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desk in the Treasury Department
is vacant, for i time at least.
May visit Husband
Mra. smith has not Seen her
slayer.husband since he grtpped her
daughters throat at 3 o'clock
Yesterday and strangled her until
she breathed no more,
It 10 possible that she may try
to visit the First precinct today. IL
she bears any active grudge AGAINST
the man who has deprived her Of
the companionship Of her daughter,
of. whom she was a real pal anu
confidante. she has not yet Shown
It. s..s
The body Of the murdered girl y
sim at the morgue, awaiting final
action by Deputy Coroner Jtlsepn
d. Rogers, who ID having tee con-
tents Of her stomach analyzed Tor
traces OF poison. An autopsy has
been held. resulting in o verdict
Of death by suffocation.
Strangest Tragedy
washington has seen no stranger
tragedy than that which TOOK place
in the Smith home yesterday. The
father, a night Waterman in the
Metropolitan National Bank, came
home in the early morning in a
surly mood, hungry and on edge for
a quarrel with his daughter over her
romance with John steele, who
roomed in the same apartment
house, and whom she had known
for seven years,
The girl. finding no food in the
IA CHI
breakfast for him. In an instant
of taking family supplies in the
larder and Uf giving them to her
sweetheart. The daughter denied
the charge. Words followed, until
the sighted, timorOus, stoop-
shouldered bank guard found his
fingers growing rigid with anger as
they sought her wind-pipe.
Offered Little Resistance
They stayed there until the girl
was quite dead. She made little re-
sistance, and when the police broke
in the apartment two hours later
she was not dishevelled and bore
hardly a mark of violence.
There was a blue spot on her col
lar.bone, but that was all the police
found as she lay on her bed, Pill
low thrown over her face and with
a sign above her head on the wall:
"Ra thou faithful unto death"
The father stayed beside The dead
hodv OF his daughter for a while.
ue was startled when Steele called
for her shortly after II o'clock. He
told the youth that Bessie was in
the house, but that she was dead.
Then he went out. slamming the
door after him.
Police Find Body
The pair travelled up New Jersey
Avenue for a block or so, ana
then steele decided he ought to
tell the Second precinct ponce
nearby. The police found the slrIs
BODY and searched for the father
ninth s o'clock in the afternoon.
Then Smith, who had already
twice confessed the crime. once to
hank officials over the telephone
and again in d phone call to his
wife. walked into the First precinct
station. after wandering around
downtowA.- during the afternoon,
and gave himself up.
An hour later he had confessed.
telling in detail the events that had
made him a plicide. 1t was a
bleak. rather co1orless story.
His wife believes he has lost
his mind" and apparently does nOt
think of him rs q murderer. He
apparently awaits the processes OF
the law with apathetic calm.
An aged mother, Mrs. Lily Allen
is anxiousIy awaiting at her home
in Baltimore, in the 500 block OF
Mexican Ave, some word from her
son, Frank e. Smith.
She has not yet been told that
her "boy" killed her granddaughter,
of whom she was fond. She knows
nothing of the tragedy that took
place in the Smith home yesterday
morning.
She Doesn't Know
The mother has been told that |
her son Is in great trouble and that
he IL missing. She appears conf
dent that be VIII cone T. her AndI