Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-03-27
A LONELY SPOT.

closed for the night at 10 o'clock. Miss
Madison was seen n more alive.
ALoNElY SPOT.
The Old Reservoir is on the western
edge of the city, about mile and half
from the American hotel, which is IN the
heart of the business portion and opposite
the Dispatch newspaper Office. But if one
started for the old reservoir, though for the
first four blocks he would pass through a
line of great business houses along Main
street, yet THERE'S not much, if any, bust
ness there after night, and after you pass
three or four blocks further it is as silent as
the grave for the rest OF the route, being
all residences with, may be, lighted store
, at long intervals. This IS along Main
| street, but when you have traversed your
! mile. and turn to the southwest, to go the
rest of the way it is painfully silent and
even the residences are scattered far apart.
| The street from Augusta street to your
own reservoir is not mole thinly built, or
| more silent at night than the southern
end of Reservoir street. On reaching the
reservoir you will find that the lot is enclos
ed by a nine foot board fence, with locked
| gate, and even after getting to the
top of the reservoir itself you will find be-
| tween you and the water, sharp pointed
pallng fence four feet high. The prone
made On top the reservoir bank is ten feet
wide, of gravel, and from it to the level
below is steep slope of thirty feet. If one
wanted to avoid the locked gate of the
| high fence he would turn to the left, walk
around by three buildings used for the
smallpox hospital, and passing to the
south of the reservoir he would find three
rotten planks broken out giving easy en-
trance. In that lonely region Miss Madl-
son had two friends the Misses Dunstan,
who lived about four hundred yards from
the reservoir and about two hundred from
the Main street.
THE SIGHT THAT MET THE REsER-
VOIR KEEPERS EYES.
! On Saturday morning at O'clock the
keeper of the reservoir, whose residence
| is inside of the nine foot fence, made his
usual round of inspection. On the gravel
walk of the reservoir top, he saw eviden-
ces OF tramping or struggle. and in the
| tracks piece of broken shoe string One
long brown glove lay on the gravel WALK.
Looking over the fence into the rese
he saw floating II the water woman's
body. 1t was Fannie Lillian Madison
On getting It out of the water, there we're
| found bruises on one side of the face at
the right eye, and the upper lip was swol-
| len. Around the neck, and undsturbed,
was a red silk handkerchief fastened with
jet pin, and III her pocket a white hand
kerchief with a colored border. The news
soon spread and number of people
gathered there. Outside of the high plank
fence that surrounds the reservoir lot, was
! found woman's veil and another long
brown glove; in one of the unused small
pox hospital buildings was found her hat,
trimmed with feathersand lined with blue.
black silk velvet; at the hole in the t.gh
fence where the planks were off W as found
Watch-key. having link wrenehed from
the chain, and hanging over Miss Dun
| stans fence was found the red shawl the
girl had worn. At the spot where the
| glove and veil were found, near the hole
made IN the fence, there were evidences
or severe struggle Coming up the
steep embankment to the top of the reser-
volr, were deep prints of mans foot.
Inc nat had been thrown through an open
window into the hospital after the MUIR
aef, for IN it was some of the gravel Of
which the walk around the reservoir tor
Is composed. Near this window was found
a brown silk handkerchief with stain OF
1t. James River runs by the reservoir on
the South and only short distance from
It, Later in the day linen handbag
with piece of clothing marked IF. Mad
lson," was found floating off the Chesa.
peske q Ohio wharf. The body was taken
20 the morgue at the Aims House where.
after being identified by mistake for one
Or Two persons, 1t was recognized by the
MISSES Dunstaps who were attracted to
she spot by the description of the shawl
which they had seen the drowned girl wear.
A surgical examination showed that death
was caused by effusion of blood on the
brain, and that in two months the girl
would have become mother. There was
little water in the stomach, which would
go to show that the girl had been stunned
or Killed bafora touching the water The
body was kept until the arrival of the
agonizad father from King William couu-
ty, and was then buried in Oakwood GEM
etery, he preferring not to have the fune-
rlat home, where he had many other
daughters and sons.
ARREST OF T. j. CLUVERIUs,
Inst NS
Davis House. The register of that hotel
showed Cd Thursday, March 18th, that T.
). CIaVerius arrived there during that dav
from King and Queen county. He had
been there before in the past June. No.
Vemoer and January, only remaining a
DAY or Two at time. On the Thursday
named, he arrived about O clock in tbe
morning. On the next night Friday, the
night of the death of Miss Madisonl. Mr..
Marx Davis, the proprietor of the house.
saw him going to his room about mid
night or an hour after midnight. He sent
down for whiskey after getting to his room.
asked him to have him walked
up TO go off by the train at 5 O'Clock next
This was DONE For this mana
warrant was issued and placed in the
hands OF Capt. Chas. H. Eppes and officer
Robbins, who took buggy last Thursday
morning for the village of Plymouth in
King and Queen county, where Cluverius
ives with a wealthy aunt, Mrs. Tunstall.