The Washington times., 1931-09-25
NOW INTENDS
TO MARRY
SAILOR
"Other Woman" Is Pictured
as Victim OF Hard Knocks
With Penchant for Writing

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nothing more to do with him.
He was there studying German
and other languages.
Visited BY Professor
II have never met Prof.
Kane, but 1 have heard Bess
speak of him frequently and he
has visited her home here sew
eraI times.
"When she was in Mt. Holly
recently Mac, the man she
is engaged to, was with her
and they said they planned to
be married about the middle
Of October. After their mar
riage they were both going to
give up the sea and live in
California"
Mac" who the friend says is
Q "red-headed Irishman." is en-
ployed on the liner Leviathan,
where Mrs. Dahl first met him
when she was on that boat as a
stewardess. In June Mrs. Dahl
was transferred to the liner
America, from which she wrote
her friend she was taking care
of Gold Star Mothers" going to
France.
49,. Talked of Marriage
Her friend continued:
"Bess talked at one time of
marrying Prof. Kane, but she
said she didn't believe she
cared for him enough to give
up her freedom and estle down
again to married life"
II am sorry Bess has been
dragged into this affair, and I
can't understand the letter she
Is supposed to have written Prof.
Kane. However, 1 am sure
her words have some reason
able and perfectly decent ex-
PLANTATION"
"BeSS has had a good many
hard knocks. When she was
10 or 20 she elOped with Harry
Dahl, who had just finished a
dental course at the University
Of Pennsylvania.
Left When Baby Died
"She thought her life was
going to be round Of pleasure,
but it turned out differently.
She told me that her husband
drank great deal and often
she was hungry and without
any money. She stayed with
him until her baby, a few
months old, died, and then she
left.
BesS' handwriting is about
the most beautiful 1 have ever
seen and she got a position In
Chicago copying data for a
business firm. When the war
broke out she went to work in
the canteen at the camp where
Prof. Kane was training.
'Tt was at the camp that she
met him. That was before he
was married or even knew his
wife,"
AuAuCky al AUVC
Another romantic affair that
ended tragically for Mrs. Dahl,
her friend said, was her engage
ment to Lieut.. Kenyon NJ.
Hegardt. of Los Angeles, q gradu-
ate Of the class of 1923 at West
Point, who was killed in an air
plane crash near Gettysburg in
the autumn of 1925.
When asked to describe Mrs.
Dahl, her friend hesitated and
finally said:
''Well. she's different from
anyone I ever knew. She's
unusual. She has always been
different, which has brought a
lot of criticism upon her from
people who did not understand
her straightforward and honest
viewpoint. She did things
openly and had no cause to be
ashamed Of anything.
'sMrs. Dahl is about 5 feet
5 inches tall and slender, weigh
ing about 125 pounds. Her
hair is reddish brown and her
eyes a gray blue. She wears
stylish clothes well.
Liked to Write Letters
''When the war was over, .
she went to New York, where
she got employment copying
documents. She then shipped
as stewardeSs on the liner
George Washington.
81 have heard stories of how
extravagantly BeSS lived in New
York, but / happen to know
that she had an arrangement
with the people where she
lived by which she paid for her
room only when she used it
and then only about So a day"
Mrs. Dahl's letter writing.
which brought her into the Kane
case, was described by her
friend as almost an obsession. !"
Her friend said:
"BesS was proud of her hand
writing and loved to write let
ters."