Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-13
The Crarner Mystery.

he mystery of the death of Jennie E. Cramer s the following important one from the New York Tribune of yesterday:
 Blanche Douglass, who left New Haven suddenly and unexpectedly on Wednesoay, and who is wanted as a witness in the Jennie Cramer inquest in that place, is in this city. She is not, however, nor has she been TOT long time, at No. 231 East Thlrty-fourth street. as she said in her testimony before the jury. She has been living in a house of bad character in West Thirty-frst street. The same woman is registered at the Hoffman House, but under different name, supposed to be 'sMiss Clements.''
 The house referred to is kept by Lizzie Bundy. who, on ascertaining that it would the following account Of Blanche Doagiass and of Walter Malley, of New Haven:
 .eBlanche has been an inmate of this house for about six months do not disguise that it is house of il-fame Blanche had been in another house before she came here; she was poor and helped her along until she could dress we'll. She was ladyhke and aoo Walter Malley, of New Haven, who has frequented my place for five or six years, met Blanche for the first time. He was soon desperately fond of her; in fact, he maoe fool of himself He used to come down and stay over every Saturday night. When ne was away he wrote constantly CT sent teie- grams it was nothing but telegrams and feleprsms and letters. He was constantly rying to get Blanche to go to New Haven with him. She went once before this, and when she came back she said Malley, whose mother was dead, I believe. had bribed the housekeeper, had got the key, and had shown her all over the house. She said the house was elegant, and that Malley's father was very wealthy.
 Sunday hA here ana persuaded her to go again. have not seen her since. Last Thursday or Friday sne or he sent a telegram that she would be Dack an 8 day or two. Last night her friend, Saaie Monroe who lives here, came to me saying that Blanche was at Mary Kidds, her washer, woman that she was in trounie ana IaIsTu 1i.1,1 to see her. I then first learned or tnat elrI death at New Haven had been looking TOT Blanche ayer since got the telegram.
 "How came your name on Blanche linen ?'' -
 ssShe had her washing done with mine, and my sister had my name put on the clothes so that it would be known they oe- longed here"
 Mary Kidd gave the following information concerning Blanche Douglass:
 ssShe came here at dusk last night ana seemed greatly troubled. She sent for Sadie Monroe to come and see her. She was nere only about twenty minutes. She sald sne was stopping at the Hoffman House, that sne had come from New Haven and was gong back Monday so as to be there on business on Tuesday. She said her lawyer told her to come to New York until then"
 Miss Clements was absent from the Hoffman House all day yesterday. Lizzie Bundy said that she and Sadie Monroe had gone to Coney Island for the day.
 The physicians are reticent as to the ols coveries made by them at the autopsy, re- serving them until they give them to the jury next Tuesday They feel that in doing SC thev will assist rather than retard the endi of justice.
 Dr. Prudden. came to the city yesterday from Money Island, where he has beer taking a vacation He is brother of th' Rev. Mir Prudden, who preached at tho Church of the Redeemer last Sunday, and O.
 MT. Prudden, of the Bowditch establishment
 It is stated that the doctors discoveries ar' furnishing clue which is being worked uI and may result in something definite, ant the presence of drug in the stomach of de ceased is 4ainted at strongly, but the physi cians say that they have given no authority for this rumor.
 The drugging theory finds many support CTS It is now held that the body Of th' dead girl could not have been carried by th' tide, from Kelsey's wharf to where It wa found with the state of tides on that Frida. night This view is very reasonable. Th' tide was high that night at one o'clock Any one by going to Kelsey's wharf can see that thu movement of the water for three or four hour before low tide does not begin to be strong enough to carry out human body from which life has just departed. The same is tru' of the power of incoming tide. Besides the ba' sins between the sand bars would hold Dods from passing along even with much strong CT movement of the water than there is il the locality in question. It follows, there fore, that the body of the deceased did no | reach the water from Kelsey's wharf, and wa
 not brought in by the tide.
 l How came the body where 1t was found l a question more mysterious than ever l Speculation on this point is indulged Tn U unlimited extent The wounds on the lip of the deceased are held to sustain the vie1 that a hand was tightly placed over he 1 mouth to prevent screaming, and that sn WAS suffocated and left in the water or suffo cated on shore and taken into the water an
 left there. Theories as to drugging ar l avo1ved with similar disposition of tn
 body.
 | On the other hand, with regard to tn
 young lady whom the bicyclist saw on tn end of Kelsey's pier talking with man wit 1 a black moustache. This might have bee the deceased, but on the other hand such occurrence is not uncommon on the wharf
 and young lady might say. 'My father wi kill me, !" meaning that it was late enough be at home, and meaning no more than man l a vouno woman means when she uses word of startling character.
 l As time passes on it becomes more an more difficult to find anybody who positivel | identified Jennie Cramer as at the Wes Haven shore on that Friday evening. | first there were dozens who saw her C thought they did, but now the number wonderfully small, and the deputy sheriff a the shore finds that there is hardly anybod
 willing to swear that they saw her, and begins to doubt if he is positive himself ths he saw her. Neither can anybody now found who is willing to swear to seeln James MaIley at the shore that night. ID fact that MT. Michael Malley was at th
 shore that Friday night, as he testified in hi
 evidence, was no doubt the cause of many
 the early reports regarding seeing the othe
 Malley. In such a case as this, everytMn
 looking like clue is in sense importan
 and many a mystery has been cleared up an apparently exceedingly trivial thread
 A Hartford lady who is boarding at Mir Sanford's boarding house near the shore
 West Haven says she saw two couple usin the swings at about9 o'clock Friday ever ing. One of these girls was the same on that was taken out of the water. As soon the body was found the lady heard of it an
 went to the shore, when she immediately rel ognized it. The lady says Miss Crame looked i'll while going round, and begge piteously for them to stop and take her ou1 The two men were, she says, apparently UT der the influence of liquor, at least they wer
 very boisterous, used great deal of profan I language, and insisted upon the machin being kept in motion, notwithstanding Mls Cramer's appeals to have them stop. Tn other woman was behaving disgustingl coarse and rude Another person whosthink he saw Jennie with half dozen other girl ! 41aa Hr