New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
Friends of Miss Green,
Found Burned, Suspect
Companions
POLICE SEEK
CLEWS IN VAIN
HOusekeeper Used Ruse 10
Avoid Going Home for
Christmas, Is Report

Dove. s. j., Dec 21-Friends Of
Miss Lillian Green now believe that
she was carried TO the Lake Denmark
Hotel FIVE hours before she was found
there dying Of burns by Thomas W.
Morley They suspect that the mys-
;erious companion or companions with
whom she is said to have been seen on
Saturday night took her there.
Peter Z Stryker. general superin-
'cndent of the Wharton & Northern
Railroad and Mayor-elect of Wharton,
asserted Tonight that he had in his
possession positive evidence that the
housekeeper was taken 10 the hotel
about II o'clock on Saturday night. He
refuses to discuss its nature. II is
corroborated by one of his conductors,
who saw light burning in the sitting
room Of tho little hotel. which is on
a knoll about 100 yards from the rail-
road tracks.
There ought 10 be more than one
detective employed on this case he
said. Ten would not be too many"
The one detective did not appear near
Lake Denmark to-day nor did any other
county official.
Think She Met Friend
Miss Green's friends believe that she
met friend or friends Saturday even
ing and went in a sleigh or automo-
bile to some house not many miles
from the hotel. While there she was
burned, they think, and to conceal the
whereabouts of the crime or accident
the companions took her, nude and
burned from head 10 foot, TO the hotel
which had been her home for five
years.
1t is also believed that her com
panion or companions were known to
the six dogs which guard the hotel,
for had they not been the dogs would
have barked and reused Mr.. Morley.
II is believed that Miss Green's com
panions opened the kitchen door Of
the hotel and placed her on the floor,
lighted the lamp in the sitting room
and made their escape.
For five hours Miss Green rs believed
20 have lain groaning on the foor.
Then she summoned enough strength
TO climb the stairs leading to the sec
ond floor, whore MIR. Morley was sleep
ing.
"She could have told me who had
been with her and where she had
been he said to-day. but she kept
silent. When had asked her half a
dozen times where she had been she
just replied: Around here"
Mr.. Morley believes that she wanted
TO conceal the identity OF the persons
with whom she spent the evening. The
nearest house is nearly half a mile
81 Ioa I'D
cry one pass in the hours Miss Grsen
and her companions must have passed.
Nor did the sentries at the United
States naval arsenal at Picatinny.
three miles away, see any one use the
only two roads whose view they COM
mand and which must be travelled TO
reach the hotel.
Again Scour Woods
Mr.. Morley and Mr.. Strykcr, with
farmers Of the ghborhood, to-day
again secured the woods for a mile
around the house, but found nothing.
7 hey ar. going to continue their search
tomorrow, hoping for a shred of Miss
Green's clothing.
That Miss Green had an engagement
with some one for Saturday, Sunday
or Monday is the belief Of those who
knew her. This is based on her re-
fussl to 60 to Chester, Penn, 10 spend
Christmas with her people. Her
brother, A. T. Green. a contracting
engineer OF Newark, telephoncd MIR.
Striker three times during the week
10 urge his sister 20 90 with him TO
Chester. She told her brother shc
could not 20 because she suffered from
a bad cold She had no cold, her
friends say.
Edward Sitgrsves, proprietor of the
Hotel Erskine at Landing. eight miles
from Lake Denmark. which burned
down Saturday night, said to-day that
Miss Green had not been in his place
in nearly two years. When asked X
had seen a wealthy brewery man OF
this town in her company, a man who
paid her attentions. he said they were
.onever together there.