New-York tribune., 1908-07-19
ELDER At THE TRACK TEAL POND MYSTERY
Sereral Developments in Case, but
No TaludbLe Cleo.

Teal Pond murder mystery. although clearing up
some of the uncertainties OF Hazel Drew's where
ahouts on the day before she met her death, fur
nshed little of material value in establishing the
identity Of the girls slayer. Where she spent the
night of July s. the day on which she said she
was going 20 New York. is a question the authori-
ties unable to answer
The story told by Frank Smith and Rudolph Gun
derman that they Miss Drew on the Taborton
Road on the evening of July :. when she is sup
posed to have been murdered. was partly cor
roborated to-day by Henry Rollman. who lives at
Bears Head. near Glass Lake. Mr.. and Mrs. Roll
man drove to Averill Park the Taborton
Road the evening of July Z. At point about
A quarter Of a mile west of where Gunderman and
Smith met Miss Drew they a girl. Mrs. Roll
man remarked to her husband that such pretty
girl ought not to be alone on the road at that
hour. The girl was standing near the side Of the
road picking berries. and after they had driven
along for some distance Mrs Rollnan looked back,
and she still standing where they had passed
her. My. but that girl is having good time with
those berries," said Mrs Roilman to her husband
The incident recalled when they read the
accounts OF Hazel Drew's death. and Mrs. Roll
description of the girl is said to tally with
that of Hazel.
Mrs Mary Robinson, who lives near the Drew
family in this city, saw Hazel at the Union Station
Monday, July s. when the girl told her she was
going to New York Then she hurried out to take
a local train to Albany. OF her movements from
that time until her suit checked on Tues
day afternoon the Troy railroad station the au-
thorities know little. The possibility that she may
have spent Monday night in Albany caused an In
vestigation to be made there to-day. but without
result.
thinks he saw her in company with a dark COM
plexioned young man on trolley car going from
ALTA to Arerin Park about o'clock on July T.
Cippery did not know Miss Drew. but his descrip-
ton OF the girl he saw on the car makes the au-
thorities think that It may have been she.
Inquiries were made among thirty or forty den
lists of this city to-day because of a statement
made by the husband Of Mrs Nina Jones' Of Water
Vile, Me-. yesterday. that Troy dentist had asked
Miss Drew to marry him. Mrs E. G Cary. by
whom Hazel employed until few days before
her death. remembers that several weeks ago Hazel
told her she had an appointment with dentist and
asked permission to be allowed to go to visit him.
Hazel mentioned the dentists name, but Mrs cary
said to-day that she does not remember who it was
''One evening several weeks ago" said Mrs Cary.
Hazel asked me II she might go to visit dentist
whose she mentioned, but which do not re-
member It was after supper, and thought It a.
rather unusual hour visit dentists Office, as
would gladly have permitted her to make such a
visit during Afternoon. For that reason re-
fused let her and she did not leave the house
that night"
q dentist with an Office No ~ Sd street, did
some work for Miss Drew several months ago. he
Is married and has a family
Hazel Drew had some work done here several
member the exact date. About two months ago she
called again one Thursday afternoon with another
girl whom did not know. and asked II would
make appointment to do some work IN the even
ing told her that did not do any work evenings,
and she said she would see when she couio eee
away during the day and would return later and
make an appointment She never came back Pos-
eibIy she did not have the money to have the Work
done or she may have gone to some other dentist
District Attorney OBrien and his assistants are
,;oJ,$ ripDo oY0 n nosSfhla
an advertisement which appeared In local paper
on the morning Of Monday. July The advertse-
nent was for a girl to go to Sand Lake 1or tne
summer, and may account for Miss DreWs taxing
a trip on July to Aver1u Park. which Is N the
town OF Sand Lake. Being acquainted in Sand
Lake the supposition OF tho county authorities is
that she went there to make application for the
situation The advertisement provided that re-
sponses should be addressed to "Box n. and the
detectives have as yet been unable to learn the
identity OF the person who engaged BOX 1t
the newspaper ONCE.
The theory is further advanced that Miss Drew
learned the identity Of the advertiser. and may
have answered the advertisement She may have
failed to secure the situation, and have been on
the road to her uncle's home in Sand Lake when
seen bv Smith and Gunderman. 1t is likely the
officials point out. that the girl. who had spent
all except five cents for carfare, intended TO spend
the night at her uncles home and borrow money
with which return TO Troy the following morning
Taborton told tonight OF having seen Miss Drew
on the road near Teal's Pond. and also of having
met Smith snd Gunderman short distance be-
yond This makes seven persons who saw the girl
on the road Tuesday night. July :, and the fact
that the crime committed near the pond seems
well established
waterville Me-. July 1s.-Mss Hazel Drew was
the victim of attempts at assault in Troy some
time ago. according TO statement made to-day
by Mrs Nina Jones. friend of the Drew girl. VINO
formerly lived in Troy. The assaflant, the same
person in both instances was described by Miss
Drew as an Armenian or an Italian and on both
oca sjons was beaten off by the young woman
After Mrs Jones left Troy. she says. Miss Drew
wrote that the fellow still bothered her
Mrs Jones was still unable tonight TO give the
name of the dentist whom Miss Drew had men
,joned as the man she could marry If she wished
Mrs Jones went carefully over all the correspond
ence with the girl that she has kept. Mrs Jones
said that she had often asked Miss Drew the der-
-ist's name but that the girl had always turned
aside the question. else replied merely that he
was ..vouug and good lolSing. Miss Drew met the
dentist Mrs Jones said, at the Third Street Metho-
dist Church in Troy two years ago last Christmas