Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-01-18
4 SAD STORY.

The story of the abduction of Josephine
Drew of Concord N. II. the daughter Of
wealthy parents, by George Sherburne and
her consequent death in Jersey City, N. Y.
is sad one. The details of the case are as
follows:
On the third of December last man and a
very young girl called at the boarding house
of Mrs. Corneilson, l07 Hudson street Jer-
sey city and applied for board stating that
they were man and wife. They had no bag
age with them, but they accounted for this by
saving they had been burned out in the Bos-
ton fire, and had lost all their effects. Mrs.
Corneilsons suspicious were not aroused,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Jones-as they
called themselves-were provided with apart
ments. The girl whose name was Josephine
was extremely youthful-not more than if
teen years old-and her beauty and interest
ing maners soon won the heart of the landla-
dy. She had not been long on Hudson Street
when she gave way to melancholy, became
subject to nervous fits and spent most of her
time in the solitude of her chamber. Soon
after she was taken extremely i'll, and Mrs.
Corneison on finding that the assumed hus-
band was out of money, sent for her own ply
sician, DIR. Petrie, to attend to the sick girl.
He pronounced the disease from which she
was suffering typhoid fever, brought on by
mental depression and excessive melancholy.
The necessary remedies were prescribed, but
the young girl grew rapidly worse, and on
the 18th of December she died During her
sickness she was delirious, and in her deliri-
um she frequently called out, Oh, mother ;
if had my mother" On one occasion when
Jones was absent from the house she said to
Mrs. Corneison "Oh when l get well l will
40 for / hut
am advertised. l am not married l have
only known him six weeks, and / want my
mother" Mrs. Corneilson supposed that
what the girl said was the result of disord-
cred imagination and she was about to ques-
ton her upon the statement she had made
when she was interrupted by the entrance of
Jones. There was no further opportunity to
renew the subject, as the girl died on the
next day. All the time she was sick Jones
was never absent from her side. He seemed
to have particular aversion that any one
but himself should be alone with the girl, as
if he dreaded that she would if opportunity
offered, make some revelations which he did
not want divulged
Mr.. Corneilson and DR.. Petrie repeatedly
urged Jones to write or telegraph to his wife's
friends, but this he obstnately refused to do,
and declined to give the name or address of
the girls parents. The kind hearted landla-
dy took upon herself the expenses of the
funeral, and the unfortunate girl was decent.
ly inferred. The only persons present at the
funeral besides Jones were the landlady and
her daughter and couple of the other board
ers. Jones and the girl seemed to be much at
tached to each other, and it is alleged he did
all in his power to minister to the girls wants
dnring her illness. Josephine was extreme
ly pretty, had beautiful form, large gray
eyes, and a wealth of brown hair Jones is a
very good-looking man of medium height,
with black, curly hair, black moustache,