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The A TRUK
M ystery
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Lost
Beauty
UNSOLVED NEGRO MURDER CASE
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ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION
By J. P MOORE
wihlerment.
M ar ira ret Kuyati rould not
o r
« u . M H SIVKLY
|irov<>n to I h - n murder, have h o «utidenly. -so com
neveri hole*« th»*re i* pletely disappeared. Yet she
justification Tin ¡iu'oi'|Mir«tiiiKj did! And the case has with-
in tlii.s scries of mysteries th«* ntood
solvinp for
fifteen
«•xtranriliiiitr.v ili «up pen mure yearn.
of MitrKNiet Fiijfitn. No rane,
< hronolotrieally, this is the
in the m t h '- «o ri* lily 1 ’hal- story :
Margaret
( ■ Imlys
Kabuli
Ictiifes the imaKination, >o]
was horn in Norfolk. Vir
completely liafiles lojfic amt
ginia. on February li. IK'.Mt.
reason ami leaves the reader She attended the city schools,
with a feeliiiK of irritatiiiK ho-1 icrew to be a fine looking
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T lir holier wItrre Mlw E t o n lived.
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young woman and was con
sidered to lie quite a "catch”
when s h e was sixteen.
Margaret was five feet tall
and
weighed
around
120
pounds. Iter hair was black
and abundant, her eyes black
and steady, her color was
light brown, her figure fairish
in its ample proportions, and
her health excellent.
In I MW »lie n M.n K a r r i wu.-. right-
r n i yrara old. her fat her
Richard
T Kagan. died leaving Mrs Kagan
alth one hundred dollars from an
m-iiranc policy and tlu- full respon
sibility for lheir one ehlld’i lull. -
who had already shown slims of be
ing a little wild anent her ctiolee i f
coinimnlotu
In the latter giail of the same yea'
M i- Kagan opened what wu< known
then as a "cook «1 p
a filth rale
eating place
Peculiar as II ina..
seem, she chose
s.de atrvei in th-
most unde,liable section o! the city.
In hrt new Incutlo.: she was sur
rounded by vice of al< kuuL-
However the woman was after
making a living
She was hrrsrll
an upright, elean Itvlnv r
nil so
she went ubout introducing her llv-
er-and-ontons. hogshead «n o home-
unde pies with a clear cona.-tcnrr
She did a go, d business
Margaret w I hi h.iu letl scliool two
years previously came Into ti e tilth'
shop to assi.-t her mother bustne *
picked up some mn.e and Mrs Ka
gan began to on*ld, r herself a very
fortunate woman Indeed.
In thia new envh.nment M.irg -
ret came to know
number ot chrr-
ariers of th ■ underworld
Among
them were a nan u. d woman whs
were known to the police only os
Jack and Tessie respectively.
ve
tellow Jack seems t< have taken n
particular liking to Mari arch for he
began dropping Into the little shop
with nit the woman Tessie
In spile o f the fact that her mother
advised against i: Margaret retumeu
this man's attention and was several
times seen walking with him on
Queen street. In the meantime, r.
was aired about that the woman Tes-
sie was "mad."
On March 4 1909 Tessie approach
ed Margaret on Ch reh street and
Vfrs. Itrant
ills - Kagan's last
Urani was then M altir Hendrickson
known
friend
Mrs
last her severely running only v lie n * with olden Smith, . ho was a long-
someone shouted the approach o l ; shoremen and had long been a suit
the police.
or for her hand.
This Incident aeeir.a to have taught
Margaret a lesson lor therealter she
sept strictly within her owt. spher<
ol It lends helping her mother in the
-hop with apparently no further n i
t o n in Its patrons
Shortly after this unfortunate met
re.h Margaret mar.'ed a man by
the name of Harry Thomas who ha t
been one of her cla it ales at school
To tins union there was I in o
child, which died in its Infancy.
In 1910 she divorced Thomas al
leging non - support and infidelity, and
went back to helping her mother In
the shop. She remained with her
mother from then until Mrs
a gan ,
death In 1911
Without a doubt this loss wrtgl a
hravtly on Margare'
She tried to,
run the shop alik e for a few months,
tired o f ' l l . and dc'. deii to embars
on another matiimhivitn enterprise
The Stormy Career of Jaek Johnson - - No. S
I Mill K Ml lull
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Her second on rnage lasted exact-
1\ -ix months
At the end of that
time Smith [lacked his livings and
left Margaret one night after they
had retired. It was later said oy
him thal his wile had repeatedly
shown sign- t being demented. He
is said to have told inends tha Sh
u-on ki olten gi t ;ip In the middle of
the night and ira.v fervently for the
heavenly safety of her dead baby and
her dea I mother
It was also said
ol her that she la, sed Into crying
spells, and that at such times she
ignored the ordinary duties of a
housewife. ; rch as cocking, cleaning
and laundering. lor days at the time.
This Information may or may not
bo accurate Certain m .here Is noth«
ing in Margaret's su — urnt life to
point out that she was losing her
mind
She rented a room !.i a re«
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Text by ROLFE DELLON
Drawn by FRED B. WATSON
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next if if >1 located litui hi Deliver,
Colo
II*-« In I» • »im’ .1 member ol .1 hoxniR
slmu » unsi m u ; ol several n iit it flf of (In- IM ic
N flfib t . I liis oi-Ruiii/.allon win» inanaRcd and
*• introM« il U> l oin Sharkey, one ol Ih r riiiR's
< rentes! hglilrts
Il io 1 *• *x• hr show (hen travelled ahold Colo
rado intertainliiR various communities. A
hut tir Mas inani; til hefwrrti Jack »ml one.
.Mexican IVte, win» had Rallied fame fItrottRli
knocking out lo in Sharkey, .lark vtoh this
in !0 I minds.
The boxiiu, show, however. soon failed (1
n.itteially. consequently a ft rout share of the
hardship fell upon Jack. Jack was delegated
as rook t o prepar« food f o r the e n t i r e » R f r e -
Kuttou. .Moreover, lie had the burden of en
RinreritiR I he (loanees.
Moreover, (lie first of .! • k\ ma*\i
,]-
» t«llle i arose whfle In this enterpi<
first wife, to whom lie w as c\i » « d«u.;l » »p .
voted left him. T ill tn>Iortu|ic ilTet t«-*i .fm k
considerably and his unhupptnc-• became
manifest in liis work.