St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-25
THE MYSTERY DEEpENs.
Carriers Relations With the Murdered
Eva Mitchell.
THREE LETTERS SENT. HIM
He Was Not in Chicago at the Time Of
the Murder---M0re Light
Wanted.

tached to the interview a GLOBE re-
porter had with William Carter, the
Brakeman, in relation to the Eva Mitch
ell murder in Chicago. In the inter-
view Carter was guarded and suspi-
cious and seemed struggling between
desire to hold something back and tell
everything. Finally, as the interview
ended. Carter made an appoint
ment with the GLOBE man
for 10 O'clock yesterday even
ing. saying he wanted to get some
letters from Eva Mitchell. He kept the
appointment and Immediately produced
three letters, which he said she had
written. They were torn and dirty.
and he explained this by saying he had
placed them on shelf in the stable
and they had fallen behind it,
where the mice got at them. lie had
TO tear off a board to get them.
The letters bore the dates late. Of July s5.
Aug and Aug. -, 1888. They were
addressed to him in very affectionate
way. and showed that she placed re-
| markable confidence in him, consider
ing that she had met him but once,
when he had warned her against travel
| ing men. news agents and brakemen,
ana had told her that he would be a
brother to her. The letter of July Is
was in reply to letter from him. The
| following are few extracts from the
letter:
| My Dearest: am sorry you do not feel
we'll l wish 1 was with you so could cheer
your lonely home. / would rather be with
you than anywhere else-eYen in a sod
shanty Oh the claim. Who do YOU keep COM
| pany withs Is she good or bads Excuse me
for asking, but would like to know.
Mr.. Carter said he did not understand
| what she meant by 1.-The sod shanty on
| the claim.o
Extracts from the letter of Aug. Q:
| My Own Darling: | received your letter,
which was long one, and SO I answer right
| way. Are you not glad I did not stay over
| there in Elroy? 1 don't know what may
have happened, perhaps nothing too good.
| The brakeman from Elroy to Madison, that
| went by the name of Jack. with whom you
| told me to he careful, was good company. He
| would not believe that was your sister. He
| told the next brakeman that l was your SIS
| other end. told him yes. am so tired Of
living the way. have to. that if had some
| poison l would take some, and rut en end to
myself. l am not allowed to- go out at all,
without some of the folks go with me. II
Mr.. Carter said that the reference to
stopping off at ErOy was that he had
warned her against the newsboy who
wanted her to stay there over night and
1 take the morning train. ''As to her
calling ME her BROTHER" he said, 81 told
the brakeman that she was my sister, SO
he would take good care of her and see
that she got to Chicago all right. /
don't understand why she wanted to
! take poison. unless her folks used her
! badly. as she said. Nor 1t is rot true
| that she did not go out alone. She went
| out when and wherever she pleased"
sin the letter of Aug. IL she refers to
having received nice, long letter from
Garter
| Ate you not lonesome keeping a: bachelors
| hall! If you will get me place in Mime
| apo1is will come and it won't cost you
| cent, and you can watch me all YOU want to.
II got another letter from her in
August" continued Carter, sin which
| she said she went to the theater with
man, and she told the man if he did
not love her, a brakeman III Minneapo
! rs did. She says he got mad and told
| her to look out for him."
! s'Did you receive any more letters
| from her besides those two which you
| said were not in her handWritingW =
| 3'Yes, | had alot of them. / showed
| them to the men on the train. and they
| advised me to burn them as they might
| get me into trouble. | though so my
Self. | thought they might send for me
to come to Chicago, and l would lose a
lot of time, so L burnt them. This was
last Tuesday. got a letter from her
| last Monday after she was killed. 1t
was dated Nov. IL, and in it she said
she was in trouble, and wanted me to
come and take her away at once. She
wanted to 90 to Minneapolis and go to
work. She was anxious to get away
| oh f1n, tnht CHI
i'm danger there. She said: Take me
| aWay Immediately or | will de-"
ssDo you think she was virtuOus?"
Eyes. She was good girl, but was
very Wild
.'What do / think was the cause of
the murder? | have two ideas, but
would not like to explain them. | would
| like to see the handwriting of Master
son and StoWell. | think her brother
| and folks may know more than they
would care to tell, as they have not used
her WE'LL"
'sWere you in Chicago at the time of
the MURDERS
mo, am glad was not, for would
| probably have been suspected and would
have got into trouble. | thought a good
| deal of the girl. and. as told her that
| | would be brother to her. [ shall try
all can to find out who killed her, even
| If have to spend considerably money"
Carter was asked why he had not
told her that he was married,
/ but gave no satisfactory explanation, OF
rather avoided the subject. There is
something very singular in all this.
There was nothing suspicious in Car
ter's action, unless it was a certain
effort to appear very otf-handed and
casual. The city detectives regard it as
altogether a strange case, and are