What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to
(“Annabel Lee”)
Soul Bride Oddly Dead in Queer Death Pact
High-Born Kinsman Abducts
Girl from Poet-Lover—Flu
Said to Be Cause of Death—Grand
Jury to Probe
Annabel L. Poe, of 1834-1/2 3rd Av., the beautiful young fiancee of Edmund Allyn Poe, a magazine writer from the South, was found dead early this morning on the beach off E. 8th St. Poe seemed prostrated and, questioned by the police, said that one of her aristocratic relatives had taken her to the “seashore,” but that the cold winds had given her “flu,” from which she never “rallied.”
Detectives at work on the case believe, they say, that there was a suicide compact between the Poes and that Poe also intended to do away with himself.
He refused to leave the spot where the woman’s body had been found.
(“Curfew Must Not Ring To-night”)