Slain Teenager Still Unidentified, Autopsy is Begun by Bruce Hertz, BDN, 11 Jan 1971

Slain Teenager Still Unidentified , Autopsy By BRUCE HERTZ NEWS State Desk WELLS Medical examiners have partially completed an autopsy oa an unidentified teenage girl, whose nude, beaten body was found Saturday afternoon off the Bragdon Hill Road, Wells. State Police Information Officer P. L. Pert Jr. said Dr. Charles Branch, Maines chief medical examiner, performed an autopsy on the young oliveskinned girl at Central Maine General Hospital in Lewiston Sunday. Pert said the cause of death would not be announced until toxicology was completed Monday or Tuesday. Unidentified The information officer further noted that the girl had not been identified. Teletype discrip-tions had been sent throughout the New England states in search of the girls identity. She was described as five feet, three inches, tall, weighing approximately 100 pounds. Her hair was brown-black and she had an olive complexion which police indicated that she might be of Indian of Portuguese extraction. , Officer Alden Stevens of the Wells Police Department, who was the first police official at the scene, said the girl had been beaten badly on the head and face. The body was found in a light-, ly wooded area between the road and a gravel pit by John Mooers HI of Wells Beach. He Is Begun had been on his way to do soma target shooting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Stevens said that the Bragdon Hill Road was a well-traveled short-cut between Routes 1 and 109. He said the girls body which was 15 to 20 feet from the road, could have been ;seen from the road if anyone had happened t look. The spot where the girls body was found slumped against a pine tree is about four miles from the Parsons farm bam in lower Wells where 13-year-old (Continued on Page 2, CoL 4) Will Return To Senate, Martin Says By KENT WARD NEWS Political Writer GUILFORD Sen. James Martin, who announced his resignation from the Maine State Senate Wednesday hours after he had been sworn in to a second two-year term, said Sunday night that he has reconsidered his action and will return to his District 23 seat Tuesday morn ing. Martin told the NEWS that he had discussed his return with Senate President Kenneth P. MacLeod, R-Brewer, and the two men had agreed that the

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Slain Teenager Still Unidentified, Autopsy is Begun by Bruce Hertz, BDN, 11 Jan 1971

Slain Teenager Still Unidentified, Autopsy is Begun by Bruce Hertz, BDN, 11 Jan 1971

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