Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-30
POLICE IN CHICAGO ASKED TO
FIND SUPPOSED LOVER OF
MASON CITY WOMAN.
REAuTIFuL YOUNG WOMAN
FOUND DEAD IN sATHTUB
Mrs. Edna 3. Wilson Appeared De-
.spondent Upon Her Return From
Chicago, and Overdose of Medicine
is Eslivsd to Have cauosd Her
Death-Family Well Known.
ial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Mason City, Dec. S0.,-Develop-
sments in the bathtub mystery death
of Mrs. Edna B. Wilson, "a years old.
beautiful Mason City widow, are ex-
pected hourly.
Police in Chicago have been noti-
fled and are searching for a young
man, believed to have been the lover
OF the Mason City woman. County
officers here likewise are leaving no
stone unturncd to probe the strange
case TO the bottom.
Mrs, Wilson was found nude and
dead in bathtub in the apartments
vi her sister, Mrs. Pauline Cress,
TUESDAY evening at $3.50 o'clock. The
sister, employed at the First Nation
al Bank, found Mrs. Wilson dead
when she returned from work.
On the floor about the tub her
clothes We're strewn and damp
toWel gave evidence that the bath
had been taken. There was no
water in the tub und the woman was
found with her back to the two.
faucets. At noon Tuesday. H. Peter
son, a dentist at the Jones dental
parlors, at which place Mrs. Wilson
had been employed as a bookkeeper,
called at the Cress apartments. Mrs,
Wilson, who had just returned from
Il visit in Chicago, appeared despond-
ent Peterson said. She was fatigued.
md said she had had hard Journey
trom Chicago.
I'm going to take a bath" she
told Peterson" SO don't look for me
at the office until about o'clock"
When she failed to appear the den
lists phoned her at intervals, but re-.
ceived no response. From girl
friend late today 1t was learned that
Mrs. Wilson was thought to have had
a gentleman friend in Chicago. Also
that she had appeared respondent for
several months. 1t is believed that
while in Chicago she visited this
anan, whom police of that city are
elldeavorlng to locate. Relatives here
say they do not know his name.
Mrs. Wilson has son at the hom,.
oil an aunt in Greene, near here She
spent many Of her week witt,
this son. Her former home was at
Marble Rock At the office of the
dentists it was learned today that
Mrs. Wilson had stated that she was
.done with men for all time"
II is the theory Of officials here
that medicine was given the beauti-
.fnl Mason City woman by the Chi
easo man, and that she took an over
dose of the medicine.
E Mrs. Wilson was a member of the
Baptist church and was born Oc;.
fite 1894 at Marble Rock, Mrs. f. M.
Reams, OF Demming, Wash, bein
her mother. She was married July
Ii. 1914, her husband having died,
two years ago.
+ Burial will be at Greene, probably
Sunday, altho funeral arrangements
await the arrival of the mother from
Demnipg. 4.
Man In Case Identified.
A. J. Sullivan, of 1445. Washington
boulevard, Chicago. is the name o1
TIE man Chicago police are searching
for, if information. obtained today
from Evelyn Beckner, of Waterloo,
employed ct Des Moines. is correct.
Mrs. Edna Wilson. before her fatal
trip to Chicago. wrote Miss Beckn,a.
at Des Asosnes that she was going t.,
Chicago and asked her oaccomparly
her, as she Gid not want to make the
trip alone. Iris Miss Beckner COR
scented to do. but when the time came
TO make the trim the Waterloo girl
was Ill and unable to 60 SO Mis.