Show GRUESOME TRUNK MURDER MYSTERY Unknown Young Woman the thc Victim of Foul Play in Seattle Seattle Wash ashi Sept Sett 22 A 2 A gruesome trunk runk murder m mystery developed 1 I n r Seattle cattle teda today with a 0 beautiful but unknown un un- mown known woman as is the tho victim Fortu Fortunately natch some clues eues also ulso discovered b by bS bythe the thc police may lead lend to un nn early clearing up utI of the heinous tragedy About S o'clock this morning Stephen Andersun of West est eattle found a trunk runk wc washed she ashore on tho time beach ol or Fauntleroy park Ills curiosity led him to mal make mako e a n hasty hl esti Investigation which revealed tho thin contents of the trunk to tc consist of or a nude human body hod An- An An hurriedly notified tho the coroner and amid tho the police pollee At the time morgue it was wa found that tho tIme woman hall had been leen choked and strangled to death There arc are dec deep finger prints In her he neck and throat lt around which one of or her her own und undergarments ments had horl been secured and tightly tle tied In th the trunk with tim the hod jody body were numerous articles of or clothIng cloth- cloth log Ing ng such as sl skirts waists waist shoes stock stock- lags Ines undergarments etc What space remained after hen bending dinG an and doubling tho hotly hOlly into tho trunk the time murderer Hied tilled with rocks roces and shells from the thc seashore thus thins hoping to so 80 o weight It down Town so 50 as qs to carr carry it to tho the bottom holtom Besides tho the clothing which perchance perchance per per- chance inay lead to time tho Identity of the woman the time murderer bungled again in that a a. letter was left eft mixed in with time tho garments It is to tho the medium of this thia hotter ettor that the police rely roly upon to clear ip up tho the m mystery ster at least to th the extent of or establishing the thc identity of or the murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered woman In in Lead to In Identification Tho The missive is written on the letter letter- letterheads r. r heads of J. J B. B Covington a ha hay grain and feed dealer doing business at 02 SL St Peter street St. St Paul It is addressed ad- ad dressed to Frank Covington and is signed signell Edith t There ore are six or eight pages to the time letter loUer the tho envelope of 0 which could coul not be found In the tho trunk Tho The writer addressed Covington as tier hor brother and pens a commonplace letter speaking of or photographs she had hall sent him ilm etc ole Save the name and that on the lotter- lotter there IH iM nothing in It tending to disclose anything as to her h identity or that hat of or the recipient or his pI place nee of resI res- res I deuce t d in in the trunk reveals done In Jn red the Initial letters A lOA S. S ono PIK un cad Jh The letters arc are worked In n a corner of ot the tho shoeL The Tho hotly body found in th time tho trunk la is that of if a 0 girl 19 10 or 20 O years old five foot two Inches incites in height light hair hall and anel blue eyes ees weight probably pounds rho Tho hair Is Iser er very thin ami anel not over ten Inches in length From rom tho the condition of or the bod body the police pollee think tho murder was committed four Cour or live five days and possibly a n week col ago Tho Time clothing found oun in tho LImo trunk is lit of the flashy kind loud kind loud colors elors and arid gaudy trimmings Telegrams relative to tho identity of Frank Covington and Edith the writer of or tho the letter Jetter addressed to him have been sent to tho the St St. Paul police pollee and also to J. J B. B Covington 1 TJ II S litOS nt fit Home III In tiis 11 Co ln on Good St. St Paul Minim Minn Sept 22 Thc Ti The I Edith who signed the tho loiter letter found in the trunk with with-i the the- body la is Edith EllIth Covngton who for or the past t fow tow weeks had hial been visiting her uncle J J. J II B. Covington CovIn ton In St. St Paul III IB a a. sister of Frank Covington to whom the time I letter Is addressed I parents 1 Jive livo in Louisville K Ky Kr and sh shwas she sho was tonight reported from rom there a as safe and well J J. J B. B CO Ington Is a prosperous grain and feed hOlt hero Frank nl Covington Is s hi its his nephew ama and has hal for some Nome time time- been heen a wanderer from rein the family faintly cIrcle c lie la is now supposed to bo ho in Seattle and amid members of the family here bore and In a all submit the thie supposition that itt some seine yo young un woman mUl must l havo have become possessed of ot Edith's Ellith's letter to Frank and arid later hater met tho the fate falc that Is 18 In Indicated Indicated indicated In- In b by the finding of the body |