The Detroit times., 1911-09-29
WILL TRY
HARD To SAVE GIRL
FROM GALLOWS
Eunice Murphy, at Whose Door Is
Laid Murder of Her Sweetheart,
Will Be Tried Oct. le With
Members of Lynching Party.
Sheriff Is Sure She Planned Death of
Charles Sellers, Who Was Hanged
By Cowboys.

VALENTINE. Neb.. Sept. 2e.-The
trial of the four men charged with
having hanged Charles Sellers, the
young stockman and hance of Miss
Eunice Murphy. who Is charged with
having melted the men, among whom
was her young brother, Kenneth. to
murder Sellers. will begin Oct 16.
There is an impression prevalent
In Valentine that the four boys will
plead guilty, II the prosecutor Will let
them on with life terms II is prob
able, however. that great effort VIII
be made to acquit .Eunice Murphy.
Sheriff Rosseter, who went down to
Missouri to get the girl, after she had
disappeared at the time Of the arrest
OF the Weed brothers, young Murphy
and Harry Heath, maintains that
there isn't q possible chance OF ac-
Quittal.
Il am just as sure that Eunice
Murphy planned the hanging Of Sell
lers, who had been her recognized
sweetheart for three years. as l am
that he did dangle at the end Of this
rope" Rosseter said, as he held the
rope out to me as q verifcation OF
the hanging bee"
But" says Prosecutor Tucker.
while I believe that the girl is just
as guilty as the four men, l doS't
think that we can send her to the
scaffold. as we are sure to do with
the men"
Because she is a woman" sug-
gested.
That's It. These western fellows
-, xuh lnAlr rrar0h
and who sometimes hold a mans life
very cheaply, are regular babies
when there Is a woman concerned.
Why. don't you know, II we don't
get the strongest kind OF a case
against a woman We can't get a jury
in this cattle country to convict her.
Maybe they can get juries in eastern
Canada and Pennsylvania and other
states back east to hang women, but
these cow punchers out here just
won't do II, that's all"
There aren't SO many women out
here on the plains, and those that are
here are idolized in way. This
Cherry-county is the largest In Ne
braska. and people out this way say
it's the largest in the country. How
ever, FL Paso county of Texas may
take issue with this statement.
II is a land of no trees, oceans of
sand, plenty of rocky hills. and no
flowers. Also It is a land where the
Wild Bunch used to roam from the
Hole In the Wall" country OF
Wyoming. Sheriff Rosseter has
number Of rifles he took from cattle
thieves and latter day bad mem
after he had laid them down fat
Judge Quigley, who refused bail to
Eunice Murphy. has known the girl
since she was four years old. she
always was q good girl" he said. "and
until the hanging no one ever had
word to say against her. She never
went to school, spending most Of her
time riding horseback over the
prairie. She could handle q rope as
good a. any Of the COW punchers.
During the preliminary hearing I
invited q dozen of the most promin-
ent women In the county to attend
court. I could tell their feelings by
their faces. II had admitted
Eunice to bail. believe the women
would have mobbed me-"
"Eunice didn't treat her gentle
men friends right" Mrs. Dunbar, the
oody friend Of the Murphys and
Heaths told me. IAN the time she
was trying to make them Jealous Of
zach other.