The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-06-01
HELEN EILLEY MEETS
SUDDEN DEATH IN EAST
English Trained Nurse Who Left Kenosha Last
March to Take Up Work in New York
taeen Cityis Found Dead. Il.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS ENTIRE CASE
Alarm Over Miss Lilley's Disappearance When She
Fails to Return to Position in New York Fol
.4a asai4 lowed by Finding Her Dead.

department is still investigating the
case.
Lived in Kenosha Since December.
Miss Lilley was an able nurse who
took her professional training in the
general hospital at Bristol, England.
She game to America in September of
1921 and entered on duties as a nurse
in Cleveland, Ohio. Last December
she came to Kenosha, where she had
English friends, and lived with them
on Pearl street. She was spoken Of by
her friends and acquaintances here as
very splendid and capable woman,
and it was feared that some sad acct
dent befell her which caused her sud
den death.
She left Kenosha in March, 1922, for
the purpose of finding work in the east.
She arrived in New York City March
22nd and entered her name with the
Home Medical bureau there for en-
ployment.
Finds Work as Child's Nurse.
The first position given Miss Lilley
was that of child's nurse with family
named Leidesdorf. When she had been
at work in this capacity for ten days,
she was granted a holiday, with the
understanding that she would return
at the close of the day. 1t was much
to the surprise and disnay of Mrs.
Leidesdorf when the close of the day
came and her efficient trained nurse
did not come back. Because the young
woman had impressed her as having a
sense of responsibility, Mrs. Leides-
dorf Immediately communicated with
the bureau through which she had OBJ
tanned the nurse. The bureau waited
what seemed a reasonable length of
time and then notified the police, as
Miss Lilley still failed to return.
Call On KenOsha Department:
The Kenosha police were notified in
the hope that through the friends of
the young woman here news of Miss
Lilley's whereabouts might be ascer-
tanned. But the friends here we've as
much in the dark as anyone else and
the information that the young coun-
trywoman, who had gone forth to New
York SO blithely couple of months
ago from here, was among the missing,
only served to alarm them. They were
certain that Miss Lilley would have re-
turned to her position or notified her
employer had she not met with some
untoward misfortune.
Hard on the heels of the first COM
n1unication, the Kenosha police re-
ceived telegram that the "body of
Miss Lilley had been found" The mes
sage, after the rude fashion of tele-
grams, communicated no more than the
bare grim fact. 1t was clear that the
English girl was dead.
Found in the Hudson River?
Still another telegram followed,
which indicated that the body might
have been found in the Hudson river,
when the police here were notified that
the body lay in the Hosworth morgue
at Hoboken, N. J. In this also, there
was no explanation of the way in
which the life of Miss Lilley had been
snapped off, and those most intimately
concerned in her fate could only
grieve and wonder.
Meanwhile the friends here were
stanch in their loyalty to the young
English woman and were certain that
in time some news would come to them
which would clear the mystery and
convey the news that Miss Lilley had
not gone forward to her death voIun-
tarily.