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Believe Hired Thugs Murdered Anna LloyditSlPolice Eliminate Robbery and Assault Theory and Seek Different Motive—Slain Woman May Have Had Warning of Coming Evil.Did Anna Lloyd have a presentiment that she would meet with a . violent death? Did she know some secret ofwhich she was afraid and in which sheClknew her life was imperiled from itsi-possesslon?These are questions that naturally arise in conrtection with a little circumstance that has come to the surface since the minute inquiry made by the police anu the newspapers into the life of the woman who met such a tragical end on the last night of 1909. This circumstance is related by a sister in Violet chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.Not many weeks ago after a meeting of the chapter Miss Lloyd and the woman who recalls the circumstance and who desires to remain unknown at pres-ALABAMA BREWER COMMITS SUICIDEent, were detained a short time after the meeting. They were ready to go home at the same time and the friend was astonished to see Miss Lloyd make preparations take a Delta avenue car at Columbia avenue, on which Yeatman Masonic lodge rooms are located and which is but three short squares from the Lloyd home.“Why,” said the astonished sister, “you don’t take a car for that short distance, do you?”“Yes, indeed I do,” came the astonishing answer. I am seared to death to walk this street after night. I always take the car.”Just then the car came up and the woman never had a chance to renew the ; conversation though she remembered It perfectly and has wondered at it more | than ever since the murder.The incident is regarded by those who | know the facts as showing one of two things. Either Miss Lloyd had had aDespondency Over Loss of Position by Prohibition Laws Given as Motive.(Associated Press Dispatch.!MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 4.—Frank Pabst, formerly of Chicago, and head of a local brewery plant, qommltted suicide by shooting today.He was despondent over the loss of his position on account of the prohibition law's.He was not related to the Milwaukee Pabsts.Cook’s Data on WayTo the Nafional Society f*WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—(Associated Press).—Dr. Frederick A. Cooks polar data are on the way to Washington to be examined by the National Geographic society. According to information sent to Prof. J. H. Gore, the documents were started from Copenhagen on Dec. 21, which wrould get them to Washingtonpremonition or a warning which greatly affected her or she had a dangerous secret in her possession by which her life was imperiled and which she had reason to believe would cause her to be in danger, more especially on the street near her home.The incident is regarded with all the more significance because of the fact that elsewhere she was brave as a lion and ordinarily had no fear of personal harm from any source.Dangerous to “Kid.”An incident which shows how dangerous it is to joke or try “to ring in a luff” in times of such public alertness as at present prevails in Cincinnati is shown by the experience of a prominent business man. He made a bluff to Juvenile Court Officer Frank Kuhn, who Immediately hurried to police head-(Continued on Page 7, Column 1.)
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Jan 05, 1910
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