The San Francisco call., 1897-11-02

With herself f5r her heroine, Anna
Blythe HoIywel, the Berkeley under
graduate, wove ore of her loved plots of
mystery and death and then proceeded to
present her work to the" world more
realistically than ever tragedy was pre-
sented before. ..:..
There was but one hitch-the first at
tempt to reach the climax failed. The
heroine was brought back 10 life; but,
undismayed by the failure, the plot was
; woven out to cover few days more, and
then came the tinale-as successful as ever
the poor distorted brain that planned 1t
could have hoped for.
Perhaps the girl realized the hopeless
ness of her condition; perhaps she had
pictured a hero she knew could never
come to her, and so she would seek him
not here but in the hereafter.
Plain of face and figure, sufferer from
a complication of disorders, physical as
well as mental, she may have seen that
the Joys that came 10 other girls could
never be hers, and she gave herself up to
day -dreaming-to building castles in the
thin air, IN which she dwelt with her
hero.
To this hero, whom she endowed with
all the love and the valor and the self
sacrifice that only dreamers can see, she
gave The name OF Arthur"
For the mystery of the black bordered
letter and the telegram Anna Holywell
received on October % has been definitely
cleared away. She penned them both and
= planned that the latter should be the
means Of the discovery of ner litelesS
orm. It-Ieached its destination too soon
10" answer its purpose, but it was the
means BY Which the thread of her plot
was broken, and of giving her a!few days
longer lease Of life.
-~. When the message was delivered at he1
home in Berkeley it was taken a, once TO
her room, where she was known to be,
but when she failed to respond to the
: knock on her door 1t was opened, and she
: was found lying unconscious on The floor,
from the effects OF morphine self admins
tered. She was resuscitated, but was not
discourag ed by the interruption, and less
than a week later she concluded ner life
p drama.
AS shown conclusively by the develop
men1s al last Sunday the letter to herself,
telling of "ArtuurS 81 death, could only
=: have been written by herself.
The black bordered paper found in her
trunk was identical with That on which
the letter was written, while the hand
writing was Enthusiastically that OF Anna
HoIyweii, but was the telegram also writ
ten by her?
The letter was GATED October % (Satur-
day), and postmarked San Francisco $50
A. NJ, October %. On Sunday, the 24th
the girl was seen al the ferry by class
mate who watched her as she boarded the
6:30P NJ boat for Oakland, and again saw
her on the Berkeley train. She could
cd n d1vyd II oil Z ha
letter then, but did she also write the
telegram? II so, how did she contrive to
have it delayed until the following even
ing2
Yesterday the movements of the dead
girl were traced from the time she started
for tbs city until she returned to Berke
ley, and II is definitely known that she
not only wrote the dispatch herself but
took. care that 1t should not be sent until
the following night.
Arriving on this side OF the bay Miss
Holyweil boarded a car and proceeded to
one of the branch Offices of the Wester
Union Company. She went in and taking
blank wrote the message in pencil, and
she added the hour on the following day
the message was TO be sent, and warned
the receiver not to transmItlt before that
time.
The girls attention was drawn to the
fact that It bore no signature. She took
the message and wrote al the bottom,
"R. J. Blythe" then turned and left the
ottlce.
Going to a neigh boring ter-box she
posted the letter addressed 10 herself and
hurried back to the ferry. There she was
seen and instantly recognized by n. G.
90. Guiberson, . classmate, VINO followed her
on to the boat and saw her on the train.
She.must have gone directly home, for her
abser ceh had not been of suffic ent duration
Tor he friends with whom sne boarded to
notice 1t:
The letter she knew she would receive
in the morning: The announcement OF
the death OF Arthur" would be The mo-
tive for her suicide, and the telegram,
which she was so careful should not reach
her before night, was 10 be delivered altrr
her death.
That was her plot. 1t is almost certain
that no Arthur" had come into her real
life. Her father never knew of ner ever
having had an acquaintance by tnat
name; four students at Berkeley, who