The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-15
Remains of Woman Found in the
Lake at Chicago May Solve
kenosha Mystery
POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING
Remains May be Thosel of a Kenosha
Woman Badly Wanted by the Po-
lice of This City on Charge of
Numbering Her Infant Child

The police of Kenosha are watching
with great deal of interest the in
vestigation of the remains of woman
found off Chicago on Tuesday night
and it is possible that the remains of
the woman may result in clearing up
the mystery of the parentage of the
infant recently taken from the waters
of the Kenosha harbor. Descriptions
OF the woman have been sent to Keno
sha IN common with all other cities
along the lake shore and it is thought
possible that the Kenosha police will
follow the clue. The woman was
picked up near the beach just out of
Chicago Tuesday evening and the
condition of the remains seemed to
indicate that the woman had been IN
the water for some time. It is stated
that an examination of the remains
indicated that the woman had re-
Gently become a mother and this has
led the Kenosha police to take a.
strong interest in the case. The
woman is described as woman 40
years of age, S feet and inches tall,
weight 100 pounds, high forehead, full
face, brown eyes, brown hair with
brown wig, good teeth and light COM
plexion.
The body found does not in any way
tally with the description of the
woman who was suspected to have
been connected with the infantcide
case IN kenosha, but this woman has
never been located by the police and
they think that it is possible that
when she found that the officers were
closely on her track she jumped from
one of the boats bound for some
Michigan port and was drowned in
the lake. The woman's wearing ap-
parel was of a good quality, but not
of gaudy nature. Chief of Police
O'Hare and the District Attorney have
been so busy with the trial of the men
charged with robbing freight cars
that they have not been able to find
any time to take up the investigation
of the body found off Chicago, but it
is proba BILE that they will look into the
matter tomorrow.
ne CnlCdSO ponce OmCofS seem to
think that the woman was drowned by
falling from Goodrich liner, but this
theory is only supposition and the
woman might have jumped into the
lake in Chicago. The fact that the
remains have just been found would
seem to indicate that the remains are
not those Of the woman sought by the
kenosha police, as the remains would
have hardly drifted all the way from
Kenosha to Chicago in so short a
time. It is, however, possible that
the Kenosha woman has been hiding
in Chicago and that she finally threw
herself into the lake to hide her
shame. The remains of the woman
are still being held at the morgue in
Chicago and hundreds of people from
different north shore towns have Wis
tied the morgue in an effort to iden
THY the remains.
Racine officials are also looking
closely into the case, as they had a
case of infantcide within the past few
days when the remains of an infant
newly born were found drifting in
the Racine harbor near the Goodrich
docks. It was thought that the body
of this child had been tlrown from the
vessel on the night before the body
was found.