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NQUEST FORVICTIM HELD HERE★ ★ ★ ★High School Scores Again By Histrionic Ability in Playlet at GrottoPALOS PARK RESIDENT MIXED IN LATEST CHICAGO KILLING; LOVE FEST IS RESPONSIBLEHenry Manning, Servant at Smith Home Meets Fate Intended For Wife of Artist; Crazed Woman Shoots HimINQUEST HELD FRIDAY AT MORGAN PARKThe result of another triangle affair! Two are dead and another, a bogus Russian count, is sought, as an accomplice, as the result of too much Bohemia and the attempt to break up a woman’s home. Wanda Stopa, self confessed, love bandit, has paid the price for home breaking , with her life. An aged caretaker, Henry Manning, employed at the Y. Kenly Smith home, at Palos Park, died in an heroic attempt to save the life of his beloved mistress, Mrs, Y. Kenly Smith, when the assassin fired at herFLORICULTURE’S DISPLAY TO BE HELD MAY 10thThe floriculture department of the Ridge Woman’s Club will hold its eleventh annual plant market Saturday, May 10, at the corner of 103rd and Wood Sts.This market is a unique feature with the Ridge Woman’s Club. It was started eleven years ago, under the leadership of Mrs. Heffron, with the idea of stimulating interest in the beautifying of our home grounds.as she made an effort to escape the fate which awaited her; and the home life of a Palos Parker is disrupted as the ultimate result of the melee.An inquest over the body of Henry Manning, the servant, was held at Laekone’s undertaking parlors, Friday afternoon, with some rather surprising incidents attendant. Mrs. Smith, a frail little woman, one of the principals in the home, telling in clear, concise and steady tones of the manner in which Manning met his death at the hands of Wanda Stopa, Chicago, lady lawyer.She told the deputy coroner Wanda shot Manning twice to her knowledge, then fled to a waiting taxi. Thire was no violence at the time of the shooting, as the woftian lawyer descended upon the household in such haste, that Mrs. Smith had only time enough to jump through her bedroom window to avoid the fate which Manning met.Ada Schmitz, of Palos Park, a neighbor to the Smiths, testified she had been interrogated that morning about eight o’clock, by a woman in a taxi as to the location of the residence-of Mrs. Smith. She told the jury, but she heard nothing of the shooting until later. She stated it might have been possible the woman in the car was Miss Stopa, but could not swear to the fact.As interest in the market increased from year to year, it was found that a substantial sum of money was received from the sale of plants. It was decided that all of this money should be used for philantrophic work. This year, one-half of the proceeds of the sale will go to the Oak Haven OldMrs. Lotta Hermanson, another neighbor from Palos Park, said she had heard three shots, then as she looked across the street toward Smith home she saw Mrs. Smith in the front lawn near the house. She(Continued on page 8)
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Morgan Park Suburban Star
Morgan Park, Illinois, US
Thu, May 01, 1924
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