FULL TEXT: Wheaton, Minn., June 21. – A tiny girl, wearing
dresses that barely touch her shoetops, in appearance a bashful child,
Antoinette Seidensticker, the 14-year-old daughter of Fred Seidensticker, a
farmer, yesterday afternoon unflinchingly heard the news that she had been
indicted for murder in the first degree for slaying her 19-year-old lover,
Herman Shipp, on May 25.
Not a word did she utter, not a change occurred in her
expression, when she realized that she had been branded a murderess. She calmly
returned to her cell to await her trial, which may begin at the next term of
court, June 27.
The crime for which she stands indicted was One of the most
shocking in the history of the county. Driving to this city, borrowing a
revolver, going to he farm where her lover worked, getting him into her buggy
and then shooting him thru the heart, the girl endeavored to end her own life,
but failed.
For nerve the murder and attempted suicide stand
unparalleled in the county and the tender age of the child criminal makes it
more remarkable. Only girlish jealousy, aroused because the youth had
accompanied another girl to a dance, can explain the act.
[“Wee Girl Will Be Tried For Murder - Antoinette
Seidensticker Is Indicted at Wheaton for the Shooting of Young Shipp.” The
Evening Statesman (Walla Walla, Wa.), Jun. 27, 1905, p. 5]
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