The Washington times., 1914-02-08

. Immediately she toppled from the stool
Aquillina lifted her. up, and then. call,
ing his wife. told her to prepare a
couch on the second floor, while he
Carried Miss Herdman upstairs. Evi-
IDENTIFY she had taken some of the tab
lets-there were eight missing from the
bOttle-whfle walking from the drug
store to the candy shop.
She was placed on the couch. and
when she could speak she asked that
Aquillina telephone to Manning. She
gave the candy man the telephone
number. a few minutes later Man
ming was at the store in his automo-
bile. He ran upstairs to the girl. Her
eyes frightened when she saw him and
she said:
'Dearie, I've taken poison; I'm dy-
ing"
Manning insisted that time would he
lost il a physician were summoned to
the candy store, and he got AuuilIina
TO assist him in carrying Miss Herd
man to his machine, which was then
headed at top speed for the Mountain
side Hospital in Montclair.
Rushed to Hospital.
The hospital was reached about II
o'clock, and Drs. David Thompson w.
II. Anderson and ]. c. Maybey called
in. They saw they could do little, for
Miss Herdman had chewed the tablets.
and. while most Of the powder had gone
to her stomach, so much had remained
in hr throat that her mouth was svyoI-
In an her throat was gradually closing.
AS Miss Herdman was being carried
into the hospital she handed Manning a
note, written on social correspondence
paper. 1t was addressed Dear Charles. I"
The police refuse to give out the pre-
else wording, but admit she had writ
ten an acknowledgment of the crime,
and said she had committed It because
she loved Manning.
And because ! love you ] am going
to kill myself" was a sentence
She requested Manning in the note to
take good care of their baby. The note
was not signed.
When the girl had been placed in a
private ward Manning left to get her
mother and sister. He returned with
them and was at her bedside when her
lie ended and turned away to give him
self up TO the police.
Hazel Herdman was within a few
months of twehty-one- She was a
daughter of Arthur ]. Herdman, who
keeps the Turnpike Hotel. on The
PomDton turnpike at Cedar Grove.
She was rather comely, with a great
mass Of dark brown hair, large brown
eyes. a clear complexion. and a slim
figure that motherhood had not af-
fected.
A few years ago before she met
Manning. the well-to-do garage own
er and automobile salesman, In her
fathers hotel, she was a churchgoer
and Sunday school attendant and
familiar figure in the First Copgrega-
ton Church of Verona The pastor,
q .T,s
called on her deathbed, spoke sadly
last night about Miss Herdman. say
ing that she was a pleasant, shy girl
until she turned to the open shame of
her relations with Charles L Manning.
These relations had continued for
more than four years. Manning had
had one or two notorious affairs, but
If Miss Herdman knew Of these her
infatuatiCn was not chilled. She ran
away with him in 1911, and when
they returned her father ordered her
out Of the house.
Left Her Husband.
Mrs. Manning separated from her
husband. Herdman relented later and
the girl returned to the hotel to live.
but the breach between the Mannines
was not to be closed by the interces-
sions Of friends.
The mans attentions to Hazel Herd
man continued. They rode, walked,
and danced together. A year and q
half ago their friends knew that a
baby had arrived, whose father was
Manning and whose mother was Miss
Herdman.
Then began the girls determination
tc marry Manning. The necessity of
forcing Mrs. Manning to consent to n
divorce obsessed her. She talked to her
friends about II, often weeping as she
cried, 'T want my baby to be some
body. not a thing that everybody will
point at
She labored with Manning to get him
TO convince his wife that a divorce