The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-03-21
CORPSE MYS-
Terry UNS0LYED
II Is Now Positive that the
Body Is Not That of
Paula GeisS.

Baltimore. Md, March 2O.-In
an unmarked grave out in Mt Car.
mel Cemetery near the lonely Anne
Arundel shore of the Magothy river
lies the sail-wrapped body Of the
woman found drowned on that
shore on the morning Of March 10.
Who she was and whence hoated
the corpse are as great mysteries
to-day as on the morning Of her dis
covery, Greater, in fact. for
to repor e., Lena Gampert,
Yesterday reiterated her belief
now convicticn-thati it is not that
of Paula Gies, the Newark girl
whose escapade furnished the
foundation for the story that the
mangled body was hers.
Opals were the principal adorn-
ment of Miss Gies; brass and g Ass
form the articles Of jewelry on the
drowned girl. There is a great
discrepancy between the ages of the
two. Neither hair nor eyes corres-
pond to those OF Paula Gies. And
the clothing Of the corpse, in which
she was buried, is of kind that
the Newark girl would not have
worn. There is absolutely no clue
to the identity of the unknown. The
Anne Arundel authorities have not
received a single request from the
great outside world for a minute
description Of the body, sent with
the expectation that it would prove
clue to explain to some parents,
brothers. sisters or lover the alb
sence of one dear to them.
The body was wrapped in piece
cf sail cloth and buried in the pau
per cemetery at Mt. Carmel. The
tawdry jewelry, if jewelry it can
be called, was kept by Justice
Dunlap, in whose district the
drowned woman was found for pur-
poses of Identification.
II want to thank the papers
for sending me to Baltimore to iden-
tify, if possible, the woman's body
found in the Magothy River and
Miss Gampert yesterday. II loved
Paula dearly, and l feared that
this body was indeed hers. I am
certain now that it is not. | feel
sure that she is still alive.
ut cannot possibly be hers she
continued. "Paula would never
have worn such jewe1ry as this.
Why, it is brass, while hers was
gold, and besides, neither clothes
nor features are the same. 1t is
not Paula Gies, of that l am cer-
tain
Justice Dunlap made aminute in
ventory, not only of the clothing,
but of any marks upon the body.
that perhaps some in
quiries would be made.
At the present time it appears as
though the enigma of the girls
identity would never be solved.
William Campbell, one of the
fishermen who found the body, was
seen yesterday and confirmed the
descriptions of the body, jewelry /!
and clothing printed in the papers
yesterday.
1t is the belief of those who have /
seen the body that it's that Of some !
or Bohemian girl who
has perhaps broken through the ice
of the Susquehanna while crossing
70 one of the small settlements on !
that stream, and SO met her death.
Mixed with the tloatage on which ,
she was found were a number of
ogs that undoubtedly came from
he Susquehanna, and after a
reshet logs and other materials from |
he banks of that river are invari-
IDLY washed up on the Mountain
Point Bar of the Magothy.
At any rate, Lera Gamrert's as
'ertions, secured by the papers
ender it certain that the body is
lot that Of Paula Gies, of Newark.
Why Are You Sad!
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