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Udica, New York, July 13th, 1906.

Wednesday four noon, a young and respectable-looking couple, left the southbound train at Big Moose and the Adirondacks and going to the

Glenmore Hotel registered as Carl Graham of Albany and Grace Brown of Otsellick. The man carried

a small handbag on the outside of which was strapped a tennis racket. They remained in the

hotel about five minutes,

and after stating that they had just stopped over one train, Graham and his companion went to the

boat landing, procured a light wood boat, and went out on the lake. They did not return.

The lake was not rough in the least, and the bay was as smooth as a mill pond.

When leaving the dock, Graham appeared to be acquainted with the use of a boat,

and the man who rented the boat thought he was an experienced oarsman.

Yesterday morning, the boat was found bottom-side up near Camp Craig. Immediate search was taken up, and late yesterday afternoon,

the body of the young woman was taken from the lake near where the boat was found.

Those who saw the body say that there were several marks and abrasions on the head,

and as there are no rocks in the lake at that point, suspicion was at once aroused that the

girl had been murdered. The dragging of the lake was continued till dark, and was resumed again this morning,

but Graham's body was not discovered, though his hat was picked up on the shore of the lake.

There is nothing on the body of the young woman by which she may be identified, and the coroner, who was summoned, has directed that the body be conveyed to Frankfurt.

Grace Brown is the daughter of a farmer residing near Otselloch in Chenango County.

For the last three years, she had been working in a skirt factory at Cortland, and four weeks ago she went to her home to spend her vacation.

Last Monday, she started to return to Cortland in company with a Mr. Root and a man who is not known.

Her father says that she has heard his daughter speak of a Mr. Graham,

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