Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-08

DYING GIRL TELLS
HER AWFUL SECRET
Stoy Of Two Years LIaISon
Comes to Light When Muir
deresS, Tortured With Re-
morse Commits Suicide.

fsy noaaiNa JOURNAL SPECIAL Leased wiPrl
newark. n. j.. Feb. 7.--llazel Herd
man. an inn Keepers daughter con-
gessed after taking fatal dose of
noIson late today. that it was she who
ns night shot and killed Mrs. Har-
Het Manning, wife of Charles /. Man
plng q garage owner She said, on
Nor deathbed at a hospital. in Mont
clalr that she had killed the woman
in order that Manning might marry
her
Manning. who hurried the young
woman 10 the hospital after she had
taken the poison, is the father, the
police say Of her year-old baby lie
was tonight Ia the custody Of the po-
lice. He had been separated from his
wife for two years. His intimacy with
Miss Herdman caused the cstrange-
ment
II killed her because ! loved her
husband the diving girl said to the
doctors and nurses j asked her many
times to get 4 divorce from him So
could marry him. She refused to do
It. She stood between him and me.
That's why shot her
Before she took the poison she
wrote note 10 Manning which he
turned over to the police Il read
This Is my last letter am going
to commit suicide because OF my love
iel you "a was VINO saot lopr wits.
6ood-bye Toke care of baby
The young woman took The poison
ha candy store ln Bloomfield \. j.
where shc had gone with Manning
after they had heen released early to-
day from the custody Of the police.
Although they had suspected Miss
lerdmJn OF the crime because of hef
intimacy with Mannius who was
nown % ne residents of Verona
small suburb where she lived the
Witnesses to the shooting. the murder
"a woman's mother sister ana niece
hg night We're unable 90 identity hef
as the veIicd woman who fired the
fatal shots
on reaching Bloomfield, Miss Herd
man went to the home of her aunt
Later Manning called upon her thef'
aad asked her % accompany MIN /"
the mW-uo ~ see the wife's hoaN'
This thu Young woman refused to ao'
asking MannIne 60 go with her ana
visit their baby The child was beng
supported by Manning, the police si5.
in Montclair
lm dylng To- see baby The gfl
said Manning agreed TO do this al'ef
seeing his Wife's body.
Returning from the morgue ialer
in tho morning they visited the baby
and then Manning returned TO his
@mge n Verona. on his arrival he
Nas notified by telephone that Miss
llcrdman had taken poison in the
candy shop Manning returned ana
found her in the apartment of the
candy maker, suffering intensely from
the effects Of the poison and eahlhs
out for him. She had entered the
candy shop. asked for "A glass OIL water
and swallowed eight tablets oi
deadly drug. Manning rushed her 70
the hospital. She died three hours
later
Tho authorities then brought Man
ming 10 police headquarters and ques-
Toned him They learned from other
sources that Manning $ wife reeehtS
Received q Legacy Of $4,000 to Nhleh
he falls heir. The revolver with whieh
me girl had committed the murder,
belonged. they learned to one Oh
Aannings chaufeurs, They said to-
night that he was not under arrest
but detained
Manning, the police say admitted
Dis intimacy with the girl and that
ho was the father of the child. lie
elopcd with her more than two years
ago and they were absent q month
The murder. which was committed
hst night at the home Of Mrs Man
hlngs mother Ia this city. where sne
ma lived since her separation ifom
her husband. was coolly executed.
Admitted 10 the house, the girl ilieo
lhe shots at Mrs Manning as she was
hehilng the gas 10 receive her
in her ante- norton statement
Aiss Herdman told Of pleas she ha'
made 20 Manning's wife to get A az
Nofce from her husband,
wanted him TO get q divorce ana
many times asked him to do so she
'aia "hut he said 81 could not lie
'uld mo ne had hired detectives 10
watch his wife. bnt they could lnd
nothing against her Then ! went t.
Mfs Manning myself { asked her Il
sns would not get divorce from her
husband. but sha refused to do So and
'ufne1 ME a0a Then decided to
kil har.a
Manning was questioned for iwa
neafs tonight "a police headquarters.
MS given pEt that ne denied aht
Apowiedsc that Miss Heraman intend
u II shoot his WIFI. Or that hp was
"H atl lessory IN amy way He also as
eftsf according - tne peieei isr i.ae
"strI seen the rtyelver with which