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Mrs. Anna Ellingson, 47 years of age, 256 3rd Avenue, is dead at her home.

She was shot twice in the back of the head with a 45 caliber revolver.

The weapon was found on the bathroom 4 a considerable distance from the body.

The body was discovered by Mrs. Ellingson's son, Earl, a drug clerk,

when he returned home from work at 5.45 o'clock this evening. A neighbor reports having

heard a shot at 9 a.m. These are the cold facts, as the coroner knows them.

Back of them is another story, a human story that may or may not have a definite bearing on the death.

The human story centers in a beautiful girl, a mere child, the butterfly daughter of an old-fashioned mother. The daughter's name is Dorothy. She is missing.

Earl Ellingson, broken-hearted son of the murdered mother, brother of the beautiful butterfly girl,

tells the story. Quote, I don't know why Mother and Dorothy couldn't get along, but they couldn't.

They quarreled, constantly quarreled. Dorothy wanted powder and rouge and lipstick. She wanted

bobbed hair and flashy clothes. She was full of life, overflowing with enthusiasm and pep. Mother couldn't see any of that.

Mother was old-fashioned. She believed the girl's place was at home. She even believed in chaperones.

Poor mother. She didn't understand modern ways."

Unquote. That's the way Earl Ellingson, elder brother of Dorothy, son of the murdered

woman, sees the situation. His heart is broken.

Upon hearing the story, police of San Francisco began searching cafes, cabarets, hotels, rooming houses,

all the places where butterflies may go to get their wings singed.

They are searching for Dorothy Ellingson. True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news, tales of classic scandals, scoundrels, and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age

of yellow journalism. Episode 155 sends us back into the jazz age with another tale of a bad

girl gone worse. It seems like a cut and dry case, and it is, but there's a great deal of drama between her arrest and the

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