Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 27
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 4, 1902
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STRANGLED TO DEATH.

       Beaumont:  Miss L. M. Vogel of Galveston was found dead in her bed at the Oaks hotel in this city at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
       Miss Vogel came to Beaumont last Wednesday and went to the Oaks hotel, where she registered and was assigned to a room on the second floor. During her stay there she has not mingled with the people in the hotel, except in a business way.  From what has been learned it seems she either owned or controlled some land on Galveston island near the oil wells being bored there, and she was endeavoring to sell some of this land to Beaumont operators.  It is said that she about completed some sales and was to have conferred with Col. Henry Exall Tuesday morning for the purpose of meeting some prospective purchasers.
       When she failed to appear for luncheon the maid went to the room about 1:30 in the afternoon and went in to awaken her and discovered a that she was dead.  A physician and the coroner were summoned and an examination developed that she had been dead for some time, possibly eight or ten hours.  She was lying on the bed in her street clothes. Her knees were slightly drawn up.  About her neck was a hankerchief drawn so tightly, that the cord-like fabric was buried deep in the flesh.  The handkerchief was securely tied with a double was a handkerchief drawn so tightly gripped in each cord of the handkerchief. (There may have been a sentence missing here-lsc)  The physician who was called was not requested to make an examination into the cause of death.
       Miss Vogel's mother was communicated with.

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