Show THEORIES I H f DATH HELD URU Finding Body of Elderly Woman on New Jersey Beach Baffles the Police CAPE MAY J. J Jan 20 AP- AP zee ee theories murder suicide and andI I accidental death were were lieng Investigated investigated today todar In connection with the finding or of the body or of an elderlY Woman on the beach there last Sat Sat- She was identified as Miss lIss Mary MaryS Clark and her home was believed to hav have been either in J Pa oX on Wahington D C C. ho was was was- said eaid to have possessed a a Comfortable fortune t Miss Clark lived at Haddon Hall lIaU Atlantic City from last May until L f J January 10 when silo checked o out t saying that she was going to Wash Wash- Vash 1 Ington Investigation revealed that she had to tle capital but I had left next da day for New York j I She always carried considerable money and jewelry When the body i wilS e ed there was no jew jew- I eJr eiry Her pocketbook was found thirty feet teet from the body and con con- 55 cents and a a. railroad mileage mile mile- ige age book I There were no marks mark on the body to indicate murder but Coroner William M M. Thompson appeared convinced that he was slain for the of robbery robber Other investigators Invest Invest- Stators gators thought thou that she either com com- by swallowing poIsOn polson dr was stricken b by a heart at attack tacit and frozen to death while watching on the beach She devoted much of her hF f time me to the study of bird life UCe POISON POISON INDICATED Her gray hair was as' as frozen with the melted snow that had fallen faIlen upon her as she lay on the beach The left left hand was pressed across the abdomen as though she had haden ben en In pai pain his Indicated to th the coroner the possibility of poison polson Word Yord received from Joseph p P. Fisher Jr of Pittsburg said that he believed Miss Clark was his cousin who IS had in addition to a ar r I r gular Income from the estates of her father and a brother brothel Her neareSt nearest near near- est relative Fisher said was a a. brother Lawrence Clark a shoe manufacturer of Weaverville Ca Cal WASHINGTON Jan 20 AP- AP Mar S. S Clark 63 years ears old hose bod body was found on the beach at Cape May N. N J J. J last Saturday was a resident of this city for many rears ears coming here about fifteen from Pittsburg where friends say she was at one time superintendent of MerCY hospital DOUBTS SUICIDE Doubt whether Miss Clarl committed corn com suicide pas as expressed by oIlS Mrs Edward P. P Kern who had known her for tor twenty years rears She had too much to live for Mrs Kern said Those who knew Miss Clark in II this city believe belleve she was worth about They could assign no reason for her being in Cape May CAMDEN X N. J. J Jan 20 Ar- Ar Two boys bos who walked Into the Camden Camden Cam Cam- den police station today toda to ask for tor lodging found enmeshed In the mystery surrounding the death ot of Miss Mary Iary S. S Clark YOUTHS ARE HELD After Atter the discovery of the bod body on the beach at Cape May last Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- police started search for Joseph Jo- Jo seph 18 18 an and Harry Rutherford Ruther- Ruther ford 16 16 son of a Cape l Ia May county farmer who had disappeared The Tue youths Identified themselves to the Camden police but maintained that they could not supply Information that would aid in solvIng the mys- mys tery An automobile belonging to WilHam Wil Wil- Ham L. L Mount of Cape May oIa which disappeared about the time Clark and Rutherford left Cape l Ja May was found abandoned by Camden police The youths denied that they had rl In the car One of the theorIes ot of the Cape May I authorities Is that Miss Clark was murdered and robbed and her bOdy was taken to the beach in an automobile |