RESERVOIR.

They followed the scent as far as the Covington reservoir, when they
lost it, and were unable to gain it again. In the hope that the head
might be found in this body of water the reservoir was drained on
Monday, involving an expense of about $2,000, but the head was not
discovered, and the hard-working, earnest detectives and Sheriff Plummer
were apparently baffled.

Clew after clew was followed up only to be abandoned as fruitless. A
large number of young women were reported missing from various parts of
the country, but when traced up and pursued to its end, each clew proved
to be without any tangible basis. There was nothing to work on, but the
officers of the law, kept up the search for the head and the
identification of the remains with most commandable persistency. Every
Suggestion was received and considered, nothing was left undone that
could be done.

THE SHOES.

The authorities then turned their attention to the only tangible clew,
the shoes. Sheriff Plummer, of Campbell County, accompanied by
Detectives Crim and McDermott, of this city, proceeded on Monday night
to Greencastle, Ind., to interview the dealers from whom the shoes had
evidently been purchased. They also took along the dead girls clothing.
At the store of Louis & Hayes it was found that the entire lot of shoes,
one dozen pairs, had been purchased by them from Portsmouth. Nine of
these pairs had been sold, and all but two purchasers were readily
accounted for. Then an attempt was made to locate these two pairs, one
of which had, without doubt, been worn by the murdered girl. This seemed
impossible for a time. In the meanwhile every girl who had left the
Depauw Seminary, near Greencastle, was traced down, and found each time.

In the meantime every thing possible was being done at the scene of the
murder. Two tramps were arrested at Ludlow, Ky., as suspects, but were
afterwards released for lack of evidence. Crowds flocked to the morgue
in Newport, where the headless body lay; it being identified a number
of times as the body of some one who after the identification would turn
out to be alive and well.

Probably the strongest case of identification, which did not identify,
was that of Mrs. Hart, of Cincinnati, who identified the remains as
those of her daughter, Ella Markland. Emil Eshler, a friend of Mrs.
Hart, and William Hess, a saloon-keeper, both thought it was the body of
Mrs. Markland, and were so strongly convinced of i