Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-23 | Page 1 | Say Gray Haired Woman Hired Him to Kill Mate

SAY GRAY HAIRED WOMAN HIRED HIM TO KILL MATE SALEM, Ore., Sept. 23. Gray haired and wrinkled of face. Mrs. Lena Stelger. 63 years of ago, when on the' Witness stand In the circuit court here; . yesterday ln her own defense against tho charge of complicity in an assault . with Intent to kill her husband. Theo ' l W. Stelger. committed by Jesse Mul- j Unix last March. Mulllnlx, who rs 'serving a sentence or eight ears in I the state prison here for the eniDv, 'u u h. h hi cMiif" xod Implicated Mr- I Stelger. Allegations made by Mulllnlx In his j confusion, to the effei i that he had iiefii hired by Mrs Stelg. r to kill her! I husband, were denied by Mrs. Ktetger. j las also was MullliOxs testimony 10 j ! the effect the had agreed to divide ( Steigcr's property after he had been 'gotten out of the way. 'I never dreamed that Mulllnlx had l murder In his heart, ' she declared. I She, however, admitted meeting1 I Mulllnlx in local rooming houses on I more than twenty occasions and de-clarcd de-clarcd sto iiearti! ashamed "f her; 1 relations with him no