New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-21
AN OLD MAINE TRAGEDY.
THE STORY OF A MONUMENT AT Az"
BURN. ME.

From The Lewiston Juulhhi'
Rack twenty-five or thirty feet from the now
vep1 rough road which leads up the southerly
slope OF Mount Gle (also known as White OAK
rage road and foot path point the way to the top
OF the mount. Is a marble monument ..,,..
10 feet high and Is feet wide at the widest place
/, is Enclosed with an iron fence. ana four granite
posts mark the boundarie9 OF the LOT. Ine poWluer
and monument being in the centre. The shapey
marble shaft OF the monument EXTENDS ABOVE inc
moss-coyered rock and may be seen from the pri-
va,e roadside although the trees and bushes have
grown up al! around IT, making 1t quite easy Tor
the stranger 10 pass by without noticing H. espe-
cialy I'm midsummer. A well-beaten path LEADS
from the road down over the rocks and through
ago n Was not an uncommon thing to find bou.
uuets OF flowers under the shelving west slde OK
the big bowlder but. so far as the writer KNOWS:
no flowers have been deposited there IN recene
yonrs. Neither are the grounds kept in as good
condition az formerly. for the grim reaper DEAN am
erection Of the monument been gathering IN thoss
who were nearest and dearest 10 the person ID
whose memory the shaft was reared. .
The monument marks the spot where we're founi
the remains q suicide-Miss Louise NJ GIeenHs Greene,
October 10. 1856 the circumstances OF the Tragedy
making the celebrated. appealing as II did TO
public sympathy. Mss Greene. who was daugn.
student Si M at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary al Kents
Hin and became involved In trouble lust peiore ne.
Institution The trouble arose oyer the mysterious
disappearance OF some Of the students weans ap'
being held accountable. This, as the story goes,
caused her TO leave the college OF her own free
t m d ihe train FOR lewiston May % 1856 while
on the train iourneying toward sWs,on h sne ,,r..
We'll II was dated lat a way station on mo
cars" She also wrote a second htter 10 ner SIS.
ter at the college. This was the last neatn oi
her. Dlgent search was made In all directions
but no trace Of the missing girl vas FOUND -
bered selling poison TO young woman answering
Miss Greenes description and yario,s peope but hut
ported having seen her at dnerent places ~
there reports too uncertain to be OF very
much syInG Oc,obsr rong after the search
had been abandoned. hunter acidenta'iy. ran ran
ncross the skeleton under the lower side OF ne
big rock o., Mount Gle the Identity peihs iu"'
IL was without doubt the remains of Miss Greene
the Kents Hin student LA, 49,, -.
remains given into their custody ,,,,
The finding OF the body kindled anew pubic inter-
@, IN The suicide heightened 10y Jonas Greene pub
fishing and circulating book called The Crown
Am, 81 Five Years at Kents Hi. Maine" The
hook Contained lG2 pages and I'm II the writer told
tncuIiy NJ Kents i'm responsible for the sad end
Ing Of his daughters ne The faculty soon after
Rnniv 70 70 circcnc's Pamphlet" In the nlnety-sx
pages OF his book the faculty made emphatic de.
,,,nrrord Mr. Greene issued n "RejoInder." q
saventv.page pamphlet. This ended the public dis
cssion o. the case ana now ataer tn ,bs migss
aged elderly people who % by ss
5s the s at kens I'M and Sr Greene %
found in number OF Lewiston and AUBURN homes
the S 4Sn DST Sss fse rman
of one OF the saddest suicides in Maine history l.,
On ns %sf' saS 'es
ter Of Jonas and l.. NJ. Greene en-, q Peru Maine:
student Of five y sass Of asn Who persisted
May. within two weeks OF graduation. martyr
s sSs ,Ss q eosa have died for
one friendly hand-srasp' and thought 1t happiness
70 Ge IN. south side Heart breaking. dearly be-
loved, adieu."