Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-16
STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS IN
TO DEATH OF ANNA DANIEL
SON, OF GoWRlE.
DIED SUDDENLY JULY
is IN. SEATTLE, WASH
Supposed Husband, osteopath Physi-
clan, Admits Marriage Was Trick
and Thss He Has Wife Living IN
Los Anseles-Miss Danielson Had
More Than $4,000 in Her Own Name.

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Fort Dodge, Aug le-9'a'ti'hs
velop1nen,s were disclosed today in the
oos, Of the strange death of Anna
r,,,to ,.o,,re woman
bai1elso'i' VIC
who died SO mEslel!ousis III 7e'@'
! July l5-eleycn days after she was
sun,osed IN have married an osteopath
-..,. ~ poroi,,a, n A,,e, Inv
u 0a'''e' "
! name.
| The story of the mysterious death
was published in the Messenger on
July Il. At that time, however, little
| could be learned of the circumstances,
| it being known only that there was TO
be an investigation
Here are a few OF the latest devel-
| opmentS in one of the most bathing
mystery deaths in the history of Web
ster county:
Dr.. Allen is being held by the Seattle
authorities He admits that he never
married Miss Danielson-and that the
| ceremony which she believed made her
his legal wife was only a mock cere-
mony. He is prisoner on vice
| charge
|
humed from the Gowrie grave and
| taken to Minneapolis where after an
! examination by Dr. John O. Taft OF
Minneapolis and experts from the Uni
versity of Minnesota two fresh scars
of a hypodermic needle were found on
her right arm.
| Following this post mortem examina-
ton, Minneapolis authorities announced
|
been started.
! Miss Danielson was worth more than
$50, 900 in her own name.
STRANGE Story of Romance.
The story of Anna Danielson is a
strange blending OF romance and pos
sible crime
Anna Marie Danielson was born on
the old honest cad near Gowrie, thirty
four years ago. She grew TO young
womanhood in this county. Some years
ago she went to Minneapolis where she
obtained employment as a stenogra
pher Wealthy in her own name it was
| not necessary that she should work, but
she preferred the life Of a working
girl in the city to the life offered on
the farm. According to Minneapolis
dispatches. those who knew her in
|
reserved nature and made but few
friends. Her business affairs were
|, handled by Minneapolis firm of law
yers.
Well supplied with money, she left
: Minneapolis early this summer for a
| vacation trip to the Pacific coast. She
reached the coast June !. 1t was on a
steamer bound UP the coast from San
1 r n 10
she met DR.. Allen, according TO dis
patches.
Love at First Sight.
1t must have been love at first sight
for Miss Danielson. The osteopath' s
courtship was brief and on July a
ceremony was performed by which
Miss Danelson believed she was made
!; the wife of the doctor.
DR.. Allen, according TO dispatches,
confessed that he obtained a marriage
. license in Tacoma, that it was never
, legally used and that with the aid Of
this license he convinced the Gowrie
woman that she was his wife.
1t was eleven days after this mock
ceremony that Miss Danielson was
J found dead in Seattle.
, Dispatches to her brother, Gabriel
Danielson, living near Gowrie, at the
time Of her death, said that his sister
died Of commissions. Other dispatches
received by the brother at this time
: said that the Seattle authorities were
) investigating the death. The brother
Immediately left for the west.
According to the information con-
tanned in the Seattle dispatches, Allen
told the authorities that ne found his
pseudo wife in commissions when he
entered their fiat in Seattle. July Is.