Arizona republican., 1910-03-28
Disappearance of Ellen Tor genson No Longer a Mystery WHAT THREE BOYS FOUND
In Place Along Grand Ave nue Almost Public, Wo- man With a Rope About Her Neck, Looking Into Overhanging Branches

Whatever mystery there was about the disappearance last Wednesday of
 Miss Ellen TorScnsen yesterday was solved by three boys. Carl Coleman, i Amos Dye and John Slower. who were : looking for hens nest in some bushes a little distance back from
 Grand avenue. not far from the resi- i dence of W. D. Fulwler.
 i They found the woman standing un-
 der an umbrella tree apparently look [ ing up into it's branches. The black staring into the tree. when there was nothing there worth looking at, that the boys went 10 d nearby house and |. reported that they had seen d crazy
 woman.
 Older people went to her and found a woman with d rope about her neck.
 But she vas not looking at anything, for she could not see for the larvae of flies which had been deposited over
 her eyes. the masses of them crowding against the lenses of her gold-rimmed glasses. IL was most sickening sight.
 Word was brought to the coroner. and Deputy Sheriff Jeff Adams and A II. Moore went out The body was taken down and brought to the un-
 dertaking rooms of Moore X McLel- Ian. Coroner Johnstone will hold an inquest at 10 o'clock this morning.
 The rope with which the woman
 hanged herself was little more than
 manila cord d quarter of an inch in
 diameter. and twenty-five feet Tor
 Small branches broken off showed
 that the woman had climbed into the
 tree from the south side and fastened an end of the rope to an Ovcrhanging limb on the east side. Then she had
 probably descended and stepped upon a couple of low growing branches not
 more than two feet from the ground.
 There she had probably adjusted the rope about her neck and stepped to the ground. She stood squarely on her feet when she was found, but not
 heavily Enough of her weight was sustained by the rope to effect stran- gulation but not enough of the weight
 tO cause laceration, hardly an abrasion
 of the neck. She was in a position to struggle and even to have freed
 herself if she had changed her mind about dying. but there was no strug- gle There was no disturbance of the leaves and grass about her feet. On another limb which grew out from the tree at height a little lower than her shoulders her hands were folded as if she were resting upon it. Here was a naturalness of position that might well have deceived the boys who found her.
 The place was isolated neither by distance from travelled roads and
 streets nor by such instructions as bushes or trees. During the time she
 was standing there 10.000 people who passed along Grand avenue might have
 easily seen her. for at the nearest punt SHt NdS iiot hIoAt bhdh ihtS yards from the avenue. with no screen between There was a clear view from several nearby houses
 She stood beside a sort of lane which is not travelled much, but
 which at least one person. Mrs. Rob ert Anderson, passed on Saturday af ternoon after a horse. She must have
 passed within ten feet of the dead wo-
 man.
 On the ground was paper bag in ! which the rope had probably been carried There was the womans hat
 and a handbag containing purse l which had s4S0. two addresses of Ad- 1 jutant P W. Dowell of the Salvation | Army. and a receipt for registered
 letter. bearing date of March IS. 1 The suicide was committed no doubt,
 on the afternoon or evening of last Thursday. Though she had been miss ing from her lodging at the residence of Mrs. Kucher. 135 West Madison street, since Wednesday. she had been
 seen along Grand avenue on Thursday
 Her presence there was first report ed on Saturday by Bud Burris. who lives in that neighborhood. He had heard of the missing woman and he
 said that his wife and daughter had