The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-10-16
A Strange Story.

Oue Oh In0 SCrangoSG Cal0S GnaG mas
ever met the ear Of the reporter was
listened to by him last nighs at the
Central Station. There are many
strange situations in life and death, but
probably none will equal the one mar
Mrs. Williams, of Mt. Carmel, Ill,
came to this city, and while passing
through Illinois street felt q strange
thrill of surprise and fear creep over
her as she gazed upon the face of a
young female that bore a striking re-
semblance to daughter that she had
seen laid away in her grave eighteen
months before. So strong was this feel
ing which forcibly carried to her heart
and mind that the young woman before
her was the daughter she had buried
that she followed her to her place of
abode. For days did she watch the
house for glimpses of the young woman,
and at last, as she saw her with milk
pitcher in hand going toward a neigh
boris, she spoke to her. The woman,
in her tale, says there was a mutual
recognition Be that as it may, an
intimacy sprang up between them, and
the young woman who bore SO strong a
resemblance to the dead daughter was
frequent visitor at Mrs. Williams.
The girl has been living with a couple
of ladies in Lamasco, and the frequent
visits made by her to Mrs. Williams
finally aroused, as she says, their sus-
picions, and led them, from the per-
sistency with which Mrs. w. sought the
girl, to make them wish to avoid her.
The feeling increased to such an extent
that they determined to get away from
the object of their avoidance, even if
they had to leave the city, and accord
ingly they made their arrangements
for so doing, yesterday being the
day set for their departure. Mrs. Will
Jams, having suspicion of what was
going on, determined to bring matters
to focus by lodging her complaint be-
fore the police authorities, telling them
that she wanted the women arrested,
and that one of them was her daughter
who she saw buried. In conversation
with the officer making the arrest she
described her daughter and marks upon
her person, telling him that if he did
not find these marks as she described
them to let the woman go. The marks
on her daughter were e mole on her
breast, a speck in one of her eyes and
an injured finger, which had been cut
nearly of, and, after the severest exam
she had accurately described them. Her
tale, as she related it at the Central Sta
ton, is as follows: ''About eighteen
months ago my daughter was taken
sick, and the physician that called in
commenced giving her morphine and
quinine. saw that she was not i'm
proving, but gradually wasting away.
and finally the physician pronounced
her dead. I would not believe it, as
when felt the body it was perfectly
warm, and would not permit her bur-
ial, but the doctor said / was crazy, and
the burial preparations were hastened,
and she was buried. I saw her laid
away" This is the story as she told it
last night. The girl that she claims as
her daughter sat weeping in the station
house, and but little that was intelligi-
BILE could be obtained from her. further
than that she was born about four miles
from Carmi. The authorities were, of
course, puzzled as to what course they
should pursue, and finally determined
to allow the three women and Mrs.
Williams to return to their homes on
Illinois street, and place a guard over
the houses until Monday to see that the
women did not leave the city, when this
most remarkable case will undergo an in
vestigation. The theory was started that
Mrs. Williams was laboring under that
most fearful of disorders, melancholy,
but physician who was present at the
scene pronounced her perfectly rational.
She may be on other subjects, but this
most singular and unheard-of tale that
she so graphically relates must come
from a mind disordered, caused, in all
probability, by the death of her daugh-
one that would puzzle stronger heads
than hers.-Evansviue (Iad.) Courier.