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THEMONUMWfTAL MURDERESS
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Fredriokton, O., January 19.-
Mrs. Emma Stillwell, the woman who
declared that she had committed four
foul murders, who died Tuesday night,
a few minutes before she breathed h r
last she positively maintained that ih<
confaesion'she had previously made was
true in every particular. Her dying
agonies were painful in ihe extreme.
Land within a few minutes of her d -
ease, she horrified all preseut by her
profanity and hurdened declarations —
A Presbyterian clergyman, of Water
ford, was entreated bv the woman’s
father-in law to visit the unhappy
wretch several weeks before her death.
To tbfe gentleman, and to her father
in- ! aw, she made the statement which
follows, and which was written down
by the clergyman to whom she related
the details of her crimes.
“A few days ago I visited the home
f Mr. Marion Stillwell, a gentleman
who jesides near Waterford, Knox
county, O., as a minister, to see and
converse with Mrs. Emma Stilhve 1, his
|daugbver-in-!aw, who was lying: here in
what was the last stages of incura
ble consumption. She and her husband
cm to their father’s in Novemb r
u-i-'t, from Ottumwa, la., and since that
time she h id been sinking rapidly ui£-
r the power of the disease. 1 n an
ther bed in the same room slept an
er woman, one hundred and one
rs of age. suffering the physical mis
iucident to such extreme age. And
f iu a cradle near the hearth was the sick
und dying child (nine months old) of
he savage mother, who has confessed
a series of crimes unparalleled for
icir coldblooded atiocity. The tin
specting husband of this unfeeling
'e was that, night groaning under the
liiart of a terrible cancer, which bad
at day been cut from his swollen face,
the midst of these pain.ul surround-
s, Mrs. Emma Stillwell turned toiler
her-in-law, Marion Sti.lwell, and
id:
I was born in St. Joe county, Jnd.,
1851. When only sixteen years of
e, I was married to Benjamin Swi-
,rd, a Herman mechanic, at Marys-
lie, Missouri With him I lived
nine years, becoming the mother of thiee
children, g^ly maiden name was Em
ma Hoard. I was brought up in the
atholic church I can speak the
french, German, and Lat.n languages
as well as the English. I have a broth
er in Missouri, named Chester. In
1876 my mother and brother aided me
in murdering my husband for his mon
ey. They threw him down on the floor,
and I struck him on the h ick of the
head with the pole of an ax, and he
expired. As soon as we saw ha was
dead, we laid him on a •bad, on his
face, when mother and brother left for
their home. 1 took the children nnd
went to a neighbor’s. Here I asked
for protection from mv husband, who I
said had oornc home intoxicated. Alt
named it Gertie, but its father did not
know till we had been married a year
and a half, that I had ever been mar
ried before, or was the mother of three
children. I really loved Gertie. My
brother Chester, uiv mother, my aunt
Betsy Smnstmc and myself, murdered
the child among us We made a s'r ng J
decoetioii of peach-leaf tea, and we
poured it down the girl’s throat, hold
ing her nose tiii she ceased to brea.he
My aunt made the tea, Chester poured
it in the child’s mouth mo her h Id ts
nose, and I kept it on my knee till 1
A SISTER RESCUED BY HER BROTHERS
FROM INHUMAN FOSTER PA RES TS.
Oswego, N. Y., Jan. 20.—John
Hickey, a well-to-do farmer, and Mary
Jane, his wife, were held for $1,000
hail yesterday, on the charge of cruelty
j to Osee Everett, a girl now 19 years
old, whom Hickey took from her poor
parents eight years ago, promising to
bring her up. V\ hen they first obtain
ed possession of her she was a healthy
child, but she is now maimed and mu
tilated, bein ' hardly more than a ske'e
ton. weighing only sixty-seven pounds.
felt the last quiver ot life d e away.- - ,,. „ , , .
. , 1 . “ ! Ihe discovery ot her horrible condition
My ot other was about to strike the j
child on the head with the stone hammer I
but we told him that the mark would |
show. As soon as vre saw that Gertie
was dead we washed her and dressed
her in funeral garb. 1 id her out, and
MASONIC TEMPLE.
