The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-19
MILL RIVER WAS DRAGGED
VAIN SE1RCH FOR THE BODY OF
 MISS EMMA HALL.

Theory That Her Body Is Under the Snow
 Still Held-Every Possible Clue Being
 Traced-Missing Woman Had Suffered
 Greatly from III Health and Melancholia
 Especially Affected on Stormy Nights.
 Searching parties yesterday secured the vacant lots and every possible cor ner in the city where the body of Miss Emma Hall, who disappeared Tuesday night last, could have possibly lain hidden. The most that the friends and relatives of the unfortunate lady now hope for is to find the body, as they have given up all hopes of ever again seeing her alive. Not only was thor ough search carried on yesterday, but Mill river was thoroughly dragged by a party of volunteers. All the search was however, to no avail and the still remains as great mystery as ever
 VI J prostrated with nervous debility and was unable to leave the house for a long time Finally she gained strength and a fair degree of health and was able to go out little and to make various little excursions. During the hot spell last summer, however she was prostrated by the heat and then had an attack of grip. Since then she has been in a feeble condition and has suffered greatly from insomnia. Many a time after she had fallen asleep she awoke with a start, feeling much pain and nervous sensations in the region of the heart and spine that drove away all thought of sleep for hours. She told a friend a few months ago that she suffered terrible misery in her weakened and nervous state and said that death would be preferable. Her nervousness was greatly aggravated by the blowing of a strong wind and it's effect in rattling the blinds and win dows. On windy, stormy nights she was especially nervous and the gale Tuesday night affected her strongly She had been in the habit frequently of taking a short walk in the evening to quiet her nerves so that she could sleep, and 1t is thought by her friends that feeling unusually nervous Tuesday evening, owing to the high wind she went out for one of her occasional short walks. This theory is strengthened by the fact that she wore on going out her old plush jacket, which shows that she did not expect to go far when starting out on her walk, from which she has not returned and probably never will return.
 Miss Hall was very pleasantly sit uated in her home, where she lived with her aged mother, who is a widow, and is much prostrated by anxiety and suspense. Miss Halls father was a very comfortably situated and pros- porous farmer on Long Island She resided with her parents until the death of her father, ten or twelve years ago, when the Long Island property was divided equally between two sons, the daughter and the widow. Mrs Hall is a lady of considerable refinement One of the sons is w. B. Hall, the furniture dealer on State street, and the other son was formerly in the furniture bus- ness with w. B. Hall, but retired, and has since worked for Yale college at translating. He is in ill health and when unable from that fact to dc translating is engaged in other busi- ness. Miss Hall and her mother at- tended Epworth M. E. church when ever health permitted.