"Suspicion was at first directed by the local authorities at the
labourers, but the manner of the finding of the body renders it
improbable. Most of them are housed in some rough shacks up the
road toward Tuxedo and were able to prove themselves of good
character. Indeed, the trampled condition of the thicket plainly
indicates, according to the local coroner, that the girl was
brought there, probably already dead, in an automobile which drew
up off the road as far as possible. The body then must have been
thrown where it would be screened from sight by the thick growth
of trees and shrubbery.
"There was only one wound, in the chest. It is, however, a most
peculiar wound, and shows that a terrific force must have been
exerted in order to make it. A blow could hardly have accomplished
it, so jagged were its edges, and if the girl had been struck by a
passing high-speed car, as was at first suggested, there is no way
to account for the entire lack of other wounds which must
naturally have been inflicted by such an accident.
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