Show - - - - e i- - - why b n h less-)4- : ' 4 1 80 e mne Cowgirl " - :' '°Ile--Th-rre- She Adniits ' I - - - ' t t - : ' :' - - ' ::''"1::Ii77 - — 1 '::::'::::-::- 0 ' 'i':1 ''' :'i :'': ' :' " !:i 141 :':'-:'':::- 1 I - :' '' kb- t :'?::: '):::i 1 "i 0' :: -- i' - ' ' ': :''':'': 1 I ' A ' t''of oistra A'"'-:-' ::: :::!- :? 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Nellie Madison now that it is too late to save herself admits that she shot her husband to death Her belated confession was dictated her lawyer li n210seph Ryan e it while she was I on the witness stand when she vas tried for her life lawyers say it would unquestionably have sent her from the courtroom a free woman Instead of making that confession she tempted to clear herself with a story :::1 ' 'Yr' ''::'':' ' - ' i: tt : 1 f I fr 14 A '' t "- - 6 4 ' re I be- - ' ' '1 i ' i 0 ' 'k i 4 4' k -la ' ' "' '' ' ''4 i i 4 ' - :1 - i ' H ri I' t rt ' - 4 i ik Z 0 st i u i b IZt 'It: ' :I- tie) -- J ' 1 1 '' it I )r - I N rtC' I - mower 1 pity 4 :41 tVIr""e t a ' IPA Al odssoN11 AA - i I 3111 — --- ' (i 4 7' Q:::0'''''s YA :I o :7or 1 4 ' I -- '' ' - bullet-riddle- -- - i ' " I - 1 b - ‘ cc" k 1 I t4 : " 16 '' '''' 1 I i i - t id ii t V- i t''' - r - ft cold-blood- 1- 6 1 fore had created a 'elution in Southern BRANDS HIM A BRUTE California It Was the Ahnost Incredible s Of course that attempted defense wu THE DECOY POT& ' Cruelty of Eric Madison (Above) -Madison evidence 4' 4' quickly disproved by Now Which Nellie b Madison 1 ) 1 Was Tkis' Natalaor Ag was shown to have been thousands of Avers Caused Her to Kill Him is on the nallf miles away when the dentist was slain t Her Own Defense i the Madison Apart On the strength of Mrs Madison's mint Thst Delayesi 41) story the jury could see in her nothing and Aidea 'pie woman who supply all kinds of equipment more than a Sphinx Weems had carefully planned and executed the fur making They didn't have any guns in Getting- - Away 1 murder of her husbend Her own story at that time but the manager gave me I e i a card to a second-han- d on store on the witness stand tended to sub- -tentiate the contention of the District Western Avenue was hued on the "I wanted to rent a gun but all I that "lemurs Attorney that the motive for the slay-- dered man identified as wanted to use it for was to protect my- - floor Two pillow's -ing was jealousy -her husband was the Now realizing the desperateness of self from him while I got that paper on the bed had been I 7 used 'A her position and with the gallows star back slayer of someone eine freshly!' -- "That morning I purchased a revol-i- " pressed suit of MadiPsycliologists hays ingher in the face Mrs Madison utters son's was clothes 4:0 t '" a plea of self defense She drags her ver in a Hollywood hardware store I Mn ) Madison -stamped 0t on folded back c:tile : own spotted rife into the open She a& called Earl Gars of the Hollywood po- cool but unreason as a of a chair mite that she once tired five shots at a lice to okay the purchase but be was ' f ' '' ing women She went former husband W J Brown after out I took the revolver home" been her hushand's inner' there If had !' tal at night" fluarrel over some trivial matter ' and wept with his a fight in the apart4 On the fatal night she continued — ' '9'--' ' Nellie Brown Madison slips back into )::: 7 sl 01:4''ilIl friends when clay was from the time she Arst met Madison came home drunk "He was ment that Saturday Starting ' '0'''' shoveled over the amp d her apartment aa silently as she had Madison in Palm Springs California' furious that I hadn't left said be night Nellie ( : 1119' 04 1' made her appearance Apparently after Mrs Madison in her recent surprise ket Then she went me to get nut of his life or he non failed to tell the : tr'":Hirs: 040"1 calmly back to prison confession told of a "mock" marriage would kill me said he would show the jury about it when closing the door she snaps on the eke''''4 ' '1" a fs 7! 