Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-07

could tell the police whether the gas
was lighted in the front room and
turned low, or whether 1t was I'M
lighted.
At all events, the front room sud
denly was flooded with light as Mrs.
Manning asked her visitor again:
who are you, anyhow"
"Oh, I'm your friend from Philadel-
phia," the other repeated as she gave
a short, hysterical laugh.
| Mrs. Manning's hand was still on
| the gas jet as the other woman
drew a revolver and fired. The
relatives in the dining-room
| jumped to their feet screaming as the
| sharp report echoed through the little
| fiat The visitor held the revolver not
more than six inches from Mrs. Man
ning's left temple as she fired the
shot Mrs. Manning turned as IL to
face the shooter, then sank to her
knees. She crawled across the floor,
braced herself against a couch that
stood between the front windows of
the room and raised her hands In
prayer.
Cooily and deliberately the visitor
followed up her advantage. She
stepped forward, raised the revolver
q second time took careful aim at
! let into her victims back Mrs. Man
/ ming fell to the floor, her head grazing
| the raised end Of the couch.
/ Mrs. Riley's two-year-old daughter,
| Evelyn, came screaming In terror
| from the kitchen as the shots rang
out The child chung to the skirts of
| her mother and grandmother, who
was standing, Mortified, in the door
way between the dining-room and the
parlor. Turning toward the women
i and the child, the assassin again
raised the revolver. She pulled the
trigger. The two women and child
lodged back. terrified, and the bullet
passed over their heads and I'M
bedded itself in the wall.
AS the victims relatives shranh
back the murderess held the revolver
stepped past them toward the dining.
room door and backed into the hall
way, closing the door behind. This
women heard the hurried footsteps o.
the slayer In the hallway, then thud:
as the revolver and umbrella wer'
thrown away.
Stunned by Tragedy.
1t was fully a half minute, Mrs
Cobb and Mrs. Riley told the polic'
last night, before they could collec
their senses sufficiently to leave theil
apartment. dragging little Eveiyr
with them. Then they ran through
the rear ward TO the home Of Mrs
Della Murray, 221 Warren street.
my God. I think I'm shot. Harrie
has been killed" exclaimed Mrs. Cobt
as she entered the Murray home.
A few questions sufticed to draw
from the frightened women the stor!
of the shooting Then Mrs Murra.
sent her husband to notify the police
Murray called up police headquar
ters from a nearby saloon. The mes
sage reached the station house just a.
Chief of Police Long and Detective
Keogh and Quinn were departing II
the chiefs automobile. The machine
was driven to the Manning home ant
arrived Just as a wagon load of re
serves from the Second precinct. VIII,
had been summoned by q neighboT
came. The police notified the Cit,
,, Hospital but when the ambulance ar
rived the surgeon announced Mrs
M ahning was dead.
The police hurriedly began a searcl
of the neighborhood, but absolutely nj
clue to the murderer was found. No
body questioned by the officers ad
mitted seeing Mrs Manning's slaye
| enter or leave the mouse. A search o
, the house, however, brought to ligh
the murderer's umbrella, the revolver
which lay behind the door leading t,
the street, and a button, believed t.
have been torn from the slayer's rain
coat.
Nobody in the neighborhood ques
toned by the police even admitted
hearing the shots. Mrs. Catherine
Boylan, who lives on the second floor
was In the place when Mrs. Mannin,
was killed. She, however is PARTIAL,
, deaf and knew nothing of the trag
edy until her daughter Nellie arrive,
home from work and saw the am
bulance standing in front Of tn
| house.
When the police were unable to OBJ
tain a clue to the murderer from
Mrs. Mannings relatives and from
neighbors, they took Mrs. Riley ant
Mrs Cobb to police headquarters
. There the women We're grilled 70
| three hours. The story they told tn
i police is substantially as given above