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HAZEL DREW MURDERED INA CITY ROOMGirl's Body Thrown in Lake—New Clues Lead to Search in Boston for Writer of LettersHAZEL DREW,The Troy girl whose death baffles the police.TROY, N. Y., July 15.—The most important point yet developed by the police in the Teal Pond murder mystery came to light this afternoon.County Detective Kay has found the missing suit case of Hazel Drew, whose body, with the skull crushed, was found in Teal Pond last Friday.It is known that the girl carried this suit case the day before she was murdered. From articles found in it today the police say that Hazel Drew did not intend to go to Averill Park when she left Troy.Another clue leads direct to Boston. Letters found in the murdered girl’s trunk, now in the district attorney’s possession, were written by persons in Boston and Providence, R. I., and may aid in solving the mystery.The startling theory is now advanced that she was murdered in Troy and taken either in a carriage or automobile to Teal Pond, where her body was thrown into the stagnant water.SOLUTION SEEMS NEARThere Is much to bear out this theory, and It appears that the authorities are nearing a solution of the mystery. In the ilrst place the girl’s black leather handbag, containing all of her money except 5 cents, was found in the suit case.While this find was made in Troy, detectives at Teal Pond found a glove that had been worn by the girl, and in the finger of It was a 5-cent piece. Conductors on all of the trolley cars running to Averill have been closely questioned and not one has been found who remembers seeing Hazel Drew on his car.It would have been next to impossible for the girl to have ridden to the park on a trolley and not to have been recognized. Linking these facts together the police conclude that the girl met someone in Troy, either on Tuesday afternoon or evening, and that the murder took place in this city or near It.Following up this line of investigation detectives are trying to trace every step of the murder victim while she was in Troy on July 6. The finding of the suit case establishes beyond doubt that she was in the city on that date and several persons have been found who say they saw the girl here.The suit case was checked in the Union square station at 1:49 p. m., July 7, hut unfortunately the clerk who was in charge of the check room at that time is ill and cannot be questioned. The necessity of having the clerk describe the person or persons who checked the suit case is so great that an effort will be made tomorrow to have detectives admitted to his room so that he can look at a picture of Hazel Drew.If it should develop that the girl did not check the case and that a man left it at the check room, a great step toward the unravelling of the mystery will have been taken, and equally important would be the discovery that if, when the girl checked the case, sho was accompanied by a male companion.It is now proven that it was well worth the trouble the police went to to find the girl’s black handbag. Teal Pond was dragged from end to end today in a search for it, and later the water was drained off and policemen waded the pond in rubber boots probing in the mud for the bag.While this work was going on Detective Kaye made a round of the checking rooms and hotels in Troy, and he was fortunate enough to find the suit case. Besides a few feminine belongings there was nothing of much importance In the suit case besides the hag. There was a newspaper clipping which read:
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Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Thu, Jul 16, 1908
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