Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1886 — Still a Mystery. [ARTICLE]

Still a Mystery.

Lafayette Sunday Tinies. -A* month has come and pone since Miss Luclla Mabbitt so mysteriously disappeared from her home in Carroll county, and yet no tidings have been ■ received that could indicate whether she is dead or alive. If living, her footsteps in the flight have been so well covered as to baffle all human skill in tracing her. If dead, her remains have been so carefully concealed as to defy all human scrutiny. As time passes the interest in the mystery increases rather than diminishes. All sorts of rumors and conjectures are alloat, but the bare facts made known on the 7th of August are alone corroborated. The identification of the torn and bloody portions of Miss Manbitt’s clothing found near Forest is beyond question. But the belief is gaining ground that this was a ruse resorted to on the part of Green, her supposed abductor, to delude the oflieers and gain time. One of two conclusions can safely be arrived at—either Amer Green is the most diabolical, iniernal scoundrel or the mostcfuel x okcr that Indiana ever produced ”