The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-07-16
She Went to Nearby Cities
TO See Sweet
heart.
HER AUNT HIDES
FRIENDS NAMES
Murderer Lives Near Where Body
Was Found, Declares Dis
trict Attorney.

TROY. y. Y, July 16.-The discovery
that Hazel !. Drew. whose mysterious
murder has stirred this city and sur
rounding country as no other crime has
ever done, had a mysterious sweetheart
whom she visited in New York. PrOvi-
Cence, and Boston, has given the au-
thorities a new line of investigation on
which they are hard az work. The
finding Of the dead girls missing suit
case and purse checked in the union
station here proves that she was alive
Tuesday afternoon, but Il reveals no
motive for her trip to Teal Pond, where
her body was found, and near which are
the homes Of half-witted Frank smith,
Gundlum, the charcoal peddler. and
her curiously secrotivc uncle. William
Taylor.
When all is considered said District
Attorney. O'Brien today. 1T looks as
though Hazel Diew's murderer will he
found 20 be a resident of the vicinity
where her body was found. I am now
almost sure that her murderer lives
somewhere up the lonely -1bIrron road,
where she was lasJ seen alive
"C. E. S." Signed to Letters.
Hazel Drew's unexplained trips TO
Eastern cities were revealed by Mrs
Cary. the girls last mistress. 1t is be-
ieved that she went 10 meet a man
whose initials, &C. IL. s. were signed
10 several letters found in the girTs
trunk, .and there is a possibility the
police believe, that she left the Cary
home expecting 20 meet this man IN
Troy
Minnie Taylor. the girls aunt. who
has admitted being out driving with the
victim aud two men, is 10 be questioned
further in an effort TO make her break
her silence as 70 the identity or their
companions. Her stubborn refusal TO
name these men is one OF the features
of the case which is puzZling the de
teJtiVes. They had nothing 10 DO
with HazeIs death" she says. And
that is ali she will say.
The finding OF a clipping In the dead
girls purse, 100, has added another puz-
Zle 10 the case. IL read.
Edward Lavoie has departed for
Chattanooga. Tenn, where he viii re-
main all winter
Clipping Tells of Romance.
Clipped from a Troy newspaper OF Oc-
tober q. 1907. il revealed a romance in
Hazel Drew's life, and now detectives
are asking themselves II IL is possible
that il was with this young man. who
was well known as her intimate. that
the girl spent her time on her visits 70
New York, Boston, and Providence.
It is possible, they also reflect, that
this Edward Lavoie, who is now IN
the army. may be on recruiting service,
and that it was to meet him that the
Drew girl left the Cary home on the
adventure which brought her death.
Spurred by all these clues to make
efforts to win the $4,000 reward offered
by the county supervisors, detectives
are securing every inch of the country
about the scene of the murder. or where
Il Is possible the murder was committed.
Teal Pond and its vicinity. the Taylor
farm, and the long stretch Of the Ia
borton road are being searched for
clues to the perpetrator-
Silence Of the dead girls relatives and
the number of half-clues so far dis
covered have only, 50 far, made the So
luton Of the crime more difficult.
The murderer will be found, though. -
saws District Attorney 'Brien. We'll
have all these facts sifted out soon.
And then-mark what 7 sdy-yOU'u find
that the man who killed Hazel Drew
lives within a very short distance Of
where her mutilated body was found