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New Haven, Connecticut, August 8th, 1881.

On Saturday morning at about half past 5 o'clock,

the body of a young woman afterward identified as that of Miss Jenny E.

Kramer, 20 years of age, was found washed in by the tide on the edge of the West Haven beach

opposite the Hills homestead. It was discovered by Asa Curtis and was removed to the West Haven lockup where the remains were viewed by a jury.

There was a slight contusion on the tip of the nose and others of slight character about the face and shoulders,

such as would have been made by the body being rolled in by the waves, and fresh blood was noticed about the nostrils.

Her white straw hat was badly stove,

but it clung to the back of her head.

Around her neck were three coils of glass beads of pearly whiteness.

Below this was a bit of like gauzy material with which her bust was adorned.

A lace waist and a light muslin dress were her other outside garments.

On her feet were a pair of good kid boots, about her waist, a Chattelaine boo purse containing 14 cents.

A drab woven purse was also found, but nothing else.

At about 10 o'clock, the father of the deceased, Jacob Kramer, a cigar maker at 179 Grand Street,

arrived and identified the remains as his daughter, who had not

been home and whom he had not seen since the morning of the day before. It was a sad scene which the

jurors and others present will not soon forget, as the afflicted father, plainly suffering from the effects of wasting

disease, gave in his testimony. She is my daughter. She left home Wednesday night with another girl

and remained away overnight coming home the next morning. She wanted to go away again with her friend

who was a Miss Douglas of Flushing Long Island.

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