Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-12-16


cry store 2723 lafayette avenue, tn,
governor of Keptucky had offered ;
reward of $3.50 and the county Judge
a reward of 5000 for the arrest anc
conviction Of her slayer.
"Dr. Faber told most interesting
story to reporte; for The Republic
last night. Until two months ago he
had treated her for a nervous break.
down.
Zone day she came to me-" DR..
Feber said, and told me she wanted
to die. She asked me for some pois-
on that would be successful. refus-
ed. Then she wanted me tell her OF
one. That, too, ! refused.
Then she turned to me-" Faber
continued, and said: "Then | will
burn my soul out of this body of mine;
that is the way | want to die"
but paralleling in strangeness and
more suggestive of the murder theo-
ry were other developments unearth-
ed by The Republic yesterday.
CDR. L. M. Ottofy, with offices in
the Grand Central Theatre building,
had treated Helen CAMEL for some
time prior to her disappearance, No
vember 26.
"Since the identification of the wo-
man at Hopkinsville as Helen Can
nell he yesterday gave information to
the police which he had up TO that
time considered of a confidential pro-
fessional nature.
Briefly this Information was to the
effect that Miss CAMEL had informed
him of an attack upon her in her con-
fectionery store last winter. AS re-
suit of this an illegal operation, she
declared, had been performed. Much
of her nervousness, he considered
was due to this operation.
'But whether Miss CAMEL went to
her death murdered, or as suicide,
the mystery remains most battling.
IF it was suicide the unfortunate
young woman apparently faced death
on a funeral pyre of her own choos-
ing, but changed her mind and tore
off her burning clothes.
The suicide theory has all along had
its advocates. They have argued that
no sane woman would try to spend
the night in such a deserted house,
with many people living close by.
The wild walk itself, six miles into
the country, was almost an insane act.
Leaving her money at the hotel show
ed generalization. Her failure to in
terest Smith in her affairs, may have
made her more desperate. In the
course of travel she must have reach
ed the schoolhouse a few minutes af-
ter waving a pleasant goodbye to
Smith and the little Ricketts, girl in
the road at $3.50. Did she 90 to the
schoolhouse and brood over her
troubles for ten hours? The fire was
at $3.50 next morning. Did she a
timid, nervous woman, spend the win
ter night in such place and set fire
to her clothing the next morning? If
it was suicide, why did she wait all
night, and if her nerve failed when
the fire burned, why did she not end
her terrible suffering by jumping into
the creek she crossed near by on her
naked flight toward town for three
long miles? Why did she go ng
ly to the hospitaland promise to re-
imburse those who helped her when
she got well, saying she expected to
recover? If she wanted to die, why
did she not refuse assistance? And
above all, who visited the school
house during the night in a rubber
tired buggy and hitched a horse be-
hind the house?' This fact proven by
five witnesses has not been explained.
A. Il. CAMEL returned to Alton,
ILL.,, Wednesday night with his sis
ter's body. Before leaving he was
profuse in his thanks to the officers
and others who befriended his unfor-
tunate sister during her last h ours
and who cared for her in death.
Interest now centers in the efforts
At st. Louis to locate the travelling
man" whose treatment of Miss Cam
nell caused her nervous collapse.
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