1— e 01 with the strange story the lights The rays faU upon the the was lured into by her husband to note every place I tried to work and ' she was on the wits ---: :' 0 ness stand She made her secret would ruin me deathly'pele face of her husband Eric get her money k re:7J:: ' no mention of her stretched in death across the bed She It was all a horrible was very angry and I was deathThe ceremony' she said' wu per "He I ' A a cigaretteglances at him She s formed in Denish of which she didn't ly afraid he would kill me then lie husband hurling the nightmare it wu all - lights ' murderous knife at too terrible for me to l!ti day which WWI a understand a word later Madison told - looked like a crazy Man I again begged her i 't " - -- att noon the next ' N le She did not ' tell" is the way she ex Sunday lodgers in the Riverside Drive her it had been a fake She tells of al- him to' have Mercy an me He only re hideous the plains her long ailence Burbank Calif 4': '' ':! just most incredible brutalities and iniqui- plied by calling we vile names I walked l deny Apartments of Dis-7 today now that it is too Into the closet and reached for the gun accusation across the street from the movie studio ties—blows kicks abnormalitie--- of Attorney Tel' : L late which her husband she says was guilty came back and ttood in the doorway strict where Madison had been an executive "Sometbiag mer that she slept beside ' 4115i - snapped in me when ' s -finding themselves unable to fathom the surprised him and a young girl in He was leaning on a pillow d the corpse threw Eric the knife at atl showed him the gun and said: '1 of her husband mystery of the shots and screams of the our apartment one night' Mrs Madithroughout me I shot and when it ' night before notified the police In son declared "He beat me called me too am tired of fooling around I want that night of horror She did deny that À NEW VERSION NOW was all over I wanted to die I had Apartment No 18 they found Madison's vile names and forced me to sign a the paper right now' Then I said: 'If she had calmly puffed away seven cigamade up my mind to kill myself" Nellie the Trial At Madison of body lying besiduthe bed Six shots had confession admitting improper relame will will the and give go paper I you rettes while her husband lay cold in Mrs Madison's lawyers now say that Mad That Silo Was the a tions with another man and be had died with him into Charge crashed see me never never will you again' death at her side ' she persistently refused to help prepare Had This on Bloodstained Slept look of terror in his eyes The extraordinary thing about Mrs °He said if I didn't leave Los Angeles — "By the side of the bed stood a box her defense that she expressed a do Deathbed Till Daylight Came Pule and trembling with fear Nellie Immediately he would show this note in which there were three or four heavy Madison's trial for murder was the utter sire to die They contend that ohs re Now She Denies It for ple First which Madison wu dragged twelve days later to all my friends to show them what carVing or butcher knives Ho reached nonchalance and iron fused to tell the true story of what losPo Time rooln box the a knife a at she closet the too in herself into the a in was Ile exhibited This from God knows I kind of a woman I grabbing guest pened IA Apartment 13 in the hope that Route the me and face at oil threw on of which accUsations on the face it glanced it ranch of Robert Cuddy Ridge never looked at any other man but him he would be executed and at a least for the at studio night three-hoBurbank wall clattered to drive He and the from of things painted her as a singularly Soot about a because I loved him with all my body Such a statement would tend to ex week When she her she left apartment sendversion which her soul yelled curses at me saying: 'You will one very surprising contention plain I didn't kill him11 she pleaded and said in her husband was a gun at met Clit your heart own calm conduct and immobile face goodhumor which Mn Madison 'Someone else Van have done id He -- 11 sat up all night so bruised and torn pull went far in the jurors' mind to verify Due It waatailnight she said when she drove with her Angers crossed It was ths had lots ol bitter enemies One man that could scarcely breathe He con The evidence against her was alto remember hearing a knife whiz claim that the dead body wu that of away from Burbank know threatened to kill him lily bus tinned to curse me toning me be never damning Several people had She couldn't explain why on arriving - someone laSet and not Madison's body at band was a drug fend and a drunkard cared for me He continued to rave past me I shut my eyes twice and gether to reach for seen her in the doorway of the room a at