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Show "Countess" Leona Brooks is Dying. San Francisco. "Countess" Leona Brooks, who came into notoriety several sev-eral years ago through her relations with Edward J. Smith, the absconder. Is dying of tuberculosis. Her friends of the old days have made her last illness comfortable. The "countess" stood guard over the tax collector in his flight from this city with $105.-000. $105.-000. She joined him in Los Angeles and went with him to St. Louis, where he was arrested. She refused to tell ' he grand jury a. he did wiili he mo ley. |