Show GIRLS GIRL'S BODY FOUND j jIN IN OLD TRUNK SEATTLE Wash ash Sept 23 The The body of or an unknown girl about eighteen years cars old has be been n found In a on the thc beach at South Alki about two and a ahalt half halt miles south SOUtI of Elliott Bay The girl had evidently been strangled and had hart been dead from two to five da days In the trunk was as the thc girls girl's clothing and anI the thc clothing of a man and two letters Jetters one of or which may lead to lo her identity This This letter leller was that of or a n sister to a brother It was written on ona a a letter head of J 1 D. D Covington Co Fuel Feed and Hauling St. St Paul Minn and was signed Edith It bears date of or April 11 1905 It was written writ writ- ten len to lo Frank Covington Co The other letter Jetter had no significance and as far as could be deciphered The police have no theory as to the murder though th they are Inclined to the thc belief that the thc trunk was thrown into the thc sound from a n boat al It H was weighted with rocks rock but tho lImo murderer did ld not weight It 11 sufficiently to prevent It from floating When hen two men In a a small rn l launch lunch dis discovered dis- dis covered cred It at It 8 o'clock this Iris morning moring the they drew It upon the lime beach In the tray were wore two rocks socks Lifting the tm tray they tr saw a woman womans woman's K head An e. a of or the n trunk revealed hidden under a n lot o of coth clothes clothe l the time nud l hoy ody of a girl A v e chernise wa was tied taut tc around arund her neck and there was t a gag ga In h tier r mouth An autopsy revealed no marks muke of at violence I except that she phe fhe had b b jn n strangled No motive 1010 was w.-m a disclosed for tor the crime to The Time St. St Paul police haw be been n notified to search that elt city for Co In the I I hope of of identifying her bod body |