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...death in Ohio was Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther in 1931. She pleaded guilty in a second trial, got off with a life sentence. Second Ohio death sentence for a murderess was imposed last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton...
...excellent chance to become Ohio's first female victim of the electric chair was by no means Mrs. Hahn's only claim to distinction last week. By the time her trial ended, she had established herself to the jury's satisfaction as one of the most amazingly assiduous heroines in the history of U. S. crime...
Police first interested themselves in Mrs. Hahn one hot day last August. The proprietor of a Colorado Springs hotel, which she had just visited in the company of an aging but adventurous cobbler named George Obendoerfer, notified them of the loss of $305 worth of diamond rings. After tracing the theft to Mrs. Hahn, police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that...
...largest women's organization in the world, members of the American Legion Auxiliary elected Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, wife of a Washington State Superior Court judge. With her sash and diamond-&-platinum presidential pin, Mrs. Douglas accepted the responsibility of outdistancing her predecessor, Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln, Neb. (who traveled more than 50,000 mi. on the organization's expense account during her year in office), and set off at once with Legion officials to tour French battlefields and dedicate War memorials. La Société des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux is a fun-making...
...Revere, Mass., Mrs. Paul Hahn, 61, is sitting in a trailer making candlewick bedspreads, waiting for her husband to return. She married him last Christmas. Last fortnight he unhooked the auto from the trailer, disappeared...