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Show DEATH REVEALS LIFE TRAGEDY CHICAGO. July 12. Mrs. Kate Porter, 50 years old. a domestic, employed by W. H. Hobbs. a merchent. was killed Test evening by being run over by an automobile auto-mobile driven by Charles Chapman, a contractor, con-tractor, at the Intersection of two north side streets. Her" Identification by her employer em-ployer revesled a life of romnnca and sacrifice. According to the story told bv Mr. Hobba, the woman vears ago married Rlwyn C. Edgar, a wealthy flt. Louis ste man. from whom she separated after a son" had been born. The courts gave the father custody of the child snd the trnmin gave up her friends snd went slone Into the world to earn a living. She came to Chicago a fw years sso to obtain ob-tain employment. She received several letters from her son, who fs now twenty years old, but pride prevented her from seeing him. fine always feared she would meet some of her former soclsl friends snd wore a heavy veil to avoid recognition. |