The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-04
A Fulton County Lady's Strange Death.

A Fulton County Lady's Strange Death.
The Everett Press narrates the circum-
stances of the sudden illness aud death
of Miss Mary Catharine Fisher, of Hus-
tontown, Fulton county, at Kansas
City, Missouri, which have an air of
mystery about them. About the first
of last September she left the home of
her brother in Everett, where she had
been stopping for some months, in COM
pany with her father, on a visit to rela
tives in the west. After an absence OF
some weeks, the old gentleman returned
alone, leaving Kate with her friends in
Kansas, where she had concluded to
spend the winter. Some time during
the month of January she left her sis
ter's home Mrs. e. M. SkinnerD in
Clay Centre, to visit an uncle in Morris
county. After spending a few days there
she went up to Topeka, and visited
cousin in that place. From that point
she concluded she would return home,
and about the 21st of January started on
her journey, purchasing aticket through
to Mount Union. And that is the last
that is positively known of her life by
her friends. She had not communicated
to her relatives in Pennsylvania her in
tention to come home, but thought to
give them surprise-but it was not the
happy surprise she had planned for
them, poor girl. 1t was q sad-a heart
breaking surprise. The only person in
the east who knew of her intended
homeward journey was her affianced
lover, Harry Jones, of Orbisonia, to
whom she had written of the day of her
proposed departure and the date of her
expected arrival at Mount Union. Sew
eral weeks passed, and when she did not
come he made inquiry of her friends
about her, and they inquired of her
friends in Kansas, when the fact was
discovered that she was missing. Mr..
Skinner got on her trail and followed
her to Kansas City, but could trace her
no further. After several unsuccessful
efforts to find her he engaged the assis-
tance of detective, and after much
trouble and many failures to find her
alive, the thought of hunting for her
dead was suggested. Accordingly they
visited the morgue or dead house, where
it was ascertained that young woman
answering her description had been
buried from that institution some weeks
ago. This was clue. The undertaken
who buried her was visited and shown
her photograph, and he thought it look
ed like the young woman whom he had
buried. The house whence the dead and
unknown body was brought to the NOR
que was visited, and the photograph
shown to and instantly recognized by
the woman of the house, who said that
one day some time in January she was
on the train from Topeka to Kansas
City, when she noticed young woman
passenger on the train to be very ill.
She spoke to her, and did what she
could for her relief. When the train
reached Kansas City, the young woman
was SO very i'll that she had to be put off
the train, and as she was the wife of one
having something to do with the trains,
she had the sick woman taken to her
house, where everything was done fer
her relief that could be done; that she
fingered in state of Inconsistencies,
from the first for eight days and died
without being able to give any account
of herself-not even her name; that her
body was removed to the morgue and
held there for six days for recognition,
when, no one coming to claim it, it was
buried by the authorities. The woman
exhibited the dead girls clothing, gold
watch, rings, and other articles, which
were fully identified. With this evidence
in their possession permit was obtain
ed from the authorities to exhume the
body, when the lifeless remains of Kate
Fisher were unmistakably exposed to
view. The fact was at once telegraphed
to w. Scott Fisher, her brother ,at Mount
Union, who hastened to Kansas City,
and returned to Everett with the re-
mains last Thursday morning. Miss
Fisher was in her 30th year. Among
the mysterious things connected with
sad affair is that Miss Fisher had a
through ticket and two large trunks
packed with good clothing which can
not be found. Why she was elected
from the train in the condition the
strange woman says she was, needs ex-