The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-09
Newark Innkeepers' Daugh-
ter Admits She Killed
Mrs. Manning
YELLED ASSASSIN,
DYING, CONFESSES
Wanted to Marry the Hus-
band Of Mrs. Man
ming

Newark, N. j.. Feb. 9--Hazel Herd
/, man, an innkeeper's daughter, confessed
after taking fatal dose OF poison late
Saturday, that it was she who Friday
night at Newark, N j., shot and killed
Mrs. Harriet Manning, wife Of Charles /.
! Manning, a garage owner. She said on
her deathbed at the Mountainside hos
pital in Montclair, NJ j., that she bad
killed the woman in order that Manning
might marry her. Manning, who took
the young woman to the hospital after
she had taken the poison, is the father,
the police say, of her year-old baby. He
was Saturday night in the custody of
the police, who are investigating his con-
nection with the case. He had been sep
arated from his wife for two years. His
intimacy with Miss Herdman caused the
arrangement.
Il killed her because loved her hus-
band" said the dying girl to the doc
tors and nurses who tried in vain to
save her. 81 asked her many times to
get a divorce from him so / could marry
him. She refused to do it. She stood
between him and me. That's why
she wrote note to Manning, which he
turned over to the police. 1t read:
This is my last chapter. | am going
to commit suicide because of my love
for you. 1t was I who shot your wife.
Goodbye. Take good care of baby"
The young woman took the poison in
a candy store in Bloomfield, n j., where
she had gone with Manning after they
had been released early Saturday from
the custody of the police. Although the
authorities had suspected Miss Herlman
of the crime because of her intimacy
with Manning, which was well known
to the people of Verona, small suburb
where she lived, the witnesses TO the
shooting-the murdered woman's moth
err, sister and niece--were Friday night
unable to identify her as the yelled Nem-
an who fired the fatal shot. On reach
ing Bloomfield, Miss Herdman went to
the home of her aunt. Latar Manning
called upon her there and asked her to
accompany him to the morgue to see
his wife's body. This the young won.-
an refused to do, asking Manning to
go with her and visit their baby. The
child was being supported by Maaning,
the police say, in Montclair. sI'm dying
to see baby" the girl said.
Manning agreed to do this after see
ing his wife's body. Later in the morn
ing they visited the baby and then Man
ming returned to his garage in Verona.
On his arrival he was notified by tele-
phone that Miss Herdman had taken
poison. Manning found her in the apart
ment of the candy maker, suffering i'm
tensely and calling for him. She had en-
tered the shop, asked for glass of wa
ter, and swallowed eight tablets Of
deadly drug. Manning rushed 10
the hospital. She died three hours later.
The police then brought Mannirr -
police headquarters and questioned him.
They learned from other sources that
wife recently received a leg
acy of $1,000 to which he falls nair.
They said Saturday night that he was
not under arrest, but detained" Man
ming, they say, admitted that he was
the father of the Herdman girls chI
He eloped with her more than two wears
ago and they were absent month. |
After their return, her father at firat dis |
owned her.
The shooting, which occurred rtiday |
night at the home of Mrs. Mannilp's |
mother in the city, where she had lived |
since her separation from her h lsband. !
was cool and deliberate. Admitted to |
the house, the girl fired three shots at |
Mrs. Manning as she was lighting the |
gas to receive her. In her antemort1m
Miss Herdman told of a visit |
she had made to Mrs. Manning in or
der to plead with her to get a divorce. |