The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-23

side and rear of his shanty hut Mrs.
Osgood thinks 1t was about the same
time. Her husband told her about
finding the bars down at the time.
These bars are one entrance to the
swamp. A cart path leads by one edge
Of the swamp, to the neighborhood of
the spot where the body was found But
half dozen rods inside the bars the
path is crossed by q brook, the same
narrow, sluggish stream that flows
within few feet of the group of trees
beneath which the body was found.
AT the bars the stream forms a pool,
and from the bed of the pool stones OF
some size protruded above the surface
OF the water.
Teams have traversed, the Osgoods
say, this path, bringing wood from a
timber lot further on. But whatever
heavy teams carrying timber do, 1t is
reasonably certain that no light vehi-
Gle driven in the night would attempt
such passage if the brain directing
it We're sane.
1t may be that the team carrying
the body was driven as far as the cor
ner of the fence near the shanty; that
the body was lifted through the bars
and laid down inside; mat the team
was then driven back over the cross
ing to its partial concealment in the
triangle between the woods.
1t might be reasoned that under such
circumstances the pilot of the CHASTITY
expedition would have merely hitched
his horse within the shelter, and have
gone about his work But then any
man who saw would have wondered
why a team had been driven into a
more or less difficult spot, merely to
be hitched. And if the team were
hitched, on the road, it would be more
conspicuous But If the horse was TAX
en- from the vehicle and was found
quietly eating, almost any man would
go about his business, his curiosity ex-
cited perhaps with wonder that a horse
and vehicle should be in such a place
at such an hour as the visitor to the
Osgoods relates.
But once the team was relieved OF
the burden that it perhaps bore. there
was plenty of time for the person
charged with the disposal of the BODY
to transport It across the swamp by
using the cart path, or by following
the brook, to where 1t was found.
To slip back to the rig unobserved
would be a comparatively easy task,
and whoever took the team from the
triangle did it unobserved.
Such is the reasoning pursued by an
official to whose attention the incident
was brought by reporter OF The
Spy.
1t is fair to suggest that some trout
fisherman may have placed the team
in the triangle, but it is difficult to get
the crossing tender to accept this
theory.
AS interesting but not more produce
tive Of conclusive results than this lat
est development in the tragedy, was
the autopsy which was held this morn
ing in Sterling.
The authorities state that they could
find no indication of a diseased bone
on the left leg of the skeleton, as they
think would have been the case had
the body been that of Elizabeth She'd
den, and 50 they are inclined to believe
that the victim Of the tragedy could
not have been the Oakdale woman The
autopsy developed a new mystery, that
of the teeth. When the body was re-
moved to the tomb, 10 teeth were miss
ing.
At the autopsy IL teeth were present.
ed, which were said to have been sis
covered in the vicinity of the body. the
day before. by two newspaper men.
Now there has been nothing so mar.
velous in the way Of teeth since Jason
sOwed the dragons teeth, and il must
have been on this spot, and those found
must have been some that didn't
sprout.
II appears that nearly all Of then
dropped out Of the lower jaw, and few
from the upper jaw, and what is still
more strange. they fell out Of ihs
mouth before the body was moved.
Medical Examiner Tobey is sure that
none of the teeth fell out when he saw
the body removed. and so far as any
one knows. it had not been disturbed
before. The mystery of the woman's
identity and her taking on, pales into