The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-28
WHERE IS lizzie Lewis.
The Strange Disappearance
of a Pretty School Teach
er from Pennington.
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TRENTON, July %. 1s90.-The little vii
iage of Pennington Is all agog over the
mysterious and continued absence from
home of Miss Lizzie Lewis, a pretty and
popular young school mistress. Miss
Lewis has been teaching Tor Two years IN
q small yellow painted brick school house
near the villege of Marshall's Corner,
about two and q half miles north of Pen
nington. In the winter season she was
accustomed to board near her school, but
in summer having many acquaintance
in Pennington, and being very convlylaI
in disposition, she made her home IN tnat
village and went back and forth to her
school in the train on the Ph1ladelpnia
and Reading road.
For six weeks before she left the young
lady had been staying at the house OF
John Mcpherson, who lives near the des
pot, and is one Of the oldest residents of
the town. He and his wife live alone IN
the house. They enjoyed Miss Lewis
and did all in their power TO
make it like home to her. Miss Lewis
finished her school duties the latter part
OF June. but still remained quietly in the
village until Thursday, July 10. she
arose very early that morning and told
Mr.. Mcpherson that she was going to the
neighborhood of Woodsville TO make o
visit and would probably return that
night or the next. She said she would
walk To VhdESudll SOLn0 n0
she could catch a ride with some OF the
milkmen from there. With this she
started out about five o'clock in the
morning. She took nothing with her in
the way of clothing and only wore q
black summer dress. She did not return
tina night or the next, and when several
days had passed Mr.. and Mrs. McPher-
son began to wonder what her absence
meant. Seventeen days have now gone
by and yet the girl has not been heard
from. The occurrence is the talk OF the
village.
TRACING HER UP.
A reporter learning these facts made an
investigation of the mystery as far as pos
sible on Saturday. 1t was found that the
girl had no relatives, so far as any
one knew, except GRANDPARENTS at
Lambertville, and it was thought
that she might have gone there,
so thither the reporter went. not
even being acquainted with the names.
The old folks were finally found on York
street. The grandfather's name is
Thomas Price and he lives retired in a
three-story brick. The family are in re-
duced circumstances. Mrs. Price told
the reporter that she had a grand daugh.
ter named Lizzie Lewis and that she lived
at Pennington. She had been at Lam
bertville some time before and remained
only q few hours. But Mrs. Price did
not know where she had gone unless she
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daughter and they finally fixed the date
of the girls visit to them on Thursday,
July 10. They said she was driven to
Lambertyille by some one whom they did
not know. She arrived about eleven
o'clock in the morning and
Tor Trenton. She told them that she had
previously been to New York city and
had there made arrangements to act as
cashier at a hotel in some summer resort
on Long Island. She wanted to get back
to Pennington that day SO as to pack up
Island the following day. That was the
last seen Of her by them and they had
forgotten the name of the place and
could not write to her. They were great
~ alarmed when they found tho girl was
missing.
SEEN ON A TRAIN.
The reporter then went to Pennington
and there learned that the young lady
was seen on a train going towards New
York on Friday morning, July H.
by B. Frank Lewis. He boarded
the train at Pennington, and she occu-
pied q seat in n Of the cars. He left the
train at Hopewell and chat is the last
seen Of the girl by any of her friends or
acquaintance. Inquiry at one or two
places at Woodsville, where it was
thought the young lady would be most
likely to stop, did nothing towards I'M
travelling the mystery; She had not been
there at all. The only thing wanting to
make the chain complete as to her &C
tions before going to Lambertville Is the
name of the man who took her to that
place.
AL who knew anything. about the
young lady think her absence very
strange. She bore an excellent char
acter and associated with the best young
ladies of the village. She was a fine
looking girl with black hair and eyes
and rather dark complexioned. Hell
manner was winning, and she was very
popular with the young people. There
was not a home in che village where she
very successful. At the Marshalls Cor
ner School she has taught two years, and
was engaged to continue her work this
fall. At Woodsville and other places she
was equally well liked.
The most mysterious part of the whole
matter is that she would leave all her
clothing in Pennington. She is said to
BIZ very fond of dress, and when not en-
gagged at her school duties she frequently
changed her costume during the day.
She had an unusually fine wardrobe for a
girl in her circumstances. Mrs. Nc
all there yet. When she gave her
clothes to the washwoman that week, she
told her to have them done early so that
she could get ready to go away. They
were brought back GU Thursday after she
left home. One of the dressmakers of the
village has a dress which the young lady
wanted made, but has not called for. 1t
would seem that a young lady of Miss
Lewis taste would have sent for her
wardrobe long before this. even though
she had decided to go to Long Island
without announcing the fact to the PEN
nington people.
The grandmother aud aunt of the
young LADY, at Lambertville, said there
was nothing unusual in her not writing
TO them, for she very seldom wrote. They
did think it very singular, however, that
she had not taken her clothing. She was
very reticent, they said. about speaking
Of her private affairs, and was not accus-
toned to tell what she was going to do.
Miss Lewis has had q home at Lam
bertville since her mothers death, when
she was very young. Her father Is mar
ried q second time and lives at Allen
town, Pa. The young lady never visited
him or has anything to do with him.
She has q married sister living at Chi
cago. Miss Lewis was always a bright
child. She graduated at the Lambert
will high school at fifteen with the
highest honors. When che was sixteen
she obtained q position as teacher, and
after earning some money in this way
and borrowing a little more she went to
Pennington Seminary to school. She
went from there to teaching again, and
was liked wherever she happened to be.
At Pennington she had numerous ad-
mfrers among the young SWANS of the
village, but she had no STEADY COM