Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-07
ELLA NEWTON'S DEATH
No Clue Yet Found to the
 Mount Vernon Mystery.
WAS IT MURDER OR SUICIDE

The Chief of Police Certain that Some
 Man Tied the Anchor to the Girls
 Waist, and Says He is on the Trail of the
 IndAvidual.
 MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Dec. 7.-Did Ella Newton tie stone to her waist and drown herself in East Chester creek, near Mount Vernon? Or was she inveigled tc the lonely spot and thrown into the water to drownP If the latter, who did 1t? These are the questions that have ex- cited Mount Vernon folk from the time the girls body, recovered from the shoal water at Invermere, the inn by the creek was identified by her stepfather from New York.
 The fact that she had run away from an unhappy home points to the self-de- struction theory. But the chief of po- lice feels certain that some man tied the anchor to her waist and threw her into the water. He thinks that he knows the man.
 Death was caused by drowning alone, and the fact that the girl was inviolate removes the most common cause for mur- der from the case.
 The girls movements have been traced only up to within four hours of her death. She left New York city, starting from the Grand Central depot, Monday morning, reaching Mount Vernon at about 10:30. She went to James Kearn's tailor shop, where she had been employed more than a year, and applied for a situation as nurse. Kearn and his wife referred her to Mrs. Meyers intelligence office. Mrs. Meyer sent her to Mrs. George Bard, who said she would want a nurse within a few days, and asked the girl to leave her address.
 Ella replied that she had no address ir Mount Vernon. Before going to Mrs Bard's house Ella had called for tho second time upon the Kearns to ask then the way to the address Mrs. Meyer haG given her. She never returned. She made & second visit to Mrs. Meyer, tc whom she reported failure to obtain tht situation.
 That was the last seen of her alive Mrs Meyer and her son as well as Mrs. Bart and the Kearns are positive that on all O her visits to them Ella was alone. While Ella was wandering to and fro be tween Mrs. Bard's house, the tailor shol and the employment agency, another gir was diligently seeking her for the pur pose of offering her a place as nurse tt the children of MT. and Mrs. Anlach. Sh followed Ella to all these places missing her by few minutes at each place. That Ella Newton did not go out to Eas | Chester on the one horse, single track rail | road is almost certain. Jake Feenan, tn | driver and conductor of the only car tha runs from Sixth street to Ivermere on tn Sound, Weher & Clough's hotel, does no remember having seen her, and his passen gers are few enough for him to remembe | them all.
 TheS of the place wher the body was found preclude the possi bility that it might have foated thithe with the tide from up or down the stream If she committed suicide Ella must hay waded out thirty paoes with 20 pound weight of stone tied about her waist an deliberately drowned herself in water b no means so high as her head. Sailo
 Jack and the other boatmen living alon
 the creek agree that all the knots in th
 rope were tied by a man long used to boat
 or ships. The stones had undoubtedl
 been used as anchors for rowboat.