Clearfield Republican

Murder in Pike County, Pa.

A young woman named Mary Ellen Lord died very suddenly in Pike county, Pa., on the 20th ult., under circumstances which excites suspicion that she had been foully dealt with. At the instance of the neighbors, a coroner and a justice held an inquest, and a legal investigation gone into before the burial of the body, as to the cause of her death. After inquiry the jury found a verdict that she came to her death by violence at the hands of her father, Edmund Lord, and his wife, and these parties were arrested and lodged in jail at Milford, where they are now confined. Two or three days after, at the instance of some who were not satisfied with the result of the investigation, another jury was summoned to hold the body inquest again investigated. The second jury did not agree upon a verdict.

The girl was fifteen years of age, had been employed some years in the family of Nicholas Depue, a respectable family of Lehman, in that county, until last Fall, when she returned home to her father's. Soon after her father, Edmund Lord, commenced a prosecution against Depue, for an alleged rape perpetrated upon the girl while in his service, in consequence of which she had become pregnant. The prosecution is still pending in Pike county courts. The singularity of this case is that four physicians who conducted the post mortem examination, united in testifying that there was no appearance of pregnancy, but, on the contrary, it was evident that such could never have been her condition. There are a thousand-and-one rumors afloat as to the appearance of the body, and circumstances attending her death, which is not worth while to repeat.