The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-23
THE j. s. MENKEN COMPANY
STILL 1T Is "caEsTNuTsr"

Tho Scimitar's Suggestion 20 Make II
"Sour Grapos" Don't Go.
Probably the most difficult feat in this
vain, wicked world is TO corner a ncwspa-
per reporter.
lasso him at one point or dozen points
and he will bob up serenely at another,
blandly smiling M though nothing save
the most lavish indoBcmont and COM
mandatory corrOboration of his efforts had
been offered.
This broad proposition found substan-
till ycrilication in the SciNiiidrs rcjoinder
a. Tm APrEAL's mass Of contradictions 10
the "Racgios Confession" which ap-
prared Yesterday. Sergeant Hedrick and
Capt. uackett are quoted IA substantiating
the latest and original tin this city, publ.
cation OF the confession, "barring few
slight inaccuracies" m follows Tho kill
ing did not occur in 1875, but two years
later. IL did not occur on Friday evening,
bu, on Saturday evening; the victim did
not wear red hood and shawl,
dark brown one, her own prop.
crty; Mrs. Raggio WIS not run
ming n hucks,er stand regularly In the
| there for week: tho victim could not
reasonably have been mistaken for Mira
| Raggio, as she was tall and slender while
! the alleged intended victim was low In
stature aud broad; that Raggio, the man
| acknowledgements. had not gone 20 New
Orleans, but was still living ia Memphis;
that IL wis not he who died tho suit, but
the vito from whom ho had separated, and
for divorce; that he already had possession
Of all the movable property, and
WIS doing u pretty thriving busness In
/ the eastern portion u tho city; that he
was not a Misunderstanding little dago,'
| but tall. rcspcrtablc-,0oking blonde Ilal-
/ IAN that he was mover known a. johnny
/ lanan;' that the murder was not commit
/ ted on the bayou bridge on Washington
street, nor within thirty yards Of IL. that
! the victims body was not thrown into
| the bayou, along with the wheel.
| barrow loaded with market truck
she wns pushing; that II mover lay
there all night 10 DO found next morning;
that shc never fell, but walked along un-
| tl policeman caught her and carried her
| home, where a doctor attended her, that
the overturned whcelbafrow and market
truck were found noXt moaning al the
| very spo, whore the assassin made his ~.
0auli; That Raggio was ~ family suspected
| tlai he WA never arrested, although hir
whereabouts were known ior some time
airtward; that Mrs Annie Con
nrrs Was mo-, the murdered woman;
that no tho time ~ the muir.
der thure WIS mo- Mn. Annie Con.
ncu, 30 far % known; that it was Mrs.
Mary Conuers, that a reputable citizen ~.
members reading the same thing In q New
lOtcans paper two years ago, etc, etc,
world without end. In tho face Of thcs,
"Httlc inaccuracies" tho S-iai'ar 1.
moved TO remark that "a cry o
Sour grapes would be- morc ap
propriaio than ono IT 'chcslnutA '" IN,
vioindcr concludes with the prediction
that ruE ArrEAt viii doubtless ask TO-
morrow I the murder was over commit
ted. There Is no need 90 ask II Mrs An
ME Connen was over murdered In Mem
phis, it Is known that she never was 4
The S7muay will accept the one correction
that iis whole tragic romance, based upOt
tho death VI Mn Mary Connom, TITS AZ
rTAL u moved 10 remark that were thcr,
no rimighicr corrobouton than IA con
tanned In its thu Ncin,Lly'sl account ~ N,
affair. 10 would lingcr Ia doubt. And sill
che cry is, "Ch0,nuis''