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Show ' W Of WOMAN 10 DISAPPEARS FOUND IN GARDEN Delvers Into Occult Admit They ! Buried Aged Mrs. Chamberlain Chamber-lain Under Flowers PROMINENT MUSICIANS SINK INTO POVERTY Strange Story Brought to Light After Chicago Mystery Is Solved ! CHICAGO. Feb 15. The body of I Mrs. Nancy Chamberlain. 91 years old, hose inVKterloiiH disappearance from the home Of her daughter and granddaughter grand-daughter in an artists' colony has been under investigation by the police was found early today, buried In the backyard back-yard of the studio on Fifty-seventh Street, whre the family lived- Two days of questioning brought from Mrs. Ruth Townsend, the aged (woman's daughter, and Miss Marian Townsend, her granddaughter, cryptic answers such aa "mother is happy In lo c " r BURTE1) AMONG FLOWERS. Early today Miss Townsend confessed con-fessed to a reporter for the Chicago I Herald and Examiner that the aged woman died of natural causes last I June and had been burled by the two I women in the backyard flower bed. 1 where the aged woman had carefully tended her geranium planta Hire poverty caused the two women to bury the body secretly, Miss Town-j Town-j send told a police matron 'm- bj i one the prized possessions of the fam-, fam-, ily were sold until only the rrrand piano, on which Marian developed an unusual musical ability, remained II UPPl IN LOI i ' "We. had neither coffin nor burial permit." said Miss Townsend. "WC covered up the body and placed the geraniums over tho Improvised grave. I Tn us she Is not dead. Just burled ' Mother and I swore never to say anything any-thing about It because we were happy . In love.' Mrs 'ha m ber lain , her daughter, and granddaughter had been well known in musical circles In the city and until un-til they left the south side artists' colony last summer their studio was the scene of many social affairs Friends said that after the ape,) woman wo-man s disappearance, Miss Townsend I ceased to seek engagements, withdrew I from social activities and with their source Of Income gone, gradually be- came dc-Htltute. 1 1 1 i i- i VI i net i it Evidence that the women had been delvers In the occult was found by the police in their studio- Cryptic notes und diagrams were numerous, some relating to theories advanced by the I ancient Egyptian sun worshipers and others to the modern system of med-lunishlp med-lunishlp mixed with Christianity. But no ceremony or rites h;.d been I performed at the burial of the grand-j grand-j mother, according to Miss Townsend's '(Statement, because of their belief tht:t there is no death. She said th;.t spiritual spir-itual communication was started In tho studio Immediately after the burial. "Tho body is nothing," Mlsg Town-send Town-send told the police matron. "Grandmother "Grand-mother Is still with us for love and, the power of God is always present." j Dr Joseph Springer, coroner's physician, phy-sician, after an examination of tho body, announced his opinion that the aged woman died from natural causes. 61 N IS MISSING V ben informed of her daughter's 'admissions. Mrs. Townsend said sho 'was pleased that the story had been I told. I She was then asked concerning the whereabouts of her son who disap-l pcared about two years ago and was, lat beard from in Grand Rapids, i Mich "There was much more to toll."' was the cryptic reply, "but It would not be understood at this time" Mrs. Townsend described her moth-! er's death and said tho body was not I 'disturbed for two days. M n HER BURIED. "On the morning Of the third day at 1 o'clock M Irian and I carried hor out In the yard, in perfect silence we; I buried her In a flow er bed w here she j hail often picked flowers- "Tho burial of my mother was the most beautiful and sacred thliiR 1 have ever done, only a child's hands should ' bury a mother "It was by direction of the One-! Oneness Unity Is all powerful, Is! I everything." |