The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-05
MISS DUBOIS not DROWNED.
Autopsy POINTS TO THE PROBA-
BILITY or MURDER.

Nh, sun,cient water in the Lungs OF the
Girl Found Dead az WoodmOnt, Conn.,,
IN Indicate Drownins-The Fun Re.
nort 10 be Made In the Case To-day.
WV HAVEN, Sept Am autopsy was
performed to-day on the body OF Louise
hr,bois. the Yalesville girl whose dead body
was found on last Friday morning on the
rocks near the shore at Woodmont at low
tide.
Coroner Mix said tonight that he had not
vat received a report Of the autopsy. 1t
was learned, however, that Drs. John +.
Barnett OF West Haven and DR.. c. j. Bart
lett OF this city, who performed the autopsy,
have made discoveries which make the
theory OF suicide, toward which the au
thorites have been leaning, more doubtful
than ever. Neither OF the physicians will
give any statement as to the result OF the
autopsy until the report has been made to
Coroner Mix tomorrow.
1t is learned, however, that the small
amount OF water discovered in the lungs
takes the idea that the girl was drowned
out of the realm OF probability, The marks
upon the girls throat are also to be ex-
planned, and while the physicians will not
say that these are finger impressions they
are equally careful not to commit them
elves to the statement that the marks could
have been made by the contact OF the body
with the rocks on the shore where It was
found.
A careful analysis OF the contents OF the
stomach and OF the other organs will be
made tomorrow to determine, il 1t is posi-
BILE. whether Miss Dubois was poisoned or
II there was any other cause for death
which does not 80 far appear from the e1-
animation and the autopsy. The body
will probably be shipped tomorrow to the
girls home.
Coroner Mix said tonight that he e1-
pected that Ernest LRpoint, the nineteen
year-old lover OF Miss Dubois, would be In
this city tomorrow from Hamilton. N. j.,
and tell the story OF his relations with Miss
Dubois 1t is expected he may be able to
give important testimony bearing on the
girls home relations and his correspondence
with her since he left his home In Walling-
ford, Conn.
So far the authorities have been unable
to get any trace Of Miss Dubois from the
time she left her home on Wednesday last
to 20 to Meriden until her body was found
on the shore. except that the conductor OF
the trolley car on which she rode remembers
that she ahghted In Meriden, and some
people ct the Colonial Inn, shore resort
a milo from where the body was found
have a recollection Of seeing a young CIR
Of her description alone In that neighbor.
hood about s O'Clock on Thursday evening.
One theory which seems to At the facts
in the possession Of the authorities betteI
than any other is that the girl came tc
Savin Rock, 3 summer resort about two
mites from where her body was found
that che perhaps met a man and went fur
thsr down the shore with him and finding
that he had Evil intentions or having had
struggle with him, escaped in q terrified
condition, ran along the shore and fell TN
oonscious, the tide then coming up owe
hsr body.
It u learned that a man was seen nea
the Colonial Inn at about the same TINT
on Thursday evening a. the girl now be
lisvsd to be Min Dubois, was seen IN there
Those who saw him can give only vague
description Of him. 20 tho authorities ar,
unable to get any elite which would leac
to his identity.
The relatives Of the girl scout the theor,
OF suicide. They deny that the homo III
OF tho girl had not been pleasant on aocoun
Of her being unable to secure employment
az has been intimated. They declare tina
there was no reason why the young womal
should be respondent or should seek T.