The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-25
WOMAN ENTERS
COUNTRY HOME
MURDERS0N ONE
Shoots Down Caretaker, Then
Rushes Away, Threaten
ing Further Murders
One WOMAN ESCAPES
SEARCHING FOR HER


Chicago, April 25.-(By the A. pD
A search for Wanda Belainr StOpa,
-, Chlcago's youngest woman lawyer
. and former assistant Il. S. District
Attorney, wax extended to the east
-oday in the belief that the girl, who
oludcd pursuit here after killing the
caretaker of the home of Y. X. Smith,
wealthy advertising man, with whom
She was infatuated, fled TO New York
with her former husband, Vladimir
ElnskOif
During the past four months tn"
girl lived in New York her expenses
were paid by Smith, who told the
states attorney he had bcfricnded
her because she was the brmnie>t
woman he ever knew. He said he
had taken her to restaurants and
th,aters on various occasions, some
Zines accompanied by Mrs. Smith.
Sho. sick in bed, jumped through the
window yesterday after the girl fir
u several shots at her.
e. Chicago. April % Miss Wanda
>.ara. formerly OF Detroit. accom-
= aaniea by 81 man, invaded the coun-
-ry home Of Y. X. Enley Smith, an
3.eltlsing man, today. shot and kill
80! Henry Manning, caretaker. and
red ;wo shots at Smiths wife.
I'm going to kill him. too, Miss
>:apa was alleged to have screamed
as .ho and her companion fled in
an automobile
The police were notified and rush
% 4 detail 10 the office OF John H.
1anham and Company where Smith
employed, took him to the states
a;torneys office and left a guard at
be office.
Smith explained that Miss Stone,
fith whom he said he formerly had
neen friendly, according to the
states attorney, had demanded that
e divorce his wife and marry her.
Met Her in Office
Smith said that he had met Miss
Stopa when she was employed in the
office of the United States district
attorney here. She had returned to
Detroit sometime ago, he said, and
expressed the belief that she came
pack to Chicago determined to kill
: bssh him and his wife. She once
u6fore had made threats against him,
he charged.
Miss Stopa and her companion,
whose name was said by county
highway police to be Ted GLASGOW,
failed to appear at the Durham Of
fees and they are being sought.
According to Smiths associates,
Miss Stopa has been connected with
Bohemians in the north side artists
colony, where she had lived. They
declared she previously had annoy
ed him.
After shooting down Manning and
firing at Mrs. Smith, Miss Stopa
leaped through a window in making
her escape. Smith said he was in
!. Il dentists office when notified by
his wife by telephone of the shoot
:. ing.
= Manning was killed, he said, when
4 Manning tried to eject Miss Stopa.
: Recently Ill
Mrs. Smith, recently i'll Of influ-
- enza, was in bed when Miss Stopa
entered the house and appeared in
the doorway of the bed chamber. A
=: threat Miss Stopa was said to have
made attracted Manning TO the room
: and when he attempted to restrain
= Miss Stopa the latter drew a revolv-
er from the folds of her wrap and
. began firing.
Miss Stopa had the title of assist
: ant district attorney for time She
= was stenographer, was graduated
from a local law college and was
: admitted to practice in the Illinois
bar in 1921. Smith said he did not
believe her mentally normal and
after previous troubles had prevailed
: on. her to submit to an examination
= by an alienist. The latter found
/. her insane but highly emotional.