The evening times., 1900-06-30
WOMAN EXPIRES IN a CAB.
4 ThiIade!ei,ia Case at First InvoIv-
ed in Mystery.

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PHILADELPHIA. June 3e.-Between 3
and I O'Clock Oh Thursday afternoon clos
Ell carriage dashed UP TO the door Of 2SsS
CCluU bia Avenue. First there alighted an
elderly woman. Then the driver entered
the cab and carried into the house the body
Of q young woman
The older woman was Mrs p Graham.
The young II. her daughter. Anna Z. era
ham. Sae was dead having expired. her
mother says. in her arms during thei. ride
After the arrival Of the body at her
home the family physician. Dr. Louis
Weber, was called in He advised the no.
tiicarCn Cf the coroner. Dr. Morton, the
COrOrer's physician, and Detective McKin-
ney visited the house that same night ana
an autopsy was held. According 10 both
Or. Morton ard Coroner Dusan. Anna Gra-
ham came 10 her death through purely nat
UTal causes. The inquest viii be held to-
day
Anna F. Graham vas a woman Of thirty
with black eyes and masses OF dark hair
She was employed at an Eighth Street
store. On Tuesday, according TO her moth
er'S story, she went tC visit an aunt living
in the vicinity OF Twelfth and Susquehan-
ne Avenue On Thursday afternoon Mrs
Graham received a telephone call that her
daughter was very iii. She called a cab
drove 10 Twelfth and SusQuehanna Avenue
and On the journey back 10 her home her
daughter died in her arms.
There are conflicting stories concerning
the womaau's whereab bouts at the time OF
her Illness. The father refused ycster-
day to make any statement concerning his
daughters death. The aunt with whom
it is said the woman was stopping. was
2 the Columbia Avenue house and re-
fused TO give either her name or address.
NeighboTs allege that they were told Anna
was visiting in the suburbs. Others say
that AEna herself told them that she was
going to PitJsburg. None Of the family
has many close acqua.ntances in the neigh
borhCod, although they have lived there
for several years.
Miss Graham was of a romantic nature,
and her sweetheart, it IS said, had been
forbidden the house. The woman and
her mother were devoledly attached to
each other. Her father is the engineer of
the school al Twenty-sixth and jefferson
Streets.
One point IF difference existed in the
household. Tie young woman was en-
gagged to l. :. shannon, Of Pittsburg. but
whose residence in the Philadelphia direc-
tories is reported as the Shelburne," a
hotel at 81 North Fifteenth Street II is
said that because OF the family opposi-
tiOn Miss Graham met HIM away from the
house. Shannon has an estate in Pitts
burg. from which he receives an income.
Shannon could not be found yesterday
At the ShelbuTne il was said thar he had
not been seen for scme time.
In an interview yesterday Mrs. Graham
said: My daughter was engaged TO be
married TO a man l did not like. We new
er had any serious quarreis, but, of course.
she knew that l was opposed to the en-
gagement. The man was L. T. Shannon. of
Pittsburg- Not long ago l told him not 10
call to see Anna any more, and / told my
daughter that If she rnarried him her old
home would be closed TO her.
anna went to visit ke. aunt last Tues
day flight, and yesterday afternoon I re-
ceived a telephone message that she was
i'll. I hurried to Twelfth and Susquehanna
Avenue and found my daughter there /
thought she would be better of at home
and ordered a cab. On the way out Co.
lumbia Avenue Anna died in my arms
For a year Anna Graham had been suf-
fering from an organic trouble. DR.. Nor
ton, the cOToner's physician, said last night:
The woman died from purely natural
causes. There can be no doubt about II
at all She had been suffering for over a
year. Although Detective Mckinney ac-
cOmpanied me to the house on Thursday
night, he is not working upon the case.
No one is There is no need OF it,
Coroner Dugan said: 'It was a mysteri
Gus case and we made a carefuI-investi-
CATION. The autopsy shows that the young
woman died of natural causes, and that has
ended our investigation"