The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-01-05
BODIES FOUND
IN HIS AUTO
SHOCKING TRAGEDY OCCURS ON
SUBURBAN STREET OF
SIOUX CITY.

Sioux City, Jan. % O.-Wllllam r..
Dickinson, undertaken, prominent
Sioux City business man, and Miss
Anna Giddings, 2309 Douglas street,
graduate nurse, were found shot
to death in blood smeared limous-
inc on the Perry creed road at
Thirty-sixth street yesterday morn
ing.
That Miss Giddings first shot her
companion and then herself is the
theory held by the police. A .32
caliber automatic revolver was
found clutched in her hand.
Dickinson's body was found top
pied over on the front seat with the
head resting against the right fore
door. He had been shot once, the
bullet entering back of the right
ear and passing out TO the left OF the
center of the temple.
The woman's body was in the
tonneau. The bullet which killed her
crashed through the right temple.
The blood bespattered car, which
wac owned by Dickinson, had rolled
from the right of way into the north
east corner of the intersection,
where it was found by the police at
$3.50 o'clock in the morning. Tracks
made by a woman's feet to the rear
of the spot on which the car had
stood before 1t ran down the de-
clivity indicate that Miss Giddings
first shot Dickinson and then got
out Of the automobile. The FOOT
prints wene plainly visible in the
snow.
AS the glass in the left fore door,
which was partly lowered, was
stained with a splotch of blood it is
thought probable that Dickinson
BODY remained in an upright posi-
tion until the lurch of the car as IL
came to an abrupt stop in the ditch
threw it to he right. The glass In
the right front door was shattered,
apparently from the force of Dickin-
sons body being thrown against 1t.
According to the police. Miss Gid
dings probably tried to open the
fore door, but finding Dickinson's
body against it, entered the tonneau
instead.
A farmer living near the scene or
the tragedy told police that he heard
shots at about IL o'clock Monday
night. The fact that both bodies
were frozen indicates that the vic
Tins had been dea for at least six
hours, police say.
A large diamond, in a ring set
ting, which was found on the hand
of Miss Giddings, was proof that rob-
berry had no place in the motives
behind the shooting.
The police were first called to the
intersection of Jackson and Thirty
sixth streets. Failing to locate the
death car, they returned to the sta
ton and shortly afterward were
summoned to the Perry creed road.
Can't. James O'Keefe and Driver
Wheelock answered the call. j. b.
Mann. commissioner of public safety
and G.. A. Danielson, chief of detec-
tives, were notified and immediate
ly instituted an investigation.
Dickinson's body was taken to his
own undertaking establishment
Miss Gidding's body was removed to
the Nelson undertaking parlors.
Little has as yet been learned
concerning the circumstances which
led to the tragedy. Friends of Miss
Giddings were dumfounded wher
informed of her death. They sait
that, although they knew Dickinson
had been seeing Miss Giddings at in
tervals for the last two or three
years, they had no reason to thini
that there had been anything in theil
relations which would bring then
to such an end.
According to an intimate friend o
Miss Giddings, Dickinson first me
Miss Giddings when she nursed
relative of the dead man. She coult
not remember the details concern
ing the incident.
/ Neighbors remembered that Dick
inson often ha ddriven to the hous
in his car and taken Miss Gliding
away with him.
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