The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-04-26
MYRTLE STURTEV Ant.
The Mystery Surrounding Her
Disappearance Solved at
Last
Found in the Ohio River at Gin
cinnati The Sad Story
of q Beautiful Girl.

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The body of Miss Myrtle Stur-
tevant, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. B. Sturtevant, who mys-
teriously disappeared from her
home in Columbus on April 9TH, was
found here in the Ohio river last eve
ming two miles below this city,
The body was very badly decom-
posed but was identified beyond q
doubt by the wearing apparel and
jewelry.
Nothing has been ascertained re-
gardiug the facts Of her suicide.
HER SAD STORY.
About IL o'clock on the night of
April 9Th, report was made at the
city prison of Columbus, Ohio, that
Miss Myrtle Sturtevant, who resided
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs Stur-
tevant, at No. 427 West First avenue,
had disappeared, and the police were
requested to look for her. She was
described as bling % or % years Of
age. with black eyes and hair. She
walked very erect and wore a brown
dress with blue and yellow checks, and
q blue hat with q white feather. 1t
was reported that che left home at 2
o'clock the previous evening. c,rrying
no clothing except VIII At she wore. was
thought to have only about 81 80 with
her, and that she left a note for q gen.
tleman friend of hers. saying that she
was going away, and that it would be
useless for her parents to look for her,
as it would be impossible to find her.
DETAILS.
A further investigation developed
that the afternoon Mss Myrtle disap-
psared, Mrs. SIurtevant, who is q
member OF the Relief G rps of the G.
A. R., OF c ,lumbus. went down town
to attend a meeting of the corps,
leaving her daughter at home Miss
Myrtle also knew that her mother
was going to attend social at King
Avenue NJ. Z church during the eve.
ming, and told her mother that she
was going to call on Miss Hattie
Mead, a young lady friend, and that
they would 60 and see about a pupil
Miss Sturtevant thought she could get
for piano lessons. After her mother
had gone, she went to q grocery store
in the neighborhood aud secured
change for a s. bill. She then re-
turned home and left 50. so of the
money in bureau drawer and went
away.
NOT ALARMED.
When Mrs. Sturtevant returned
to her home in the evening her daugh-
ter had not returned, but she did not
think anything of this. as she sup.
posed, as a matter of course. that her
daughter had remained at Miss Mead's
for supper, and would 60 down town
in the evening to attend a musical
entertainment she had been talking
about. She die not suspect that any.
thing was wrong, and went to the
social. After her return from there
her daughter was still absent, and she
became alarmed.
! During the evening Mr.. Thomas
}COunell, a Young and well known
business man of North High street.
being vice president of the firm of
Garlic. Connell & Co., went 10 the
home of Miss Mead to escort her
home. He roomed at the Sturtevant
home and was a regular attendant
upon the young lady. In fact, they
they were engaged to be married, and
the wedding was to have taken place
come time in the neir future. When
he reached the house he found she
was not there, nor had she been there.
He could not account for this. but
upon reaching bis room he received
an explauati n in the shape of a note,
which said. as stated above, that it
would be useless for her parents to
look for her, as it would be impossible
to fud her.
SEARCHING.
This vas said to be shock to the
young man, who was at a loss to know
why his sweetheart had run away.
He waited until Mrs. Sturterant came
home and then informed her that he
could not find Miss Myrtle at Miss
Mesd's, but kept the fact of the note
secret. They made all i, quiries pos
sible, but were unable to locate the
girls whereabouts, so Mr.. Cornell
called at the police station and fur
nished the officers a description of the
missing girl, as we'll as the story of her