Evening star., 1937-08-12
WOMAN IS JAILED
IN 4DEATH PROBE
Attractive Blonde Denies
Sayings as Poison Theory
Is Explored.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, August l2-Held on
fugitive warrants charging murder
and grand larceny. a comely 3l-year.
old blond was held today, az police,
investigating the deaths of four elder
ly men, said she admitted benefting
from the estate Of one and had sought
to collect money from two Of the
others.
Four mysterious illnesses-of two
man and two women-also were un-
der scrutiny as city, county and Fed
eral authorities delved into the his
tory OF the woman, Mrs. Anna Filser
Hahn.
Colorado Springs, Colo, police have
been investigating the death there
August l of George Obendoerfer, 81,
moderately wealthy Cincinnati cob.
bier, who police say was accompanied
by the woman after she first had gone
to the bank with him when he with
drew money for the trip.
Detective Walter Hart, who filed the
murder and larceny warrants against
Mrs. Hahn, said he was not at liberty
to dlvulge the basis for the action"
Police Inspector !. B. Bruce Of Colo
RADIO Springs said that 20 far as he
knew no murder charge had been
filed there.
Bruce said he issued grand larceny
warrant after the recovery in Denver
pawnshop of two diamond rings he
said were pawned by Mrs. Hahn and
which. he added. were stolen from
hotel where Mrs Hahn had reg
istered with Obendoerfer.
Poison Theory Pursued.
Coroner J. Thomas Coughlan an
nounced in Colorado Springs that
although an autopsy had disclosed no
traces of poison, exhaustive" chem
ical tests OF organs from Obendoer-
fer's body were being made
Mrs. Hahn, widow OF q vlennese
physician, denied knowledge OF the
case and contended, Lieut.. George
w. Schattle said, that she met
Obendoerfer "by chance" en- route
west
The three other deaths under m
quiry were those of Jacob Wagner.
7s; Albert Palmer. u, and Ernst
Kohler, an elderly teamster who died
several years ago Wagners body
was dsinterred 4 week ago and por-
tions Of the viscera are being sub
jected 70 tests for poison, Schattls
reported.
He said Mrs Hahn cared for Kohler
in his last illness and that she claimed
Kohler bequeathed her the $4,000
home in which she has resided with
her telegrapher husband.
Ill Man Sues for RinK.
George Hes, SO, coal merchant,
who said ne had been unable to walk
since becoming i'll from eating food
offered by Mrs. Hahn. filed another
larceny warrant charging theft Of
SIS diamond ring and sl40. Mrs. Hahn
denied Heis' charge. insisting he gave
her the ring during their short &C.
quaintance
Prosecutor Dudley Miller Outcalt
said police had learned that Oben-
doerfer, Wagner. Heis another man
and two elderly sisters, Mrs. Ollie
Koehler, 10, and Mrs Mary Arnold. 95,
had become i'll suddenly shortly after
making the acquaintance of Mrx
Hahn.
Schattle said Mrs Hahn admitted
signing Wagner's name to check
for $1,000, which she presented the
day Of his death, June 3. The name
was written in English, although was-
ner could write only in German, Schat-
tie said
The ohicer also quoted her as ad-
mitting asking Cincinnati building
and loan association to transfer 81. 900
OF the cobbler's money to the Denver
National Bank.
Physicians Puzzled.
DR.. Willard K Hills. who attended
the cobbler before he died. said Mrs.
Hahn brought Obendoerfer to the
hospital in 4 taxi, that he was in a
stupor when he reached there and
did not recover from it before his
death two days later.
DR.. Hills said he could not d>ter-
mine any natural cause for death and
therefore did not sign a death eer-
tificate.
The investiga ton into the denis.
was asked by the eobbler's daughter.
Mrs. Louis Nau OF Cincinnati, after
her fathers body had been buried at
Colorado Springs without notification
to his family.