The Portland daily press., 1873-01-17

The BASKERVILLE ELoPEMENT.-Ad dispatch
from Jersey City gives the following sad par
ticulars of the death Of Josephine Drew, the
young girl who eloped from Baskerville (Con-
cord, N. H. with George Sherburne, VINO has
been arrested on the charge Of having caused
her death:
''On the third of December last a man and a
very young girl called at the boarding house Of
Mrs Corneilson, 10Y Hudson street, this 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. and had lost all their effects. Mrs. Cor
nelson's suspicious were not aroused, and MIR.
and Mrs. Charles G. Jones' as they called
themselves-weSe provided with apartments.
The girl, whose name was Josephine, was ex-
tremely youthful, not more than fifteen years
old-and her beauty and interesting manners
soon won the heart of the landlady. 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 ex-
tremely iii, and Mrs. Corneilson, on finding
that the assumed husband was out of money,
sent for h-r owl physician, DR.. Petrie, to at
tend to the sick girl He pronounced the dis
ease from which she was suffering typhoid fe
yer, brou, hit on by mental depression and ex-
cessive melancholy. The necessary remedies
were prescribed. but the young girl grew rapid
ly worse, and on the 18th of December she died.
During her sickness she was delirious, and in
her delrium she frequently called out, "Oh,
mother, mother; if had my mother!'' On one
occasion when Jones was absent from the
house, she said to Mrs. Corneilson, ''Oh, when
1 get well will do everything for you, love
| you SO; but am advertised. l am not mar
ried. have ooly known him six weeks, and
want my mother" Mrs Corneilson supposed
that what the girl said was the result of a dis
ordered 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
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 di
vulged.
Mr.. CorneilsOn and Dr.. Petrie repeatedly
urged Jones to write or telegraph to his wife.
friends, but this he obstinately refused to do
and declined to give the name or address of the
girls parents. The kind-hearted landlady tool
upon herself the expense of the funeral, ant
the unfortunate girl was decently inferred. Be
fore the funeral took place Mr.. Corneilsor
having the coroner investigate the facts, bu
the undertaken treated the matter lightly ant
said it would be better that the girl should b,
quietly buried. The only persons present a
the funeral besides Jones were the landlad.
and her daughter and a couple of the othe
boarders. Jones and the girl seemed to be YER
much attached to each other, and it is allegc
he did all in his power to minister to the girl
wants during her Illness"