Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-30
She Admits killing Emil Amann
Jan. Il by Shooting.
John N. Andrews Convicted Of
The Crime a Few Days Ago.
Conscience Forced Confession.
Claims Deed Was Accident.

Philadelphia. Pa. June 29.-Accused
of killing Emil Amann at Warren, Pa.
on Jan 81 last. Mrs. Stella Hodge, 35
years old. of that place. is being held
at police headquarters here pending
action by the Warren authorities.
The sensational feature of the arrest
lies in the fact that John NJ. Andrews,
formerly superintendent of the Warren
Waterworks Co, was only a few days
age convicted of numbering Amann,
despite his vigorous protestations of
innocence of the crime. Andrews at
torney was James Scarlet, who did
legal work in the capital graft trials at
Harrisburg, and fer the United States
government in the powder trust cases.
II. G. Silcox, a Philadelphia detective,
testified at the woman's hearing today
that he had been employed by Mr..
Scarlet along with a private detective
agency to look up the woman.
Mr.. Searlet's suspicious were arous-
ed, he said. because Mrs. Hodge was
subpoenaed by the prosecution in the
Andrews murder trial. but was not
called upon to testify.
She was finally induced through a
friend to go to Atlantic City where she
was arrested yesterday. There Mrs.
Hodge told the detectives it is alleged,
that one of her reasons for not con-
Tossing was the fear that her reputa-
ton would be ruined, as she was a
married woman and had no right to
be out carriage riding with man.
Silcox said the woman told him that
on the night of the killing, she made an
appointment with Amann to go riding 1t
was raining and he was compelled to go
to the reservoir where he was employed
to look things over. They drove into a
pasture near the reservoir and Amann
left her and started to walk up the res
ervoir hill. Then the woman called him
back as she was afraid to be alone in the
dark, and asked him if he had a revol-
YER. Amann handed her an automatic
pistol and went away to attend to his
duties. When he returned to the car
riage the horse became frightened and
Amann seized the bride and the woman
grabbed the reins. At this moment the
automatic pistol she was holding began
to discharge. Amann fell and she climb
ed out of the carriage and ran to his
side. Finding him apparently dead, she
placed the pistol beside his body. Next
she unhitched the horse and let it run
loose. Then she ran to her home.
The next morning, finding that every
one believed it was a case of suicide, she
decided TO remain quiet
When Andrews was convicted last week
her conscience began to trouble her and
it was then an easy matter for the de
tectives to worm her secret from her.
DptpptiI-p SiIpny tbat
Mrs Hodge was married six years ago.
but only lived with her husband a week
The husband is said to be in Port Huron.
Mich Sileox said that Mrs Hodge bore
a good reputation He described the
third degree that she had undergone at
Warren He said the district attorney of
Warren had been unfair and that he did
not want to know the truth of the kill
ing.
Silcox said that Mrs Hodge had been
taken from her home hidden in various
houses in Warren and that he traced her
to hotel in Warren where only men
room.
Mrs. Hodge was not sworn, but when
the magistrate, after SilcoXs testimony
asked her if she had any statement to
make she acknowledged that everything
the detective had testified to was true
II shot Mr.. Amann by accident" she
walled. II am not used to handling re-
vovers and do not know how it went
off "
There were three bullet wounds in
Amann's head and neck and an automatic
revolver with three empty shells in II
was near the body The weapon was
| identified as one similar to one owned
by Andrews. Before Amann left the City
hall at Warren he had a telephone COM
munication with Andrews and he also or
dered a horse and carriage to be charged
to Andrews and Amann The horse was
picked up In the streets at II O'Clock on
the night of Jan q. but it had been de- |
tached from the carriage
Andrews testified at the coroners in |
quest that Amann had asked him to go |
to the reservoir but that he had declined /
to do so. Andrews was under close sur
veilance for six weeks before he was ar
rested.
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