Show STOLE A WOMANS HAND the quer cae that ft maine judge will slate t to ii dall Dc wo ll A curious caso case la is shortly to como come before tho the court at portland me being the trial of a man for tho the theft of tho the hand of a woman who bad boon been dead twenty years tho the story in connect connection io n is a most moat remarkable one in 1870 donald seaforth Soa forth an englishman on paged in tho the lumber business lost hla his mother mrs annio annie seaforth Scat orth this lady on he her r death bod her wn son to lay her romaina remains besic benido lo 10 those of her husland huso and who is buried in england near hull hu 11 for various reasons mr seaforth has never been able to keep hoop this promise until tile last spring when early in may aay ho he hall had tile the body exhumed proposing to tako take it to Hn englard gland it was noticed that the coelln w was as ex heavy and to ascertain tho the causo cause it was vas opened when it was waa found that tho the body had completely complo toly turned to stone mrs seaforth rth whoso choso death took place when she eho was barely forty was a rarely beautiful woman with hands particularly and small and it Is slid said that her petrified fied form seemed an exquisite statue carved in ray gray marble pending his sailing with it the body was left by mr seaforth Seaf arth in tho the charge of lawson an undertaker when mr rth ca called lie d for tho the remains he found that the r right ight hand had been broken off ob at tho the wrist and was pone gone ue lie accused lawson lawso bof ot tho the theft and I 1 procuring a search warrant found tho the hand band in the lat lattora private desk the else cisi has attracted a treat great deal of at brition con llon tion as it is thought by lawyers to lu lp IM unique lawson laison will mill plead guilty to the claro charge ho says faya that lio he wanted anted the hand as a curiosity and article of dortu and dij did not steal it for tin the ring ot of gold fold sn pearls on the forefinger |