Augusta, Oft
Souths n Headquart.?rs
I or Fine Dry Goods.
awaited with some degree of anxiety
ihe reiuni of her father that night from
the railroad. He suspected nothing.
After Gertie’s burial, I feared to live
any longer in that place. We removed
to Ottumwa, Iowa, where we remained
till laet November, when I got so sick
that we thought best to come home to
Ohio, where I am now dying. When
in the west brother and I attempted
twice, after Gertie’s death, to murder
her father. Twice Chester and I went
into his room designing to take his life.
Both times he was awake, aud excited
ly inquired what, we were after We
excused ourselves by saying that we
were hunting a rat, allaying all suspi ;
cion. At lust we agreed to send tor
mother to aid us in Stillwell’s murder.
On the journey mother met. with a rail
road accident which so disabled her that
she lay a helpless invalid at. our house
for six months. Dining all this time,
my innoceut, kiud, unsuspecting hus
band treated her in a manner truly
humane. He paid all her surgical aud
medical hills, and when she died, all
funeral expenses—even placing a plain
stone on her crave. Must I say itl
Mother died by my own hand, and by
mine alone! She had murdered my
father, also an illegitimate child sent to
her to put out of the way. She is said
to have done this deed tor pay—a few
was made about a week ago by her
I brothers. They immediately had her
torturers arrested, when she was re-
j
; moved from the pea in which the Hick-
| eys had kept her. She presented a
frightful appearance. On her head
were a saore of lone and deep gashes,
and her arms, legs and body were simi
larly disfigured. Her face bears hardly
any semblance to humanity. The
clothes she wore when recovered stuck
to her body, and her stockings had to
be cut from her gashed feet and limbs.
She accounts for every bruise and gash,
and can tell when they were inflicted.
She can neither count, spell nor read,
and can scarcely talk intelligibly. She
says she was kept in a cold, open shed
| in winter. At night Mrs. Hickey
would thiow cold waier over her so
i that it froze in her ha ; r, aud froze her
: toes so that large portions of them fell
j off. The testimony of her neighbors
i and her own simple statement combined
make the c.ise a most horrible one. It
l can’t possibly be described in print. In
j addition to criminal proceedings against
J Hickey, civil action will also be brought
, against him for #10,(>00 m the name of
j the girl’s brothers to secure partial re
luuneration for her sufferings.
We keep on band at h11 times the finest and beat assorted stoek,and we
have the mo»t elegant store for showing it in all the South. Velvets,
Plushes, Silks, Satins, Novelties, and everything desirable in Dreaa Goods.
Fine Hosiery, Ladies, Misses and Gents’, Gloves, Laces and Notions gene
rally. Underwear in great variety. Cashmeres, jerseys, Jeans, Homespun*,
Linen and White Goods. Cloaks, Dolmans, Jackets, &c. Blankets and
Flannels. Everything in the Dr) Goods line is is our stock. We offer no
trash, hut on good goods we G UA RANTEE PRICES against every
market iu the United States. A strictly first-class Drewmakiag Department
is a feature of our business. Orders filled promptly and carefully.
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oct2Cf82.am. DALY & ARMSTRONG.
DAY
Augusta,
The Carriage Emporium of
& T A N N A H I LL,
. . • Georgia.
Macon Graphic: Work has again
been suspended on the bulldog of the
Wesleyan Female College since last
Saturday, owing to the second appro
priation rnudo by Mr. Scney, of 25,-
000 dollais, being exhausted, and the
committee having no further tunds at
their command to continue the work.—
Half
dollars. She has aideu in the deeds I ^ j^upei intendent Hartman and his work-
have just told you. W e have sued the j Lien oan on jy wa jt un t,i] a third reini-
raiUoad officers for the injury done her, j bursement comes from somewhere.-—
so I dispatched her one night with the j There has now been $65,000 expended
hammer, which was used in the death of I on tbe structure, and it would, no
doubt, take $40,000 more to complete
oihers.” This confession the dying
woman made to the writer, and to Slill-
the college according to the original
well, her father-in-law, and when the p i an8 . p ttr kj tia , the architect, said it
substauce of this terrible recital svas ; C( „|d be executed for $35,000 What
read to her she assented
fulness.
to its truth-
a great mistake was made in this cals
cu'ation.
