Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-04-19
reeollect, the purpors Of the two postal.
cards Lillian wrote you from Richmond
March 18th.

cards Lillian wrote you from Richmond
March 18th.
MRS. pIcKITsoS's ANSWER.
/ am not able to mention one article
Miss Lille had In her satchel, only her
money. had company, and was not
in her room when she started. The
handkerchief she used most answers
your description--rcd, with rather
blue border. Willie told me Miss iii
lie had knife-blade. but am not pre-
pared to say whether 1t was in the
satchel or not. When my brother
came home and told MS that Miss Lii
lies body had been found at once sat
down and wrote the contents Of the
the two postals, which | give you.
AMERICAN HOTEL, March IL, 1885.
Dear Mrs. Dickinson reached here
safely at 3 o'clock ; had pleasant COM
pany all the way down. The weather
is awful showing and raining. My
cold is worse than it was when ] left.
Am afraid it will make me sick. Please
ask Willie to look in the pitcher in my
room, and see if | left any water.
Please tell him TO throw it out; am
afraid it will freeze.
Afiectionately, F. l.. NJ.
RICHMOND, March 13, 1885.
Dear Mrs. Dickinson | reached here
safely at 3 o'clock. Had real pleasant
company all the way down. The wea-
Tier is very unpleasant-so much so
that Mrs. Il cannot 60 to-day.
She is barely able to sit up. If the
weather continues as it is, she cannot
20 at all, and will return home at
once. Was afraid all the way coming
down that no one would meet me, but
the man met me. II | had Of known
that the weather would have been as it
is, would not have come to accommo-
date any one. Affectionately,
LILLE.
LILLIAN, to make excuse for coming
TO Richmond on this last trip, showed
Mrs. Dickinson two letters purporting
to be from Miss -, OF Richmond,
urging Lillian to come here and 60 with
her aunt, Mrs. Il, to Old Point.
Mrs. H was represented to be
something of an invalid, and was going
to Old Point for sun-baths."
The above postals were handed the
servant Hunt to be mailed about or
7 O'Clock p. NJ. They show that at
that time she was in rather cheerful
mood. 1t is evident from them that
she intended to return home Ito Bath
"at once."l
MRS. DICKINSON FURTHER.
Miss Kenny says Miss Lillian had in
her wrist-satchel one pair brown cot
ton gloves and white handkerchief,
with red border; also, a red silk hand
kerchief, with blush border.
Anna Bell Dickinson says she put
in Miss Lillian's wrist-satchel two white
handkerchiefs, one with red and the
other with blue border, and her brown
cotton gloves.
She put her money in herself.
Willie and Anna Dickinson both
say that she had knife-blade.
[Among the things discovered on the
Clarke-Spring property Saturday week
was a portion of knife-blade. With
it were found the steel-frame work
and trimmings of satchel, spool
of cotton, some false beard, pen-holder,
&C., &C., all more or less burnt. They
were found in the bushes of the hos
pital grounds, and not far from Midvale
avenue lin New Hollywood. At that
spot the ground was thickly strewn
with leaves, but not q leaf showed
signs of fire.
Until this moment it has not been
thought that that find had anything to
do with this case.
The glossy red-silk handkerchief
found around her neck was no doubt
Lillian's, and the brick-colored one
found in the bushes was probably some
one else's.
One of the sirangest features of this
most mysterious murder is that the
clothing Of Lillian should have been so
widely scattered-her travelling-bag in
the river, her shawl far off in another
direction, her wrist-satchel wholly miss
ing (unless the " find " accounts for it),
her hat hid away in the dead-house of
the smallpox hospital, one glove be-
tween there and the hole in the back
fence, veil land somebody's watch-key)
near the hole, and the glove on top Of
the embankment. 1t took a deal of
walking to so distribute her personal
property.
Her money-purse and finger-ring
never yet have been found.l
Tho Scratches.
DR.. Beale, surgeon Of the Jail, and
DR.. Cabell, president Of the Board of
Health, who, at the request Of the Po-
lice Justice, made an examination of
the scratches on the hand of Cluverius
soon after the prisoner was brought
here, are Of the opinion, it is generally
understood, that the scratches were
made by fnger-nails.
They do not authorize any statement
TO that effect to be made, but that that
is their opinion is the current belief in
official circles.
There were marks on Lillian's lips
which might have been made by hand
placed there to prevent her screaming.
If man had thus put his hand over her
mouth, in attempting to remove it those
scratches might have been inflicted by
Lillian. They were in fact rather more
like digs of the nails in the flesh than
mere scratches. They were across the
back of the hand.
How tho Name is Called.
PAMPLIN CITY, VA, April IL, 1885.
To the Editor ofthe Dispatch:
Will your indefeasible reporter please
tell us how the name Cluverius is pro-
nounced by his family? and oblige
yours, Q.
Down the country it is generally pro-
nounced Kla'veers.l
ACrusI Driver.
Oh, for society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals Could the men,
bers Of the Legislature who refused a
charter IN such q nronocad orpan;zat;on