The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-11-17
girl CLAIMS CORPSE
PASSED OCF BODY OF TRAMP AS
Her IMAGINARY LOVER
Feared QUICK EXPOSURE

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After Going to Hospital Atlanta Girl
Returns With Tale of Love
Wedding Date Being Set She
Goes to Purchase Trousseau-
Brings Back Body for Burial.
How a girl, we'll known in the
society of Atlanta, Ga. went to Chi
cago, identified the body of man
killed on the Illinois Central tracks
as that of g sweetheart who exist
cd only in her own Imagination, so
as to carry out a deceit she haG
practiced on her family, became
known Sunday night.
The case discloses one of the most
astonishing psychopathic incidents in
the memory of Chicago officials. The
girl concocted a tale of meeting q
DR.. Alleyne Hensley, of his persist
ent wooing, of his gifts of flowers
and candy, hos ferycnt letters, pro-
death.
Here is the story as told in tears
to Dr.. Bates Block, an alicnist OF
Atlanta, whose sharp questioning
brought out the truth from the girl,
who is Miss Julia Cheate Crumley,
daughter of the. Rev. and Mrs. How
ard Lee Crumley.
The idea was conceived while the
girl was a patient in Johns Hopkins
hospital in Baltimore, after being
operated upon for a minor disorder
On her return to Atlanta the young
woman told friends that she was in
love with the surgeon who had saved
her life. She gave his name os DR..
Hensley and said he was 3. widower
with one child, son. He lived, she
said, in Quebec, Canada.
There came to her letters from
Quebec which contained fervent mes
sages of love. Flowers and candy
were delivered to her by shopkeepers
on telegraphic instructions from
Quebec signed by Dr.. Hensley, and
money was forwarded by telegraph
in each instance to pay for them.
Finally she told her closest friends
that the surgeon had proposed and
she had accepted him. The marriage
was to take place Wednesday, Nov
ember II. She went to New York
to purchase her trousseau, meet the
future bridegroom, and bring him
back to Atlanta to meet her parent:
and friends.
On Saturday she. telegraphed from
New York that her fiancc had beer
killed in train accident near Chi
cago and she was on her way to thai
city to recover his body nd bring i
to Atlanta.
She arrived in Chicago on Monday
. morning and went to the undertak
ing establishment of the Western
Casket Company, where was thu
body of a man killed several days be
fore on the Illinois Central tracks
The girl identified the body as tina
of her dear brother" Dr.. Hensley
She was overcome with grief and ar
ranged to have the body-shipped t.
Atlanta.
Miss Crumley paid the bill and de
parted, with her dead, over the Hi
nois Central Railroad. She said there
would be no suit against tie rail
road company, asserting that NJ
monetary recompense could be made
for the loss of her brother
She arrived in Atlanta on WeGnes
day afternoon The parents OF Mis-:
Crumley and several Of her friend:
viewed the BODY. Then some ques
| tions were asked. The hands CT the
dead man were calloused and rough
not those of surgeon. Finally, the
Rev. Mr.. Crumley asked DR.. Bate:
Block, an alienist, to visit his daugh
ter and talk to her. The doctor frs
viewed the body, then told Mis-:
Crumley that she had deceived nc
one by her duplicity. Hiss CrumlaI
burst into tears and confessed the
entire story.
She had concocted the story OF the
supposed woer and fancee. The let
ter she received she had witten her
self, sent to a woman whose name
she read in a Canadian newspaper, tc
whom she paid to remail the mlsslve
to her. The candy and the flowers
had come from the same source.
Her plans for a big church wed.
ding, bridesmaids, flower girls ano
trousseau were the product of her
| disordered mind. The date OF the
wedding was drawing near and she
had to have some means of meeting
the situation. She went to New York
and watched western newspapers
She read in the Chicago Herald OF
an unidentified man killed on the
Illinois Central tracks, came to Chi
cago, learne dthat the body still was
unidentified, obtained it as her OVID
and went on home.
A Chicago dispatch says that the
body which Miss Julia Choste Crum-
ley of Atlanta is said to have claim
ed in Chicago as that Of her flancee
DR.. Alleyne Hensley of Quebec, Can,
| ada, was in fact that of TRAMP
| destined for the potters field, accord
| ing to e statement by members ol
the undertaking firm which cared fol
the body
An officer of the Western Under
taking company said Miss Crumley
last Tuesday claimed the body as
that of my husband. I'm looking
for the body of Dr.. Hensley. | was
told that you have body here which
| I believe is that of my husband.
The officer said the body of an
unidentified man killed on the Hi
nois Central tracks week before
was shown to Miss Crumlcy.
That's my husband" she said, ac'
cording to the officer. He said she
declined to view the clothing, saying
it was unnecessary and that arrange
ments were made Immediately for
| Shipping the body to Atlanta, with