Show N y r iv F r t rap AW ea X k 9 e 1 V 44 li a a 11 ISA IS A STRA MAMIE STARR POISONED gD A WHOLE F AMILY I 1 ark after 11 wint 8 acrea I 1 tear sir she U s be K based intended to km and bf t tho the babst NOX moment ent decided to zaire aks I campag to eternity a I 1 HEN 33 ern the doors of the illinois states low fv prison at joliet op ened the ibe other morning to permit the egrets egress of mamle mamie I 1 starr stair the final I 1 scene in one ot of the most peculiar crimes that ever eve r shocked C chicago h I 1 C ago was aas enacted it meant the release and restoration to civil rights of a woman charged with tried and convicted of the wanton motiveless murder of a husband and wife and the attempted murder of their children it meant even more for the victims of the deadly drug administered in the food prepared for the evening meal had taken in the murderess thus carrying out the command of the savior to shelter those in need the jury of cook county business men who passed upon the guilt of the accused woman deci decided cled that the remaining years must be pawed passed within prison walls in order that justice might be satisfied after six years penal servitude the then governor of the state john P altgeld AIt geld taking into consideration the birth within the prison of a daughter to the convict and the failing health of the mother commuted the life sentence to a term of twelve years under the commutation law of the state this would release her by action of law in something over seven years from the date of admission to the prison by direction of the present governor of the state john R she was discharged a tree free woman only a few days ago but for the tact fact that few juries could be induced to assess the death penalty on a woman there is little reason to doubt that she would have been so condemned and I 1 0 I 1 1 I 1 MAMIE STARYL STARR executed a trifle more mom than seven years ago the crime of which mamie starr was convicted was singularly revolting not a full day had passed from the moment she was received under the shelter of the root roof of F W newland at wa wabash b ash avenue when her rescuer and protector mrs belle newland her husband son frank and daughter grace all the family were writhing in the agonies of death caused by the poison placed in the food the newfound new found servant had cooked for supper when the fateful april 5 1890 dawned the newland family was not aware of the existence of mamie starr when th the e morning sun san of april 6 rose from the bosom of the lake the spirits of the father and mother had fled and the devoted children were lying in the throes of dissolution motive there was none unless a mild reproof might have been sufficient to inspire the mind of the girl to murderous hatred mrs newland was charitable benevolent philanthropic she was a noted worker in the rescue of her fallen sisters well beloved among the best people of hyde park and englewood member of the central W C T U and a director in the anchorage mission third avenue to this I 1 latter att er tact fact she sh e owes indirectly her brutal taking OIL off her husband was a bui business iness man an of prominence and her two children respectively ively aged 1 18 8 and 16 years were popular in the best society of the districts wherein they had lived it was this happy home which was so frightfully broken up by a woman none had seen before the day of fate and for no cause that men versed in tracing the workings of the depraved mind could fix upon mamie starr was an outcast homeless friendless penniless she was w a performer in the disreputable theaters of that day a woman with an immoral record one whose life was one of she shame but maternity was was soon to come to her and she sought for some shelter in her time of greatest need she went to the Ame anchorage horage mission and was waa rec received I 1 elved for no wanderer however miserable her past was ever turn turned ed from flimm its doors doom ther the girl was fairly wen educated was intelligent and bright although physically not I 1 pretty she impressed matron swiler snyder javor favorably ably this T is was on april 4 mrs ILM NW needed a servant and mrs S beyder knew of this need toe the next early mamie starr starra 0 o feared at the newland home hame with a note froni from it matron airon JS she VIL was aak taken in and after mrs MM New newland lind nad bad I 1 talked with her she va waa agop accepted id as am coo kand assigned to ier her duties she mp I 1 area 11 the fifi r in adwa 16 I 1 impre 1 she aik was asked ascedo to 4 d acae wang i ata T 4 i 1 cli iday r ofia amm WI ji t was I 1 I 1 az wha 1 I 1 otaw I 1 5 ar am M 01 1 jm t 0 6 aw J Z I 1 n 1 jv t 7 ata tl ases tt igil wv F S ic 0 I 1 i I 1 N I 1 a I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 W A A it ja wholesale 0 made ing later la iii tid the afternoon the girt became restless aj d of toothache was grace newland gave her i 25 cents cente with which to procure some armp simple remedy tes of doing ihla saw ake butlo a zear neap by drag store procured a quantity of rat poison presumably arsenic and returned to aher ier nev Z 07 torne home when she prepared the supper for the family that night she put a large lane quantity of the poison in some stewed corn com each member of the family partook heartily heartel v of the food in a short time sai all were prostrated with a deadly sickness frank the son had taken a smaller quantity and he rushed but for a doctor but the father and mother never recovered they lingered until nearly daybreak and died in the agonies caused by the drag the two children while very ill for several days finally recovered in the confusion following the sickness of the ra raily family ily mamie starr escaped from the house and disappeared investigation vesti gation proved that the poison had been administered in the stewed corn and she ww was suspected of the crime sha was finally located in the old park th theater ea t as one or of the company which was working about the place by officers treharn and mcdonald and placed under a arrest 1 at first she de ned absolute absolutely lr ever having b been een at the newland home the young woman said that she had bad run ran away from her home in lafayette ind with a variety actor they had drifted around playing at the poorer houses for a time he deserted her at port fort wayne and she ghe finally came to chicago and commenced to play at one of the south side resorts then she said she intended to commit suicide to prevent her unborn child from coming into the world as a badge of disgrace she went to the newland home bought the poison for the purpose of kill killing ling herself she asserted that she did not intend to kill any of the family but that it if they were taken sick and recovered she having eaten freely of the corn would die and her death be supposedly an accident due to the food she was indicted on the charge of murder tried and convicted in spite of a vigorous defense in which the claim of mental unsoundness was set up but the jury failed to believe in this plea and found her guilty in view of her sex and condition her sentence was life imprisonment instead of death she was taken to joliet within a couple of months after the commission of the crime there a baby earl was born to her she has struggled all ail these years as well as her situation would admit to support the child which is living with a sister in indiana falling failing health and the child were made the motives of an appeal to governor altgeld for clemency they were effective she told the warden she should devote her life to the care of her child |