Boredom of Life Led Mrs. Sweetin to Slay Husband • No Romance in Home of Miner Husband; Turned to Hight to Relieve Tedium of Living. (Continued from r*cr One.) J'.Ut I always remembered l was mar lied to another man. “He told me that Ids wife didn't love him and that he didn't r are any thing about her. By then lie was like Hod to me and whatever'tie told me, 1 believed. So, when he told me t didn't love Wilford, and that Wilford didn't rare for me, i believed that too. “It was dusk one day. and we were standing on the church steps at Ina when he told me he couldn't live without me, that he had to have me and that If he couldn’t havK me any other way, he'd get rid of Ids wife and marry me. Turn* to God. "i thought of divorce. I went home and prayed to remain u good wife and mother. I couldn’t sleep and Hod forsook me. Hight no longer prayed with me. lie just loved me. T was a slave and he was a king. 1 worshiped him and thought he could do no wrong. I had erred but never sinned. For my errors I could ask forgiveness «nd did, but for my sins there was no prayer. My lips were silent and my heart mute. VI loved Anna, his wife. T thought sh4 was too good for him. And I think she loved me, but I couldn't 1-ajse my eyes to hers, for I loved her husband. ‘'It was on another night and again ln;,;church that my jmstor told me Ihbt I belonged to him and that he was mine. 'We've got to get rid of Hijjm,’ he said. ‘We're going to kill t h|*m.' VI ran down the slepa and down the roj||i. It was terrible, too terrible to think about. 1 went home and drop ped to my knees and prayed and when my husband came home, I cojaldn’t talk to him and I couldn't' coifoe near him. The Downfall. jjjThe more I tried to forget what might had said, the more it persisted ini,my mind. And then it just seemed ilfjit I had to do what he told me, so wfijpn he gave me the poison I put it In the things my husband ate. -pit didn't seem terrible any more. T,fi\e was the greatest thing in the wbhld. It didn't matter if you killed frtf it, if you stole for it. if you cheat ed: and lied. If your love was great ciijough. and Clodiy enough, all was fdfgiven. No'one who loved could do wrong and it didn't matter what the world said. “And when Sweetin died I wasn't n all sorry. The pastor preached title sermon. I remember that it was a jjgood m-rmon. jjue line stands out. said: 'I don't feel'Worthy to do ttits.’ meaning to preach the sermon lilt my husband.’ • “After the body was burled, Hight wplked home with me and he said: Well, that’s over. I wish the rest i>( the job was off my mind.' "We had a $1,000 in insurance and i paid that on the home and then I ;bad just a little bit left. I went to work rlerklng for six dollars a week but that kept my three boya and me with the help I got from my family. “Then I began to think how much I had loved my husband and how good he had been to me. He gave me everything I wanted but he wnsn t sweet—and Hight was sweet. Retribution. “If I could have gotten Wilford back. I would have. After all, I had been married to him 16 years and a women gets used to her man. I was afraid that Hight would poison Anna ind I didn’t want him to do It. 1 old him I didn't. “T didn’t want to many Hight then 'ur he wasn't good to me any more. I got tired of him. My mind came i ack to me and I knew he wasn't nearly as good as I thought he was. I w>ns a woman and he was a man ind a preacher and he shouldn't have nit sin in my mind and murder in rny heart. I just wanted to think Hunt my children. "Do you know, I think he's a cow i'd. He shouldn’t have said anything 'bout me. And I have three children: They re so rlotr: "And then I began thinking that I nasn't any better than he, and that I ,vaa a wicked woman. He kept tell ing me he loved me. and we were planning for a time when we could go away and forget that there had »ver been anybody else for either ■if tis. "I didn't try to pray sny more, and he didn't pray with me. “It wasn’t that he was good-look ing, or appealing, or anything else. i It was just that he was so different I and he loved roe.” The tale becomes repetttlonery as ithe woman attempts to expound anti clarify her own beliefs and motives. He loved nit" becomes the obligato to the emotional strain lie killed her.” Klsle Sweetin wishes that II might have heen dlff rent, but—” Reward. "I couldn't have been happy.” she philosophizes. "Ills face—my hus band's—was always before me. It Is now. I think of hint and I know now that l loved him more than I could love Hight. He was a coward not to protect me. lie drew me out of my happy life wilh a promise of something better, anti 1 have—this. "Why did I do It? That's what 1 am thinking about. But I didn't have any sense. I just knew that somebody was commanding me to do things and 1 did. “There is no more murder in my heart. I couldn't kill again—not even Hight. My heart is clean. "But what can 1 say? 1 have killed because I loved too greatly and now I have nothing.” The story of a burned out passion is glided. The undefined shounders shrug with inner cold. The eyes look out dully as If visualizing the vast, dreaded future stretching endlessly ahead. And the woman who killed turns to the hard cot In her cell as the steel door clangs shut behind her interviewer. Sans prayer, sans faith, sans love Klsle Sweet!n stands alone with her thoughts. 