Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-12

ant street, he still following, and at the
corner of Pleasant and fremont streets
he saw Police Sergeant Thomas and
Patrolman Masury of the Fourth
Division. He pointed ont the man
whom he was following. and
told them that the fellow had assaulted a
woman on kirkland street, and Officer
Masury proposed to the sergeant that he
tMasury) should arrest him, while he (the
sergeantj went to the house on kirkland
street to ascertain the extent of the affair.
Officer Masury asserts that Sergeant
Thomas remarked that cit was probably
family quarrel" and declined to allow
him to make the arrest. The murderer
was thus allowed to march leisurely up
fremont street with his hands In his
pockets, a minute or two later to dlsap-
pear from view. Two or three times the
murderer turned around and looked at
the officers After his disappearance the
sergeant told Officer Bennett, on whose
beat the tragedy occurred, to call at the
house and see what the affair amounted
to. He did so at his leisure, little dream
ing of what had happened, and on reach
ing the premises learned of the murder.
Mr.. Baker says that the man was about
so wears old, and rather slim. He had
broad shoulders and heavy moustache
mixed with gray. He wore an old-fash-
Toned high-crowned Derby hat, a dark
sack overcoat, and dark pants. The po-
lice department sent dispatches to New
York and elsewhere to watch the trains
and boats and arrest any man answering
that description. The daughter also saw
the man as he left the house.
Miss Carrie Fem, residing at 3 Kirk
land street, next door to Mrs. Dell's, says
she was looking out of her window, and
saw the man rush out of Mrs. Bells
doorway and run towards Pleasant
street. He was square-shouldered, mod
erately tall, and wore a round top
stiff hat, with blush coat with velvet
collar buttoned up to his chin. She did
not see his face, but her little brother
did He had net Mrs. Bell as she was
coming from the bakeshop with milk.
The boy says that Mrs. Bell babe him
"good morning" and then passed along,
and the man followed her into the house.
The milk was found spilled on the floor
of the entry, and seven cents were clutch
ed tightly in the dead woman's fingers.
In tracing the dead woman's antece-
dents the authorities discovered that
Fairclough was engaged to be married to
q lady in Providence, and that Mrs. Bell
was aware of it. a lady who knew Mrs.
Bell said that some six or seven months
ago, while she was sitting upon the door
step of the house in which Mrs. Bell lived,
a man approached her and inquir-
ed if Mrs. Bell was in, to which
she replied that she was not, al
though Mrs. Bell was in at the time. The
next morning, when she saw Mrs. Bell,
she told her of the preceding evenings
interview she had, to which Mrs. Bell said
that she was much obliged and thankful
to her for so doing, as she said that that
man worked with her in saloon and she
had often rebuked his offers of marriage
to her. He very frequently was heard to
say to her that he was bound to make her
marry him.
Ashort time ago Mrs. Bell, VIII lie wash
ing some of her clothing in Springfield
street, began to cry, and when questioned
as to the cause of her grief replied that
she felt badly when she thought of the
happy times she had when her husband
was living, she not having to do any work,
it all being done outside. ALI she hoped
was that she would live to see her daugh-
ter reach her sixteenth year, when she
would tell her all and she would be rich
child.
The victim of this tragedy appears to
have been of slngularly reticent dlspo-
sition. Her acquaintance have been in
terviewed by the hundred, and few Of
them know anything about her previous
history. From fragmentary statements
gathered in bits from q score of women
with whom she talked it appears that her
maiden name was Pardee, her father be-
ing an Irishman and her mother English.
They came to this country shortly after
marriage, and settled temporarily at
Yorkvllle, where she was born. They
afterward moved to Newburgh on the
full as paper mill owner, and
amassed considerable fortune.
When she married MIR. Bell
whose given name cannot now be ascer-
tanned, there was opposition on the part
of both families, which continued up to
the time of Mr. Bells death; some twelve
years ago At that time her husband S
relatives demanded his remains, but left
her to pay the expenses Of his illness and
funeral. These amounted to over 5000,
thus indicating that the family was not
then in very humble circumstances. 1t
is not yet ascertained whether she ever
had any brothers or sisters. She said
that man whom she claimed was her
husbands brother was persistent III his
demands to marry her, but on investiga-
ton the alleged husband proves to be
simply Boston friend, and is still
living She stated to one woman that
she was formerly upon the stage
in New York, but she did not give her
stage name. She has stated ia two per-
sons at least that when her 13-year old
daughter became 16 she would be rich,
but she did not indicate by what method.
She asserted with tears IN her eyes that
her child had twice been abducted be-
cause of money considerations, but failed
to indicate precisely what the money con-
sideratiOns were, whether direct pay
ment or in order to destroy the force of
some will.
There has been some work done upon
the possible theory that her husband is
not dead, and that the abduction and the
murder were the result of an effort to OBJ
tain possession of the child, or at least to
take her from the possession of hel
mother.
On the second abduction Mrs. Bell said
that she acted as her own detective, and