The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-18
THE MAINE SUICIDE MYSTERY.
Discovery of the Skeleton of the Missing
Girl.

Discovery of the Skeleton of the Missing
Girl.
We find the following sad story in the Lewis.
ton (Ie.) Journal:-
1t will be remembered that on May 23d last
Miss Greene, aged twenty-five years, daughter
OF Jonas Greene, of Peru, Oxford county, mys-
teriously left school at Kent's Hill, came to
Auburn, where she stopped few hours at the
Elm House, and left in the mid-aiternoon, ap-
parenty in tears.
She was next and last seen IN a drug store in
this city, where she purchased tgo-and-a-half Ii
ounces of corrosive suohmate-a quantity sutfi.
clent to destroy many lives. 1t was believe
rat the unfortunate girl committed suicide, and
diligent search was made for her body in the
woods in this vicinity, and in the canal and
adjoining towns. All efforts to discover her
J. mains we're, however, futile, and the agonized
II ends of the missing girl gave up all hope OF
e er seeing her alive, and nearly all hope of
e,tr discovering her remains.
Saturday morning, as G, Lewis and his brother
we're hunting at White Oak Hill East Auburn,
they accidentally stumbled upon the remains OF
human body, in an advanced state OF decom-
position. There is no doubt 1t is the body OF the
II issing girl.
The head was supported on the right arm, the
lees were drawn up slightly, and all the flesh
lad disappeared, leaving mere skeleton IN
clothes. A black straw hat was lying near,
having probably been blown from the head,
now a ieshless skull, whose light hair was
streaming hithCr and thither over it in the
wind
Ihe BODY was ClOtneO WIN q COLlOn uress
| Vith q blue woolen border, a hoop skirt and
| cotton skirt, shoes and stockings 1t was with
| out drawers. Oversize shoulders checkered
| shawl was hugged tightly, and held around her
| throat, as though shrinking from the cold, aud
ende&vorng to protect herself from it. The
| waterproof cloak was stretched on the rock
near by, which, 1t is believed, hal been blown
| by the wind from her shoulders. The shoes and
| stockings were in perfect preservation. Near
| by was reticule, in which were found a memo
randum book, penholder and pen, an empty
inkstand, hair brush, nail brush, two soied
pocket handkerchiefs, pair OF new gloves, and
| q brown veil.
DR.. Harris was summoned before the remains
we're touched, and gave his opinion that the de-
| ceased probably survived from three to SIX
| hours after taking poison, the probability that
she died by poison being increased by the acci
dental discovery of an apothecarYs circalal
near by, in which it is likely the poison hao
been wrapped. DR.. Harris thinks that the
position of the body indicates that the deceased
died without great suffering, as 1t was found in
the most easy and natural, or reclining posture
From the mem oraDdum book and all Other
a tices in her possession, she had apparently
removed all positive testimony as to her iden
tity. Several leaves were torn from the memo
randum. Evidently they may have borne
name she wished TO conceal. Her desire to de-
sroy her very name was indicated by tho let.
ters she addressed TO her school class In which
she begged her classmates to forget her.