The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-10
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Kills
Self
sTBNOGRAPHER
TAKES POISON, TIL II N
WALKS TO HOME OF ADMIR-
ER AND DIES AT HIS DOOR

no Hot tIiinK mkn8 AnBiOW
was jealous of me. She was de-
spondcnt because 1 was going
away from Tacoma to live and be-
cause she hadn't been able TO get
work though she had been hero
q month.
1--WE were not engaged, though
i liked her better than any other
girl i knew. I never went with
any other girl. We had talked
about getting married. but not
definitely.
'sI am rather cold blooded.
There was no agreement between
us. The 'other girl who was spok-
en- of In the morning papers 10 an
old family friend who came over
to stay with tho body till the corr
oner came. Miss Ansl0w was not
Jealous. That Is absurd"
EMMETT MOODY. the man I'm
the case.
"Well. Fay, I've just taken
strychnine.
Feeling that she was losing her
sweetheart. though she had Just
received telephone call from him
asking her to go to dinner with
him, Miss Hazel Anslow. IS,
stenographer. went to her room.
took strychnine. walked two
blocks to the mans house and
fell dead at his feet.
The man in the case. II Emmett
L. Moody. bookkeeper. formerly
employed with the girl by the A.
z. Smith Electrical company.
Moody notified DR.. Balabanoff,
then said he would go to Spana-
way to notify her brother-in-law.
Miss Anslow's mother, of Port Or
chard, will arrive this afternoon.
The girl was living at sos
South K< street. With Miss Fay
Crockett, she had been at home
all afternoon. The girls played
the plano, and Miss Anslow SEEM
ed In good spirits.
I'm going to dinner with EN-
NETT Moody" she told Miss
Crockett after lunch. "T think I'll
walk over to his house and meet
him."
She returned few minutes
later, however, saying that Moody
was away.
"I'm mad at him." she said.
He wasn't there. He disappointed
me-"
About o'clock, however, the
telephone rang. Miss Anslow an
swered 1t and talked for few
minutes.
"It's Emmett" she said TO Miss
Crockett. HE wants me to come
right over. We're going out"
She went to her room for her
coat and hat. She came out d.
rectly. looking wild and stary.
"I've just taken strychnine,"
she gasped.
Miss Crockett thought she was
joking.
"Why?" she humored her.
Girl Cried Bitterly.
"I've nothing left to live for"
said the girl, bursting into tears
and embracing her friend. She
held her close for a minute cry
ing bitterly, while Miss Crockett
tried to comfort her.
Then Miss Anslow walked to
Moody's home, knocked at the
door, was admitted and fell dy-
ing at the mans feet.
Last spring Miss Anslow left
the electrical company for a va
cation at her home at Port Or
chard. She worked In the post
office there a while. returning
here In July. Her position was
filled and she had not found an
other since.
Moody Tells Story.
Emmett Moody, the "man in the
case," talked freely of the suicide
today. "I was planning to leave
flor Seattle for good. he said. "I
told her yesterday afternoon over
the telephone that was leaving
for Everett this morning.
'She was rather Respondent
anyhow over not getting work. sp
1 suppose that caused her to kill
herself.
II had my own dinner at home
and was starting downtown 10 the
Elks' club. Then remembered
that l had forgotten my tobacco. l