Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-12-22
STILL MISSING.
TIE NORTH CAROLINA D1Af.MuT.
MYSTERY rHIcKENs.
No Tidings Of Miss burlington = The
search.Party- When the Couple
Were Last Seen.
Special telegram to the Dispatch.

EAITlGH, ". G., DcccWpti <i.-
yonr correspondent hes never seen anv'
thing al all approaching the excitement over
the INSTRUMENTATION affair. IL Is the
talk of all tins part OF The State ana has
ke,n for three days. Everybody sp"aks IN
the highest terms OF Miss burlington, ana
the teachers and pupils at the state insii-
tttiou where she was matrou bave been in
tars ever since her absence was discover
ed. The search for her has been conducted
With unflaeging zeal and care. Blacks aud
whites joinCd in IT,. IL IS said BY some per-
sons that there is q faint OF insanity In one
branch Of the Bingham family. There are
All sorts 81 reports of previous desperate
acts Of Walter Bingham, but these are pro-
bstly hascless Some deaf mutcS are very
ras,iopatc. Jealous. and reyengeful Some
wars aeo ono lived at Macon, this state.
Mis- whole desire was 10 Nil a conductor on
The Raleigh and CASTOR road, and for years
he vss never allowed 10 be away from
home save In the company OF man who
aiways kept close watch upon hun. All his
signs when reused 10 anger were eX-
pr,ssiye Of desire 10 take life. In this city
there are at least two examples OF danger
Gus ttmpcr on the part OF a deaf mute.
Osc Of the n ost dreadful suspicious about
The case Of Miss burlington WAS that Bng-
ham had l,ft her in the woods alive, per
hans tied 20 q tree. There were almost
from the Grsi fears that bis fury had found
,one fuch form 81 slow torture a an out
let. Wrougbtup imseinations pictured
the girl IN the woods, vOicelcss ana
sblyIous TO any sounds, slowly dying.
Tie case was instiuctiVcly compared TO that
Of Cuytrius, and all agreed that II was
mere horrible and more exciting In hs
terciher places ordinarily so di'con-
pc,ted as Raleigh. the pine forests between
her and Durham. New York. and Council
BinA wps felt 10 exceed anything which
ev<6& noycli>i's ingenuity could present 10
tteksYe Of the reader. All these things.
real or Imagined, bavc but tended to Keep
popular interest and passion wrought up
10 the highest pitch. Bingham has rela'
tiycs here--n rclatiycs-and one OF them
psid ihis morning that il Bingham were
caught be would he lyIchcd in five minutes.
In regard 10 The marriage liccnse winch
Bingham procured. II is not thought that
The girl knew Of its existence a. all. IL I.
believed that Bingham merely asked her 10
20 10 ride with bin. and that she, trust
inglv, went. Bingham bad asSen'ed
10 the posipOntmont Of the marriage
until next summer, and all partic-
know al the arrangement. The license l.
not valid outside oithc county where issued,
and all the magistrates aud preachers were
asked il they bad performed the ceremony
which united these two deaf mufcs. Az
replied that they had not done so. The
search for Miss burlington was kept NJ all
last night. Nen with lanterns were seat
tered hCrc and there from MOrris'ilie.
twelve miles west Of this city, 10 point
within four miles Of Durham. Wells were
examined. al gullieS and streams looked at
carefully; but the most difficult work was
the search IN the pines, which are often
small and grow 30 near The ground t. 10
form a screen such a screen, in feet, thai
the body Of suicide here last winter LAY
for Two months in little clump OF pines
only few yards from 4 point where hum
dieds Of Persons passed every week. These
statements will explain 10 many people The
reasons why search for a body in this see
ton is difficult undertaking.
LATER REGARDING THE SEARCH.
All Gay to-day rs well - last night search
for The body of Lizzie 3. burlington, The
dtaf.nutc maiTOn Of he Deaf, Dumb. and
Bind Institution, who wa, hilIcdby Walter
Brigham, Der doai.mutc lover, was KEEP,
up. Yesterday search was made FOR the
body near Durham, but to-day that section
was not examined, attention all being Ill.
rected to the belt OF country mile in width
neal NOniSyIlie, twelve miles from This
city. and in this county. It was Otlicla y
TcJolt6d TO-DAY by Chief-of-Police Heart,
Of this city. who is at the head 81 the search
ing party. that he bad found that on Fri
day. ut noon, Bingham and Mss Turing
ton had passed through MoTisvitis.
III. 10.
Hiss burlington went ont in The street and
shook hands with the latter ~ she sat in the
buggy. Bingham made signs n il anxious
10 he moving. and in lew moments ihc
buggy moved on.
A mile and one eighth beyond Morris
Vile. and in The direction Of Durham,
party Of men were at work Friday repair
lDg bridge on the public road across
shallow rayine.
BINGHAM ALONE.
At . O'Clock, one or two hours after
Bingham bad been seen in NOTrisyiilc.
be drove up alone. lie appeared 10 be
in great haste-so much 30 that he did
not drive over the bridge, but around
il, through the woods, aud theR went
very rapidly towards Durham. The road
runs parallel TO the r&ilroad, and Crabtrce
u
risyille. The searchcrs have devoted all day
to the examination OF the woods on BOTH
sides Cf the road between Morrisvie
and the place where Bingham crossed
the bridge alone, aud to the examination
Of the creek thcre-Quite fair-siztd,
bold stream, with here and there
deep pools. The country is rather rugged,
and tie timber, though small, is derse.
W hen the news of Miss TuringtOns pro-
bahlc murder and OF the flight Of Bingham
towards Charlotte reached Wilmington, her
home, her brother lett for Charlotte 10 in
tercopt or capture Bingham. TODAY h,
arrived at MOrrisville, accompanied 10y
detective from Wilmington. He was COM
pletciy unnamed by grief aud despair,
but IL once Joined In the search,
which had then progressed since mid
day saturday. A telegram from Will
mineton to-day says Miss Turhngton's
iamily-a very estiD1blc Onc-is IN the
deere.t grief over the tragic occurrence.
she was greatly beloved in that city as well
~ here. Her family received the news
sunday from ". J. Young, superintendent
Of the institution Of which Miss TurllnZ-
ton was matroR. II WAS learned to- day at
this institution that Miss burlington was
not born deaf mute, but became so when
wv .taIe vi sSC, Htfi Ill stlANh WI HNMN'-
fever. II was also learned that she had
been taught articulation carefully.
Inquiry as 10 insanity in Bingham's fam
lily elected Interrogation that one member
VI II II now in an insane asylum here.
BOUGHT A PISTOL.
A telegram from Durham this afternoon
lays a nun has been found there who saw
Bingham enter q hardware store last Fri.
day late in the afternoon and buy car
tridges for revolver which he exhibited.
One Of the employees at the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Institution here says thai
Thursday Bingham showed him revolver
and bowie.knife.
Yesterday, as stated, telegram OF
warning was sent to r. Mex. Good
win al Council Bluffs, Iowa, the man
whom Bingham had announced while
in New York Sunday that he in-
tended killing. To-day one OF Good
wins brothers IN this city received tele.
gram from Council Bluffs saying that L.
Mex. Goodwin was safe and that nothing
could be heard Of Bingham.
The police here have sent dispatches
shout Bingham to scores Of place, between
New York and Council Buds.
North State Notes.
Especial telegram 10 the Dspatch.I
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