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Show DEATH MYSTERY 13 PUZZLE TO POLICE Woman Thought a Suicide Is Found Alive. Bellows Falls, Vt. Vermont's most baffling death myslery. whlcn was dismissed dis-missed as a suicide a year n;;o when the body of a woman was found with a chloroform sponge .icd over her mouth and nose, took on an Enoch Arden aspect almost on the anniversary anniver-sary of the "suicide" when it was found that the woman Idem Hied ns the suicide was alive and hati allowed herself to remain officially dead, despite de-spite the remarriage of her husband. Mrs. Calheri:. It. Packard, twenty-eight-year-old nurse, was arrested on suspicion of having murdered an unknown un-known woman whose body ihe had allowed to be taken as hers. The body was found in a pasture and from effects on it, George Packard Pack-ard identified It as that of Mrs. Packard Pack-ard who had disappeared. For weeks the death remained a mystery and was looked on as a murder until a tiny note was found hidden in a vanity van-ity case on the body. The note declared de-clared the writer was tired of life and sought happiness In the unknown. Mrs. Packard left two children besides be-sides her husband. "I am positive the girl found dead last August 'was attacked and murdered mur-dered with chloroform," said State Detectivp Edward C. Brown after Mrs. Packard's arrest. Brown, who has been working quietly on a murder theory for a year, said he was seeking seek-ing a local man who can throw light on possible motives. The Identification of the body as that of Mrs. Packard by her husband is the subject of keen inquiry by the state police also. In July of this year a Boston Insurance company refused to pay life insurance. On July 14 Packard married again. A few days ago, Mrs. Packard was identified in Bellows Falls. When told she was supposed to be dead, she declared de-clared that she hadn't known of it. Finally she admitted having written the note aftei an estrangement from her husband. She said the clothing which apparently appar-ently had furnished grounds for the identification had not been hers and said she never had owned any like it. |