Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-01-24
Miscellanu.
The Sad Story of Josephine Drew.
HER FOLLY, RUIN AND DEATH.

ine SAD story OF Josephine Drew o.
Fisherville, N. H., is comprised in the
past few weeks ami is thus .elated by
Jersey City Herald:
On the Sd of December last a mar
and very young girl called at the
boarding house of Mrs. Corneilson, 107
Hudson street, Jersey City, and applied
for board. stating that they were man
and wife. They had no baggage with
them, but they accounted for this by
saying that they had been burned out in
the Boston fire. Mrs. Corneilson's suspi.
cions we're not aroused, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles G. Jones-as they called
themselves-was provided with apart
ments. The girl, whose name was Jose.
phine, was extremely youthful-not
more than fifteen years old-snd her
beauty and interesting manners soon won
the heart of ner kind-hearted landlady.
She had not been long on Hudson street
when she gave way to melancholy, be-
came subject to nervous fits and spent
most of her time in the solitude of her
chamber. Soon after she was taken ex-
tremely ill, and Mrs. Corneilson, ON find
ing that the assumed husband was out
of money, sent for her own physician,
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 in spite of all that
skill and kindness could do, the young
girl grew rapidly worse, and on the 18th
of December she died. During her sick
ness she was delirous, and in her deliri-
um she frequently called out, ~Oh,
mother, mother, if had my mother"
On one occasion when the man Jones
was absent from the house she said to
Mrs. Corneilson, oh, when get we'll |
will do everything for you, love you SO !;
but am advertised, am not married.
| have only known him six weeks, and
| want my mother" Mrs. Corneilson
supposed that what the girl said was the
result of disordered imagination, and
she was about to question her upon the
statement she had made when she was
interrupted by the entrance of Jones.
There was no further opportunity to re-
new the subject as the girl died 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
revelation which he did not want divulg-
ed.
Mrs. Corneilson and DIR. Petrie repeat
edly urged Jones to write or telegraph
to his wife's friends, but this he obsti-
nately refused to do, and declined to
give the name or address of the girls
parents. The kind-hearted landlady took
upon herself the expense of the funeral
and the unfortunate girl was decently
inferred. Before the funeral took place
Mr.. Corneilson urged upon the under
taker, FL. Rowland, Jr., the propriety of
having the Coroner investigate the facts,
but the undertaken treated the matter
lightly, and said it would be better that
the girl should be quietly buried. The
only persons present a. the funeral be-
sides Jones were the landlady and her
daughter and a couple Of the other
boarders. Jones and the girl seemed to
be very much attached to each other,
and it is alleged he did all in his power
to minister to the girls wants during her
illness. Josephine was extremely pretty,
had beautiful form, gray eyes and a
wealth of brown hair. Jones is a very
good-looking man, of medium height,
with black curly hair, black mustache,
black eyes and pleasing address. He is
just the kind of man to captivate a
young artless girl, and it seems strange
that suspicious were not aroused on ac-
county of the disparity between the age
of the pair when they first applied for
board.
A reporter of Jersey City paper, who
was in the police headquarters on Sen
day, had his attention attracted by a
notice on the board offering 5000 for
the apprehension of George Sherburn.
aged twenty-eight, and Josephine Drew,
aged fifteen, who had fled from Concord
on the 28th of November last. The re-
ward was offered by John Marshall. City
Marshall of Concord. The reporter who
was in possession of the facts attending
the death of the young woman on Hud-
son street, was struck with the idea that
the parties who resided there we're those
who were wanted. He informed Captain
McHarney of the suspicious he enter
tanned, and the Captain at once proceed
ed to Hudson street, taking with him
pictures of the man and uopap urb;ab