The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
NO LIGHT ON THE MYSTERY OF
MISS DUBOIS'S DEATH.
BELIEF That the Girl Was ASA ulted nj
WeOdm0nt and That while Inc0n.
scious the Tide Rose and Drowned Her
Theory That Her Assailant Ran or.


NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept 3.-Coroner
| Eli Mix Of this city and Medical Examiner
: J. F. Barnett Of West Haven tonight called
! Prof. c. j. Bartlett Of Yale University,
medical examiner for the town of New
Haven, in consultation over the death Of
Miss Louisa Dubois of Yalesville, aged 20
years, whose body was found on the rocks
at Woodmont yesterday morning.
The medical men tomorrow will in
spect the marks found on the throat of the
girl, which look like the imprint Of three
fingers. and closer examination will be
made of the girls body to determine, II
possible, whether it was a case Of suicide
or murder
Medical Examiner Barnett thinks that the
girl was murdered. but Coroner Mix in
clines to the suicide theory. The rela-
tives of the girl, including several brothers
and sisters, arrived here to-day, and the
entire time was spent by the Coroner and
the medical examiner trying to unravel
the mystery. The relatives think she was
murdered
The girl left the shop Of the Yale Manu-
featuring Company, where she was en-
ployed several months ago on account of
told her mother that she was going to Mer-
iden to call Oh former shopmate. She
took dollar with her, but left the rest Of
the money she had saved at home. When
she did not return that night her mother
thought she had been persuaded to remain
with her friend
The girl WAS OF a retiring disposition.
She had an admirer in Ernest Lapoint,
son Of James Lapoint of Wallingford. Sew
eral weeks ago he left Wallngford for
Hamilton, n. j., and he urged the girl to
write TO him. according to the story of
her mother. She had frequent letters from
him, one arriving on Tuesday Of this week.
These letters are now in the hands of Cor
oner Mix.
Mrs. Dubois said the last letter contained
a complaint of Louisa's neglect to write to
Lapoint. 1t is said that they had had
quarrel and that the girl did not seem anx-
ious to answer his letters.
Theodore Templeton, proprietor Of the
Colonial Inn, within few hundred feet
of where the body was found told Coroner
Mix to-day that he saw the girl in the troll
ley station about clock Thursday even
ing. She appeared to be waiting for some
one. No one saw her leave the station.
What brought her to Woodmont, where
she had never been before, is a mystery to
her relatives. The theory is that the girl,
discouraged at home, decided to come to
Savin Rock for a brief holiday. After
visiting that she took car for Woodmont,
the next station away.
When she reached there, it is thought,
she might have hesitated in the trolley sta
ton before venturing into the town, where
she was unknown. Feeling lonely she
wandered out on the rocks and while there
was assaulted by one of the tramps who
frequent the secluded spots on the shore
there at night.
1t is the opinion OF the girls family that |
she tainted during the assault and that the
man who had attacked her became fright |
ened and ran. The rocks where she was |
found are some distance from the shore, |
but are easily accessible at low tide Those
who know the shore say that very likely |
the girl lay there senseless until the tide
had risen and that when she recovered her
senses she undertook to reach the shore
and was drowned. Her hat was found about
100 feet from her body and blue ribbon
which she wore around her neck was picked
up about the same distance away from the
body in the opposite direction.
1t was given out tonight that the oon-
tents of the girls stomach would be
analysed for traces Of poison. A brother
Of the dead girl said that in his opinion the
girl was murdered. The place where the
body was picked up was about as desolate
4 spot as could be found along this shore
or miles Miss Dubois was one of the most