Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-03-09

A ABEAUrIFUL yoUSo x0rHEFs DEATH
IN CHAMBERsBURo.
Separated nom Her Infant She Dies Soon
AFTER : Tho Tragic End Of Sup
posed Indiscretion ~ Fashionable
Female Boarding school.

A special dispatch from Chambersburg,
Pa, to tie Philadelphia Times, on Sunday,
says: During the last week Of February
two fasbionably attired ladies arrived on the
late train In this place and were driven 10
Mrs. Armstrong; private boarding house,
where arrangements had been previously
made as TO rooms by letter. The ladies at
once repaired TO their rooms, where they
maintained tho strictest seclusion, having
all their meals sent up and not being seen by
the other guests Dr. J. McLanahan was at
once sent for and in day or two after their
arrival the younger of the two ladies, a beau
tiful girl, about seventeen years old, gave
birth to child. None of the other inmates
Of the house, outside of the landlady, were
aware of the birth. The babe was at once
after its birth handed over TO wet-nurse,
Mrs. Leedy, residing here, with instruc-
tions to care for tho child for Ave years,
when IL would be claimed, and for her SER
vices she was promised five dollars week
in advance
On Friday Mrs. Leedy was given some
money and q round trip ticket to Philadel-
phia and instructed To deliver the child to
the lady and gentleman who would accost
| her i'm the Broad street station and to ask no
| questions The nurse took the babe down
on last Saturday and was met by couple,
| who took the child, the gentleman handing
| her a ten-dollar bill, with the remark
"You have a return ticket, believe" From
| beautiful girl-mother fretted and pined after
| her child and notwithstanding the best
medical skill she gradually grew weaker,
until about midnight Friday night death re-
leased her from the agonies OF child-bed
| fever.
A telegram had been sent to Philadelphia
| announcing her extreme case and on the
early morning train middle-aged man ar
rived, who proceeded to the boarding house
| and, finding the girl dead, summoned local
| undertaken. In less than eight hours from
| her death the body was In coffin and whirl
ing along on its way TO Philadelphia, the
man and the other lady accompanying the
| remains ticket had been bought for the
corpse and the only clue on the rough DO,
was card with the name &C. S. Williams
| on IT. On the trunk the initials al. L. u. ,
were printed. The lady who accompanied
the dead girl was about 80 years old, and wa
dressed too handsomely TO be a mere hiret
nurse. She was addressed, too, by the deat
as "aunt."
District Attorney Zacharias, after state
ment of the case, allowed the corpse TO By
taken away, but refuses to open his moutl
on the subject. gentleman who is in
position to know said that the young lad,
belonged to one Of the richest and oldes
| families in Philadelphia, residing on Ritten
house Square, and had been betraye,
| are wonderfully excited over the mysteriou
affair and are loud in their censure of thu
physician for allowing the babe to be takei
away from its mother.
ADDITIoSAJ PARTICULARS.
IL has been found that during the stay Q
the ladies in Chambersburg the letters re
ccived by the young lady were addressed
Miss NJ. l.. Williams and were general
post marked West Chester, while the letter
for the elderly lady were addressed to MR.
l.. l.. Duflield and bore the Philadelphi
postmark. Whether these names were rea
or assumed ones remains to be proven
though the fact that the card on tho roug
coffin box bore the name of nj. a. William
might indicate they were the proper one,
Tho only person in town who Is acquante
| with the parties declines to state whether tn
names are correct or not He, however, say
that the family is immensely wealthy. Som
| of the clothing sent out to be washed ba
''Duffield' marked on II. The dead youn
lady was apparently about seventeen year
, | old and was very beautiful. She had
splendid head of hair, ranging i'm color froi
brown TO a golden tinge, and when uncoile
reached below her waist
, 1t is now positively said that the youn
q lady, while at boarding school, fell in 10,
with handsome young man far beneath ht
l station In life. Knowing that unio
r would never be possible in view Of hi
parents pride and wealth, she met her love
clandestinely and from these meetings h,
condition arose. She was brought TO Chan
) bersburg to hide the facts.