Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — A Strange Story. [ARTICLE]

A Strange Story.

EranariUe (Ind.) Courier. °“® °. f strangest tales that has °* toe reporter was him n >£ht at the Central station. There are many strange situations in life and death, but none will equal the one narwjft wuh' Abo V t four w «eks ago a Mrs. Williams, of Mt Carmel 11l £ me l° ft! 9 ft* through Illinois street felt a atnuige thrill of surprise and fear creep over “ ft® u P° n the feoe of a youne female that bore a striking reaembTauce to a daughter that she had to. tier grave eighteen ISSVft 8 ®° ■trong was this feeling which forcibly carried to her heart and mind that the young woman the daughter that she vftr Ur followed to her place of abode. For days did she watch the house for glimpses of the young woman, and at last, as she saw her )Mth milk pitcher in hand going toward a neighbor’s, she spoke to her. lbe woman, in her tele, savs there was a mutual recognition. Be that as it may, an intimacy sprang up betweeu tnem, and the young woman who bore so strong a resemblance to the dead w“.?. h tor was a frequent visitor at Mrs. \V jlliams . The girl has been living with a couple of lames in Lama&co. anu visits made by her to Mrs. Williams finally aroused, as she says, their suspicions, and led them, from the persistency with which Mrs. W. sought the girl, to make them wish to avoid her. The feeling increased to such an extent that lhev determined to get away from the object of their avoidance, even if they had to leave the city, and accordingly they made their arrangements for so doing; yesterday being the day set for their departure, Mrs. Williams having a suspicion of what was going on, determined to bnug matters to a focus bv lodging her complaint before the police authorities, telling them that she wanted the women arrested, and that one of them was her daughter who she saw buried. In conversation with the officer making the arrest, she described her daughter and marks upon her person, telling him that if he did not find these marks as she had described them to let the woman go. The marks on the daughter were a mole on her breast, a speck in one of her even and an injured finger, which had been cut nearly off, and, after the severest examination, these marks were found ust as she had accurately described them. Her tale, as she related at the Central Station, is as follows: About eighteen months ago my daughter was taKen sick, and the physician that Icalled in commenced giving her morphine and quinine I saw that she was not improving, but gradually wasting away, and finally the physician pronounced her dead. I would not believe it, as when I felt the body it was l>erfectly warm, and I would not permit her burial, but the doctor said I was crazy, and the burial preparations were hasteued, and she was buried. I saw h r laid away. This is the story as she told it last night. The girl that site claims as her daughter sat weeping iu the station house, and but little that was intelligible could bo obtained from her, further than that she was born about four miles from Garmi. The authorities were of course puzzled as to what course they should pursue, and finally determined to allow the three women and Mrs. Williams to return to their homes on Illinois street, and place a guard over the house until Monday to see that the women did not leave the city, when this most remarkable outa will undergo an investigation. The theory was started that Mrs. Williams was laboring, under that most fearful of gifts, melancholy, but a physician who was present at the scene pronounced her perfectly rational. «he may be on other subjects, but this most singular and unheard-of tale that she so graphically relates : must come from a miud disordered, caused, in all probability, by the death of her daughter. It is a strange hallucination, and one that would puzzle stronger heads thanhers.