Show MRSc AURORA DODGE DEAD airs Aurora hedge thmcynmmng woman who has been awaiting ttlal for the murder mur-der of William X Ryan near Murray on time night of July lllh died at IDtlS last night it the Holy I Cross hospital She was removed to the hospital last Sunday morning snircilng from an acute attack of appendicitis An operation was performed per-formed Sundny afternoon by County PJiyslelnn Mayo The patient rallied and Deemed 10 be doing nicely until about 4 oclouk yesterday afternoon when clue became be-came exceedingly despondent This despondency de-spondency was no doubt due to the dc 1 piessingr fob vhlch had been gathering durln7 tin day She tore t the I bandages from her wound and when the nnrsi replaced them declared de-clared that I she would jump omit of the window next time DEATH JtATHKR THAN PRISON i lou arc jusl trying m to mnku mo well so you can put mo in the penitentiary she declared bitterly If I 1 get well you will put me In thy penitentiary for ton years at least and 1 would rather die than go there The nurse tried to soothe her but the young woman persisted that death was the only escape from her troubles About 030 she became unconscious Or Mayo was summoned I mid remained with her until un-til her death She did not regain consciousness con-sciousness The remains wore removed l to S D I Evanss Undertaking parlors Her brother Alfred tnrsen = of Dennison la was notified of her death Vhen her at torney iS l C Loofl > ourow was Informed of bur doath last night he said ATTORNEY CANNOT TELL Mrs Hodge told us the full circumstances circum-stances of the tragedy t for which she was held but her statement wan given under tho sen of professional secreoy and 1 cannot divulge IL rime last time I saw her was on Friday morning at the jull She was perfectly well then and talked lihierfully of hr ease though ln 1ifl It loll I that I she found the l contlmment Irksome I Irk-some Although the evidence In the Ryan CUSP lifts convinced the public generally that Mrs Jlodgu was a dnnguious woman thon is iiiueh to he said for her At tilt givat I bar when eternal justice prevails lur temntallons will be placed in Unbalance 1 Un-balance against her misdeeds and who shtll I say what the I verdict will lie I WAS AN ORPHAN CHILD Sho was orphaned when a balm IlUd < l thrown upon the t world to earn liar own living Jti California where she worked 1 nt a hotel as waitress she married Cor nelius Ilodge a hostler She left him Immediately Im-mediately sifter I the wedding amid went to Clifton Ariz where slu worked In a hotel Her husband joined bur and took I her to Ill Paso Tex whore she left him and went to the homo of her brother In Dennlson la From there she came west next appearing at Kvanston Vyo where she tried to get work In a hotel Falling she walked and rode In freight trains to Ogden where she went to a roominghouse with t a man who posed as her husband The mnu deserted her and she look aiorpbhuj with suicidal Intent I Her l life was navcd anti she went to tho Florence Crlttenton home About July l 1st she Joined Wllllum X Ryan an Itinerant spectacle peddler who traveled about the country In a covered wagon and went with him to the southern part of the county RYANS BODY FOLND On July Jih the body of Ryan Was found III his camp beside ti creek I wrapped In straps from ids harness and securely bound A bullet hole was found In his head Mrs Hodge was Identified l ar his traveling companion and was located at Dennlson la I Whsn she leurned Unit I t she wns suspected of the crime shp fled to Chl cugo and thence to it Michigan health resort l Karlv In August she walked Into tho office of the Chief of Police at Grand Rapids and said she had shot a man In Utah and 1 felt l that she ought to IK i punished pun-ished 1 for It Sheriff Emery brought her back to Salt like She told the Sheriff that Kyun was coming toward her with the InliuMiM of assaulting her when shim shot him She refused to admit that she had tied him up or to tell what she had done with her revolver Witnesses were found who said they had seen her playfully tying Ryan with l the straps the day before the killing Two railroad men Identified her as a woman who got on a Short Llno train tile night after the murder and paid her fare to 3utlo They said that she had l plenty of m one TKIAX WAS CONTINUED Her trial was sot for Xewe11 hem oOth but licr attorneys secured a continuance until the January 1 1 term She was a most exemplary ex-emplary prisoner and never made the least trouble for the jailers At the time of her death she was only about 22 years old I |