The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-20
From the st. Louis Times, July 18th.
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
sequel to n Negro Bnby Case-The Is.
sue Of fMiscegenation Dies

1t will be remembered by the readers
Of the Times, that we gave, early in Jan
uary last, an account of q miscegenation
case, so far as the facts were then
known. To-day we chronicle the death
of the child. 1t appears that about u
year since, a respectable young white
girl residing in Boone county, Missouri,
became strongly enamored of a negro in
her town, and being the daughter Ofan
intense Radical, who had publicly and
privately sanctioned the doctrine OF
miscegenation, she thought it no harm
to be frequently seen i'll company with
Nigger Bill, ~ he was more familiar
ly called. Bill turned out to be gay
deceiver," and the young lady found,
when it was too late to remedy the evil,
that she had loved too well, and that
unless she left the town, her condition
would be made public, and entail last
ing disgrace upon herself and family.
When it would no longer possible to
hide her crime, she made it known to
her father, who resolved to convey her
to st. Louis, and when she should fully
recover from her illness, destroy Or re-
move the Innocent cause" of domestic
trouble, and remove her home again.
This shrewd plan he carried out, regis
tering under the name of Or. Brown and
daughter, and dputting upat the De Soto
House, on Chesnut and Seventh streets.
1t was noticed that the girl carried in
her arms mysterious bundle, which
attracted considerable attention, and
the attention of Capt. Lee being called
to the case he set about in unravelling
the mystery. Investigation revealed
the fact that nicely ensconsed within
the warm folds of q woOlen shawl was u
plump picaninny, black as the ten of
spades but full of life and hope. No
sooner was this unfortunate denoue-
ment developed, than doctor Brown"
and the nice young lady mysteriously
disappeared from the hotel and no baby
could be found. What had become OF
the brat was the subject of much COM
ment, and many supposed that it had
been made way with, leaving the Coro-
ner minus fee. and the world deprived
of one more of IT'S chosen people. There
the matter rested, and not until yester-
day was the fate of the black cherub
positively known. when a negress nam
ed Cisley Bennett, dropped in at the
Third District Station ard told the fol.
lowing story:
About the first of January, she says,
she was called upon by gentleman styl,
ing himself Doctor Brown, who desired
her to take charge of negro baby at
the De Soto House, and raise it. He
gave her Sl90 and promised to send heI
more funds from time to time. She
took the child in her arms with matern'
nj tenderness and put the money care
fully in her dark bosom. She watched
over the little thing until Saturday last
when it died from an attack Of cholera
morbus. She says she never heard any
thing further of the doctor or the young
lady, and the promised remittances new
er came to hand.
| The Doctor and his fair but frail patti
ent returned to Boone county, where
she was engaged to be married to n well
to-do farmer, but whether she has since
married or died or what has become o
her nothing is now known. Her father il
not SO noisy an advocate of practiea
miscegenation as he was, though still .
bitter Radical in politics.