Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-10-08
MURDERED With
A SILKEN CORD
Young Woman Art Teacher
and Student Lured to 4
Mysterious Death.
MAN IN BLACK CAR
Said to Have Met Miss Leegson and
to Have Taken Her to Scene
OF Murder.

Chicago, Oct. THE murder of
Miss Ida G. Leagson, an art student,
who was lured by telephone call
to the prairie southwest of this city
Saturday and strangled with a silken
cord. still was unexplained today.
Little has been found to indicate a
motive for the crime. Hurried in
vestigation has shown only that she
led an exemplary life, had no men
callers at any of the places where
she is known to have resided and
she was not thought to have possess
ed any large amount of money.
Miss Leegson was a graduate of
the University of Chicago, sculptor
pupil of Laredo Taft and student
at tic Art Institute. Her murder
marked the end of long, pitiful
struggle to make her way as q
sculptor. Her studies at the Univer-
sity of Chicago were to fit her for
work by which she could earn enough
to complete her art education. For
several winters she taught school. re-
turning to the city to resume work
at the art institute. Only a few
hours before she was lured to her
death she answered an advertisement
for servant, saying she had to have
funds to enable her to continue her
studies and was not too proud to do
kitchen work
Late Saturday afternoon man
who gave the name of Wilson tele-
phoned to the residence where Miss
Leegson lived and asked her to take
position as nurse in maternity
case. She was directed to go to
Seventy first street and Western
avenue and walk to an address four
miles west. The body was found
three miles west of the street inter-
section in a clump of bushes. 4ha
address to which she had been d.
rected does not exist Game Wardens
followed a trail of torn clothing to
the spot where her half nude form
was lying. On her neck was finger.
marks and encircling it was q thick
blue line which Was made by piece
of cord found nearby. Thete were
fresh tracks made by IN automobile.
A guard at railroad crossing on
Seventy first street saw large black
car go west on Seventy-first street
Saturday evening. 1t returned abopt
three hours later.
Miss Lesgson recently returned
from Mason City, Iowa, where she
taught school for few weeks. She
once brought suit against DR.. T. J.
Allen of Aurora, ILL.,. on the ground
that he falsely accused her of flirting
with some of her pupils and caused
her dismissal.
The Mysterious "Wilson."
With the finding OF an abandoned
automobile in a park, the police to-
day redoubled their energies in the
search for the mysterious Wilson"
whose promise of position drew
Miss Leegson to the prairie near
Clearing, where she was garr0ted
early Sunday. The automobile was
stolen before o'clock Saturday from
Jackson Park, and 1t was shortly
before this hour that Wilson tele-
phoned the residence where Miss
Leegson roomed. The call was in
| resi- onse to an advertisement fon
work, which read:
practical nurse Maternity cases
preferred
Met BY Man in Black Car.
The police have ascertained thar
Miss Leegson was met by man in
q black car when she alighted from
the Western avenue car. The tonneau
of the car recovered in the park, west
of the scene of the murder, indicated
there had been struggle. Coroner's
Physician ]. B. Springer Is OF the
opinion that Miss Leegson was tor
tured by the man from 6 o'clock
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