Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-22
Coroner's Inquest Uncovers
Nothing-Condition of Neck
lace Indicates Pearl String
Was Torn Apart IN Fall.
SHOES, HAT AND COAT
ARE SOUGHT AS CLEWS
Body to Remain on View Sew
eraI Days in Hope Of Recog-
nition-PiCtures Being Sent
Broadcast by Authorities.

III iOoUOooS Ny HuNitVI IkIVos
Possible finding of the hat, coat
land shoes of the beautiful young
woman whose blood-stained body
was found Thursday morning in a
deep ravine near wagon bridge on
the mail route" two miles west of
Coffman station and four miles
southwest of Calhoun may give a
clew to her identity. IT,.
The body will remain at the un-
dertaking establishment of William:
Sievers at Calhoun for several days
pending further investigation of the
murder, according to- Miss Grace
Ballard, county attorney of Wash
ington county.
Inquest Uncovers Nothing.
Not a scintilla of identification of
the woman was brought out at the
inquest over the body held at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon in the
amusement hall of R. A. Johnson.
The following verdict was re-
turned by the coroner's jury after a
Geliberation of a half hour:
1--WE, the undersigned jurymen of
Washington county, state of Ne
braska, find that the body of an un-
known woman came to death by
gunshot wound at the hand of
person or persons unknown to this
jury, with felonious intent, the time
and place Of death of said woman be-
ing to this jury unknown. (Signed.)
J. A. Lands, Fred w. Green, R. w.
Green, August Schroeder, William
Sievers, Frank c. Adams.
County Attorney Ballard con-
Quoted the inquest. 1t lasted ex-
actly one hour and was attended by
so persons, mostly farmers and curl
Gus townspeople of Calhoun. Sew
eral women were present.
Missing Girl Found.
Tina Kelberg, missing Omaha
girl, who was first though by rela-
ties to have been the slain victim,
owing to a description given out by
Washington county authorities, was
found last night.
Miss Kelberg was seen by Walter
Peterson, Twenty-second and Burt
streets, friend of Howard Mich
aelson, 3003 South Sixteenth street,
who was held yesterday by police
pending possible identification Of
the body by relatives of the ,Kel-
berg girl, in the vicinity of Twen-
tieth and Webster streets.
After trailing her for about 50
minutes Peterson telephone Mich
ealson, who was at his home and
he called the police and the girl
was taken to the police station. She
was later released. ...
According to Michealson, who
also was released last night, Miss
Kelberg would not give an account
of herself but said she saw the story
in the paper Thursday.
Mrs. W. T. Pittman, COS South
Eighteenth street, and, Mrs. Marie
Krumrei, $50 South Z Twenty-hrst
street, sisters of Miss Kelberg,
viewed the body of the murdered
woman at Calhoun and stated defn-
itely that it was not that of their
sister.
The mystery deepens, police say,
as the investigation continues. 1t is
the most battling murder case that
has ever confronted county and city
authorities of the middle west.
Clue in Pearls.
Latest developments toward the
possible identity of the woman lay
in close investigation of the owner
ship of number of pearls that were
found scattered about the llteless
form of the woman, according to
County Attorney Ballard and Sheriff
Maurice Mehrens of Blair. 1t is be-
lieved the pearls fell from the wom-
ans necklace when the body struck
the ground. Part of the necklace
was still about her neck.
There are no latindry marks or
other points of identification on
the clothing which the woman wore.
The clothes were displayed to the
jurymen at the inquest, and in
cluded a dark blue crepe de- chine
waist adorned with beadwork in the
pattern of a butterfly, a gray knit
underskirt, brown silk petticoat with
four light gray stripes and fringed
bottom, red corset cover with black
stripes, and a blue serge skirt with
brown hosiery constituted the cloth
ing. Her hat, coat and shoes were
missing.
Description of Features.
Close examination of the features
of the murdered woman were given
out at the inquest by DR.. G. A.
Langstaff. of Blair:
The woman's age is probably 80
years, he said.
Two prominent front teeth pro-
trude from the ,woman's upper jaw.
The first right upper molar and first
left lower molar are missing. The
woman's hair is auburn colored; her
eyes are blue with light eyelashes;
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