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Show UU TELLS STORY i i Conway Woman Relates How Her Husband Killed Sophia Singer Chicago, Nov 2. An ordeal of more than 24 hours of questioning broko down the self-possos3lon of Beatrice RIall Conway and hjsterical admissions admis-sions made by tho woman here yesterday yes-terday aro said by the police to clear up the mystery of tho murder of Sophia So-phia G. Singer, the Baltimore actress. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Conway made a statement to the police. The story given out as told by the woman wom-an is that Conway, the circus clown and acrobat; his wife, the former "queen of burlesque," were penniless In Chicago, where they had been invited in-vited as gnests of the murdered woman. wom-an. Mi&s Singer taunted thorn with their helplessness, according to the alleged alleg-ed confession, and suggested that Mrs. Conway make some money in an immoral im-moral way.' Enraged by the proposal, Conway knocked tho woman down, gagged her and robbed her, it continues, con-tinues, and the pair, not knowing that Miss Singer was dead, fled from the city with $4S, which they took from her effects, and two suits of clothing belonging to W. R. Worthen, Miss Singer's fiance. Tho statement made public by the police as the formal confession of Mrs. Conway In part follows: "Sophia invited us to come to Chicago. Chi-cago. We took a suite of three rooms for light housekeeping My husband and I occupied one of the bed rooms and Miss Singer and Worthen, her fiance, fi-ance, occupied the other. We were out of money and Sophia know this before we came to Chicago. On the night of the killing we had dinner together to-gether and Worthen went out. Sophia went out to post a letter and came back after a while with her shoes wet She took them off and was in her stocking feet about to change them. We had quarreled a little about the expenses which Sophia was paying. "Sophia said we were not doing anything to got money. She said 6he . had met a ilch old man and wanted I me to go onut with her to moot him , and another man Con' was furious i at this. He said I did not have to make money that way. I was washing wash-ing dishes at the sink. I heard a j fall 1 went Into the bed room and Sophia was lying there. Ms husband said to roe: 'Hcny; Ws get our things ami get out bofjre Rhc gets conscious. We did not know she was dead. 'Con' never meant to kill her" l A witness who will ue able to throw j much light on the occurrences In the i suite occupied b. tho Conways, Miss Singer and Worthen on the night of the murder Is bought by the police The missing witness is a tinvGling man. The man was lu an adjoining room and heard the struggle, It was , reported to the )KUce, but h fled from Ihe city to avoid being called in connection with tho case. no - |