Evening journal., 1904-09-21
TOOK HER OWN LIFE
Mystery Of Margaret LynCh's
Death Cleared Up by Priests
Statement.
TRUTH KNOWN TO FAMILY.

Relatives Of Unfortunate Girl Sent the
Note Asking That She Be Buried as
Martha Lain1beer--Thsir Secret Re.
vsalsd Through an Amateur petse-
tive's Curiosity.
New York, Sept. 21.-All that was
mysterious about the young woman
who was buried in Greenfield ceme-
tery, Freeport, n. Y, as Martha Lain
beer, but who is now known 10 have
been Margaret Lynch, daughter OF a
well to do contractor living at 344 Yer
non avenue, Brooklyn. has been re-
moved by statement made by the
Rev. Father Burns. rector Of the Ro-
man Catholic Church OF ST. John the
Baptist, who had known her for many
years, but there remains a remarkable
story of the wrecking Of a family's
happiness by girls waywardness and
the duplicity Of an aged relative Of her
hance.
Two years ago Margaret Lynch and
Oswald Maune, Jr., were looking for
ward to their marriage. Both families
favored the match, and congratula'
tions were showered upon them. In
the whole parish there was no girl
more popular than Margaret Lynch
Oswald Maune, Jr., was as well liked
in the circle in which they both moved
He was then twenty years old, while
his fiancee was twenty. Today he Il
hopelessly insane and under confine
ment in an institution on Long Island
ignorant that the girl he was to MARI,
committed suicide FIVE months ago aft
er telling her mother she had nothing
more to live for and that it was bette
for all concerned that she should die
The relative who came between he
and young Maune and drove him to in
sanity has disappeared.
Girls Father Not Told.
While the prosecuting attorneys o
Nassau county have been laboring I
solve the mystery OF the identity o
the young woman known to them a
! Martha Laimbeer and have even gon
so far as to work on a theory that sh
D was murdered, all the facts have bee
= known TO the girls family, with IN
: exception Of her father, and to th
family Of her fance.
I Without making Il known TO the al
thorities. woman relative OF the gi
: visited the morgue at Freeport, wheI
her body was held for identihcatio
I after II was found by school childre
lying beneath a tree. There was l
= doubt In the mind Of the relative tn
il was the body Of Margaret Lyme
T in spite Of the disfiguring burns fro
the carbolic acid, with which she hi
Il taken her life.
Like many others who looked up
J. the girls body and turned away wi
a shake OF the head, this relative we
S, her way, leaving the authorities l
aware Of the fact that an identlhcati
p had been made. she reported TO
girls family that there was no dou
as to the identity, and at once lett
d, containing 500 with which TO bury
r girl was forwarded to the Mass
in county authorities. This letter was
d worded that it contained no clew
y to the identity of the young woman.
Money Sent For Burial.
Is "1n the name Of charity the let
b. read, "in the name OF your noble p
ID fession and of distracted relatives W
IN shun public disgrace, l beg Of you
u, spare the poor woman suicide from
ID paupers grave. Please give her a
re cent burial with the one hundred d
le lar bill enclosed. Purchase a grf
II apd coffin and retain sufficient TO +
'o you for your trouble. Please put
IT. advertisement in Friday mornings
eh pers saying, 'S10O-Will do as requ'
pc ed Bury her under the name
~ Martha Laimbeer. Body will be ella
\" ed in the future. Please don't publ
&c this letter The poor woman had Of
threatened TO kill herself. God '
ne reward you for your kindness"
ul Only because Of the activity Of
su amateur detective, who caused
~ opening of the case after the minu
A. of last springs inquest had becc
M IN dust covered IN the office of Dist
~ Attorney Niemann OF Mineola, W
~ the real facts made known. SUSPECT
nc that the girl had been murdered "
an revived. The story would not do
and finally Father Burns, in the h
~ Of putting an end to the mystery,
tied Mineola and made a comp
ofofou,opf ~ tho nufhoritiaS