The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-06
LONG MISSING FROM home
Neenah Travelling Salesman Notifies
Under Sheriff Haag That He is Con-
vinced He can Identify Remains
AS Those of His Aunt.

The body of the motherly woman
found floating in the lake just north of
Kenosha nearly month ago may be
saved the ignomy of sleeping in pau
per Is grave as the officials of the coun-
ty are hopeful that they have found a
clew which will result in the body be-
ing identified and taken to lonely
home way up in Northwestern Wiscon-
sin for burial On Monday, Under Sher-
if John Haag received telephone mes
sages which indicate that the body
which has been held for weeks await
ing Identification is the body of Mrs.
Marie Jackson of Neenah. A strange
train of circumstances made it possible
for the woman to be missing from her
home for many weeks without her alb
sence attracting any attention. l..
Flint, of Neenah, a nephew of Mrs.
Jackson, will be in Kenosha within the
next few days to make an effort to
identify the remains and if they are
found to be those of his aunt he will
have the body taken back to the old
home at Neenah for interment in the
family plot there.
Mrs. Jackson lived alone at Neenah
and Mr.. Flint had for years watched
over her. Flint is a travelling salesman
and when he reached Neenah on last
Saturday night after trip which had
kept him away from his home town for
more than month he found that his
aunt was strangely missing. Neighbors
declared that she had left the house
more than month ago and that she APP
peared to have planned to go on long
| Journey as her house was in order. She
| had made no statements to any Of the
people who knew her where she was
! going or how long she was going to
stay. For a few days the people won
| dered little but none of them sought
the woman. Flint when he reached
| home and found his aunt missing began
to make Investigations. He found a
card which told of the woman being
drowned off Kenosha and he at once
cot into communication with the sher-
iff's office here. The clothing worn
by the woman was infinitely described
to him in telephone conversations ct
think that was Aunt Marie,' he told
Under Sheriff Haag." He declared
thai his aunt had at one time been OPP
Grated on for appendicitis and asked
/ that physicians make an Investigation
to see whether or not the scar of such
an operation could be found on the
body Of the woman held here. The in
! vestigation was made and there is no
! doubt but that the woman who had been
! drowned had submitted to such an OPP
Grafton. When informed that there were
| evident marks of such an operation on
the body Flint notified the sheriff that
he would come to Kenosha just as soon
as possible and he declared that he
thought certain that the body held here
was the body of his aunt. Plans had
been made for the burial Of the re-
mains in the potter s field but With the
announcement that Flint hopes tc make
the Identification it will be held until
he reaches the city.
Mr. Flint did not tell anything in re-
gard to tn family history of Mrs. Jack
son nor did he volunteer any suggestion
as TO why she should have left her home
~r have sought to cast off the cares of
life by finding death in the lake.