The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21
THIS MISSING woMAN's LIFE HAD
BEEN THREATENED, 1T is
SAID.
MRS. KINGSBURYS DENIAL.
TELEGRAM FROM CHICAGO SAYS
SHE LIVES THERE WITH HER
MOTHER.
WHERE DID MRS. STAFFORD Coz
Clues to Missing Women Are Keep
ing the City and County Au-
thOrities Very Busy.

The Lambert lake tragedy is still
shrouded in mystery. The identity Of
the dead woman is apparently as far
from being established as it was the
day after the headless corpse was found
on the desolate hillside. A number of
clues, however, have been run down,
and the authorities are still prosecut-
ing the investigation, though results
point to the possibility of the mystery
remaining unsolved, perhaps for all
time. Reports of a number OF auburn
haired women who have been missing
under some circumstances or other
have reached the authorities during the
past few days, and it is impossible to
Investigate each to an absolute GER
tainty. What has been learned adds
few additional facts to the develop
ments already published in the G e.
Coroner Nelson yesterday received
what he believes to be ample evidence
of the fact that the dead woman was
rot the wife of former theatrical man
Of this city, in the nature of the fol-
lowing telegram from Chicago:
Coroner Nelson, st. Paul, Mimi: Please
have denied Immediately the infamous article
in Pioneer Press of Fridays issue. Am liv-
ing with my mother in Chicago.
Mrs. George A. Kings,
1926 Central Park Avenue.
1t will be noticed that the signature
is Mrs. George A. Kings, and not Mrs.
George A. KingsbUry, the woman
whom a morning paper has sought to
identify as the dead woman, but the
absence of the last syllable of the name
is believed by the coroner to be a
mistake on the part Of the telegraph
operator, either sending or receiving
the message. From the information in
the hands of the authorities they have
not from the beginning of the investi-
cation been of the opinion that the
dead woman was Mrs Kingsbury, and
each day adds strength to this view.
A woman who knows the conjectured
victim of the probable murder said to
a reporter for the Globe yesterday
that she had positively seen Mrs.
Kingsbury in Chicago Sept. 20 last The
G. e's informant says she was
standing in the doorway Of the Sara
toga hotel, on Dearborn street, near
Madison, when Mrs. Kingsbury passed
within three feet Of her. She declares
positively that she could not possibly
have been mistaken and that she men
toned Mrs. Kingsburys name to sew
eral friends that were with her and
pointed the former st. Paul woman
out to them.
The story in the G o b of yester-
day concerning the disappearance of
an auburn haired woman from Mrs.
Catherine Welsh's boarding house, 159
West Sixth street, during the early
summer Of 1896, is being investigated
by the authorities as one of the most
tangible clues to the identity of the
dead woman. The description which
Mrs. Welsh gives of this woman and
what can be learned of her history is
deemed sufficient in connection with
the discoveries since the mutilated
body was. found on the lonely knoll
near Lake Lambert Mrs. Welsh ex-e
amined the clothing of the dead wom-
an, and. While she cannot positively
Identify it, she is positive that, as to
size and dimensions, the garments
would have clO5ely correspondent to
those of the woman formerly living
with her The switch of auburn hair
found with the skull she positively
asserts is exactly like a similarly-coI-
ored switch which the missing woman
had, and when last seen Mrs Welsh
says this woman wore a light shirt
waist, though as to the rest of her
apparel the boarding house keeper is
not positive If the dead woman was
Mrs. Welsh's boarder, an explanation
IS offered for the apparent Shortness
of the skirt found on the body, and the
rather unusual dimensions of the cor
set. The missing woman was about
five feet four inches in height, weighed
about 135 or 40 pounds, inclined to be
plump, but decidedly long wasted.
with a we'll -developed bust. In a per-
son of this build. the dress-skirt worn
would, it is said, be several inches
shorter than that of another woman
equally as tall, but with a fuller and
shorter waist, While the bust meas
urement of the corset might, by COM
parisOn, seem disprOportionate to the
waist measure, The corset found on
the dead woman was of such dimen-
sionS, being twenty-five inches at the
waist and about thirty-siX bust meas
urement. Furthermore, Mrs. Welsh's
missing boarder was a dressmaker of
ability, and it is said that the skirt
on the corpse was undoubtedly made
by hand
This woman took board at Mrs
Welsh's in April, 1896. She said she
had just separated from her husband
who, she told Mrs. Welsh, was a travel
ing man for some Chicago firm The
woman was very nervous and frequent
ly declared that she feared her hus-
band would kill her, saying he had
threatened her life. She said she left
him because he beat her on account of
remark made by barber, when she
passed shop where her husband was
being shaved Much of the time the
woman kept her room and she would
not associate with the other boarders,
though making a Confidante of Mrs.
Welsh. While telling her troubles one
day, Mrs. Welsh says the woman ad-
mitted a liason with a local business
man after leaving her husband This
man, the woman said. was married.
After remaining with Mrs. Welsh for
five weeks, the Woman's money gave
out and she obtained position to do
homework and sew in family
TO which she was recommended. Sew
eral days passed, when the woman
came to Mrs. Welsh one evening, and
declared she could not remain at the
place she had secured. Mrs Welsh
offered the woman her former room
and she returned to her former board
ing place. The next evening she went
out and has not since been seem The
woman left a curling iron, looking
glass and comb, at Mrs. Welsh's. Two
trunks belonging to the woman were
taken by her to the place where she
worked, but a short time, and are said
to still remain at this place.
One peculiar incident in the woman's