Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 22

S FATAL TO WOMAN Efriedi Knaak Suceumbs . Three Days After Self- Immolation Act. By the Associated Press. LAKE BLUFF, Ill, November 2.— Elfrieda Knaak, 30-year-old book agent and psychology student, died early to- day, three days almost to the hour from the time she submitted her arms, feet and head to self-torture in the furnace ot the Lake Bluff police sation. ‘With her death, officers said, was focked the story of what actually hap- pened during those hours before the Tuesday dawn when Miss Knaak, after sitting alone all night in the police sta- tion, went into the basement where she Jater was found, near the furnace, badly burned. Even should evidence develo] pointing to some second party as having had a hand in the tragedy, officers said the young woman's story that she alone had inflicted the burns as self-torture to prove her faith in a “spirit love” ‘would almost certainly prove & bar to success- ful prosecution. Hitchceck Pleads With Her. Miss Knaak died a few hours after ther former psychology teagher and ad- viser, Charles Hitchcock, had gone on crutches to her bedside and pleaded with her to “tell everything.” Hitch- cock has been laid up for & week with @ broken ankle, an accident of which Miss Knaak apparently did not know when she went to the police station Monday night. It is a police theory that she had intended to meet Hitch-) cock, who is also night watchman of Lake Bluff, at the station. “Hello, Fritz,” Hitchcock said to the dying girl. Miss Knaak looked him full in the face, but did not speak. He asked her several questions the futhorities had prepared: “Why did you do this terrible thing? Who let Fou into the police station? Why didn’t you telephone me?” The girl made no reply. As Hitch- cock hobbled from the room he called back, “Good-by. “Good-by,” sald the girl. It was the last word she ever spoke. Throughout her hours in the hospital Miss Knaak had clung to her original story of faith in a “Spirit love.” Even ‘when doctors told her she had but a few hours to live she refused to amplify her explanation. Foreed to Believe Stdry. Authorities had doubted her story; it seemed impassible. At first it was thought she might have been the vic- tim of a madman’s attack, but there were no facts to substantiate such a conclusion, At every turn of the in- vestigation, when ~officers tried to fathom & plausible explanation, they were forced back to the girl's own story ghe studied as a psychology-salesman- ship student in Hitchcock's class. One of them said: “Pain is merely fear or your con mind. If youwludcnythlsbeflelinfimyvur subconscious mind will speedily make this denial good. * #*' * Men have gone through fire and flood and pesti- f A Smell Deposit will Hold Your Coat } Until Wanted " e RIT-LOVE' BURNS ce and with not a scratch to show. e fact that it has been done shows that your body does not need to suffer injury from these conditions.” Still officers were puzzled. Why should she sit all hight in the police station, they asked, and-then for no to the basement and torture herself. . She had arrived in Lake Bluff without using the ticket she had bought from Highland Park. Had some one brought her there? Why should she say “Frank threw me over”? The furnace room &Cene Was re- enacted with the assistance of Miss Alma Seaberry, & young woman about the same size as Miss Knaak. Miss Sea- berry demonstrated she eould project her feet, head and arms into the fur- ace, just as Miss Knaak claimed she d. 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