The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-11
SHE BLAMES STANLEY.
Mrs. Evans in County Jail Charges
Him With Burning House..

Mrs. D. E. Evans, charged jointly
with G. v. Stamey with arson and at
tempt to defraud an insurance COM
pany, practically confessed her guilt
as an accessory upon her return to
Topeka today from Logan, w. Va,
but in telling her story to County At
torney Schenck and Deputy Sheriff
Judkins, the woman laid the whole
crime to Stamey.
HE had a system of starting fires
which would not burn for forty-eight
hours" said the attorney. Mrs.
Evans told us he ordered bales of
straw two days before the fire. that
he ordered fifteen gallons of gaso-
line. and that he piled the straw in
the parlor and would not let her go
into the room after that. After he
set the fire, he went to a store.
bought a suit of clothes, visited
around awhile and then took train
for Kansas City, before the fire leav-
ing in the morning, when the fire
didn't break out until 10 o'clock at
night. He told us himself he carried
the furniture away"
On the night of the fire Mrs. Evans
happened to be visiting lady friend
of hers in another part of town,
coincidence.
There was a scene about the Jail this
morning before the woman confessed.
H. Ward Page. who has been the at
tOrney Tor StalnGy ana neTSclI, dtl0IHpl-
ed to see her and was refused admit
lance by Deputy Judkins who inform
ed him that the woman did not want
to see him. Page insisted he had tel
egram to see her as soon as she ar
rived.
Page, upon being refused an audi
ence with his former client, appealed
to Robert Carver, judge protein of the
court OF Topeka to have the woman
arraigned at once and thus he would
k0T1- - 1,@r INrar I7n
when told that the woman wanted to
rest after the hard nights ride went
to ask her personally whether or not
she wanted to see Page and she an
swered she did not.
Shortly after that the county attor-
hey AMI deputy sheriff worked the story
OF the fire out of her. the details OF
which the attorney is keeping secret
further than that she left the whole
blame upon Stamey.
The woman herself. at the noon hour.
said to the reporter that she did want
to see her lawyer, Page. but would
not explain why she had told Carver
she did not. In fact she did not seem
to know what she talked about though
she talked freely.
IT don't know what I said, she re-
peated, that attorney talked so fast
and asked me so many things 1 got all
tangled I'm kind of dizzy. But they've
convicted me already, haven't they? l
| want to see Mr.. Page and ask him
about this assault and battery charge
they have against me. never assault
ed any one.
but those men came and told me to
turn states evidence and tell every
thing knew. 1 don't know what told
them. They're going to send me to the
penitentiary, amt they?
81 want to go to the penitentiary,'
she continued after a while. 'They wiz
send me on that assault and battery
but don't know what that is for"
Mrs. Evans is large, good looking
woman but seemed to have lost all self
control in a state of nervous dread She
is utterly ignorant of the law or what
the terms mean. She acted very much
as if she had been taking drugs in some
form but her cellmate denied that she
had. A trusty handed in her dinner of
bean soup with an onion and a half loaf
| of bread which she said she could not
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