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Show To -Death With Weijjtt of Guilt Girl Whose Beauty Caused Suicido of a Wife Is Found in Mississippi River. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 2. Was Ruth Teachout of Minneapolis the victim vic-tim of a strangler, who threw her body from one of the many bridges across the Mississippi, or was she driven to a horrible death by drowning by memories of the tragic suicide two years ago of beautiful Mrs. Howard M. Taylor, wife of the deputy-auditor of her home cbunty, whom she had robbed of a husband's love? The police and detective forces of the twin cities havo not solved the question, and face a new mystery, believed by many to conceal a terrible murder. Ruth Teachout's body was taken from the river late last plght. With a man's blue silk tie lightly knotted four times about the throat. It was recovered at the St. Paul boom. So deeply had tho silken folds sunk Into the tender flesh that great dllllculty was met in removing remov-ing them. The neck was cut and bruised. Morgue Keeper Richardson said tonight after a thorough investigation: investi-gation: "The body had boon Jn the water seventy-two hours. The fact that decomposition de-composition had set in Is proof of strangulation. Ruth Teachout was murdered. Her body bears the marks of brute violence. The ribbon about the unfortunate girl's neck was tightly knotted, so tightly, Indeed, that it was with difficulty that I unfasteden it. The cloth was Imbedded in the girl's neck nearly ah Inch, and tho skin be- iieui.ii ii wus cut anu snoweu signs of being bruised. I am confident that she could not have drawn and knotted It herself." A year and a half ago Miss Tench-out Tench-out left Minneapolis with H. W. Taylor, deputy-auditor of Hennepin county, going go-ing .to Chicago. When Mrs. Taylor learned of the departure of her husband hus-band and the girl she went to Miss Teachout's house to see her family. "vWille returning home Mrs. Taylor shot herself three times, dying of one of the wounds. Subsequently Miss Teachout returned lo Minneapolis, but always appeared Avorrled because of the tragedy growing grow-ing out of her relations with Taylor. To an Intimate friend she recently said that the memory of Mrs. Taylor's death nearly drove her crazy. But 18 years of age. beautiful, with a stylo and dash that won the admiration of hundreds, she has for more than a year hugged her secret grief to her bosom and shunned her friends. She only recently re-cently returned from a long visit In Chicago and to Michigan friends. |