The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-03-16
FIND BODY OF
KEN0SHA WOMAN
Body of Woman Found in
Wankegan HarIor That
of Mrs. Matey.
RING PROVES IDENTITY

/ The lake gave up it's dead and solved
one of the strangest mysteries Of the
year for Kenosha on SATURDAY. after
noon when the body Of woman, now
identified to be that of Mrs. Marie A.
Matey, VINO disappeared from her home
here on January 10th, was washed
ashore in the Waukegan harbor. The
finding Of the body Saturday and the
positive Identification of it on Sun
day morning at morgue in Wauke-'
gan by j. r. Matey, the husband of
the missing woman, as that of his
wife, ends a nationwide search which
he had conducted for the woman, who
was last seen walking along the lake
shore south of the American Brass
pumping station here.
When day after days search of the
shores failed to reveal any trace of
the body, search had been instituted
for her throughout the country in the
belief that she may have been victim
of aphasia.
BODY F0und Dy IeamSter.
Lewis Gilling, Waukegan teamster,
who was filling his wagon with sand
near North Pond, secluded corner of
the Waukegan harbor, discovered the
body. He saw an object in the water
few rods from shore and believing
that it was body he waded into the
water and then carried the body to
shore. He then notified the officials
ard the body was taken to the White
and Tobin undertaking parlors in Wau-
kegan
Most of the clothing had been wash
ed from the body by the waves. Only
waist, scant undertaking and her
stockings and shoes remained, the
heavy coat which she wore when she
disappeared, having either been dis,
carded by her before she leaped into
the water or having been washed off
Of the body.
Head Badly Disfgured.
The head was very badly crushed, in
dicating that it had been buffetted
against the rocks by the waves. Mrs.
Matey was last seen wandering along
the lake shore and it is thought pos
sible that she may have struck her
head against the breakwater. It is al
so possible that the Disagreement may
have come from striking pieces Iof ice
as the lake has been filled with ice
several times since the drowning!
Other portions Of the body were not
badly affected by the water, it being
so cold that the remains were not in
the least bloated.
Identified by Ring.
| Mr.. Matey, the husband Of the miss
ing woman, went to Waukegan Sunday
morning and identified the body as
that of his wife. Telephone cernmuni-
cations with officials at Waukegan had
practically convinced him that the re-
mains were those of Mrs. Matey and
had prepared him for the shock of
viewing the remains.
! All doubt as to the identity was re-
moved when small gold signet ring,
which Mrs. Matey had always worn,
was found on the little finger of the
right hand. On it was engraved an
old English initial an" The tan
shoes which were found on the body
were also proven to be those of Mrs.
Matey as she had marked them, as re-
quired at sanatarium where she had
been treated several weeks prior to her
death. Several gold teeth also helped
to establish the Identification.
Kissed Little Son Goodbye.
Fears had been held for some time
| by Mr.. Matey that his wife had drown
ed herself while suffering from a
melancholia- On the morning Of Tues
day, January 10th, she left her home
at 964 Prairie avenue, to take morn
ing walk as prescribed by her physi-.
clan. She had been suffering from
nervous affliction and had returned
only a few weeks before from a san
atarium. For several days she had
been melancholy since she feared re-
turn of her illness. Before leaving
the home she had called her little boy
to her and kissed him goodbye. Then
putting on her coat without taking off
her boudoir cap, she left the home
hastily.
On the streets several Kenoshans
met her whom she knew but she had
passed them as If she we're in daze.
The Waterman at the pumping station
had seen her walking along the lake
shore.
Body Carried Many Mile.
It is believed that the body was
caught beneath the ice and was car
ried by the current to Waukegan.
There have been several instances in
the history Of Kenosha where bodies
have been caught in this current and
BRISTOL CAUCUS.
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