New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-13
GIRLS BODY FOUND
MISS BLOODGOOD WAS
DROWNED.
Vide Search Brought to End
by accidental Discovery
an Lake
in Lake.
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Lakewood, \. j., March 1.-THE bodv
OF Miss Helen A. Bloodgood. who escaped
from the cottage of Leslie r Fort early
Wednesday morning, was found in Lake
Carasaljo this afternoon. The accidental
upsetting Of a rowboat led the boatmen
who have patrolled the lake for three
days to the spot where the girls body
was embedded in the mud
The body clothed in the nightgown
which the girl wore when she leaped
from her room and ran to the lake was
caught by graphing irons under sig
feet of water, and less than five hun
cred feet from the corner of George ].
Gould's estate, where bloodhounds lost
their trail on Wednesday night.
When the body was towed to shore
more than two hundred persons who had
been watching the dredgers rushed to
the kissing Bridge, on the north side of
the lake. and only the prompt arrival of
the police prevented the crowd from
being carried into the water, as the frail
structure began to settle under the
heavy weight
Herbert Doughty and William H.
Pendle, two of the boatnen who were
working under the direction of Detec-
tives Mason and Riley. We're being
cheered in their efforts to rescue Henry
Casser, who was clinging to the over
turned boat. when the dray anchor at
tached to the stern of the roWboat
pulled taut.
The sudden jerk almost threw the
oarsmen from their seats. Doughty. who
was pulling the stern oar, grasped the
rope. and as he hauled in two lengths he
saw the body of the girl. Shouting to
Casser that the object Of many hours of
search had been found, he dragged the
body into the boat.
During the manruvres the boats were
heing carried down stream, and it re-
quired quick work to get Casser from
his perilOus position. Then the boatmen
rowed to shore, where the Lakewood po-
lice and Miss Emma Smith, one of the
Bloodgood nurses, were waiting
Miss BloOdgood had lain in the water
for eighty hours. Her hands were
clasped over her head. indicating to the
police that she had plunged from
bridge into deep water and had drifted
into a patch of water grass, where she
was held fast.
Girls Father CoIlapses
With the finding Of the body MESA ges
We're sent in every direction for Mrs
William a. Bloodgood, the mother, who
in a motor car was securing the roads
north of Lakewood. Owing to the in
ability of messengers to find her at once
she continued her search many hours
after her daughters body had been re-
covered. Mr.. BlOodgood was at his
home when the news of the finding of
his daughters body spread through the
town. He sank in faint when de-
tectives told him that Miss Bloodgood
was suicide.
The body was found at an hour when
arrangements had been completed to
search the lake bottom with the aid OF
large electric searchlights. which were
set on a launch by expert searchers in
The employ of the Merritt Chapman
Wrecking Company.
This plan was being carried out de-
spite the belief of Mr. Boodgood and
the ponce lhaI the ,glrl mad not been
drowned. The Lakewood Light and
Power Company had drawn off several
feet of water from the lake and every
thing was in readiness for an all night
search.
Although a dozen CIeWs led searchers
to as many hamlets where it was re-
ported Miss Bloodgood had been seen,
Detectives Riley and Mason insisted on
giving particular attention to the trails
taken by the bloodhounds three days