The next morning she was found dead among the stakes of a mill dam on the stream called the Priory River.

That she had destroyed herself there could be no reasonable doubt.

The coroner's inquest found that she had drowned herself while in a state of mental derangement.

But her family was unwilling to admit that she had shortened her own life, and looked about for somebody who might be accused of murdering her.

The last person who could be proved to have been in her company was Spencer Cowper.