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Douglas Daily Dispatch
Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
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Mrs. Catherine Rockwell Packard, presumed dead by suicide over a year ago, reappeared alive in Springfield, Vt., on Aug. 14, finding her husband George J. Packard remarried; she was arrested as a material witness amid a mystery over the body buried as hers in Chester, Vt.
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Woman Thought Buried As Suicide Jailed During Inquiry.
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. Aug. 14(R) —A woman supposedly dead by suicide more than a year ago reappeared alive here today to find the husband, whom she had left, married to another woman and herself the center of a strange mystery in which lay hidden the identity of the body buried as her own in a Chester, Vt., graveyard.
The woman, Mrs. Catherine Rockwell Packard, wife of a St. Albans candy worker, was under arrest here tonight as a material witness and law officers sought to question the husband, George J. Packard, who a month ago today married another woman in Rutland.
More than a year ago Mrs. Packard disappeared from her Rutland home, leaving her husband, (Continued on Page Ten)
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Springfield, Vt.
Event Date
Aug. 14
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mrs. packard under arrest as material witness; husband remarried a month ago in rutland; mystery of body buried as hers in chester, vt.
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Woman supposedly dead by suicide over a year ago reappeared alive in Springfield, Vt., to find husband married to another; center of mystery with hidden identity of buried body; disappeared from Rutland home more than a year ago; law officers seeking to question husband.