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Show ill MYSTERY MAY BE SOm AT LAST Mrs. Elsa Hobbs Raymond Indicted In-dicted for Murder of Mattie Hackett . By International Nows Sen'lce. AUGUSTA, Maine, April 6. Ar3. Elsa Hobbs Raymond touight occupies a eell in. the Kennebec county jail, seven rears nftor suspicion that she knew moro about the murder of Mat-tio Mat-tio Hnckctt, than any one else first rested on her. Sho was indicted today to-day and, aiter a trip on foot to her boarding place, a mile away, was committed com-mitted to await six months for trial. "Thank God," was her only comment com-ment when informod of tho indictmont. Sho and the other members of tho Kay-moud Kay-moud family welcome the trial of the case. The parting from her husband and four-year-old daughter Evelyn moved tho jailers to tears. The child clung to her mother until the last moment mo-ment and was then hurried away by her father to avoid tho ordeal of seeing see-ing the iron doors closo behind her. The strangling of pretty lS-year-oId Mattie Hnckctt near tho ddor of her home at Kents Hill, three miles from Bcadficld, seven years ago, was one of tho most mystifying crimes that ever took place in this state. Time and again attempts havo been mndo to clear up the murder, but so cunningly cunning-ly hud it been planned and executed that the keenest detectives gave up the trail in despair. Finally evidence came to County Attorney Williamson from an unexpected quarter and the facts were presented to the grand jury, The namo of Mrs, Raymond had been connected with the tragedy before. She was questioned immediately after the crime about the report that she was jealous of Mattie Hnckctt. But Mrs. Raymond denied that sho was jealous of tho girl and asserted that (Continued on Pago Fourteen,) llIISTERflp BE SOLVED AT Ujfc (Continued From Pngo Ono,)" 3 Bbp know nothinc about tho stTa! crime. "njp Tho fight for the froodom of MAC Raymond thero 13 110 capital pUn)Tv 1 mont in this state will prove onn Z ' tho most thrillinc it is beliovod 4hn ever took placo in Maine. zClatti llackott wns the dauphtor of "a ? spectable fanner. On tho evening ol August 37 100G, she wna wnshhth Jf? suppor di3heB. Somebody called L, nUte"1 out of tho house. Aftonvnrd she wai m i; found unconscious by tho roadside rt.tei nhort dlstanco away. Tho muraerei had thrown a cord about her neaV ff'"eI drawn it tlehtly. tied it and loft M Lt ft cirl to slowly stranglo to death, h tho darkness tho cord, embedded in tho flcsli of tho neck, could not bo dh, H"1 corned vrhen she was found by hei Ad 1 father. Though carried into tho honi san 1 immediately, sho died before tho ooti r -could bo cut from her ucck. tptts 1 . .iV. |