|
|She extradited herself Tuesday night with a revolver|
|shot in the temple. In the yard back of her |
|foster-parents' home at 5319 West Twenty-fifth |
|Street, Cicero, with one arm around the loyal Fritz,|
|she put the revolver to her head and pressed the |
|trigger....[48] |

[48] _Chicago Tribune_, November 25, 1915.

| =CROOK LISTS DANCERS' NAMES= |
| |
|The modern dance craze has brought a lot of |
|informality into a heretofore very proper Chicago. |
| |
|Women whose husbands work during the daytime have |
|considered it not at all improper to flock to the |
|afternoon the dansants in many downtown cafes, there|
|to fox-trot and one-step with good-looking strangers|
|whose introduction--if there was an |
|introduction--was procured in a sort of professional|
|way. |

_Probable Effect_

|Consequently there were about forty women in Chicago|
|who verged on total collapse yesterday if they |
|chanced to read of the terrible experience of Mrs. |
|Mercedes Fullenwider of 5432 Kimbark Avenue. |

_Probable Motive_

| =ELSIE THOMAS NOT A SUICIDE= |
| |
|If a finger print can tell a story, the police may |
|be able to prove by to-morrow night that pretty |
|Elsie Thomas, whose lifeless body was found in her |
|room at 1916 Pennsylvania Street last night, was not|
|a suicide. In the opinion of her brother, Wallace |
|Thomas, who was on his way from Lindale to see her, |
|Hans Roehm, who had promised to marry her, may have |
|been responsible for her death from cyanide of |
|potassium. |

=274. Condensation in Rewrites.=--It may be added in conclusion that
though rewrites are made to seem fresh and new, they are nevertheless
old news after all, and hence are not worth so much space as the
original story. Consequently, one will find that they usually run from
half to a fourth the length of the original; so that in rewriting one
need not hesi