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Show NOTORIOUS WOMAN DEAD. IBB Leader In Series of Atrocious Mur. BJ ders Dies In Prison. BJ Leavenworth, Knn. Mrs. Nnncy BJ Wilson, generally known as Mrs. Staf- BJ fleback, ono of the most notorious , woman prisoners In tho Kansas penl- BJ tentlnry, died Tuesday of pneumonia. BJ Mrs. Staffleback was 79 years old. BJ Mrs. Staffleback realized her sort- BJ ous condition and aBkcd that her BJ son, Gcorgo Staffleback, a lifetime BJ convict, nnd Charles Wilson, her sec- ; BJ nnd husband, another convict, be- H brought to her bedside. They woro. I taken over by the prison officials and BJ told they could remain until sho died. I Mrs. Staffleback was brought to tho- BJ penitentiary to Bcrvo a twenty-ono- H year sentence for murder In tho sec- BJ nml degree. At the tlmo two of her . sons wero brought in under llfo sen- BJ tenccs, a third son to serve seven BJ years, and Charles Wilson, her second ij- ' liusliand, to servo twenty-flvo years. I'VTI Ono of tho sons serving a llfo sen -9 BJ tence died four years ago. Tho third! "H son served out his sentenco, nnd It). il Is reported thnt ho Is now serving a. I sentenco In tho Missouri penitentiary. BJ Tho Stafflcbacks lived near Galena; Kan., nnd wero accused of numerous' ' BJ ntroclous murders. They ran a hotel I and It was alleged that they murdor- ; I ed guests who had money nnd throw I the bodies Into a deserted mlno. A. 1 B number of skeletons wero found on B tho premises. . B |