Annie Horst - Coroner Writes Suicide

Annie rented a room on Bernard Street in Baltimore from Mrs. Mary Jamison.  She had been living there since she had left her husband,  Emerson Andrew Loomis more than a year earlier. They had become friends.  They were so close in fact that Mary had asked Annie to be her Matron of Honor at her wedding on 14 May 1920 and Annie said yes. 

On the evening of 13 May 1920, the evening before the wedding, Emerson Loomis went to see his estranged wife Annie and threatened her. He said he would kill her and then himself if she did not come back to him. Annie refused and Emerson left. 

On 14 May 1920 Annie performed her duties as Matron of Honor and the wedding went off Beautifully. The reception was another matter entirely. It was canceled. Just after  Mary Jamison and William Clark had made their vows Annie laid down her bouquet to hug and congratulate her friend. A Police officer knocked on the door at that moment  and informed Annie that her husband had shot himself through the temple   just a short time before. Emerson was dead but he had been busy. He wrote a note to his Landlady telling her that no one was at fault or to blame except his wife Annie D. Loomis and to please notify his brother James Loomis of what had happened.  The coroner ruled the death a suicide and the body was sent to the morgue. 

This was not the dream wedding Mary and William wanted. This was not the dream wedding Annie wanted for her friend.  This was not Annie's fault. Troubles seemed to be a companion of Emerson. 24 January 1907 he is committed to court for embezzling $75.00 dollars from his employer the Gardiner Dairy Company where he was employed as a driver.  Emerson insisted the amount was actually closer to $100.00.  14 July 1909 Emerson is robbed of $2.50 as he slept in a doorway where he was waiting for a ride.  On 19 December 1918 he is robbed by the O'Brien brothers. 

I find no trace of Annie after the suicide in May of 1920. 
Annie D. Horst, a distant cousin was born in March of 1890 in Baltimore, Maryland. She was one of five children born to John Frederick Horst and his wife Catherine Marie Uhl Horst.