The Beautiful Victim: The Elm City Tragedy Containing a Full & Complete Account of the Life & Death of Jennie E. Cramer:

An excerpt from the beginning of THE NARRATIVE. New Haven, the beautiful City of Elms, was startled from its propriety and awakened to a sense of horror by a terrible announcement at half-past five o'clock on the morning of the 6th of August, 1881. Jennie E. Cramer, a comely young girl, was discovered in the water, face downward, dead! The place where the body of the poor girl was found is known as the West Haven shore. It is a section that fills in a way the relation of a watering-place to...