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Show ROYAL FLUSH IS DEATH0FW0rAH Expires as She Wins Money Enough to Offset Loan to Sweetheart. GIVES FIRM'S FUNDS TO MAN Youth Disappears Soon Afttr Borrowing Borrow-ing From Girl and She Tries to Recoup Lot by Playing Card! for Stakes Draw Royal Flush and Diet. Chicago. Just at the critical moment, mo-ment, when there was enough money lu the pot to wipe out an indebtedness, indebted-ness, Incurred for ber sweetheart, Mist Laura Cotton, a she wag winning win-ning steadily In a poker game to retrieve re-trieve the lorn of the loan, drew a royal flush and dropped dead In her chair. The other members of the poker parly. Knocked at the sudden climax of their evening's enjoyment, hurriedly hurried-ly called a physician, but MIhs Cotton Cot-ton died before be arrived. MIks Cotton, together with her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry K. Cotton, and J. Mann, a friend, had been playing play-ing cards all evening. In the early stages of the game the stakes were low and Miss Cotton held successful hands every deal. Determined to win enough money to repay her for a loss the had Incurred by loaning money to her sweetbonrt, she raised the ante and still continued to be successful. At eluven o'clock she had won half of the amount required. In the next deal the Jackpot Increased until It held more than enough to offset the loss of the loan. Miss Cotton whs feverish with excitement. With her whole future seemingly staked on the band she was about to draw, the strain proved too much and when a royal flush loomed Into view she dropped over In a dead faint. "Sometime ago rny daughter was employed by the Equity Finance and Loan company," said Mr. Cotton. "During her employment there she be. IPtl She Dropped Over In a Dead Faint. came acquainted with a young man who paid her considerable attention. He called here frequently and In a short time a close friendship was formed. "One day he told her be was In a very serious predicament, saying that he needed a considerable amount of , money and didn't know where to get It. He asked her for a loan, saying he would repay It soon. My daughter did not have that much money, but told him she could get It from the Arm. "Knowing the young man so well and believing him to be perfectly honest, hon-est, the compiled with his request by taking some of the Arm's money and giving It to him, never suspecting but that It would be returned soon." Soon after she made the loan the man disappeared, leaving no message, and Miss Cotton was obliged to borrow bor-row the money to make good her shortage. The firm never missed the money and she was never questioned, but from that time on. according to her father, she begun to worry. She became be-came nervous, her health failed and she left her position. Finally t-he became be-came subject to fainting spells that resulted In her death. ller father, who Is employed by the leerliig Harvest! r company, attributes the death of his daughter to the worry and distraction over the loan incident and the fainting spells which followed. |
