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Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, February 7, 1945.

Mrs. Mary U. Loses, 29 years, of 271 Vine Street, Plymouth,

wife of Bernard U.Loses, serving in the U.S. Navy,

was found dead this morning in a gully formed by Brown's Creek,

not far from Bull Run Crossing in Plymouth.

Indications were that the woman was the victim of a brutal

murder. The police investigation revealed that the victim wore a wristwatch on her left arm,

and this was stopped at 3.30 o'clock. Her clothes were badly torn, and the snow on the ground in the vicinity of where the body was

found was trampled and showed evidence of a struggle. The woman's left shoe was on her foot,

but her right shoe was off and about 10 feet away. Her left glove was on her hand, while the right

glove was clasped tightly in her right hand.

The Walman's body was discovered at 10 o'clock this morning by Mr. Mrs. Lawrence Barrett of Carver Street, Plymouth,

were on their way to the business section of the town on a shopping tour.

After sighting the body and the gully about 10 feet below the level of the car tracks at that point,

the couple continued on the way to Main Street where they met patrolman Joseph Mallow and High Constable John Jones.

They informed the police officials what they had seen and they they, in turn, contacted chief of police Lawrence Kindick.

While the theory that the woman may have fallen from a nearby trestle was first advanced,

the subsequent discovery of a belt about the victim's neck established the murder theory.

Shortly afternoon, the body was taken to where it lay in the gully to the Fitzpatrick morgue from where it was to be taken to Nesbit

Memorial Hospital for a post-mortem examination to determine the exact cause of death. How long the victim lay along the creek is not known, but the police, during the early stages

of their investigation, learned that she had been at the Packard Cafe at 147 East Main Street,

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