OBIT: Margaret Foster CRESSWELL, 1893, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

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IDENTIFIED BY OLD FRIENDS.

The Bellevue Young Woman Was Miss Margaret Foster Cresswell.

  The body of the young woman who died at Bellevue hospital, New York, 
yesterday, as a result of malpractice, was positively identified this 
morning as that of Margaret Foster Cresswell of Hollidaysburg, Pa.
  Messrs. Woodcock and Bell, who came to New York from Blair county, 
Pa., to investigate the case, and who have known all of the members of 
the Cresswell family for many years, visited the morgue this morning 
and immediately recognized the body as that of the young woman they had 
known so long.
  After the coroner had taken the sworn statements of Messrs. Woodcock 
and Bell, a permit was given to them to remove the body to 
Hollidaysburg, which sad duty they will perform this afternoon.  These 
lawyers assert that they have no knowledge whatever as to the author of 
the girl's troubles, but say that the matter will be thoroughly 
investigated, and if possible, the guilty parties brought to justice.
  They state that Miss Cresswell's mother has not been informed of the 
true cause of her daughter's death, and that every effort is being made 
to keep the truth from her - her present information being that she 
died from pneumonia.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 26, 1893