The Paducah sun., 1906-01-29
MYSTERY OF GIRL
NOT CLEARED UP
Asked That Her Trunk Be Ship
ped to Mayfield, Ky.
IL is Feared That She Has Done Some
thing Rash-Left No Clue at
College.
HAS RELATIVES IN MAYFIELD

The disappearance from college of
Miss Lura Davidson, of Mayfield,
KY, as announced in Saturdays dis
patches from London. Ky, has Great
ed quite a sensation in the state. and
every effort is being exerted to dis
cover some clue to the girls where
abouts.
A later dispatch than the one Sat
urday says:
Mystery still surrounds the dis
appearance of Miss Lura Davidson
from one of the cottages of the Sue
Bennett Memorial school here Friday
night. She and some other girls
were living in the cottage and at
tending school. Her roommates re-
tired leaving her preparing her les
sons, and they did not know until
morning that she was gone.
She left a note on her table asking
her rOommates to ship her trunk to
her sister at Mayfield. Ky. and say
ing that she was tired of life and was
going to end 1t, and that they would
never see her again. Her trunk was
packed ready for shipment.
Although Prof. J. c. Lewis. princi-
pal of the school, and others have
made diligent inquiries no clew can
be found to her whereabouts. 1t has
been learned that she did not leave
London on either of the trains going
out that night.
Miss Davidson is an orphan girl
and has one aunt, Mrs. Belle Chester,
living at 1917 Maiden Lane, Louis
vile, Ky. She came here at the be-
ginning of the present school term at
the request of Miss Lucy Lee Mahan,
the evangelist who is paying her way
Miss Davidson was religiously in
clined. and it was the intention of
Miss Mahan to educate her for the
ministry.
Many theories have been advanced
as to what has become of the girl,
but nothing has been learned today
to warrant any conclusion.
A Louisville dispatch says:
"When interviewed last night Mrs.
Belle Chester, who had received a
telegram from Prof. Lewis announc-
ing the disappearance of her niece,
haf nf
the girl had met with foul play. She
said that there was nothing in the
girls nature TO lead her to suspect
that she had taken her own life.
Miss Davidson visited her aunt
during the Christmas holidays. leav.
ing for school again on New Years
day. About a week later Mrs. Ches-
ter received a letter from her in her
usual cheerful vein. and a few days
afterward replied to it. Not having
received an answer TO her letter for
over a week, Mrs. Chester began to
feel a little uneasy, and was contem-
plating writing again when the tele-
gram announcing the disappearance
of her niece reached her.
$50 far as Mrs. Chester was aware
Miss Davidson had had only one
affair of the heart, and that was with
young Methodist evangelist, whose
name she does not know. but who
was in Boston at the time her niece
was visiting her here. So far as she
knew there was no misunderstanding
of any kind between them.
Mrs. Chester describes her niece
as being a very pretty and very intel
l.gent young woman. with dark eyes,
dark hair and fair skin. She was
about twenty-one years of age, and
was slightly over five feet tall. She
usually wore glasses. Her parents
are both dead and she has been liv-
ing with her grandfather, n. A. Coul-
ter, a prominent farmer near May
field. Ky. A brother lives in Missis-
sippi and a sister in Tennessee. Two
younger sisters live with their grand
father"