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PAGE SIXDismembered Body of a‘,/'• I Vf Young: Woman was?:■ . ’ * !. • V -S ‘ .I*.- C'•:,r seeninCreekDETROIT, Sept. J—Bloodless fromthe ruthless knife of a murderer andc1' i~ ,* *• ' '1 *'t ■ ’,*iV' v.’■/shrunken by several days immersion\'d •,* lt;‘ . 7 • ,v •'» ' .• ^ . i n * ■ ./-V*•': ' •in the waters of Ecorse Creek the dis-'-.t vtv\yt.- -*• 111membered body of Miss Maybelle Me-V.#: ■ ' V ' - : ' • • 0 '••• - VMillan.-v.27 years old'of Ann Arbor,‘ f j.;, ■ . . ’ , 'P'f- ' ' ,V : • yMich:, lies in, the county morgue, a1 v. »*•.*• s* ' • ••• ■ .: - r - • ... ' ’•*p i t i a b 1 e e x h i b i t i o n o f h u m a n brutality.• ’ , • •; ’ ' ’ I ’ ’ l I l* ** ’ * •••*.• I; n • ...The . state has, charitably drawn ,'aV - , *•’ *.}i . ’*;•?■ * ..'j- ’. i • lt;^ ■shroud over the wasted human frag***• T ■;; • . ; * v • U*., *• . .*. I ■ \ . I l« . \v • ~ *meats so that«curious spectators, who enter do not see that a nortioii of the• •: V***--.- . V* ' . 'J 0. '’* /• i i* I./. i * ^ ^ *.* • *lower part of the trunk of the unfor-. ^ 1,1 i r, • t * ,tuiiate girl is still missing. While de*•’ ‘ i ’ - O' '* •'*.» ‘ ' * iis * Vi,,tennined men are dragging Ecorsei . . - ,V , ,, *. '* . . * * ’ ' ,a * t, , . * i* • » •• i li 'Creek night, and day ,ip the hope of, . v., ,-v. ■ v.;discovering ; the remaining port ion of, the, .girl’s body the police,, of Wayne,. ^ •!•;% r 'vl‘ ‘ '• v. o/'/ ’ • ’ •and Mashtonawana counties an cl theII ' i I I , • I • , vk ! , .\ ' , ,‘^i ! i . , ’• .w ,v '- \, '•» *,policetof Ann Arbpr and Dot roil are' v' ’• ' i\ •' ‘ ' '...'.A'., ^ b,' runfailing in; a desperiite , endeavoi’ to solve the mystery of /Miss McMillan’s murder./1 • :Miss.-Martha' Henning of«( 2S01 Cass avenue; Detroit, a former schoolmate of the; McMilldnogirl, made the ideiiti*.S1 , .• • , , .4.- 1 * . O ...fication and after prolonged questions, ■/ ' •;'* ' '.r J’ ' v ' . ■ ; Hing of, her, the officers left hurriedly for the university town, .accompaniedby Hariry'' McMillan, brother of the dead girl. . 1Sheriff Gaston and.his deputies refused to give out definitely the clue they «• were working on .-but most of the questions put Uo Miss Henning ;were concerning Mabelle's physical condi ^ tion, as the^ mutilated body leads the authorities to believe the cutting was‘ •• . , ^ I 1 i'! * j • 'iV! *,T 4 , , ,* . , V jl ,done by someone Well,acquainted with ' ‘f v *»? 'C* •'i'. ■ 11 'i*. •' »• '• Vi, i- ..surgery.,, j;-^;V7 ■ ‘..:;Upon this point Miss Henning was unable.to throw any light. I; ^' i: 1 p. i,■ 1 '• • r; ‘‘ 1. ; • ■* ■ fl- . . v ■’ , *•:, - \X\’ The county phvsleian i,s now inclined to think that; the°girl was stratigled• ' .V. ,^y , IV ■ . ” ' , . n 1 -0 V, ‘1to death before her legs arms and headwere cut off,. ;• 1-'1 ’ 1 v' ‘ ■ • 1 * *'':; The liead and ,limbs were found•sewe (Hi n=tli e^s a m tHd mHoHb iirl ap=b ag=as -hthe: one rin ? which the trunk- V.. . . ‘v •- gifound.v. v. - ,/7;4' .7;•; vFollowing the % identification, Miss... * / 'V i » « *■ *« * 1 i . •* *»-■ iHenning told how Maybelle had come to Detroit to visit, her three years ago, Miss Henning is employed in a grocery store and during Miss McMillan’s stayshe kept on with her work. ' The last’* ^ I . *1 | ’*, 1 1 , . i, i i » , ^2 11 ,-words of Maybelle to her were.utter*• • , H.' . x.r- • *» tj* ., v -*f; •’ed two v/eeks ago Friday morning, . '; v V 'v ■ ’ ' . . r • i , F ° WV v!If I am not here, when you return«• *. !' - V. - • ... 4\to Detroit don't worry,” said May*belle, for I am going over to see my cousin on Lllliberclge street and may remain there. /.; ' '' ?vvK’;::'?v'.V It has since been learned that thelt; i v , •)« *' ‘ • ■victim had never.reached the'homo ot... .r f ( ■ ‘ - 'V .. . .her cousin, ? When she left *■■:. MissHenning's room; she left, all of her- 'I % •: •*lt; • •» » •* ■' - p-9 Sclothing okcept what she lmd on atwasthe time. / None of the clothing has been found. \ | 1 /: tChief of Detectives McDonnell ex** .*1 i ■* i .. • j . . f •. i iprossod hlmsq)f as satlsflpd that the young woman could throw little light• i . * t , vf . t— .»* V*- i*. ' -■on the murder of her friend.tliatQ(PIHTWF rnRFST, PIRFC; RRITlftM l*t
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Fernie District Ledger
Fernie, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Sep 11, 1909
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