Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-13
The New Haven Mystery.
THE HECIRCUMSTANCEs PRECEDING JENNIECRAMER'e
DEATH.


DEATH.
Though week has elapsed since the body OF
Miss Jennie +. Cramer a remarkably beautiful
young girl of New Haven. Ct, was found OH the
beach near Savin Rock, six miles below New
Haven. the mys terry as to whetherher death was
o suicide or the result Of foul play Is still un-
solved. She was the daughter of Jacob Cramer,
o German cigar maker, had been well educated,
acquaintance. both male and female and to go
with them on excursions and to walk
the streets in the evening. Two brothers.
James and Walter Malley, were her most
intimate male friends. and through them she be-
came acquainted with Blanche Douglass, q
woman who arrived In New Haven on the 23d Of
July, and put up at the Tontine Hotel On the
18th the four went riding together i'm the even
ing, and, according to Banche's story. did not
return till O'Clock In the morning, when Walter
left her at the hotel, and James went home with
Jennie. On Saturday, July 30th, Jennie dined
with Blanche at the Elliott House, and on the
following Wednesday the four went to the resi-
dence Of the Malleys, the father being absent at
Saratoga. Blanche's story is that they saw no
one but James and Walter. They were enter
tained with ice cream. bananas and wine. and
Walter played on the piano. Before midnight
Blanche asserts that she was taken sick and lay
down on a sofa, and afterwards she and Jennie
slept together In an upstairs room, and were to-
gether till they left the house at half-past the
next morning Blanche went home with Jennie,
and though they told Jennie's mother that
they had spent the night at the Elliott House,
Mrs Cramer was greatly excited, and threatened
to tell her husband. She SAID: "What q bad
girl YOU are! As soon as your sister Minnie comes
home YOU will have to leave the house. will
tell your father and won't have you about the
house You are q terrible bad girl and
this is the third or fourth time You have been
out this way" The mother left the room in
rage when Jennie turned to Blanche Saving.
They have turned me out Of the house She'll
tell father and father will kill me-" Blanche
says that Jennie left by herself, and that she
never saw her again, except I'm Savin Rock car
soon afterwards while she was herself seated
in another car. The father Of Jennie contra
diets this. and says that Blanche and Jennie left
his house together. After that Thursday morn-
ing nothing is known Of the poor girls move
ments, and her fate was unknown until the dis
covery of her body on Saturday morning. The
stories told by Blanche and the two Malleys af
the inquest agreed well together It was shown
that James Malley was at home on Friday night.
and Walter says he was with Blanche at Brand
ford Point on Friday night. The doctors have
made post-mortem examination of the body.
but the results will not he known till the meet
ing OF the inquest on Tuesday next. The person
calling herself Blanche Douglas has left New
Haven, her movements having been hastened
by the knowledg: thst the name Of Lizzie Bundy
had been found marked on her undercl0thing.
1t has been ascertained that she was not e the
Elliott House ct all on Friday night, and aftor
reaching New York she put mp ct Q hotel under
another name, 90 that there are three allass afe