Crocket, Jan 19.—T. H. Hall,
senior member of the firm of T. H.
Hull & Son, killed himself accident
ally Wednesday morning, in drawing a
pistol to shoot Henry Morris, colored.
The ball passed through the nght thigh,
Atlanta Post-Appeal, 20 inst: The
colored man, Harrington Williams, who
about ten days ago, surrendered himself
to Govornor Stephens for protection
against an apprehension of being mob
bed for the burning of Millen turned
out to be a crank, as wau supposed , severing an artery in the left. He
probable at the time. After a thorough died in » very few minutes after being
investigation, being satisfied the man shot. Mr. Hall approached Morris, aud
the favors I sought wt re readily g ant-1 was laboring under a mental hallucina- demanded payment of a debt, and on
ed. Rising early. 1 repaired to oui j Gon, to-duy Governor Stephens direct- , refusal attempted to draw a pistol to
(bloody home. I gave the alarm that j ed the sheriff and jailor of Fulton shoot; in so doing he shot himself.—
Ben was dead - murdered through the county to turn him oyer to his father, J. , He shot tho negro three times before
G. Williams, who came for him from , dying.
the city of Augusta to take him homo j The Nationjtl Hapublican says, the
and have him properly attended to. (voxe(1 que8tion M t0 the 0WDer ship of
Harrington is not guilty of the crime j Guiteuu - 9 bone8 is now Uke j y to be set „
with which lie charges himself. The • tled> M it fa un g #r#lood that th « Rev ,
probability is that he will land in the , Ur> Uiokg who wa9 the spiritual ad-
lunatio asylumu soonas his turn comes, j viser of the a38a( , inj ha8 expressed a wil-
We learn thalTin consequence of j li,l S ne8S to execute » paper tranoferriug
the recent “mileage system” of pay I * 11 his rl ^ ht and Utle C - H -
adopt' d by th< Richmond and Dan*
niglu for his money. This v.cw for a
time seemed to pass us true hut after
wards mother, brother and 1 were ar
rested, but acquitted for want ot'ovi
deuce. We got Swigurd’s money. Af
ter this wo kept a lunch house in Ma-
rysvi'le, Missouri. A stranger stopped
ope evening lor lodging, 'ihnt night
we took his life iu oi der to get his
mouey. After smothering hiut with a j
IT. S. A.
feather bed, we struck him on tho head, . . . . . ,
, *. vtlle r"sd, all the trujht c*r couduo
with a hammer. \Ne couceued hi 1
body in a pile of rubbish iu the sub
urbs of the town.
Iu 1878, I first uiet your son, I. V.
Stillwell. Altera short acquaintance
we were married. Not long uf er we
tent to Rido, Neb., where my first
was boro. W e
t"rs s»i'e fi.ur have tlir-‘wn Up tLoir
jobs. On<* c rtduotor, who tried the
new racket, w-js not ublt) to make
more than $19 in the lio-t two eka
tvi h a l the running he couli do.—
T \e conductors *iV'* » \i^t ut y hciiv;
rm'tuci too oloscy—A'heuB Bin-
<»< r.
Atlanta Constitution : A com'any
has boon organized iu Atlanta, with u
oapital of $300,000, for the purpose of
outting cypress timb r, and m iking it
mto susb, Minds and doors. It is
o aimed that cypress it oauoh better for
this purpose than white pine;
loo* arej
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Tops, Rockaway* and Buggies, aM styles
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Just see some of our prices:
P rl r Sets ih Hair Cloth, Walnut Frame from $35 to $9U.
The best Rsw Silk Stt Mr. $65 ever off* rod.
Nice Walnut Chamber Set-, Marh It Top, $55.
The $est Walnut Marble T.q» Set in the market for $65.
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WE ACKNOWLEDGE NO SUPERIOR,
AND FEW EQUALS, TN THE SOUTH.
Who ever heard < f Cano Seat Chairs for aovauty-ffva ovals.
Extension Tables me dollar per foot.
We guarantee satisfaction in every case. Our stock of Mattresses nod
Spring Beds i« complete. Steam Dro8rt°>d Feathers always on h«fid AH
goods packed a »d shipped free of cinrga. Upholstering done iu aH its
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