The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-18
CHILLY" GEHRTGHT,
WHO KILLED MILLIONAIRE SMELL
A story that Reads Like RomAuoO-A
Chain of OIrcumStantiAI, though Con-
vinciuE, Evidence Showing Who the
MurdsrouS Burglar Is-ThS Story.


MurdsrouS Burglar Is--Ths Story.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE identity Of one
Of the burglAra who threw the town into
fever OF excitement by numbering Amos
]. Smell, the West End millionaire, about
2 O'Clock Wednesday morning, February
8, has been discovered, but the burglar
himself is still enjoying all his freedom,
During the latter part of January, a
blonde young man about 10 or 20 years,
rented room OF Mira. WiCks, who keeps
boarding house on West Madison street.
He was slight Of build and about feet s
inches tall. His complexion was light,
eyes blue or gray and quite large and
round. He had small, brown moustache
and wore sealskin cap, a brown plaid
cape ovsrcoat, wide Icut striped trowseTa
Of gEsyish color and was altogether OF
stylish appearances. The young m2a said
his name was Scott
MRS. wIcE's STORY.
"The day after his arrival" said Mrs.
Wick yesterday, "scott got up and went
out wearing q silk hat and q dark sack
oyercoat. Before going he told me that
he did not wish to make anybody's &C.
quaintance In the house; that his business
required him TO be out all night and he
could not be social. took notice after.
ward that he tried TO avoid meeting any
OF the reat OF my dodgers. He usually rose
late in the afternoon, eat in bis room play.
ing mandolin, and about 10 O'Clock, or
sometimes as late as l2 o'clock, when he
was sure everybody had retired for the
night, he would 20 down stairs cauioasly
and out. noticed that many times he
was dressed in different clothes when he
went out. His hour for coming in during
the three weeks he was here was any
where between 8 and 5 a. N. He usually
alept till 2 or SP.M.
SUSPICIOUS ACTIONS.
"When he went out he invariably locked
his door and gave me the key. Often
when he went out, saw him carrying
mysterious packages, but I never could
and any Of them in his room when l went
to clean 1t up. The closet he always kept
locked, carrying the key in his pocket"
On the morning ot tho Smell murder
between 8 and O'clock, Mrs. Wick heard
her lodger come up the stairsand 20 to
his room. She thought she heard smother
man with him. The lodger turned the
light out In the hall. Between and 8
o'clock he came out Of his room dressed
as IL ior journey. Another man whom
the woman described as being older and
Renteel in dress was with him. This man
kept his face turned 80 abe could not see
1t, Scott had slouCh hat which she had
never seen him wear before, pulled down
over bis face. He said TO her:
"Well, l am going out on tho road to-
day." yy ;, -, ...,., ;. H., on
"Yes; this Is my employer here with
me-"
"Will you be back sgain2" she asked.
"Yes, l may be back again in two weeks,
and It may be two months, while am
gone want you to take care oil my things.
I will want the room when / come back"
MYSTERIOUS BoARDER.
Then he packed his satchel and the two
men went down the atairs as il afraid Of
meeting somebody and disappeared.
Mrs. Wick saw them no more. AS
soon as they were gone Mrs. Wick's Curl
osity was aroused 10 such pitch that she
began an examination Of the room Just
vacated. She found the closet door locked
and the key gone. She picked the lock
with q piece Of wire. Inside strange
sight met her eyes. The closet was filed
with the evidences ot the mysterious Mr..
scott's occupation. She found quantity
OF silverware, two coils Of fuse OF the
thickness Of o pencil, brown brosdCloth
overcoat, which abe hsd never seen him
wear, several old chisels and handles oil
chisels and bits, book on machinists
tools, o lot OF silver knives and forks and
spoons, q mandolin, pair Of ladies kid
gloves, pair OF wooden mittens, and Q
pair OF low cut BhoeB.
BILLY aRHRGHT.
Miss Wick also discovered in q small
drawer pair Of burglar felt slippers and
three sperm candles, one Of which was
half burned. Now come some OF the links
in the chain that will probably convict
"Mr. Scott" whose real name Is said TO
be Mr.. Gehright, one Of the most dan
gerous and accomplished crnCksmen in the
country. Jennie Clifford, the proprietress
Of disreputabls resort on the West Side,
has given the police valuable information
regarding Billy" Gehright, who on the
night before the murder called ct her
house and staid q short time. On that
occasion 1t was showing and he wore 9
seal cap; otherwise he was dressed Just as
Mrs. Wick describes him.
Miss Clifford expected him back
Wednesday night, but he came not. She
has not ssen him since. Friday and Sat-
urdsy alter the murder she began TO think
over the queer remarks he made when at
her house, and remembered that he car.
ried with him when there mahogany
case Just like the one found at SHELLS
house, filled with his tools. She notified
the police and said she was willing to aid
the police as far aa possible. Aiterward
she identified the mahogany case as the
same she had seen in Gehright's posses.
sion.
The police have discovered that Geh-
right Ia the son Of respectable family
living on the North Side. They have
found two or three acquAintances Of his
who have agreed to assist in the search for
him.
May Get Another Trial.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. ]. Feb. 17.-It is gen.
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