Nell Cropsey #6

W.O. Saunders

    Jim goes in for a second hearing and is questioned about why he does not look for her.  He says if he did, and found her, everyone would say it was because he knew where she was all along and would still be blamed.  After not receiving answers from Jim, the Committee called in a spiritualist named Madam Snell Newman.  She told them Nell “...was chloroformed, wrapped in a big blanket, placed in a Dayton wagon, and driven back into the country where she was killed and thrown into a deep well by an old house...” (pg. 49; Simpson)  This was said to have been done by Jim and accomplice, and the committee went out and searched but found nothing.  Then an expert diver by the name of John Edwards was called in to search the Pasquotank River, but again turned up with nothing.  W.O Saunders is an editor who lived in Hertford and had heard all about Nell Cropsey.  He tried to figure it out, but had little luck, and heard about sightings that turned up as nothing as well.