The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1858-03-11
From the ST. Lonis Evening News
THE PACING HOTEL DISASTER AT
ST. LOUIS.

81. LOUIS.
ARSON AND MURDER-TnE SUSPECTED
MURDERER AND INCENpIARy ARRESTED.
Almost every citizen Of St. Louis, has no
doubt had strong suspicious that the Pa.
cifc Hotel disaster was the result Of the
most diabolical incendiarism, and the cir
cumstances are now being developed
which tend to confirm that suspicion be-
yond even the possibility of doubt.
1t appears that Mr.. Doane, one of the
unfortunates who was supposed to have
lost his life by the fire, and whose remains
were recovered from the ruins, retired to
bed about ten O'Clock, in the room ad-
joining that usually occupied by man
named Charles L. Taylor, alias Sanders,
and separated from it by board partition
reaching only part Of the way to the cell
ing. About one o'clock, on the morning
of the fire, the watchman of The Pacific
Hotel met Taylor on the street, and in
conversation with him, Taylor stated
that Doane had ~, 900 in his room with
him.
Attwo o'clock the same morning, Tay-
lur went to said Hotel and went to bed.
At quarter past three o'clock, he went
10 the Tawnsley House and took bed
for the night, and slept there. lie lad no
boots on at tie Hme.. In the morning, the
bed in which he slept was found consider
ably stained with blood, and nc wound
was on the person of Taylor. The room
at the Pacific Hotel occupied by Doane
was in a part Of The building afTording the
best chance for his escape had he been
alire. When his remains were recovered,
they were upon the bed on which he had
slept, and it was saturated ayHk Wood.--
There were other unmistakeable indica-
tions that he had been murdered.
Taking all these circumstances into
consideration, suspicion rested so strongly
upon Taylor that he was arrested on the
charge Of murder and arson.
DR.. d. w. Strader, the landlord of the
HOTEL was its reputod proprietor, but it
now appears that he had not a dollar in
terest in it; butjthat it belonged TO persons
with whom the Doctor was at feud. He,
also, has therefore been arrested on the
charge of conspiring with Taylor in the
preparation Of this demcnacal act. The
suspicion against him is very slight, and
the investigation may dispute it entirely
His arrest was more on the ground Of
possibility than probability.
Taylor has been about 81. Louis occa-
sionally for long time, and few years
ago was a clerk for Chouteau q Barlow
He was also, at one time, Assistant City
Engineer. 1t is also reported, on pretty
good authority, that he had been oonvic-
ted of felony in California, and had also
served term in the chain gang in San
Francisco. A few months ago he was ar
rested for an extensive obbery at the City
Hotel in this city, but was discharged on
account Of the man who was robbed uot
remaining to prosecute. He was so alarm
ed that lie fled the city few minutes
after the robbery.
Taylor is a good sized, good looking
man, and somewhat noted for his reckless
dissipation. Since his return TO the city
he has been known by the name of San
ders, only. but we learn has several alias
| ns onn Of rrl,;nh 10 Candars Taylor
Charles Waldrup. the watcbman of the
Pacific Hotel, has also been arrested, and
we learn is detained as a witness, to pre-
vent him from being bought off or se-
questrated by the guilty parties.
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