The Jersey City news., 1890-07-29
LENA DAUM'S. DEATH.
She Went to Sullivan County Oh a
Married Mans Invitation.
Special to the Jersey citu Ns,cs.

NEWARK, July 30, 189O.--A case which
is now engaging the attention of the
Orange police. but regarding which they
are extremely reticent of talking, espe-
cially to reporters, has quietly been
worked upon since Sunday by Detective
Conroy. In the course of few days the
entire story will be known, and also
whether or not the grave fears of few
of Oranges people Will be found ground
less. AS it Is now, the case presents many
peculiar circumstances which will well
bear Investigation.
The object involved Is the life of young
woman of Orange of o well known fam
ily Her name is Lena Daum, aged TWEEN
ty-seyen. She was unmarried and lived
at service. According to the kilograms
dermann. of No. SO New street, Orange,
Lena is now dead and buried In Sullivan
county, New York. The report of her
death was received by Mrs. Lindermann
on Saturday. Mrs. Lindermann's hus-
band and -the brother or the dead girl
startedgyesterday for Sullivan county to
find out the details of the case.
LENA LEAVES HOME.
Asweek ago last Friday Lena left to go
to Sullivan county. She was then living
at service with the Snow family, at the
corner of Park street and Park avenue,
East Orange. Nothing was heard of her
till Saturday morning last, when a tele-
gram was received from Sullivan county
informing Mrs. Lindermann that Lena
was very sick. A few hours later another
one arrived, telling of her death. Satur-
day night third telegram reached
Orange, saying that Lena's friends should
come Immediately and take the body
away. A telegram was sent in reply or
dering the body to be shipped in metal
Il, H. Il 4nfc
Orange when fourth one came from
Sullivan county, saying that it was i'm
possible to keep the body and 1t was
buried. Diphtheria was ascribed as the
cause Of Lena's death.
THE MYSTERIOUS LETTERS.
The remarkable part of the story, ac-
cording to Mrs. Lindermann's statement
is that previous to Lena's departure she
had received numerous letters urging her
to come to Sullivan county. In response
to the letters she went to visit friends
there, among them being William kays,
who keeps large boarding house. Kays
has people living in East Orange, where
once he himself lived Mrs Lindermann
told reporter last night that Kays wrote
frequent letters to her sister while she
was at service in Shows house, in all
OF them urging Lenna to go to New York
State. These letters are now in the possess
sion of Detective Conroy. Mrs. Linder-
mann SAID Ghat none OF these letters were
signed, but in all of them the request was
made by the writer that they be
burned Immediately. This, however,
Lena did not do, and when she left
Orange the letters were found and were
perused by her brother. The Daum fam
lily suspect that all has not gone right
with Lena since her departure from
Orange
Kays is a married man. Lena Daum
became acquainted with him through a
young man who was a friend of his and
with whom she formerly kept company
AS the case stands now very little of q
definite character is known. The return
of Lindermann and Daum will help to
srraighten out affairs.
The Daum family are Germans ayho
lived for many years on the Orange
mountains, afterward moving to East
Grange. They are respectable people
and very thrifty.