The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-26

as No g. located in the town of Lake View, just
above ''Snow's Tavern" FOrding the narrow
strip of water that divided them from the object
of their curiosity, they stepped upon the
island and discovered the body to be that OF
well-dressed young woman, about twenty years
of age. The position in which they found her
was a very peculiar one. She was on her knees,
with her head resting on her hands, on the
ground. About her neck was a strap of leather,
buckl9d so tight that 1t made deep incision
into herhesh, and her face was much discolored
Her clothing was thoroughly saturated with
water which would seem to indicate that she
had either waded or been dragged through the
river to the island.
The deceased was a girl of rather prepossess-
ing appearance, and, to judge by her face, Nor
wegian by birth. She was dressed in q white
straw hat with blue ribbons; figured woollen
shawl a black cloth jacket checkered black and
white dress, a red knitted Hndergarment, red
and black striped stockings pair OF shoes with
straps and buttons. The straps are lettered "B.
Cordosa" and "Kiobenhavn." In her pockets
were found pair of gold earrings, pair of
steel spectaCles in cases, and ncedle-case.
Her fingers were ornamented with two gold
rings, one marked "E. NJ. L., and the other
"P NJ. NJ. A." Our reporter did not see the
Iings himself, and from another source is in
formed that the rings are marked sc. VI. W.
and IN. W., and it is state0 that her under
clothing is marked m. w. likewise. In her
poclet-book was found 81 greenback, and in
piece of paper, tied up in her clothing, seventy
five cents in fractional currency. From these
discoveries, it is evident that murder for the
sake of perpetrating a robbery was not the cause
of her death. Whether any violation of her per-
son was committed the post mortem examine
ton to-day will probably demonstrate. That
murder by strangulation committed, how
ever, there is little room for doubt. 1t is to be
hoped that the mystery will be fully cleared.
a Maryland Mystery.
The True Mdryld8der of the 18th inst. says:-
early in March young negro man about
twenty years old, who had been working for Mr..
Newell Reid, disappeared and sundry rumors
prevailed of his having suffered violent death,
which proved to be ee-black-crow" story.
On Tuesday last the remains of this man were
found in the woods of Mr.. Weslew Pusey. in
Stewards neck, about 100 yards from the fence,
about 30 yards from the road, and 200 yards
from the house of John Anderson, the negro
man with whom said boy had lived. Nothing
but portions of the bones were found and clothes
which were identified as belonging to the boy,
and being the clothes he wore when he worked
for Mr.. Reid. They were much torn by the hogs,
which had also crushed many of the bones. The
negro man with whom he lived said he left the
house without coat, hat or shoes. The clothes
found verify the statement. No clue to the mys-
terry
KIeptOmania' in Wilmington, =, aware-A
Young Lady Accused
The Wilmington Gazette says =
For several months past Mr.. Philip Combs,
baker, No. POP East Second street, has missed
money from the drawer III his store, and not
withstanding his efforts To detect the guilty
party, the thing remained mystery until Il few
days since. 1t appears that Il young married
lady, respectfully connected, was in the habit of
visiting the store frequently, being on the most
intimate terms with the lady clerk. She was
often left in the store alone while the young
lady was attending to business in another part
of the establishment. The money still continued
to disappear and finally Mr. Combs mentioned
the matter to his clerk, who declared most po-
siti' ely hat she knew nothing about it, that she
also had missed the money, but supposed
that either he or his wife had
taken it, She was then asked if she
suspicioned any one to which she replied in the
negative. Mr.. Combs, in order to detect
the thief, bored gimlet hole through the back
door of the store, and told his young lady when
her visitor again made her appearance to leave
the store on pretense of business, and he would
watch through the small hole in the door. The
lady came usual, and shortly afterwards the
clerk left the store as requested. But n short
time elapsed before the eye ut the gimlet hole
saw her ladyship approach the drawer, open it,
extract therefrOm some money, close the drawer
and pocket the funds. Mr.. Combs then gave the
signal for the young lady to return to the store
and he went ont at the side door and through
the alley to the street and met the lady at his
store door she was leaving. He told her what
he had seen which greatly alarmed her. and she
promised to return the whole amount of money
she had taken if he would hush the matter up
We learn that Mr.. Combs has recovered about
$500 of the money. We suppress the ladys name
on account of her relatives, who are highly re-
spected.