Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-01-07

Maiden, Mass, Jan. An her cosy lit
ele home over the dry goods store near the
corner of Broadway and Ferry street,
Everett, an old lady hes dangerously sick
because the daughter who was her main
stay and strength has disappeared
The woman is Mrs. Mary Jane Davis.
Two days before Christmas. on the even
ing Of Dec. % her daughter Tena, a young
woman 96 years old, put on her hat and
coat at 7 O'clock, and said she was going
eut to meet her lover. who was i'll duty
bound by the girls condition to marry
her and which he had promised to do
This lover, Mrs. Davis says, is Albert
Trefethen, the young man of whom Mrs.
Davis bought the store which she now oc-
cupies, and who has supplied her and her
daughter with dry goods from the team
which he drove through the suburban
towns.
The Mother Openly accused Him
OF taking her daughter away somewhere
and concealng her. She also accused him
of promising 10 marry Tena, and OF having
seduced her under that promise All this
the young man denied promptly and en-
phaticaily. And then he went cut.
On the Afternoon OF Dee. "a, about $3.50
o'clock, Mrs. Davis received " letter,
neither d,+ed nor stoned Int nostnar,,,d
"Roston. Dec. ~ "a rV This letter can
taippd these words. Mother when Won
get this shall he dead the ono you think
is guilty of Innocent good bye"
Mrs. Davis read this letter compared it
with her daughters writing, and refused
to credi. it. She said the writing was not
the same.
On the morning Of Saturday. Dec 2s
Patrick GRAY was dumping some swill
into the Mystic river. near the Nedford
turnpike, when he saw lady's bat and,
having read the story OF the girl who was
missing from Everett, he brought the hat
to Chief Emerton. IL was taken to Mrs.
Davis, who recognized 1t at once as the hat
worn by her daughter on the evening when
she disappeared. And then the mother
tainted
Did She Drown Herself?
Those who believe in the theory of sui
eide, however, say that possibly the girl
went down to the waters edge, and there,
before throwing herself in, took of her
hat and placed it on the ground The hat
might have remained on the shore until
breeze or an unusually high tide, of which
there have been several recently, launched
it on its slow voyage up the Mystic river.
Mrs Davis son Charles arrived in Ever
ct from Bethel, Me, Saturday. In CONVEX
Bation with reporter last night he said
that there was no doubt of the identity
of the hat; it Was the one worn by his sis
ter on the evening when she was last seen
alive But of the handwriting of the let
ter he could not speak positively. He
Thought there were some points of resem-
blance, and others of difference.
Nh. Davis made one statement that is of
fpf in a ff # &c
mothers testimony that 1refethen has
peen Keepinr Comoany with Tena.
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ouestions He said that he conld mot taIl,
pnderstandinolv NJ the case haoanse bo did
not knmv what TO make of the matter
Mr. Trefetben. when asked if he bo Il
never Maid marked attention to Tnna 10
n,i.d Mt once that he Lad nover Maid hon
any attention Mt all He had never shown
in any wav that he vas interested in tbc
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faction for him
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that have hoan rrin+nd in coD,'oc.
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