20 Bands to Combine in Concerts at Kearney Kearney, Xeb.. Sept. 24.—Twelve bands have accepted invitations to participate in Kearney's musical fes tical October 7 and 8. It is expected that the entry list wiien completed will total 20 bands scattered through (he trade area. A $350 cash prize goes to the winner in the band con test and every entrant is assured a premium down to $25, the total prize money exceeding $1,000. A feature on both evenings of tlie band festival will be a concert participated in by ail bands assembled^ here, in which be* tween 300 and 400 pieces are expected to take part. --si Nebraska News Nubbins __—-* Beatrice.—Rolf Huls, farmer and stork raiser In Hanover township, died at his home, after a brief Illness. He was «0 years of age. and leaves his widow and a family of grown children. Bine Springs.—Mrs. W M. Cope land died at her home at Fayette. Idaho, after a prolonged illness. The body was brought to Blue Springs, the former home of the deceased, for burial. Her husband was formerly Burlington agent at Blue Springs. C'oluinJiiw.—Knights of Columbus elected the following officers: Grand knight, John Miller; deputy grand knight, Joseph Stanzel; chancellor, A. W. Filscholz; recording secretary, Martin Messing: financial aercetary, Ij. K, Ilerrod: treasurer, I.eo Mosr sen; advocate, William O’Brien, warden, Clarenre Sihwlnd; inner guard. Dr. F. W. Heonard; trustee, Thomas AVade, and lecturer, Henry' Woerth. Beatrice.—B. H.. Oden, for more than 40 years a Beatrice resident, was given a dinner by his daughter, Mrs. , Pearl Hamilton, in celebration of his I 70th birthday aniversary. Fourteen | members nf the family were present. I WHY I QUIT GOING TO CHURCH Rupert Hughes is so drastic in this article that,if you’ve been backsliding, he may irritate you into going bach to church just to prove how wrong he is in October (Ssinopolitan Out Now Suite Will Not Seek Death for Woman Slaver ; Prosecutor to \>k Extreme Penalty for Hight, but Life Sentence for His Accomplice, He Says. (Continued from I’tut* One.) j do. He suggested poison as tht* solu tion. She was frightened at first. Rut lie won her over—she poisoned her husband. Jlight breached the. funeral ser mon. walked home with her after the body was burled. “As be walked homo with me be said. ‘Well, that's o\a*r. 1 wish the rest of the job was off my hands.' The rest of th»> job was the slaying of his Wife.” Six weeks later Mrs. Might was dead, lie had poisoned her. as he said he would. Then the horror of it all dawned on Mrs. Sweetin. • Idol is Sheltered. “My mind came back to me.” she said. lie wasn’t nearly as good as 1 thought he was. J couldn't marry him. His face—the face of mv hus band. was always before me. 1 knew then it was my husband T really loved. J.ut It is too late he’s gone-* I killed him.” Might is a coward, the woman de clared. He is repulsive to her. Hone is every hit of love she thought she had for him. swallowed in the abyss of the crime. “He was always a coward/' she cried, “or he would have protected me when he found I was weak. It was he who put murder in my heart, and he knew better.' ’ The children of the two families—• innocent victims of this crime-—were taken from their broken homes today. The children of Hight were taken by relatives and given homes. The three children of Mrs. Rweetin arc* to go to the Masonic orphanage. Roth I’.nt h Might nnd Wllford Sweet tn Wt'l'p .VlHlHin*. Girl'ii Identity learned. The Identity of the little iwhool girl wfyojw picture was found In Hipht's home was learned today. She clIcmI two years npo under c*irruniHtan<'es that are being Investigated. Her name was (trace Klliott. She died Oc toiler la. 1922, after a long Illness, which the doctors pronounced ty phoid fever. The little girl, some 1a years old at the time, was organist In Might's church. She spent much time at his home—his wife became jealous of her. Might has denied .that he killed the child. *Bwt arsenic, his favorite poison, sometimes ads when given in small doses over a long period like typhoid The symptoms are said to tie much the same. The child’s father said today he never suspected she died from other than typhoid: he does not think so now. Hut the authorities will continue the investigation. Other Women Involved. There are other chapters In the life of the minister that may lie investi gated. it is now apparent to the au thorities that while cloaked as a minister he frequently strayed from tile pat it of righteousness. There are women, It is said, who have kept silent when they might