The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-29
New Jersey Official Unable
to Get Name of Officer
in Case.
WAS RED CROSS WORKER
Young Woman Hoped to Join
Husband and Kept Her
Maiden Name.

on the Palisades across the Hudson
River from Spuyten Duyvil was iden-
tiled yesterday as Azeele Packwood.
who lived for q time at rs East Forty
eighth street after coming here from
Tampa, Fla.
The Identification, Joined with the
findings of an autopsy, appeared to
eliminate the theory that the woman
was murdered, but her case remains
one OF mystery. The autopsy con-
vinced the physicians that the woman
killed herself by fastening a small bot
lie containing chloroform or ether to
her nose. No evidence Of violence was
found.
The name given to the dead woman
was her maiden name. Prosecutor
Thomas ]. Huckin OF Bergen county
y. j., in giving I out said she was the
wife of a Major in the United States
Army who died in France in Novem-
Der. He said that tfespondency caused
by her husbands death led the woman
to kill herself.
Dispatches from Tampa early this
morning said Miss Packwood's father
said he understood mis- daughter had
been married secretly to a Major Fenton
year ago.
Husbands Name . Secret.
The prosecutor said he did not know
the name of the Major. He said the dead
woman kept her marriage a secret from
her father. George II. Packwood of
Tampa, and from her friends here. Even
the woman who cared for her two room
apartment at the. Forty-eishth street
address did not know her husband $
name.
The identification was made by Mrs.
Bradford Ellsworth of 344 West Eighty
seventh street, a friend Of the dead
woman, who met her while both were
engaged in war work at the headquar-
tiers of the Red Cross Motor Corps at
asa Fifth avenue. Other Red Cross
workers. whose names the Prosecutor
kept secret TO protect them from pub
lcity, corroborated the Identification.
Prosecutor Huckin advanced a theory
that Miss Packwood. whose age was
fixed at "a by the physicians who made
the autopsy, kept her married name
secret because of a hope that after
completing her Red Cross training she
might be able to go to France and be
near her husband A War Department
rule operated to prevent women who
had relatives in the service abroad from
going 10 France.
The Identification came about in an
unusual way. Mrs. Ellsworth said that
she was called on the telephone Monday
afternoon. The voice speaking was tina,
OF a man. She understood him to in
mira how he c0uld get in touch with the
Majors relatives or his lawyer. Mrs
Ellsworth told the inquirer she did moi
know what he was talking about. He
rang off. Mrs. Ellsworth got the impres.
sion that the inquiry was connected with
Miss Packwood, whom she had not seer
since early last November.
Identified BODY at Once.
On reading the evening newspaper:
that night, Mrs. Ellsworth was attracted
FOR the first time to the story of the
body found on the Palisades. The news
paper connected an unknown army officer
with the dead woman because of a couple
that had been seen walking on the cliffs
Their descriptions appeared to fit tina
q the woman known as Miss Packwood
Mrs. Ellsworth went to Greenleaf
norgue at Englewood, where the bod.
las been since II was found on Sunday
and as soon as she saw the face of tn
dead woman she said II was that of Mis-
Packwood Her Identification becam
positive when she saw the raccoon coat
lae blue serge suit, blue felt hat brow
gof stockinfs and low brown walking
shoes that had been on the body
Mrs Ellsworth went to Hackensack
whore she told her story to Prosecute
Hu'kin.
The Prosecutor journeyed to this city
where he visited the apartment in For
Eighth street. After his talks wit
Mrs. Ellsworth and other friends of tn
dead woman to whom she introduce
a.u, the Prosecutor announced he wa
Cnr'aiu the case was not one OF murder
The Prosecutor said the woman live
T. the Forty eighth street apartment 70
'Ho years. She was well supplied wit
funds that he assumes were furnished b.
,r father and her husband. She ha4
i'r own automobile, which she used Il
.er work for the Red Cross. She ha
s'en most of her time to this work al
'or joining the motor corps in June o
.5s' year
Mrs Ellsworth missed Miss Packwoo
r ~ The motor corps headquarters lat
70 october or early in November. Sh
wen 70 her apartment. where she foun
.cr deep in dependency. Miss Pack
r.,i said that her husband had died
france OF pneumonia.
Said She Would "Disappear."
The information that came to Mr.
flsHorth In this way Is all that IN
,9'hOrities know about the dea
"omans husband. She referred to hiI
B. Major.
Mrs Ellsworth said that Miss Pack
wood told her she intended to disaI
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