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Show MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF YOUNG GIRL Body of Missing1. San Francisco Girl Found Floating in a Cemetery Ceme-tery Lake. -t-TT ATIE BESSELER, it is said, had. an admirer in the per- son of an elderly man, resident -f of Ogden. This man's name Is 4; f withheld by the police of San FranclBCO, but for what reason f- Is not known. Inquiry of the Ogden police -f failed to shed any light on the identity of the man referred to, who, according to the story, fre- quently sent the girl presents. SAN FRANCISCO. April 2. The body 'of a young woman has been found in the small lake in Cypress Lawn cemetery, ceme-tery, San Mateo county. The remains are supposed to bo those of Katie Bes-soler, Bes-soler, aged 19 years, ivho, disappeared from her homo in this city on March 22nd. It Is not known whether she committed suicide or was the victim of foul play. Girl's Last Bequest. Ratio Besseler lived at the home of fl. Jesson, manager of the late John Thompson. She called him grandfather grandfa-ther and he had charge of her Interests. Inter-ests. Each of his sons she called uncle. On tho day of her disappearance she left a noto addressed to her "grandfather." "grand-father." It read: "Dear Grandfather: Katie's last wish Is that you write for her sister to come and get all of her things. Please do that, dear grandpa." The girl was last aeen in the city at tho public library, where she had gone to return a book after leaving the farowell note for "Grandfather" Jes son. Two theories were Immediately ad- vancod to account for her disappearance. disappear-ance. One was that she had become de- ranged from overstudy and committed suicide; the other that she had encountered encoun-tered the same fate that overtook little lit-tle Nora Fuller, the mystery of whose murder on Sutter street has never been cleared up. Color was given to this theory by tho statement that Miss Besseler had an elderly admirer, residing re-siding In Ogden, Utah, from whom she had received presents. The police are withholding the man's name. ' The body of the girl was found floating float-ing in the lake by Assistant Superintendent Superin-tendent of the Cemetery W. E. Carre. Disappeared in Cemetery. Among the first to view the remains was flfteen-yoar-old Olive Davidson, whose home Is just back of the cemetery, ceme-tery, and who says she walked to the cemetery gate with the girl who was drowned during the afternoon of the date that Katie Besseler disappeared. She said: "It was raining that Tuesday afternoon after-noon and a strange girl I met near the cemetery had an umbrella, -which she offered to share with me. She seemed very nervous and evaded eveiy question I asked her. We parted at the cemetery gate. She went in the gate and I walked on to my home. Before Be-fore we parted she offered me hor umbrella, um-brella, but I refused to take it from her, and that is the last I ever saw of the girl." Miss Davidson readily identified the umbrella found on tho lake bank as the one the strange girl had shared with her on that rainy afternoon. S. Jesson, whom the girl called grandfather, positively identified the body this afternoon and on his testimony tes-timony tho Coroner's Jury rendered a verdict of death by drowning with suicidal sui-cidal Intent. |