The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-15
A MYSTERIOUS DIsArPEARANcE.-
a Young woman Claiming 10 have
Relatives in Rutland.

A young woman giving her name as
Dora Llewellcn, about nineteen years of
age, employed as domestic in the family
of Horace Bachelor, at South sutton
Mass, left the residence of Mr.. b. on Sun
day, August 3D., clad very scantily, without
shoes or bonnet, and had not been seen
since up to Saturday last She is supposed
to be slightly insane and her mysterious
absence has given rise to serious apprehen-
sions.
A note from Rev. Philip Berry of East
Douglas postoflice, Worcester, Mass, says
the name Dora Llewellen is probably
only an assumed name, as she called her
self Agnes Faith Fuller in Worcester. She
said she had an uncle living at Rutland,
Vermont, who was 4 farmer, with whom
she worked for some time. She also says
she has a brother in Rutland who is living
with and caring for an aged grandmother.
Any information relative to this young
woman can be left with j. d. Kilburn,
Esq, postmaster at Rutland, or addressed
to Rev. Philip Berry, East Douglas,
Worcester county, Mass.
The Worcester South Compendium pub
lishcd at East Douglas, Mass, in its issue Of
Saturday last in speaking Of her mys-
FERROUS disappearance, says she came to
serve as a domestic in the family of Mrs.
Horace Bachelor, in South Sutton, on
Thursday, July 3lst. and until Sunday
seemed very homesck would weep like n
child, and seemed glad to call that her
home, and asked Mrs. Bachelor if she
would not he a mother to her. She also
spoke frequently of suicide, asked the
direction to the nearest ponds and inquired
their depth; she also asked for rope in
order to make swing, and said that she
knew her fathers and mothers spirits were
watching over and waiting for her, and
that they would welcome her as soon as
she felt life intolerable. and chose to de-
prive herself of it. Upon her first dis
appearance it was naturally supposed She
had drowned herself. but it was afterwards
learned that she had taken to the Woods
and had asked on Monday morning foI a
drink of water, four miles from her start
ing point. near Putnam hill.
When she came to Mrs Bachelors she
wore very neat black alpaca polonaise
and skirt trimmed with ruifics. n pretty
straw bonnet trimmed with black ribbon
and wreath Of tea roses anl buds she
also had ON new pairof ladies boots She
wore no gloves on collar. Her attire was
! tasteful and becoming. hut when She lefl
She wore only an old calico wrapper and =
pair of stockings. without bonnet or shoes
/ When she was seen on Monday morning
/ She had no stockings ON. and her feet were
/ terribly torn and CORY from her march
1 through the woods. During the day and
and night following she was heard moaning
in the woods, hut dlligcnt search of three
/ Several circumstances lead us to think she
| is dead her feet, which were sore and
| tender before the telyible lrccratiOn they re-
ccived in the woods, would unfit her tt
travel far after she once rested them the
general bodily reaction which would ensuC
from sleeping these cold nights upon the
ground, her not having eaten for several
days before she lcft-in word, exposure
exhaustion and reaction would soon wear
out her life.
She called herself Dora Llewclcn; SAID
! ~, hnl IL
Boston, who formerly had lived with he
at oxford, that till within a year she hat
lived in New York city, that she had {
brother living at Rutland, Vt, was fami
liarly called dolly" by her family, and
that she was 10 years of age.
She was well-formed person, weighing
about 100 or 1850 pounds, of fair but freck
led complexion, light hair cut short, Dor
dering on red. No earthly soul about here
knows one word of her history.
The article says the facts are that she
is poor broken hearted girl of Scotcl
descent who has left her home for reasons
best known to herself and her God.
She is person of more than usual cul
ture, reading much in Burns Poems, the
only book in her possession. She sang an(
played well, and her whole demeanor .was
very lady-like and becoming "A well-bre(
person. A stranger among us, we feel {
special obligation to care for hcrif deranget
and alive, or to discover her fate if dead.
Mr.. Elias Lowell of Millbury ,cpOrt,
her having lived with him since last Feb
ruary. She proved to he kind-hearted
faithful maid, and called herself Agne
Faith Fuller while there. He obtained he
in Worcester, at an intelligence Office KEEP
by colored man. She showed symptoms
of arrangement during the last week of he
stay there, and he thinks she is either deaC
in the woods. or else has drowned herself
for she often "wished that she was dead.