Show POLICE ARK PUZZLED A Strange Story ToM by a Massachusetts Girl LAWRENCE Mass June 24The police investigating the story of Louisa Haley a 14yearold girl who says that recently while she was walking near the tomb of Mrs Mark Hopkins Searlos and while behind be-hind a wall she saw two men and heard tl plotting to steal tbo body Before she could get away abe was seen by the men whb shot at herON her-ON or THE BULLETS CUTTING HER SKI Tho girl reaching homo told her mother onTenching motler of the affair According to the girls story sho met the same men on Broad street a lew days ago and they forcibly took her into a carriage I and poured some liquid down her throat I She remembered nothing more until she found herself awakening on the bank of thn river two miles above Lawrence I The men wero then discussing what to do with her One of them wanted to drown her They told her she says that sha had cost them a fortune They again threatened hor and baat her and CUT OFF lEt LONG HAIR Then they waded into tho water with berand the girl says she remembers DO more morehe girl persists in tho truth of her story The police believe that something is wrong and BO do tbo people in the Searles housebld but they think I is with the girl They do not credit the story They believe that the girl cutoff her own hair She bears excellent reputation and her persistency puzzles the police Her body bears bruises which she declares were caused by tho men |