Thursday, December 8, 1892
Los Angeles Daily Times
Identity of the Coronado Suicide Established
She Was Known as Mrs. Katie Logan in Los Angeles, Where She Worked as a Domestic in Several Families.
Said to Have Been the Wife of a Gambler, Who Had Deserted Her – Her Departure for San Diego on the 23rd of November.
It has been left to Los Angeles to unravel the dark mystery surrounding the suicide of the unknown girl at the Coronado Hotel. Everything points to the fact that she lived in this city, where she was
known as Mrs. Katie Logan, and she left here for San Diego the day before Thanksgiving, and had no baggage except for her little gripsack and the shawl that has been written about so much.
The young woman’s trunk and baggage are now at Mrs. Grant’s, No. 917 South Hill Street, where she was last seen. When she left, on the 23rd of last month, she stated that she would be back in time
for Thanksgiving dinner, but not a word has been heard from her since.
Mrs. Logan came here from Omaha about two months ago, and stated that her parents lived near that place. She stated that her husband was a gambler, but she did not know what had become of him.
She visited several employment agencies and first secured work as a domestic in R. M. Widney’s house and from there she went to work for T. H. Hughes. Shortly before she disappeared she got
employment at Mrs. Grant’s, No. 917 South Hill Street.
The day before she left this city she was anxious to get some papers signed, and seemed to be greatly worried about something, but what it was no one seems to know.
She wore the same ring as described in the dispatches, and the black underclothes are the same. Not only that, but Mrs. Logan had two moles on the left side of her face, and the unfortunate
suicide at Coronado answers the description in every way. She also told several persons in this city that her name was Lizzie, but that she liked the name of Kittie better, and that was the
reason she adopted it.
It is believed that she came to Los Angeles from San Francisco, where she probably worked awhile after she reached the Coast. At any rate, she was well posted in San Francisco and knew all
about the hotels and public places, showing that she must have lived there.
The San Diego authorities were considerably puzzled over the young woman’s knowledge of the streets and public buildings of Los Angeles and San Francisco, but it is plain now, for she
certainly worked here and she must have lived in San Francisco.
While in this city Mrs. Logan bore an excellent reputation. She attended strictly to her duties all the time, and she was never out at night, and, so far as is known, she did not have any
men around her the whole time she was here.
Even on the day of her departure for San Diego she seemed to be in fairly good spirits, and promised faithfully that she would be home next day in time to cook the Thanksgiving dinner.
The mystery that now surrounds the case is the paper she wanted to get signed or sworn to the day before she left. If that paper could be found the whole mystery would be cleared up.
From her conversation, she was fairly well educated, and as her husband was a gambler she has done considerable traveling and has spent considerable of her life in the best hotels, which
accounts for the fact that she was so much at home in the swell hotels of San Diego.
The Evening Press, Los Angeles
IS SHE THE WOMAN?
The Strange Suicide at the Coronado Still a Mystery
On Thanksgiving day, L.A. Grant, who resides at 917 South Hill Street, reported at police headquarters that a young woman named Mrs. Katie Logan, a domestic in the Grant Household, was missing. The woman, whose former husband was a gambler, was described as being very pretty. When she disappeared, she left all her worldly possessions at Mr. Grant’s house.
