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Show WOMAN KILLS THE I WIFE OF THE MAN I SHE ONCE LOVED I T ' - iVJBBBBBl Then the Crime Preys On Hr Con-telence Con-telence and 8ht Takei Her Own Lift ' Newark, N. J., "Fob. 14. Tho eternal trianglo claimed fatal toll In Newark. The old story of lovo of ono woman for a man already belonging belong-ing to another reasserted itself. Today To-day both women nro dohd, ono murdered mur-dered tho other a Bulcldo. Tho man lives. Heforo Miss Hazel Hcrdman, 2.'i yonrs, died of poUon In tho Mountain side hospital at Monclalr, sho Btart-led Btart-led nurses nnd physicians attending her by confessing that It was slio who entered tho homo of Mrs. Hnr rlet Manning and shot tho wife of tho man sho loved to death. Sho was tho mysterious veiled woman who told Mrs. Manning's mother ns sho knocked at tho door that sho was a friend from Philadelphia and then as her victim entered tho room flred a shot Into bruin nnd a second Into her body aB the stricken women knelt by a couch pleading for her life. I loved him, I could not marry him, because Mrs. Manning refused to get a divorce, so I killed her, was the explanation of tho dying girl. Takes Bichloride of Mercury Miss Hcrdman took eight bichloride bichlor-ide of mercury tablets. She staggered Into a drug store' H V' ' but unconscious and whlsjSeredPthe' 'rU' H namo of Charles Manning. lie was .. sent for and In his automobile she ,i; fH was' taken to tho hospital. fi 1 i ? H Tho police aro In possesion of a.' - ' " H letter Miss Hcrdman gave Rev. John' ' &VH R. Frank bofore sho' died in whlcb ' ' tho girl exonerated Manning of all fl connection with the crime. ppH Ab she lay In the hospital knowing hor death wns only a matter of an .fH hour or possibly less She 'told of her lovo nnd what It led to. I nm the girl who shot' Harriet H Manning, sho began. 1 loved 'Cnarlio I pleaded with her to get a divorce so that I might marry him. f.o re- LiH BJBBJBj fused. She lntighcd 'nt mo. Charlie' Jpll told mo he could not get a illvoTce H and when shd would not I decided H to M |