Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-05-12
CHOKED TO DEATH
THE TERRIBLE FATE or a
CYPRIAN IN q PINE
BLUFF BAGNI0.
The Murderer Believed to Be an Old
Lover of the Woman,-Cause
For the Killing Unknown.

Her life ended in a bagnio, was the
sad fate of Irene Meyer. Life in such
plaee of shame must be hard
enough, without having soul
nshered into eternity direct from
such a place.
Irene Meyer was an inmate of the
bagnlo of Emma Allen, on East Bar
raque street. She came here several
months ago. and, for a time, lived at
private boarding house. She then
took up her abode at the resort Of
Emma Allen.
Friday night between 10 ana Il
o'clock stranger, dressed in II dark
suit of clothes and wearing a pair Of
patent leather shoes, entered he
bagnio and called for Irene Meyer.
The mans clothes were very dusty
and he had the appearance ofhaviug
been rolling in the dusty streets. He
accounted for his appearance by say
ing that he had been out driving.
Irene Meyer joined him in the parlor,
when the stranger banttred Emma
Allen for a game Of srven-up for the
beer. Several games were played.
the stranger losing and paying for
anumber and the Allen woman
number.
Nine bottles OF beer were drank by
the party and the man then said
that he would like To wash his face
aud hands. lie was carried to ii
lavatory where lac buthe1 after
which he accompanied Irene Meyer
to her room. He remained there
probably an hour and hail
Emma Allen sent d message to Irene
Meyer. and the man would not let
the messenger see her. Emma Allen
then started mp stairs to see the
woman. On reaching the head Of
the stairs she mat the stranger com
ing down. The man hit her fear
full blow in the face aud rushed
down stairs. Emma Allen called To
the porter and badc him close the
door and not let the stranger out.
The p@rter and the stranger clinched
and a tussle, ensued. during which /
the Allen womnn struck thestranger
over the head with a cuspidor. He
finally escaped from the house, and +
up TO o'clock, Saturday morning, |
when Il small boy met the man bare
headed near the james place, south |
east of the city, nothing has been
seen or heard OF him.
After the departure OF tt estranger,
Matte Roland. an inmate Of the
bagnio, went to the room occupied
by the Meyer woman, and found her
lying across the ted unconscious
she gave an alarm, when olhers
Joined her and found that Isene
Meyer was cold in death She
haze been struck fri%htful blew on
the forehead aud her throat showed /
TINT she had been choked. Until the
Beland woman entered the room the
other inmates Of the house had heard I
no noise and had not the least
idea thai a murder had beeneommit-
ted.
A corners inquest was held Satur-
day morning, the verdict being that
the woman came to her death by I
strangulation at the hands Of an un-
kn0 MN popfv
The murderer is believed to be
Fred Cloud, a machinist, who LETT
Fort Worth, Texas, with the woman
and carried her TO Alexandria, La,
where they lived for time when the
woman lett him and came here. The
woman has a child about -years cid |
that now lives with its grand I
parents in Fort Worth, SO she
infoi med o woman Friday, and she
said that Fred Cloud was the father
OF. the child.
J. II. Meyers is believed 10 be the
womans husband, as among her
effects she had many letters from a
man who claimed to be her husband
who signed the name J. II. Meyers to
the letters, which were postmarked
at Greenfield. Ark.
The Lody was turned over to In
degtakar Ralph Robinson to be pre-
pared Tor burial,