Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — A Boston Mystery. [ARTICLE]

A Boston Mystery.

Mary Ella Harrington, a Boston schoolgirl, went to visit a friend in Newton, and her family never saw her afterward. Her movements after she parted from the Newton friend could not be traced. A few days after her disappearance her mother received this note, written in a masculine hand: “I send you this so that you needn’t worry for me. I have found a friend, and lam never coming home guy more, at least for a good long

while. My friend is writing this for me because I have burned my hand.” The police searched thoroughly for the girl, but did not find her. This was last fall, and public interest in the case was thoroughly aroused. Her body was found in the river at Lowell, the other day, and the truth seems to be that she was murdered by the man who sent the note, whoever he is.