have revealed the true character of the man. These may lie interrogated by the authori ties. Might said today he would not em ploy a lawyer. Me expressed ihe de sire to go into court and plead guilty. From questions he asketl It was re vealed tie holies by pleading guilty he w'ill escape the death penalty. But it is not believed the court will take his plea of guilty. Me probably will lie given a trial before a jury. The stale's attorney feels sure the verdict will be deaths The woman, her relatives say, will have a lawyer. She has expressed a desire to fight for her life. She does not believe a jury will hang her after her story has been told. State's At torney Thompson indicated he would not press for the death penalty In her case. Mass of Kvidence. ‘‘I have been too busy getting these confessions to think much of the punishment,” he said today. There is a mass of evidence to he gotten to get her for the grand Jury. After It I* all assembled the states attorne> will know better h«>w to proceed. The coroner's jury that made Its re|M»rf today found that Hweqflll “came to his death by means of arsenic wilfully and maliciously ad* ministered by his wife at the instiga tion of Might, in conformity with an agreement between them to murder Swectin.” And this same Jury found that Mrs. Might “tame to her death bv arsenic administered with ma licious aforethought by her husband." In the eves of the law both are equally guilty, but the judge may hold there was mitigation in the crime of Mrs. Sweetin, in that she was under the influence of the strong er will of the minister. So she may escape with life imprisonment. Members of the coroner's Jury were bitter against the minister when they were dismissed. They openly declared he should l»e hanged. The grand jury is expected to re turn indictments In October and a short time later, probably at the same term cf court, the two prisoners will be tried for their lives. Burgess Bedtime Stories Ity THORNTON W. Ill KOKHS. R«grel» have ever b*on too lat«; On thin I pray you meditate. HowHf-r the Hound. A Surprise fur Three. “Bow wow-wow-ow-ow-ow!" roared Hie gi-eat voire of Bowser the Hound, as his wonderful nose was filled with the fresh, strong went of Reddy Fox besjde the barn. This was the kind of a trail It was a joy to follow. He knew that Reddy was only a little way ahead of him. This was a trail that could he followed at hia best speed. Down along the side of the barn Bowser raced, haying as only he can hay. Around the corner, across the cow yard hack of the barn, around the next corner and up along the other side of the barn the trail of Reddy Fox led Bowser. Then out straight across the barnyard toward where Bowser had left Inc' Billy Possum the trail led. .Vow, Farmer Brown's Boy had been very busy In the burn living a pen in which to keep I’ne' Billy Possum. He was working by lantern light At the first roar of Bowser's great voice he gave a start of surprise. Knr » moment he stood listening. Then tie dropped hl« tools and ran for the barn door, lie got there Just Sn t me "Bovv vvovv-w ovv-ovv ovv!” mat ed the great voice of Bowser the llinind. to see Reddy Fox running across the barnyard toward where Bowser had been left watching Unc’ Kill^ Pos sum. Is- t In that first, quick glance he saw that Unc’ Billy wasn't there, lit dis covered it at the same Instant that Reddy Fox discovered It. It Is n ques tion which was the more surprised— Farmer Brown’s Boy at seeing Red dy Fox there In the barnyard, or Reddy Fox at the discovery that Unc' Billy Possum was no longer stretched out there, it was hard for Reddy to believe Ids eves. But he had no time to try to find out what had become of Unc’ Billy Possum. Bowser the Hound was already turning the cor ner of the barn. Reddy s|>ed away into the Black Shadows. With a shout Farmer Brown's Boy ran to head Bowser off. He didn't want Bowser chasing Reddy Fox all night. He caught Bowser at the very place where 1 'm' Billy Possum had been left. He spoke sharply to Bow ser. Bowser put his tail between his legs and erawled to his master s feet. He whined. He was trembling ail over with excitement and eagerness to keep on after Reddy Fox. But he obeyed his master. "Well, sir, what do von mean by this?" dema tided Farmer Brown's IJo.v sternly. "What ha* become of that 1‘iiMUtn I told you to watch?" It wasn’t until that very tnatant that Bowser remembered t!nc’ Billy Possum. He looked around, expect ing to see him lying there. Such * funv look as there was on Bowser i face when he discovered that no Pos sum- was In sight. How rould a dead Possum get away? It hadn t l>een over three minutes sinee he had start ed after Reddy c*oi Yet that Possum had disappeared. It muat be that Reddy Fox hod picked him up and Carried him away. Bowser waa filled with ahame. You never have seen a dog more ashamed than was Bowser the Hound as he r ZI' looked up in hla mastar e face. Ha been left to watch that Posenii* } an