South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-07
Police of Newark on Trail of
Mysterious Yelled Woman
Who Killed Mrs. Charles
Manning Friday Night.
HUSBAND AND GIRL
SUSPECTS RELEASED
One of Victims Admirers Gives
CIeW Which Directs Hunt
Towards Suburb of PhiIa-
deIphia.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
NEW ARK. y. -, Eeb. "A wom-
an who gave her name aS Mrs. Hazcl
Hcrdman and her address as Pomp-
ton Turnpike. took bichlOride OF MGR
curry with suicidal intent Saturday
after cOnfessing that IL was she who
shot and killed Mrs. Harriet Manning
last night. according 20 Chief OF PO-
lice Long.
Mrs. Herdnlan was taken to the
MOuntainside hospital i'm "A critical
condition, having swallowed a heavy
dose of the poison.
According To the police Mrs. Herd
man confessed that she had quar-
relied with Mrs. Manning and that
the motive for the shooting was jeal-
Ousy.
NEWARK, y. j., Feb. THAT a
jealous woman was the slayer OF Mrs.
Harriet Manning. who was shot down
in her mothers home last evening.
while she prayed for mercy, was the
main theory on which the police were
working Saturday. With an umbrella
and a revolver found i'm the house
after the tragedy as their sole clews.
every detective I'm Newark took up
the search for this woman. though
the authorities admitted that myster-
iOus circumstances connected with
the case might reveal the SLAYER in
an entirely unexpected quarter
Charles Manning. the victims hus-
band who conducts a garage at POmp-
ton turnpike. was taken 10 the New
ark police station Saturday and
questioned FOR several hours. bat wac
subsequently released. Shortly after
ward a young woman whose identity
was closely guarded, was also seized.
but she, too, was released.
Tried To Kill Others
Mrs. Manning was shot 10 death at
the home Of her mother. Mrs. Har-
riet Cobb. The slayer also ATTEMPTED
to kill Mrs. Cobb. Mrs. Riley, a sis
ter Of Mrs. Manning. and Mrs. Rney's
little daughter, according to the story
told by the two women, but the bull
lets missed
From the story told by Mrs. cobb
and Mrs. Riley the police gathered
that the assassin was a woman heay-
lily yelled and wearing "A black dress.
black hat and gray raincoat, but on
a suggestion that the slayer might
have been a man disguised as a wom-
an, the detectives checked up the past
life Of Mrs. Manning 10 ascertain II
there was anything TO indicate that
any man might have a motive
They found that she had been sep
arated from her husband for several
nothing Of her recent moves. He said
he had intended to get divorce.
They learned that Mrs Manning had
been receiving attentions from two
men known TO her family only as
"Reddy' and John link"
Find Revolver.
The revolver with which the muir
der was committed was found lyinc
behind the door when the police ar
rfr af -
in the hallway was wet umbrella
which the slayer wss believed TO have
brought TO the house and abandoned
in flight
Mrs. Cobb became hystericaI after
her daughter was killed. but today
she was sufficiently recovered 10 de
clare that the slayer was a woman
She declared the walk, speech and
manner of the assassin with such
clearness as 10 leave no doubt as 10
the slayer's sex.
Shortly after John link had been
found by the police and told them the
details Of his friendship for the mur-
dered woman, the police secured "a
clew that led 10 Devon. a suburb OF
Philadelphia. They learned that Mrs.
Manning had received numerou-
telephone messages from there. The
theory that the woman who killed
Mrs Manning might be found al De
Won was strengthened by the fact that
when the murderess appeared at the
home Of the slain woman she told
Mrs Cobb that she vas q friend
from Philadelphia"
Mrs. Harriet Manning in her mother
home in -l9 Warren ST.. Newark. was
called by her sister Friday night 20
greet "A woman caller.
II can't see who YOU are. we
haven't lighted the gas" said AR
Manning as she stepped into the dark
parlor. She struck a match and lifted
her arms To the burner. Her face was
brightly outlined against the shining
walls.
\ shot blazed 4 woman with veil
ed face but apparently young and ~
striking features sprang from "a cor
ner of the room.
AIRS. Manning had fallen O., the
floor beside couch. n blllt- had
struck under her chin and passed up
ward through the brain.
The other woman leaned over her
and fired again-very deliberately.
The last bullet went through the back
of the helpless victim. But the first
shot had killed her.
Mrs. Harriet Cobb. the mother oI
AIRS. Manning. rushed into the room
with her other daughter. Mrs. Wm
Riley. The gas had not been llghtel
They rushed into the flare of TWO re-
volver shots but the shots missed
them. The woman flew past them.
out into the street and away
The police of Newark dropped
minor business and put the ent.-, De
tectiyc force on the most unusual case