the ranch she told Cuddy that the all I Of course whe n identilica and tore his clothes et the hangers screamed Ild again started once killed snares knife I knew be was clever at few momenta after the shots were heard another were "after" her She denied most tion was made this elaini collapeed- Ho drank constantly police the proved her presence proved knives- and I shot several The throwing her purchasetow they point out Nellie Tlisdk that the ever owned a Colt "I stayed in tilt apartment all day times blindly I was shooting wild with ' of st gunprosecutionAracod her purchase of a gun proved that she d the day before and"produced emphaticallyalthough son wants to live She wants to go back a the found police and almost horror It tny eyes closed most of the time with bar the documentary proof in court in the dealers sales hung a oDon't Disturb" sign on the was likecrazy slip for one in her name to her home on the Montana plains But a nightmare to me I tried to think I shot five times It all hap form of a receipt door—convicted her and sentenced her "I her "confession whether it is true ox in she occupied the apartment think of a way to get that paper before in such a 'few seconds it hap Yet she Aenied outright 'these obvifalse apparently has tome too late Gni to die And she was promptly convicted—and left Los Angeles and made up my pond ' so his He arms last over and took the ground Nellie Madison's put ously true facts pined for a new trial der California law its Governor in such Today a little more than a ye l alter - mind that I WOULD get it the Chair and said: 'My Gad don't let that someone else had killed Madison in based on her newlyplea cases only pardons by advice of the discovered evidence the pima Nellie Madison in her death in her absence 'So about goon (on the third day of anyone here' was beard and rejected She failed to highest court sitting as a pardon board over San and at tell Quentin iepeats the alleged quarrel) I dressed and went didn't at that time think Be VW Worst of all though not strictly a part offer the confeision then as part of the It remains tobsseen what will come of lied at fast Oh why didn't to a place in Hollywood when they seriously hurt The landlady called me of the crime itself there was that "newly discovered evidence: Her main Mn Madisofi's death-ce- ll aver: narrative ' 9 T 4 s Midi-wante- - 1 - to find out-- ' if everything N 100 was all right r 71 then walked out in the ghastly indication that she had actliany - ' hall and talked with the landlady the rest of the night in that room i "When I returned I found him dead" spent dead husband's body lying on : with ter Contradicting the statement of wit- - the bed? and she herself lolling in the nisses who saw her leaving the apart- - armchair smoking cigarettes as he lay ment St6 A M after eight hours spent there—this with a decoy alone with the dead body Mrs Madison Disturb" e the hanitrirdliolor says: the 41) I left and drove around in the car The juryencouldn't forget THAT plc all night taking my gun with me I tbre—and more than a little credence i can't remember anything except that I was ottactied to one yet ghostlier asser- drove I was in a dazed condition and tion the statement that the bedclothes dead body were cotildn't make myself believe that it beside Madison's had happened rumpled though they'd been slept in Had 'NellieMadiaton really lain in bed 1 thought it was a terrible night- I went back to the apartment I beside her murdered hishend? The mac Wedded to go away and kill myself I shuddery suspicion wouldn't stay down Yet though each additional charge took Hut note out of his coat pocket tore it up and later when I was in the obviouidy was putting the noose of the 'Ana she gallows around her neck—Nellie Madimountains I burned ' son didn't speak—then She gave ' added: did not put any sign on the the impression of a cold nerveless door I did' write that note two woman—precisely the impression the State's case 'weeks before one Friday 'night that corroborated when worked very late and Odle human emotion on her put wished to sleep the following Saturday might have mitigated the severity of the verdict—for after all she morning a woman and was a circumwas "li that note was on the door some- stantial cam i it one else put it there not me I am posi- ' Instead Mrs Madison persisted tive of that" in her story