The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-16

RracLlen. who resided with her mother in
a tenement house, No. II Clark alley, III
the rear of Buttonwood street. There Is
hardly doubt but that White murdered
tI1e girl. set fire to the bed himself and cut
his own throat. He was said to be a bad
man and several incidents that have al
ready come to light show that he had med
ita+ed the horrible crime fOrat least a week.
The most singular part of the whole affair
&c that no outcry was heard issning from the
at ic the Only disturbance being heard by
y Mrs Brown, who was sleeping III the
room below that occupied by " lite. This
Id states that little while before ten
n;cinclz she heard loud talking in Whites
room. as if he were intoxicated. His voice
Was loud. but she failed TO catch the words
soo<en. Then quiet spell ensued, which
vas broken IN short time by a violent
iIInn. as If some one had leaped from the
led mon The floor. Again all was silent
until She distinctly heard = heavy thud, as
if some one had fallen upon the floor. She
also avo,ys that she has observed the gnl,
Mary Braci,Cu, so upstairs to " hIte ) at-
tic two OF three times.
White, about two years ago, boarded
with the mother of Mary Bracken, and had
contracted 4 love for the daughter. About
, week AGO he remarked to a Mrs. Kelley,
with whom he once lived, at No. i04 Green
street. that MARY was a bad girl, and that
he had told her that if she did not return
the money she had borrowed from him lie
would expose ho1." He then said she re-
torted. If you do I VIII drown myself"
During this same conversation with the
woman Kelley he said. You VIII hear
something that will astonsh you right
soon.'' From this it seems probable that
he had mcditatcd the deed. lie also said
that .sIc intended 10 frightcn tho girl. "
As for her presence in the attic seYera! sto-
ries are in circulation.
One isthat her mother did Whites wash
ing. and she had taken his clothes home.
Another that he met hor upon the sire ct and
induced he" TO 60 with hin 10 his room, on
the plea that her father had been taken
suddcnly sick there. Another is that the
girl met him by appointment. 1t IS very
/ likely that White did not originally intei,G
to kill himself. and that he fired the bed in
tending 70 consume the girl and then cs-
/ cape. But, changing his mind after he set
/ fire to the mattress, hs placed the lanI
I back upon the stand and butchered him
! self.
| White was 40 years of age, was born IL
the county Kerry. Ireland, and was boil
! er-naker by trade. Some time ago hC
| worked in Baldwin : locomotive works, bu
recently he has been engaged at Shoemak
| ing. lie was not an Incorporate man.
! 1t eight o clock on Saturday night Mary
/ BTackcn was seen at the corner OF SecOHG
/ aud ButtonwoOd streets, talking with two
young men. and that was the last seen O
her alive. She had always borne 4 gooc
| character.
Detective Franks, who was detailed tt
work up lie case, discovered among White!
Effects a frame containing a photograph o
the victim, Mary Brackcn, III which als'
was the picture of another girl. An am
brotype of woman and child, supposed t
be his wife, was also discovered, and sever
al letters, signed by Rsbecca White, Bed
fo.d, England, No. i Quick street.
In one she upbraided him for desertin!
her and her six children, and signed her
self, From your broken-hcartcd wife.
Receipts for drafts on the London brancl
Of the banking House of Drexel x Co. wer'
also found, which showed that he had sen
his wife money upon several occasions.
To-day Coroner Brown held an inques
in the cases, the evidence not differing a
all from the statement given above, a"d ;
verdict was rendered in accordance viii
the facts.-Ihjia. E,sEtEy Hera5d.