The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-13
GIRL SLAIN AND
FLUNG IN POND A
SOCIETY BEAUTY
Identified as Miss Hazel Drew, of
Troy, N. Y.@Police Hunt
Auto Party.
CRIME LIKE KILLING
OF LENA WHlTMORE
Is Shown That Handsome Young
Woman Was Dead When
Thrown Into Lake.
BELLE IN HER SET AND
HAD TRAIN OF ADMIRERS
Authorities. Fail to Establish Mo-
tive-Try to Find Her Sup.
posed Companions in Car.
Especial to the Evening star.l

Especial to the Evening Star.1
TROY, N. Y, July 13.-The body Of
the murdered young woman found In
Tears Pond, ten miles from here, was
today identified as that of Miss Hazel
|. Drew, the 19-year-old daughter OF
John Drew, of 400 Fourth street.
The mystery, which bears striking re-
sembIance to the murder of Lena Whit
more In the Harrison IN. J) Lampb1ack
swamp, was deepened by the fact that
an autopsy proves that the young
woman was killed by a vicious blow on
the back of the head and that her body
was carried to the pond in an automo-
bile. A motive for the crime IL laclking.
Miss Drew was pretty, bright and
popular. She was Sunday school
member and social leader in her sec
tion.
circumstances surrounding the mys-
terious crime seemed to implicate two
men and a woman, whose identity the
police are now seeking.
Chris Carpe was sitting on the front
porch of his hotel, overlooking Sand
Lake, one of the widest spots, In Rens-
selaer County. after midnight of July 4.
when he saw an automobile pass in the
road. It's lights were out 1t was ap-
parently trying to get by without max
ing any noise. In the front seat was a
man driving, and woman. who was
talking to him in a whisper. In the
back seat was a man and woman. the
latter leaning heavily against the man.
as though she were sleeping or uncon-
scious This woman is now believed to
have been Hazel Drew. and it is be-
lieved that she had already been slain
and that her body was being taken to
Teals Pond.
Carpe believed that the machine car
ried a party of jewellers. He thought
little of the matter until the automo-
bile came back, two hours later. when
there were only three persons visible
in the car. These were the man and
woman on the front seat and the man
on the back seat. Carpe then thought
that the second woman had fallen down
to the floor of the machine and was
sleeping there.
Auto Tracks Lead to Pond.
Gilbert Miller, who delivers milk to
Carpe's Hotel, was In the habit or
skirting the edge of desolate Teafs
Pond every day and for a week he had
seen what appeared to be a bundle OF
old clothing in the morass of the pond.
near the path he used. After delivering
the milk yesterday to Carpe's Hotel.
Miller decided to haul in the bundle OF
clothes and see IL there was anything
he could use about his farm. He was
astonished to discover that 1t was the
body of young woman.
Running back. he summoned Carpe
and then it was that Carpe recalled the
incident of the automobile. A search
of the woods revealed the tracks of the
which had left the road TO
cut through the woods to the edge of
the pond
County authorities got description of
the body and clothing, with two little
jeweled ornaments found on IT; these
were published and from these the
was made by the slain
girls parents.
An autopsy showed that the girl was
dead when her body was thrown into
the pond because there was no water
in the lungs. A fracture of the skull
showed how death had been produced
by a heavy blow on the back of the
head.
Thought She Had Eioped.
Miss Drew disappeared from her
home July 4. Miss Drew had several
admirers and her friends expressed
the belief that she had eloped. The
girls parents refuse to believe this.
She had spoken to her parents OF no
serious love affair. and 1t was known
that she had no preference for any
one Of her admirers.
If Miss Drew had friends who had
an automobile her father has not yet
the police.
Sand Lake is in one of the widest
sections of the State and Tears POND
s seldom visited. 1t is surrounded by
sansa woods In which there is an ale
-nost ,rnnenetrable underground.