Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-02
YOUNG MRS. NELLEN.
Ire Manner i'm which. IL Is Alleged
She Was to Have Been Murdered.

dispatch to the n. Y. Sun from Boston, Oc
tooer so, says: The grand jury will take up the
baltimore conspiracy case on next Monday.
ihe suppressed evidence in the hands OF the
detectives will then be used, and the officers
| are confident that several persons will be In
dicted. The police insist that the crime was a
conspiracy TO murder young Mrs. Mellen, and
that IL was not Matchmaking scheme. Bose
sde IN nrst persOh s'u t he ssrc sr an
| assassin, says that the arrangements for the
murder as perfected. provided that the young
wife was to he stabbed at her home about night
fall. before her husband returned:
Cobb says that he and John Bull arranged
with the police that Inspector Houghton should
assume the role of the murderer. The inspector
provided a gripsack containing knife. mask
and a shirt, which Bull and Cobb showed to Mrs.
Coolidge to satisfy her that they were actually
preparing to carry out the plot.
The SHIRT was to be worn by the murderer
over his clothes SO that he should not be stained
with blood. Cobb says that Mrs. Coolidge
showed letters purpOrting to come from the
father-in-law, in which he agreed to conceal the
murderer after the crime was committed. and
the country.
LATER DEVELOPMENTS.
A dispatch to the Sun. dated October 31st,
says: To-day's developments seem to make the
record of the plot complete, aside from the
documentary evidence which the police still
refuse to make public. 1t is learned that the
first interview Bose Cobb had with Mrs.
Coolidge was on Friday, Oct =. The reason
heiuous proposition to Cobb was because he
has recently been described in the newspapers
as the greatest villain unhung. 1t has been re-
ported that murders and other crimes were OF
frequent occurrence in his notorious criminal
headquarters at the west end. 1t is well known
that many outrages have taken place in his
establishment, and he was naturally the first
man sought for by any one of no experience
VINO wanted villainous work done, Cobb
talked with Mrs. Coolidge on Friday. and the
next day John Bull was called in. Inspector
Gerraughty was informed of the case on Mon
day or Tuesday OF the following week.
Chief Inspector Hanscom told Cobb that he
thought the case was n job on him. The in
terviews were arranged. at which the police
inspectors were present, and the conversations
took place which have been in part described.
At one interview Mrs. Coolidge produced two
letters. written on a printed letterhead. in
which the writer said he would come TO Boston,
and get here on Thursday or Friday, Oct. 10 or
10. He did not arrive until Saturday morning,
and on that day oct the money eyd was R de-
went there at 3 o'clock to get it.. 1t
was left there so that he could see that
it had been deposited, and after he
had fulfilled certain conditions he was to re-
ceive it, He was required To Sign his name to
slip OF paper and put ii in the package and
seal it up. There was also a slip of paper in
this package on which the name Simmons was
written In some connection which has not yet
that the officers did not see any one whom they
can positively swear was A. l.. Mellen. but they
did see man watching Bull, and he saw this
man, too.
On the following Monday night Bull went to
Baltimore. He had directions to go to GER
tain dive and to put up there. He first con-
suited with the police, ard then went to this
place. That evening the landlord came to him
and asked him if he was not James DonOhoe, of
Boston. and on his responding in the atfirma-
tive, he told him that he would do the best he
could TO make him comfortable. Bull had been
told about where to look for the younger Mrs
Mellen, his proposed victim, and after great
difficulty he reached her and talked with her,
as has been stated, by pretending to be can
vasser for directory. As Mrs. Coolidge had not
informed him OF the name of the person tor
whom she wanted the murder committed, he
went to work to find out about him, and learned
that all the woman had said was true Bull
found young Meilen at the st. James hotel. and
had great deal OF talk with him. Bull hoped
to meet Mellen the elder, but he did not do so,
and that gentleman did not return to Balti-
more.
Mrs. Coolidge gave Bull $50 to go to Balti-
more and make his investigation. Bull re-
turned 10 BoStCn a week ago last night, ard on
saturday afternoon he met Mrs. Coolidge at
Boss Cobb's place. Chief Hauscom and Inspec-
tors Gerraughty and Haughion we're present.
When the woman LETT she expressed her deter
mination to go to the telegraph office, and to
wire Meien that things were going ;iii right. 1t
is said that during Bulls absence Mrs. coolidge
was closely watched at her house ;.ni in her
movements about town. Persons with whom
Mellen. her alleged accOmplice, failed to turn
up. The officers did not know who she was
until just before the arrest was made.