Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-29
MISSING MIR. MELLON.

The Author of the Boston Affair Not Arrived Home-ConffctingS State- ments From His Son-The Excfte- ment at BaItfmore-How the Fair Blonde Appears in Her Jail Guar. ters.
 BOSTON, Oct. 2S.-John B. Hebron was to- day appointed sole counsel for Mrs. A. Cool idge, nnder arrest for conspiracy to solicit to murder, and visited her at Charles street jail. On his return he related brief &C., count of the interview. ''Mrs. Coolidge is in most dangerous state of mind,' began the counsel. 'fShe appears very much worn by the events of the past few days, which have completely overpowered her. Her face is thin and narrowed but beneath all there turks an appearance of mental disability. Her eye, once so clear and firm, now wears wild an unnatural expression which to professional mind at once shows the real condition of the prisoner There is not shadow of doubt in my own mind that she is deranged. think it may be truly said she is insane; not violently so, but still the germ of reason has been killed. When I walked up the iron stairs to her cell she was lying on her bed. A thin sheet covered the mattress and under her head was a blanket. She was singing low, plantation song, and as l supposed, started up in frightened manner. "What do you want?" were her first words. "Do not come near me to try to learn more. They have wronged me-cruelly wronged mel have done nothing. The officers took me from the telegraph office and said they only wanted me to go with them. I was to be a witness in a certain case they had, and they only wanted me to sign some papers to recognize to give evidence"
 'In fact" said MT. Hebron, ''It appears from the remainder of the story that without assigning any reasons therefore the thorities had her write letter by dictation aud sign her name, and then sign certain ar ticles which they prepared, and she woman like, innocent of being the victim of 8 con spiracy, let them use her on the pretense would send her to prison." s'The case is just this: Mrs. Coolidge has been fearfully victimized, and by the statements which have been made about her in the papers shs has received public condemnation. Now while in the course of time she will be known, as I trust, the honorable woman which she undoubtedly is, it is, nevertheless, for the public good that it be said that in a very few days the entire mystery and it's at tending causes will be clearly shown"
 A special from Baltimore says; "The great conspiracy continues to be the sub jeet of intense excitement here, notwith standing that to-day an election is being held. Landlord Melons protestations of innocence will cool it little, as the Boston officers can positively prove that he was at the Revere House, Boston, and put up the $1,0O0 which was in the package signed for by John Bull. If these facts in connection with the confes- sion of Mrs. Coolidge can be explained then Mellon is expert at explanation.
 The St. James Hotel was watched by off cers all night and the 4:02 o'clock train from Philadelphia failed to bear the much looked for hotel keeper and his wife. Late last eve ming his son had disappeared and could not be found and inquiry at the St. James to- day fails to elicit his whereabouts. The opinion is now expressed by the officers that he knows more about this conspiracy than he is willing to tell. He has probably gone to join his parents wherever they may be. In tense excitement prevails among the ena- ployes of the St. James which is greatly aug mented by the non-appearance of the pro- prietor and the inferences which nat urally follow his long absence under existing circumstances While in Boston Mr. and Mrs. Mellon stopped with relatives in Cambridge. While doing the work of putting up the $1,- GOO for Bull at the Revere House, it is said that he registered under the name of Jones. This is a point which tells greatly against any assumption of in nnocence on his part. There are several conflicting statements by young Mellon. He says his mother did not know of his marriage until the child was born and yet it is asserted that his marriage with the girl was the result of her direct appeal to his mother for reparation in marriage. When A. c. Mellon took the Stockton Hotel, Cape May, last s1mme1 young Mellon and his wife went there. While there his wife was taken i'll and remained il for some weeks. Young Mellon says she had miscarriage. A very significant poin in wit Sio ak iS hat Mrs Coolidge was at the Stockton when the wo man was taken i'll and that the miscarriagt may have been the result of administering poison to her.