St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-08-02

torney Luzenberg arrived at the Firs
Precinct Station, where they agai,
interviewed Miss Edwards, who re
peated her story internationally.
District Attorney Gutenberg Ques
toned several witnesses, and all prac
tically agreed ON the major point
/ OF evidence, Their version of 1t coult
be told by zone man, and briefly cal
be summed up in the statement O
/ Perry Nelson, 321 Cherokee street
as follows:
II was walking in Caronde!e
street, going uptown. heard sho1
fired and turned and saw a man stag
gering in the middle of the block
! between Canal and Common streets
ran to the scene and while ! was
running, about half q block, the othel
four shots were fired. the man falling
| just as the last shot was fired.
reached him just as he fell. and
knelt down and took his head on my
knee. He could not talk The wo
man said to me: If had any more
would do and / didn't under
stand the last. She then started OF
and came back, saying: The nix God!'
Baronne street. / remained there un-
til the ambulance came an left.
This is the version of Practically
all Of the eye-witnesses foil owing the
first shot. 1t seems there was no
one who saw the first shot fired, but
there were many who heard 1t, and
looking in the direction, saw the sue
ceeding shots.
Following the interview, to prevent
the morbidly curious from crowding
into the police station on one pretext
or another, District Attorney Luzen-
berg had Miss Edwards removed &c
the parish prison, where she was CIV
en- into the care OF the matron.
During the ordeal Of telling hel
life's story the woman remained calm
stating facts in cold-blooded, mat
ter-of-fact way, until asked of her
family. She Quailed at the though:
of her mother gaining knowledge OF
her act and her intimacy with Riekl
She begged that her mother be not
told of it.
Later she declared that another
woman was partially to blame for
the tragic act. Miss Edwards said
that Riehl s'had taken up with an
othe rwoman" which caused their
fuss" when he declared that he was
going to .'quit her" She said that
she didn't care about the other wo-
man having Riehl, but that she re-
sented him using her like a puppet
and then casting her aside when he
became tired OF her Said Miss Ed |
wards: When met George just
put Of the doorway walked uptown /
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