that she knew nothing -Sunarnoon —The pollee-wecalled stbourthe murder of her husbancl— day Deputy District Attorney Pali' She insisted that she Went to Cud' told day were found in the bath- room A fearsome looking butcher knife its razor like blade worn to a : dagger point was ' ' lying on the floor i3:m:11:1::--Another was found tlo in the drawer of the I" 1 4 'highboy — ' ( I Madiaon's unclad body lay at the side (t of the bed There was a soggy pool of blood on the mattress and another on the "t ' " - closed toy oyes and 1 p' f Pcasaretiond - 'I '5: - ' '' it' :Ae ::'s:v e' -i - -- Hi::: 1 I u - ''''''' - shtinItesbt iinsdhyet wzibthiitlyvieyzegh c70 sievd! 'I again ' )010140‘4:ii:K--4 ) e a whose mysterious death a short time awakened from a peaceful slumber and looked as if startled at the scattered groups gathered outside the doorway She betrayed no emotional strain said these watchers "Has anything happened7-- " a neigh bor timidly asked "It sounded like a shooting!" A foreed smile spread over the face of Mrs Nellie Brown Madison She was known in the mövie colony of Hollywood as the 'Montana Cowgirl" She had done fairly well in pictures—at least her ability as an actress was recognized until the talkies forced the silent films out of the movie industry 1I heard nothing" she told this group In a querulous subdued voice almost a whisper Then she added with a disarmmust have been over at ing smile: the studio They're working on a picture I often' hear them when they work 1 -- : ‘ - ''" '±:"k" ':' :'::-- :' "''' r -- 1 - 1 d "HE-reache- I seemed HOTS S '''''''' r- ' Self-Contr- )1 : f:'': ' f 1 ' 4 k : - a "He was a brute He 'drunkard and a dope ftend Hut I loved hire 'V e 7 '' ' - tens itit l't 0 i o '1 1 I - 1 for the second - - - I i Ho 1114-- didn't Walk be was s ' badly Istztt' wanted- - to dieZ did not sleep beside the body of my dead husband I drove all night' I threw the gun away la the moon 1 411- I closed my - :: :: ::: 4 -::i ail tv tolwrise grabbede-uon- knife 4 -A k - ' s' 1111unit& ' ' ill' - '1:a 41 0 )'' t r - ) - ti - a COnfession Have - By9ught Acquittal?' Nei& Madison the Montana Tr IL cowgirlbad told this storto the jury instead of spooking now ' :?!:A14' I ' -- ' - - ' ::J‘f--: - -:- Ll''':''ki'':::'::':-44ii:i:'!:'''':'''- ' i'::j::i::::::!':::i ' i-- i I - ' st 11 - The Artist Graphically - "" - :!::::7"7"44i 4 7' 11 to01 '""-- -' - - ::::::- 1:!4':::':':::::':i 1 it TN-- - Forgoer Cowgirl Now ''" - '::::P::r::::::::::Z?:?--:'::::- 4 ) - MURDER IN NO 13 ' : ' - r elt - '- self-defen- er - - -- ':::::::::l'::':P:::::::::'Nili:'"'':IA?::::!4p:': ::: 4 ''' )1:!''''''' '!:':l :l'!:1p'': - 6 7- - ' - ' doeth-cellwou- ' 11 - ld from her it have established a plea of and sett flatiron the - courtroom SOU woman?: ' "He threatened toi expose me as a bad woman T 1 was insane with horror He made me sign a lake confession! He acted like a crazy man I made up my mind Jto get the false confession back 'He cursed and leered at me When I demanded it I bought a gun to protect myself fromhim "I pointed the gun at him He yelled: 1171 cut rota heart out' ‘ ! - ':'''' ''::2':- ::: A ----- 0 dooe :::::1 ' ::i ' - : r!!: - - - :::' ::::1:::: '':1777-'':::- '0 tj -- :1- -'' - '!'1':IN:::':':1':::!:4 - (ki ' 7 '''''' - SUch- Would' - A :N 4 t - -- - Hhe :H!::'-:- (- :::: :::::::- so O' t) - r ' - - i - N) ft aff- - ' : 1 4 -- N1110 - Sketches the Scene as the ::s:::::::1-:s::::- t - ' ' TOT' Export Plata ShstAlsiot This Spanish Typo Goo to Shoot at Twist HsMsrk1' imauship Later Was Proved Os HerHusheed - ' - -7 r: ' t ' i ' - C-1'-‘'- 4-'-- ' 9 k vt4 v 'i -- - r ' -- 1 -' '' if - '- ' : COViGIRL'S Rollie Madisoe Booms -- 2' ' ':':: I H111117 '' 474k "141"-- 4 'F''''' 'e - ?7- i ' p - i ::- ::::i''1: C ::: 1 p ' 1 - rt' - y (0 ' '— ear 1 t I N4 k I :''''''::: ' ':'::'::::':::: ':i1'4'1:ii ' ( f" ' I ' ''''‘ ''''--' - c 17 Late 1 - :1t'--' 'y- ': V I ' '' k - '' - A 114 - - - ' ''' - - S- and-I-- Id ti-Jar- ' - - ' - 7 ' Or7 t- Toe ' : 0 ' tr - - k ' - lir -- 7- ' -- - S7-obs ro"-- 1 :'- 1 4 4 - : I e 4 ''' Ill I - ' - - - ' ' - 4'A 0 i An A - - t i 0o 18 1838 r- - 66 it ' 1132 SALT LAKE TitmuNE4 SIINDAT MORNINGAIIGIIST - serf-contr- ol 6 I 9 4 ur raised--seemin- i I 1 6 pror - 7 I l' 6 ' I I I ‘ i ' Owlet ' to V‘di - 4 I o dt 0 ' ' - t ( - - - is i ' - rim( Pisani Ira diasik kn sl 0' s - 1 ' 1 ' |