The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-25
Girl ISL|NKEDW|TH
TRAGEDY OF THE
FRONTIER
Nebraska Maiden Il Charged With
melting Jealous lovers To KIN
swssthsart So She Could
Get His Money.
Eunics Murphy FaCes GallOws With
Men Who Hanged Charley
Sellers.
nv Z. G. aoDoERs.

VALENTINE. Neb., Sept. 2b.-i
have Just come from the Rushville
fan, where I visited" Miss Eunice
Murphy, pretty frontier girl who
Il held without bail charged With IN
citing to murder That. In Nebraska.
a capital otfense. and punishable
~ hanging II convicted in the nrat
degree. s.
Eunice doesn't look the part OF a
Snurderess. In the nrst place shc
looks too young. Although she 10 "a
she has the face and form OF q girl
stili in her teens. Try az hard az
might I couldn't detect q trace OF
coarseness. evil, or anything bad In
this girl whom the state OF Nebraska
charges with having organized
private lynching party 70 hang one OF
her beaux to telephone pole.
why, she's as nice as she can be-,
81 the way q woman caller at the JAIL
expressed &C.
Hsr Mother implicated. Too.
Yet this mere slip OF girl faces
the gallows, for, az County Attorney
John M. Tucker charges, having
ufged-- incited II the legal word-a
private lynching party, composed OF
three OF her beaux and her ls-year-
Ola brother. to hang another OF
mnices beaux-Charles Sellers, we'll
t4do ranchman. to a telephone pole
one summer evening.
Y'There isn't doubt In my MIND,
said Prosecutor Tucker to me at the
Cherry-co courthouse. but tnal
Ennice persuaded these jealous suit
ofs to hang Sellers. She should be
~ severely punished as II she had
pulled the rope that ended poor
Chariey's life."
Eunice's brother. Kenneth Murphy,
81 clean looking lad OF Is: George b
Weed, his brother, Alma Weed, two
biz strapping cow punchers. and
Harry Heather. expert roper,
Ehnice's cousin. admit that they
hanged Sellers.
1--WE did II because he threatened
10 kin EunIce and the rest OF US"
they told Sheriff c. r, Rosseter.
"The girl melted the men TO hang
Charley Sellers She aroused the jeai-
Quay OF the Weed brothers and Heath,
and they followed her bidding TO make
away with their rival. The girl did Il
because she thought Sellers had a
$1,000 life insurance policy with her.
SELF as the beneficiary and that he had
made his will in her favor" says
Prosecutor Tucker.
~ The Fatefui Evening.
Sellers had been counting Miss MUIR
phy three years. She wore ring he
had given her. She accepted other
presents from him. Undoubtedly the
young ranchman was head over heals
N love with the. girl.
The plot TO do away with Sellers
was Matched. according to the prosecu-
ton. at q dance. Eunice. the Weed
boys and Harry Heath held number
Of whispered conferences during inter
missions and Sellers. who brought
Eunlce to the dance. noticed Y. but
was not suspicious Of the import Of
the doings.
on the evening OF the iynching
Heath, the Weeds, Kenneth and
Eupice Murphy. an aunt with whom
the girl lived, and there the conspiracy
was fully Matched. II IL charged.
The men rode on 20 the ranch house
of Hutch Jack" with whom Charley
Sellers kept bachelors hall. II was .
o'clock. George Weed went inside
and engaged Hutch Jack" In CONVEX
eetion. Ina moment Il was learned !
that Sellers was asleep In another
room.
Then the others dashed in with guns |