The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-02-09
Fearful Fate Of . fast Girl.

uf,ncv est dresses they can afford,
Their laugh can be heard four blocks.
Th.v flourish for a while, and no doubt
~. their palmer sisters somewha,
.n.iou, but sooner or later the inevita
&c scandal comes into such lives.
Jennie Cramer, Of New Haven. was
.. of these Street Beauties. All the
Row. ran after her. 1t happened that
al. had stronger virtue than her actions
.dyerti,ed: she was simply vain and
foolish, not altogether bad; But she
might as we'll have been. The result IS
told in Blanche Douglass confession as
The first time that Jennie came into
this party wasin July, when there was
.,ids TO Ruell's Hotel at the East ia
~, ..oIe. lust after Blanche arrived.
Job, Duff. Jr., wrote the note which
;,v;,.S .Jeanis Cramer to be OF the par
=, and signed James Halley, Jr.'s,
-. to it Then Blanche cane to one
,i.bt'a occurrence as the Foote or
R.Sclifs building. Walter Blanche.
lanes. and Jenniss Craner had been
,,dipr Instead or returning home
,..v were driven to the Foote building,
..ere Walter and James Malley, Jr.,
.,ter,ained. While there, Walter and
Blanche Dsueless sill pped off into one
rae. by Themselves, and left james
Malley. Jr., and Jennie Cramer IN
another room. While Blanche was IN
n. room with Walter she heard Jen-
,;s Crsmer cry put repeatedly, Don't,
don't" and directly Rancheand Wal
tar came out, and all went home.
On Monday night, Aug. l, Jennie
Cr.mar who bad already told her
.otber that she wal suspicious Of Dlan-
Oh. Douglass aud of the Malleysl
went to Blanche Douglass room at the
Elliott House, having just returned
iron the Union Depot, where she had
ron. to see some friends OF to the
s~.ighboring town Of New Britain.
There had been some difficulty about
the less of one Of Blanehs's handker-
chiefs ana Jennie Cramer came to talk
...ut that. james Malley, Jr., va.
,b.re when jennie came in. James ur-
rsd Jennie to 60 up to Walter Nal
iey's house, and she finally consented.
when ut the Malley house Blanche
Douglass was not sick, according to
her " confession, but only fcigned
,ickness to induce Jennie to stay.
While the young msn ana Blanche
Douglas. were urging Jennie to remain,
James Mallsy, Jr., tsek her up and
carried her to . room above by force.
Jsnnie's outcries we're such that Blan-
che, alarmed, urged Jennie from with
ont not to make so much noise for fear
that it night alarm the neighbors.
Blanche spent Wednesday, Tuesday
And Friday nights the latter was the
on, Jennie diedlwith Walter Eailey at
his v home, she claimed.
The body ofJsnnie Cramer was dis
covered at West Haven on Saturday
morning, August 6, Blanche now told
IN, isry that On Sunday afternoon and
evening. after she had been forced to
r.msve from the Elicit House to the
Austin House, ehs was occupied with
Walter aud James Malley, Dr., and
JohnsDuf, Jr. vhe had heen SUN
nened hastily from New York;, in
~csncectins a story to be told before
th. Coroner's jury. The Malleys had
already engaged counsel. Half a do1-
"a storie. were proposed and rejected
finally the one used was agreed upon.
Blanche Douglass was to give her ad-
drs,, a. at PSI Last Thirty-fourth
strset. New York, and Walter accor-
dinply wrote this across \ corner 81
toe han kerchlef for Blancee's use, that
she might net forget the address.
This hankerchiet she had in n hand
while testifylng before the Corner
iury and to avoid exciting suspicion
tvirled it around her fngure. Thi,
action the jurors had attributed to
neryousress. To shsw that she was
telling tae truth Blanche said that she
had taken thi. handkerchief to New
York. and said that it would be found
"a have the name of Mrs. Gaskill a
,.rs segregated by John Duff, DR., also
written across the corner. The next
morning an officer west to New York
aid fouHG the handkerchief, and 1t was
brought back ana was before the
Grand jury, q. was all of Rlanehe
,tsry TIVE Coroner's jurors detailing
it.
On Sunday night Blanche passed
the hours. 80 she said, pacing her room
and com hitting to memory the story
she was to tell. 1t was agreed that al
the party should inrist that they never
saw Jennie Craner alive later than
Thursday noon. The discovery of ar
ticle. of clothing: in Blanch Douglass
n.ssession bearing the name of Lizzie
Rundy 80 frightened Blanche that she
determined to 90 to New York. Be
fore she went she tried to make an
exclamation to fit this exigency. Wal,
ter Aalley met a reporter and told him
that Lizzie Rundy was a personal
friend of Blanche Douglass's and that
her clothing IBundy's was mixed up
in New York with Blanche's by mis-.
take. Then he saw his mistake, and
tried to suppress the publication OF
Lizzie Bundy's name, saying that the
tRundv was . friend of his, and that
the publication could do NO good.
The next train that went out OF New
Haven took Blanche Douglass, and she
wa, in New York for a few days. Ii
New York, she says, she was approach.
ID bv two members of the Malley faml.
". who proposed to her to visit Europe
The details of this interview were gwen
BY the witness. Blanche said that she
declined to go to Europe, although the
Mallcys offered to pay her expenses.
She said that she did not think that II
would be prudent for her to run away.
When Blanche was asked by the Jury why
she did not tell this story In the first
place, she said that the Nalleys would
not let her tell it, but that now she had
seen her mistake.
The social position of the Malleys,
their wealth and influence, have had an
effect to make witnesses relustant OF