Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-18
q KILLED HER!
 GOD PITY ME" Cincinnati Manufacturer Dramatically Tells of How He Murdered His Wife. INSANITY HIS PLEA
First Told tue Police of Suicide Pact and Now He Wants to Be
 Hanged.

Chicago, Oct. 17.-'I shot her as she lay in bed; she was awake but did not see my revolver The first shot hit her in the breast. The blood spurted out and seemed to madden me. She half rose and pleaded with me to spare her life. l became furious beast and fired again and agin. She sank down and lay still. l screamed at her and in my frenzy hacked at her round white throat with a pen knife. Suddenly l knew what l had done. l wanted to die. I shot myself and tried to had ended it all, 1 lay down beside her and kissed her stiffening lips as life ebbed from her. I fainted Would that a kind God had let me die then and not allowed me to re- gain consciousness to know the hor- TOT of the deed"-from a description of the last moments in a death chamber in the Hotel Sherman when William c. Ellis, of Cincinnati, kill himself from his cell in the county jail.
 'The inquest over the body of Mrs. William c. Ellis came dramatically to. a close this afternoon when Ellis the husband confessed that he had killed his wife, and that his first stoN of suicide pact'' was a myth.
 Ellis appeared at the inquest swathed in bandages, which covered the knife and gunshot wounds re- sulting from his efforts to commit suicide after he had killed his wife.
 Insanity, due to paretic infection of the brain. is to be the defense of the Cincinnati leather manufacturer when his case comes to trial. 1nsani- ty was his plea today.
 The testimony of Ellis came in the afternoon. At the morning session Phillip Fosdyke, of Cincinnati, brother-in-law of the murdered wom- an, told of the family relations of the Ellis couple. Mir. and Mrs. Mau- rice Ebersol, of River Forest, told of their association with the lIcouplS during the three days immediately preceding the murder; and employees of the Hotel Sherman told fo the dis covery of the tragedy.
 'I killed her, was Ellis first statement when Deputy Coroner Ken nedy had placed him on the witness stand. "I must have been insane to do it." he continued. 'T killed her God pity me. She was the sweetest, the purest and the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet I killed her. She was the mother of my babies. I loved them almost as I loved her and yet l took her from them and put her away from myself, I shot her and I cut"
 "Just stop long enough to know that you are in the hands of the police and that all you say may be used against you.' cut in Deputy Coroner Kennedy.
 Ellis looked at him moment and then started again to relate his story, dazedly, almost mechanically, it seemed.
 CT shot her and I cut her throat" he repeated "It is right that l should pay the penalty. l want to thank you though for telling me about how the things I say will be used. tried to kill myself, too, but someway I didn't do it right. When I told that story about her coming to Chicago to meet another man I was wrong. I don't know why I did that anymore than I know why l killed her. I must have been insane. l am insane or wouldn't have done it.