Originally posted by Pcdunn
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If the extra pair of boots was intended as a gift, why would she have the extra pair with her in the late evening walking along with a man wearing a top hat?
I don't think anything nefarious was going on. No robbery (the money was left there).
She was of an age that Daddy didn't necessarily need to know everything she did. She was out of town and in the city, kicking up her heels a little.
Even if Daddy knew what she was doing or just suspected, it's not likely he would have told everything he knew to the authorities and certainly not to a nosy reporter.
The simple explanation seems to be the couple had been dancing, hence carrying her dancing shoes. I hauled my dancing shoes around for years in their original box and a tote bag.
She and her escort were walking back to her hotel or home or where ever she was staying the night. Suddenly, she keeled over.
A passerby offered to help. The top hatted man said he was her husband to protect her reputation. However, when it was obvious she was dead and someone was in place to help her, TH left to protect his own reputation and not have his name bandied about 125 years later. So, he left a bit of an air of mystery. Better the mystery than for folks to know what was really going on. No crime, just a young woman with a bad heart or an anuerysm dying after some exertion.
Th couldn't change the fact that she was dead. Answering too many questions might actually cause harm to her memory and his life so he left.
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