Secret of Girl's Self Inflicted Torture Mystery Lake Bluff Woman Dies Without Revealing Her Story camins. and only in will him a tssues "finest" eve the be Herbert his the the the It he fore/ Regisin perfunctory the new was ex. least four exceded his gov. was 10,- to cast was of who not for 1457 attorney, the four of the a ago, 7163 did and was the in LAKE BLUFF, Ill., Nov. 2, (AP)-Alfrieda Knaak, 30-year-old book agent and psychology student, died early today, three days almost to the hour from the time she submitted her the arms, furnace feet and of head tp self, torture. in station. the Lake Bluff police nth, softners said d looked tho ct. whet actually pened - during dawn thase hours before / Tuesday when Miss Knaak; after sitting alone all night in the police station, went into the bes: ment where she later was found, near the furnace badly burned. Dies With Secret Even should, evidence develop pointing had to some second party as having a hand in the tragedy. officers said the young woman's story that she alone had inflicted the burns as selttorture to prove her faith in a "spiritlove': would almost certainly prove a bat to successful prosecution. Miss Knaak. died a few hours after her former phychology teacher and adviser, Charles Hitchcock, had on crutches to her bedside and plended with her to "tell everything." Hitchcock has been laid up for a week with a broken ankle, an aceldent of which Miss- Knaak apparently did not know station when she went to the police Monday night. It is a police theory that she had intended to meet Hitchcock, who is also night watchman of Lake Bluff, at the station. "Hello, Fritz," Hitchcock said to the dying girl. Miss Knack looked him full in the face, but did not speak. He asked her several questions the authorities had prepared: "Why did you do this terrible thing? Who let you into the police station? Why didn't you telephone me?" Last' Word is "Goodby" The girl made no reply, As Hitchcock hobbled from the room he called back, "Goodby." "Gcodby," said the girl. It wes the last word she ever spoke. Throughout her hours in the hospital Miss Knaak clung to her original story of faith in a "spiritlove." Even when doctors told her she had but a few hours to live, she. refused to amplify her explanation. Authorities had doubted her story. as It. seemed impossible, At first it was thought she might have been the victim of 8 madman's attack, but there were no facts to substantiate such: & conclusion. At eyery turn of the investigation, when officers tried to plausible explanation, they were forced back to the girl's own siory of self immolation.