Tiny error of the wily widow kept her from getting away with murder.

And women who kill their husbands always are trapped by little details they overlooked while squaring the love triangle.

The best efforts of all the world's moralists may not stamp out crimes of passion,

love slayings and such, but the compensating angel always has decreed and probably always will,

that those who kill in the heat of love or fury shall be found out. While admittedly,

the deaths of some unwanted husbands and wives which pass as suicides or from accidental causes

are in reality murders, you can count on the knuckles of one digit the slayings of this type

known as such, which have not been solved and speedily.

The answer, of course, as any detective will tell you, is that a man or woman, inexperienced in

the art of dealing death, will invariably make some error which can be detected by the

thorough-thinking police officers of today, and even the tiniest error will expose the most carefully worked-out plot.

The jewelry which Ruth Snyder cashed under her mattress and the railroad ticket stub which Judd Gray left in his hotel room wastebasket

have become classic examples to prove this fact, but the story of the tiny error made recently

by a ranch wife of the South Dakota Plains, and which ultimately sent her to the state's prison

for life, is even more dramatic and intriguing. One little error trapped her, and then the able

Dakota officers found several missteps which they could

patch together to make the entire picture clear cut. It was about 8.30 o'clock one evening not long

ago when Mrs. Emacutus, 42, wrinkled and drab, awakened her husband Thomas, 49, and sent him out into the night to investigate a cackling in

the ranch henhouse. Cudus went armed, for he was certain chicken thieves were about. He stepped out of the

house and walked a few feet. Then a shotgun blast from the henhouse struck him in the heart, killing him instantly.

Mrs. Kudas ran screaming to the neighbors, and within a short time, Deputy Sheriff Thomas

Dreyback and Dr. R. V. Overton, County Coroner, from the neighboring town of Winter, reached the ranch,

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