The Washington times., 1920-01-11
FEAR GRIPS BRIDE
Who AIDED Staying
Mrs. 0'DeII, Who Helped Hus-
band Kill Betrayer, Loses
Defiant Poise.
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fair. The other is: 'If Jim goes to
the chair I want to go, too"

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fair. The other is: 'If Jim goes to
the chair I want to go, too"
Has Quality of "Gameness.,
She says this stoutly. but a fright
ened look that creeps into her eyes
and a distinct CULVER that comes to
her underlip betray an inward
shrinking from a perhaps none too
definitely comprehended horror. 1t is
not, therefore, the courage of despair
that prompts her willingness to see
the play out with her husband re-.
gardless of the nature of the climax.
Men call 1t gameness.
The girl apparently has con-
! science. Although her sister. with
whom she lived before marriage
few weeks ago, says Pearl was wild
and was finally ordered to mend her
ways or leave the home, there has
| been no intimation that Mrs. O'Dell
had stubbed a moral toe since she
became >the bride of O'Dell. Previ-
ously, according to the sisters story,
Pearl had many beaux, but whether
her morals were loose with any of
them except the slain man is unde-
termined.
Her story Of killing.
Here is Mrs. Odelrs story OF the
killing taken up at a point where
she, her husband, who had posed as
an officer to get Kneip. were being
driven with Kneip into the suburbs in
a taxicab:
We didn't intend to kill him" said
Mrs. Odell, "but to take him to police
headquarters and have him arrested.
| The car we were in broke down. Then
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know why we did it, / know my hus-
band was crazed by anger when Kneip,
admitted he had been intimate with
| me before my marriage. 1 was only
| sixteen"
She Struck Him with File.
The three left the cab in the coun-
| try, O'Der menacing Kneip with a
! revolver, and walked away from the
| roadside. Mrs. O'Dell carried a heavy
| file. She continued:
"I struck Kneip across the face
| with the file. Even in the darkness
could see the mark the blow made,
and the blood that flowed. He said
/ I'm sorry I'm guilty of your down
! fall Afterward he called me my first
name several times"
| A lapse in her story jumps from the
| time they left KneIp lying on the
ground after his beating to a few
minutes later when they returned to
obtain a letter he had that bore Mrs.
o'Dell's signature.
Kneip Puts Up Fight.
At this time Kneip, who heretofore
had apparently made no attempt at
defense. put up fight to save him
self from further castigatioh.
They fought minute" went on
Mrs. O'Der. my husband hit him and
| he went down. He was bleeding bad
ly, but he got up and attacked my
husband. They struggled again and
my husband was getting the worse of
| IL. wanted to help. ! couldn't
stand there apd see him kill my hus-
band, so ] ran behind him and caught
him and pulled hard. Kneip let go my
| husband and fell. His head struck
on something hard. His head was
broken and he died.
Rather Death Than Jail
1--WE may have done wrong, but no
one knows except Mr.. Love and our
lawyer what that man tried to do to
me. 1t is terrible to kill anyone
and yet IL is twenty years II we do
not go to thu chair, isn't IL? But I'd
rather die than rotIaway in Jail. And
anyway. II Jim has to go to the chair,
l want to go, too"
Mrs. O'Dell denied using a knife
on Kneip. However. the BODY exhibit
ed many small cuts inflicted with =
penknive blade. The police believe
she welded the knife, which was
4 taken from Kneip's pocket.
The actual weapon of death. how
ever, was probably a club with which
Kneips head was crsuhed. The po-
lice version Is that O'Dell swung the
| club many times even after the VIC
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