The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-16
FOR SECRET
SU|TOR IN DREW
MURDER MYSTERY
Discovery of Suit Case Estab-
fishes Girls Whereabouts on
Afternoon of Her Death.
SEEK EXPLANATION OF
TRIPS TO SEVERAL CITIES
Police Find Evidence That May
Lead to Arrest of Prominent
Young Man of Troy.

TROY, ". Y, July 16.-That Hazel
Drew was in Troy on the afternoon
of Tuesday, July 7, the day upon which
she is supposed to have been murdered
and her body thrown into the stagnant
waters of Teal pond. has been esta5-
lished by the authorities She was
seen in Congress street walking toward
Fifth avenue, carrying her suitcase,
which was checked at the Union sta
ton at 1:49 o'clock hat afternoon. pre-
sumably by the girl herself. The po-
lice have been working on the theory
that the murderer was a secret sutton
of the girl.
Adelbert Atwood, parcel clerk at the
station, says he remembers receiving
the suitcase, but cannot identify he
bearer as Hazel Drew. 1t was left by
a girl of blond type, he says, but
whether she had a companion he Is
unable to recall.
On Monday afternoon the girl called
at the Westcott office at the station
and asked that her trunk be taken
from the home of Professor E. r.
Cary. where she was last employed,
to the home of her parents. Where
she spent Monday night the officials
have been unable to learn.
Mrs. Cary said that within the last
six months Hazel had taken -four trips
out of the city. She wen to New
York twice, staying W days on each
trip; once to Providence for two days
and to Boston for q three days So
journ. Who her companions were on
those visits the police are trying to
ascertain. Letters were found in the
girls trunk from persons In the cities
mentioned, but the district attorney
refuses to make known their contents.
He says that in one of the letters
thus far examined are there love mes
sages or anything to indicate that
Hazel had a sweetheart.
TIL search for clues that will aid in
fixing the responsibility for the crime
continued today. The county authori-
ties have offered a reward of $1,000 fol-
the arrest and conviction of the muir
derer.
The discovery of the suitcase par
TALLY traces the girls movements III
to a few hours before she was seen b!
Rudolph Gundeman, the charcoal burn
er, and Frank Smith, the farmers boy
on the lonely Dad not far from he
uncle's place.
Were these hours spent In h com
pany of the secret sutton? The polio
think they have evidence which WI
show that at least part of that tim
was spent with a young man we
known in Troy.
In the suitcase was a newspape
clipping which read:
Edward Lavoie has departed TO
Chattanooga. Tenn, where he will re
main for the winter" Across this i
Hazers handwriting appears "Oct.
1907"
A sister of Edward Lavoie was lc
Gated in the south end of the city. Sh
said her brother. a soldier, left tow
last October, and is now stationed a
one of the army posts in the West. 7
this sister Hazel Drew had expresse
her fear of some mysterious person.
Although the reputation of Hazt
Drew was without a blemish the al
thorities are discovering she kept he
own counsel upon almost everythin
she did. No one was informed of tn
object Of her visits to Boston, Prov
dence and New York, Ilor was any on
informed where she secured the none
to afford them.