
| purchase, she maintains, she met this
man at 8 o'clock at night and that he
On m
| give them to her sister Elizabeth.
| What the capsules contained Cathe-
rine does not know. She thinks they
might have been filled with quinine.
| Catherine is also known to have
bought small quantity of chloroform
| at the same time, but she says she
got this for cleaning garments. Ac-
cording to the mayor, the girl relates
| the following as the incidents of Fri.
day, March IS:
Describes Unknown Male.
Catherine threw one capsule away
and laid the other on the kitchen win.
dow. At 8 o'clock in the morning
Catherine left the house for down
town. Elizabeth, who was %, and
the head of the house, was sewing at
the kitchen table. When Catherine
left Elizabeth was not i'll so far as the
child knew, she says.
When Catherine came home not
long after noon she found her sister
lying dead on the floor. Frightened
Catherine declared she left home and
caught the 2:30 car for Canton, where
she again met "the man." Together
they rode to Akron and there Cathe
rine remained until she was arrested
The child describes the man, whose
tool she claims to have been, as well
dressed, about 21 years old, of me
dunn height, and wearing a diamond
Arrested in Akron at the plant OF
the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., where
she was waiting in line of girls fol
employment, Catherine was held In
the Akron police station with the
murder charge against her till the
middle of the afternoon. On the
ground that she was a fugitive from
the Massillon officers. the Akron .po
lice questioned her but little. News
paper men and throngs of resident.
awaited close to the City hall and the
police determined to elude them
Timing himself so as to catch the ca
that leaves for Canton at 2:40. JUS
outside the city limits, Chief Ertle O
the Massillon police bundled the cir
into an auto.
Say "Girl Never Had Chance"
Two miles north of Canton at thu
county infirmary limousine will
curtains drawn was waiting. In
Ertle and his prisoner were driven a
breakneck speed to the Canton prison
and then hurried to Massillon. Her,
crowd of 1000 had surrounded tn,
City hall and Jail. Outwardly calm
the child was led quickly through thu
throng into Mayor Remley's office
City Solicitor Davis, the mayor ant
the chief of police held an hours ses
sion with her there. In response t
their questioning the child, according
to the mayor, readily made her state
ment. Then the prisoner was takel
to her cell in the womens ward.
Friends of the imprisoned girl de
clare that they believe she is mental.
deranged. Some years ago she fel
and sustained severe injury to he
head Since that her disposition ha
been changeable, marked at times b.
disobedience, and what the famil.
considered waywardness, In an.
event the child's friends say she is |
girl who never had a chance"
Blocks Land Spectators.