Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-09

hotel d Dearborn avenue. ana tAsn7 re ne
moved abnce of tWise, llnally uoinG 90
Ms Dnaharis1 hpsne 40 LaeSlIe ave
Ne where she died When she moved
In there her plans were apparently all
most ready for the ANAL acts Her
trunk, q peculiarly marked: one. she fore
warded SITTER opening II and taking out
q few articles. to DR.. UnEer'e ONCE at
Halsted and Madison streets. Then she
began to complain of sickness. and ss-s
cured treatment from DIR. T. II. Schreu-
der for dysentery. At the same Time
however. she was able to come down
town. ENJOY her purchas es Of candy. and
make arranSementsfo for her Will in favor
OF Smiley, which she signed only two
days before her death. after having a
special provieion providing for the Gre
nation OF her body inserted.
Everything Was going along to suit
her, apparently. and Saturday after
noon, Aug. IS, she was ready for her
pretended death. She took a draughts
Of some kind. which rfe either had In
her poesessicn, or which she received
that afternoon by messenger boy who
came from DR.. fingers office. In a
ehort time she was deathly sick and in
great agony. She begged that DR.. un-3
|ger be telephoned for, and this wac done,
but he was not in his Office. In her pain!
she cried out again and again, finger,
Upger Unger,'' When she could not
use her voice distinctly and thought she;
was not understood, she tried to spell
out the letters of the Doctors name with
her fingers. Nobody knows what her
thoughts were, but probably she believ-@
ed that her physician friend had made
some mistake and that he would help
her II he could only be found.
AT II o'clock che was dead. Half an
hour later she was taken to Carroll's
undertaking establishment on Wells
street and her body wac embalmed.
Then the coroner was summoned. hut
his examination could yield little, and
his verdict reported no crime. The Gre
nation OF the body wac quickly ordered
by Brown. Smiley or Unger, who busied
themselves with the funeral, and all ev-
idence Of what had happened was de-
stroyed.
There the history of the case might
have ended had ii not been for the per-
sistent inquiries made by the New York
Life Insurance Company, the officials OF
which suspected fraud. Their policy wac
Uncomfortable, but instead OF paying the
sAhloAut ~ u6GlHO1 W tuSRlS6dlSGH uIUSIi
the will. Smiley, they turned II over to
the courts to give to the rightful owner.
Then they investigated further. suspect
ing the whole Mooney & Boland agency
of being involved in some conspiracy
to defraud. They found in time, how
ever. that Mr.. Boland would help them
to ferret out the criminals, and they let
him do the reat Of the work
/ Then came the development OF the evi-
dence that resulted in the laying Of the
case before State's Attorney Deneen,
and the arrest OF the three men. The
case may not be worked to the end yet.
and the developments of the future may
be more sensational than those OF the
past. The bare possibility that really
Miss Defenbach did not die, and that
the substitution OF body for hers was
actually made, is, however. secuted by
everyone concerned In the casa.
A short investigation yesterday
showed that Or. Unger and Miss Defen-
bach had attempted unsuccessfuIly
within a few months past to secure
$l0,0 900 policies in the Equitable Life, the
Mutual Life OF New York, the Security
Trust and Life, the Metropolitan Life
and the Prudential Insurance Company.