Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-03-02

street between the hours of and 2 on Friday
morning. at which time the murder was
committed. Under these circumstances, the
jury unanimously agreed in the verdict,
mot guilty" and the prisoner was forth
with acquitted We have to congratulate
his counsel, Mr Calton, for the able speech
he made for tue defense, and also Mr. Fits
gerald, for his providential escape from
dishonorable and undeserved punishment.
He leaves the court without stain on his
character. and with the respect and sym
pathy of all Australians, for the courage and
dignity with which he comported himself
throughout, while resting under the shadow
OF such serious charge.
'But now that it has been conclusively
proved that he is innocent, the question arises
IN every ones mind, ". no is the murderer y!
Oliver Wh,tef The man who committed
this dastard.y creme is,sti.l at large, and. foi
all we know, may be in our midst
t1here seems To he no possible clew discov
erable at present which can lead TO the dis
covery OF the rea! murderer The man in
- he iiSut coat who got out Of RanEins cab II,
powlett str.ei East Melbourne Idesignedls
as it nos appears. In order to throw suspicion
the witches in Macbeth, and left no trace
behind 1t was = O'Clock In the morning
when he left the cab, and, in quiet suburb
like East Melbourne no one would be about.
so that he could easily escape unseen There
seems to DE only one chance of ever tracing
MIN, and that is to be found in the papers
which were stolen from the pocket Of the
lead man. What they were only two per
knayy and one knows now The first
two were Whyte and the woman who was
called The Queen. and both of them are now
dead The other who knows now is the man
who committed the crime There can be no
tioubt in the minds of our readers that these
papers were the motive of the crime, as no
money was taken from the pockets of the de
ceased The fact, also that the papers were
carried in a pocket made inside the waist
coat OF the deceased shows that they were Of
value.
Now the reason we think that the dead
woman knew of the existence Of those papers
is simply this; 1t appears that she came out
from England with Whyte as his mistress.
and after staying some time in Sydney came
on to Melbourne How she came into such a
foul and squalid den as that she died in. we
are unable to say, unless, seeing that she was
given to drink, she was taken up drunk by
some Samaritan of the slums and carried to
Mrs Rawins' humble abode, Whyte visited
her there frequently, but appears to have
made no attempt to remove her to better
place, alleging as his reason. that the doctor
said she would die if taken into the air. Our
reporter learned from one of the detectives
that the dead woman was in the habit of talk
ing to Whyte about cer6ain papers, and on
one occasion was overheard to say to him:
They'll make your fortune if you play your
cards we'll This was told to the detective
by the woman Rawlins, to whose provden
tiai appearance Mr.. Fitzgerald owes his es
cape From this it can be gathered that the
papers-whatever they might be-were of
value, and sufficient to tempt another to com
nit a murder in order to obtain them
Whyte, therefore, being dead, and his mur
derer escaped, the only way of discovering
the secret which lies at the root of this tree
Of crime is to find out the history of the wo-
man who died in the slum Traced back for
some years, circumstances may be discov
cred which will reveal what these papers con
tained. and once that is found, we can conf
iently say that the murderer will soon be
discovered This is the only chance Of find
ing out the cause and the author of this mys
terous murder. and if it fails, we fear the
hanson cab tragedy will have to be rele
gated to the list of those undiscovered
crimes, and the assassin of Whyte will have
no other punishment than the remorse of his
own conscience"