The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-02-04
A TALE OF BLOOD.
A CHASTITY Scene In y wOlnans Apart
ment.

From San Francisco Chronicle, January 49,
Yesterday afternoon, about . O'Clock, =
res pectabIy appearing man called At the
Drouilhat Heel, III Commercial street,
aud told . waiter in the rsstsurAnt that he
wished to SOC . young woman who he be-
lieved lived in the house Aud who was
known there ~ Miss Towers. The man
Vas quiet in manner, respectfully dressed
in dark clothes, and apparently about
thirty-s,Y yesrs old. lie WAS . Stranger,
and had never been seen in the house be-
fore. Tho waiter took him 70 . ffon.
room on the second floor, and In moment
the young woman known ~ Mics Towers
stood before them. The stranger rushed
towards her, embraced each other with .
kiss, and, closing the door. they left the
waiter in the hall 10 find his wsy down TO
the restaurant.
During the next 20 minutes thstwo were
| frequently heard in conversation, but this
was in an ordinary tone, AID with no To-
| dication of anger or excitement OF any
kind. Soon after this an old man en-
ployed in the house had OCCASION 10 pass
up stairs. lie saw Mis-, Towers door
open, and she and her visitor standing up
the latter with hat and UNI
brella in hand, rs If Abost to leave.
| In q minute or two only after this the
men below IN the restaurant heard . noise
a. il of a scuftle, and presently the noise
OF some one falling heavily. The waiter
/ who had showed the stranger IN
rushed up stairs, and was horrihed
at seeing the young woman lying in the
| doorway of her room, with the blood pour.
ing from her neck and running ia streams
and rivulst, unon the floor. The waiter
saw no more hut screamed and rushed for
noi;o.n.n Tbs noise brouyh, the old
- ,.hn h.d ,.s, ..en ,ha nsr,iss from
AN adjoining room. A his ewes fell upon
,ha .S..,,y sc.no tha .tr.nver was lust
cr,Siing on his h.uds and knees from the
- IS va H. ,Lro., 40. o,, ,-,,,, o.r o.
~. ,ha ilood non,inc rom tho xo,nd in
.".,an,s 40 ,oschad tho vouny vom.n
a. la ii. bssj mon her Srs.st. And
s;nL mo ,ow, hv her side orssped on, nj,
Iisa in ono cnny,l.iy. .,rueyle
Na.n-bila ,be w.i,ar hsS found Otficsr
Nc D.,mo,t Ths officer Rushed up stairs
and found tbs bodies living a described
The woman. WHO bsI been neatly dressed
| in a rod plaid dress of soms WOODEN
material WAS lyiar in the door with
b.r head toward The Ssuuistsr 10 the hall
The m.n Law beside her with his head up
on her breast. The man was quite dead,
but the woman trea,hed slightly, .eeip x
which tbs officer FASTENED of for DR..
Stiyer. who coming IN few minutes
found ,hs, the young woman had ALEC
dad but A moment before be had 20,
there. The two bodies were lifted into
the he'd room .nd laid decently .,de By
side on tho door. after which the coroner
| was sent for to tako possession of the
| premises,
Mean while, ne~s Of the terrible TRACED
spread about, and in little while .h'
place was besegsd 10y an eager and excl
ted throng, Anxioas " ses aud hear nj
tho sickening dc,aiif.
In FIVE minutes after the alarm wa
given, a Chronicle reporter WAS u. .h'
place. he at once obtained entrance.
From the papers found on ID. body o
the man, i, appeared that his name va
Randolph Mitchell. although he had !
number of letter. addressed to Other
namei. One OF ihese was Harry y. An
drswt. and still another, Fred Perriman
lie WAS an engineer by trade, and he has
several ce-.inca tss among his papers on,
! of them . certificate from The United
States suthori,,es-of his professions
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