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Show I DENY THEY liHl VJM4a4 f If VI?iilll U W Conways In Prison Tells Bfli of Leaving Sophia fjJ Singer Alive I Lima. Ohio, Nov. 1, Two detectives from Chicago who arrived here yes-hw yes-hw toiday to take charge of Mr. and Mrs. 8 Charles Conway, who were arrested Hlf ner 1 connection with the murder of Hi' Sophia G. Singer, in a Chicago 100m- Sing house, Monday night, decided to defer their departure to that city until un-til today. This decision was reached after " hearing a long statement from Mrs. Conway, who recited in detail their actions ac-tions on the night of the murder and their movements thereafter She declared de-clared that Miss Singer had told her she was tired of Worthon. and was P 1 to meet a man whom Mrs. Conway j helieved to be Claude StUlman Mrs. gj Conway said Miss Sincer exhibited to fl) Conway an Iron door Knob wrapped up in a handkerchief, and said she was going to meet a man In a lonely lone-ly place and wanted Conway to nil him with it so that sho could "gel his roll' This Mrs. Conway said her husband declined to do, and they lefl Chicago that night and did noi hear ol the murder until later. Mrs. Conway's statement in pait follows: "Tne last Mr. Conway and I Faw ol Sophia Singer was about 10:30 oclocl Monday night. Wo were preparing to leave Chicago. She had given us $35 and two suits, of clothes lor my husband. hus-band. "Worthen had left early in the evening. eve-ning. Miss Slnser, who was living with him as his wife, came In the house about S o'clock. " 'Oh,' she said, "I met the swellest fellow, named Stillman. He is rather rath-er elderly and has lots of diamonds, and I am to meet him at 10 o'clock and we are going to a chop suey place.' "Miss Singer asked Conway to go out with her when she went 10 meet Stillman She showed him an iro.n door knob covered with one of Worth-en's Worth-en's handkerchiefs. ".Miss Singer said 'I'll get him up an alley somewhere and you rap hiin with this and we will got his roll.' "My husband refused. She wanted want-ed me to go out with her, hut Conway Con-way -would not let me. and I did not want to go anyway, sue was angereu at us because wo would not go. "Wo left Sophia about 11 o'clock. We had been quarreling a little, but she was of changeable moods and I kissed her good bye. "We took a street car to the inter-urban inter-urban station and left for Hammond, Ind. 1 think we got there about 1 o'clock. We stayed all night In a hotel there and then went to Rochester, Roches-ter, Ind The first I know about the murder was Tuesdaj evening while wo were at Rochoster " Mrs. Conway explained that tho $35 had been given to her husband by Sophia So-phia SIngor because they were entirely en-tirely out of funds and Miss Singei was anxious to be rid of the actor and his Tlfc. |