Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-01-04
The Mellon Case.

A wAsHINGroNIAN WHO OBSERVED SOME
STRANGE DoINGs AT CAPE NAY LAST SUMNER.
Mr.. Anatole b. Dennis, who was employed as
clerk at the Stockton hotel, Cape May, for the
season of 1885, has been interviewed in Phila-
delphia in regard to the Mellen case. Adrian L.
Mellen, Of Baltimore, who managed the Stock
ton hotel last summer, is now q fugitive from
justice In Mexico, having been indicted in Bos-
ton, along with a woman named Anna Amelia
Coolidge and James Donohue alias Ball, for
conspiracy to murder Mary Somerset, the young
wife of Mellen's son, Edward Mellen. Dennis
In the interview with him stated that Edward
Meilen's wife bore the appearance OF a strong,
robust woman, apparently aged 80, and not IN
any way prepOssessing. She seemed perfectly
appeared to be very much worried when he was
absent She was entirely ignored by the elder
Mellens: they on many occasions refusing 10
eat at the same table with her. Mrs. Mellen,
the elder, he said appeared to have consider
able influence over her husband. She would
dent to ali the guests that she entertained
bitter hatred for her sons wife.
MYSTERIOUS LETTERS AND STRANGE GUESTS.
LAS general clerk Dennis is quoted as saying:
| 81 had charge of the,mail department. During
the month of August Mr.. MelIen, ST., received
letters addressed to Mr.. Dalton. He opened
those letters and then burned them. The post
mark was Boston. He was very much under
the name of Long made her appearance. She
registered as Emma C. Long, Boston. have
since discovered that her real name was Emms
Ward and myself were the only persons who
roomed the guests. Mrs. Long was not roomad
room on the same floor near Mrs. Mellon. il.
She would always have her breakfast semitic
day. but on two occasions noticed her in ccn-
sultation with Melien, ST.. late At night. DusloG
the day they never recognized each other.
About the time Of her arrival there came to the
house a rough-looking man, about thirty-hve
years of age, and requested to be shown some
rooms. He then made the request to be located
near the number occupied BY Mrs Long. /
could not give him q room there and he went q
floor higher. noticed him speaking with Mrs.
Long during the evening""
YOUNG MRS. MELLEN VERY ILL.
she carried a rough-loOking carpetbag. Mrs.
Mellen, jr., was taken ill about this time and
remained in dangerous condition for some
days. Her physician was DIR. Thomas Hay, of
this city, who at the time was staying, with his
sent away to Baltimore shortly after his wife
was taken ill. DR.. Hay was forced to use
Mrs. Mellen, jr., before they would follow his
instructions. One day he called on her, ex-
peeting conyaIeseence was at hand, when he
absent in Baltimore. Mrs. Meilen, ST., was
spoken to, but she refused to go near her. Mr..
Melen, ST., was next told of her condition, and
he, too, refused to do ANYTHING or to send any
one to her rooms. / took the doctors prescrip-
lions and dispatched a boy to the drug store
doctor gave the latter instructions to allow no
one To administer the medicines but herself.
Inc next day Mrs. Long (COolidge) and the
man left the house, and from that time on Mrs.
Mellen reSained her health"
DENNIS NATIVE OF WASHINGTON.
Mr.. Dennis, who is about 80 years OF age, is a
native of this city, where he lived with his
father, Thomas Dennis, who was at one time an
advertising solicitor and afterwards kept q
livery stable on Capitol Hill. The elder Dennis
was quite well known, from the fact that before
the war, while sailor on an American manor.
war, he had both arms blown off while firing a
salute at Gibraltar in honor of a Russian prince
He received pensions amounting TO SIPS per
month from the Russian and American govern.
ments. A few years ago Thomas Dennis re-
moved from this city to Chicago, where he now
lives. MIR. A. B. Dennis was a witness in the
Gulteau trial, having observed strange actions
on the part of Guiteau at the Riggs house, in
this city.