Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-17
1.-THE OLD NAN IN THE CASE.
A Possibility that He May Have Been a
Northern Tourist.
FACTS ON THAT POINT.
Latest Phases of the CIuverius Mat
ter.-The Recent Find
Personal, &c. &c.

Tho old man " remains a mystery
in the Cluyerius-Madison case. lie is
the person Of whom two colored SER
wants Of the American Hotel speak as
having come there with Lillian on the
night Of March 18th, the night Of her
death.
At one time there were people ready
10 believe that this mysterious character
was the father ofthcprisoner. That idea,
in which the Dispatch took no stock, has
been completely disposed of. Others
have been OF the opinion that when Lii
Ian went out Of the hotel at 6 OF !
o'clock p. NJ. and took with her her
canvas clothes-bag she went to some
house the prisoner had selected for her
20 stay at until her confinement that
getting to that place she did not like it
and would not stay, and so made a" the
old man" bring her back TO the hotel.
II so, that might have accounted for his
snappishness. If he was coun-
trymsn then the lying in house
was not in Richmond, though proba-
bly, not far distant from it. Still others
have believed that Lillian nerer re-
turned TO the hotel after O'Clock
that q the old man - and young lady
were northern visitors, and that they
got mixed up in the minds Of the colored
servants with Lillian and Tommie. The
DisDaich ascertained the name of one
of these gentlemen and wrote to him,
and his reply is given below, as is also
the evidence Of the witnesses who teS-
tilted before the Coroner's jury as to
the presence together Of Tommie and
Lillian at the American Hotel.
A Tourists Letter.
BIRDsBoRo', Pa, April II, 1885.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch
Dear Sir,-Your letter Of the 10th
instant came to hand on Saturday last,
but the paper you spoke Of only reach
ed me last evening.
In reply | would say that it must
have been 9 o'clock or more when |
reached Richmond the evening of Fri
day. March 18th last
My daughter and rode in the Ameri-
can Hotel omnibus from the Washing
ton train. which arrived at your place
about that time. We alighted and were
met at the ladies' entrance by one Of
the hotel servants, whom | asked to
show my lady to the ception-room,
and handed him my carrying-bag, while
| went into the sidc-doOr and down the
narrow steps to the clerks desk, in the
gentlemen's sitting-room, TO register
our names and have rooms assigned US.
! was then shown up to the parlor,
where found my daughter and carry
ing-bag; also, another lady and small
girl, who, i would suppose, was about
nine or ten years Odd aud perhaps an
elderly gentleman. | am not sure
whether he got there before me or not,
but my daughter says that after |
started to register this gentleman also
ordered the same servant to show his
ladies to the receptioD-roOm, but did
not immediatel y accompany them. We
afterwards met the same three at
Charleston. Savannah. jacksonville,
st. Augustine, and New Orleans. At
Savannah We got into conversation with
them, when they proved to be Mr..
Monroe, wife, and daughter, from Phila-
delphia.
am fifty-three years old, sandy
complexion, very bald, and weigh from
2l5 to 220 pounds; in height measure
about five feet nine or ten inches; full
beard and moustache-beard gray and
mouStache red.
Mr.. Monroe was much grayer than
myself; slight build and, | think, had
a full head Of gray hair; would suppose
him about five feet eight inches in
height, and in weight about from l45
to l55 pounds would not Judge him
much older than myself, if any. His
wife did not look to be more than
twenty-eight or thirty years old, aud
might pass for twenty-lour years. My
daughter is past twenty; light COM
plexion, light hair, five feet one inch
tall, and weighs about ll2 pounds.
You may think queer of me giving
YOU such minute description of my
self and others, but thought it would
better enable YOU to judge whether the
servant might not have mistaken some
of us for the parties that he speaks of
in his testimony.
We spent Saturday in seeing Rich
mond, attended early mass at the Ca
thedral on Sunday morning, took our
breakfast, when wrote three letters to
Birdsboro', Pa, when we took the
train, which left Richmond about 10
O'Clock =. NJ. for Charleston on Sunday,
March 18th. We have no recollection
of seeing any one who would answer
the description Of the servant other
than those already mentioned.
will add the ladies' entrance was
locked when first got to it, and my
daughter says the door Of the parlor,
on the second floor, was also locked
when the servant showed her to it. This
imprcSses me that it must have been later
than the hour you speak OF, and per-
haps even later than what | have stated
IN this letter.
car only recall besides the Monroe
family three faces at this time that |
saw in Richmond-namely, the fresh
faced, red-bearded agent at the depot,
the pock-marked colored servant at the
hotel, and the colored man who showed
us around the State-Capitol building,
and. strange to say, never all the time
on Saturday, and not until got on the
road to Petersburg, heard one word of
Miss Madison's murder. | then took
out of nay overcoat-pocket the Sunday
Dispatch, which bought on my road
from the Cathedral at tho entrance of
the hotel-door on Sunday morning.
In haste truly yours.
GEORGE S., Jr.
what tbe Witnesses Say.
Following is from the evidence given
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