Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
ADARK MYSTERY.
A Disappearance in Montreal Leads TO
the Belief of Foul Murder.
Woman Supposed to have been Thrown Into
the st. Lawrence and Drowned-The
Parties Strangers in the City.

MONTREAL, p. O., Aug. 21.-There is
another mystery in Montreal, and among
the few who are acquainted with the
particulars of strange disappearance
which has occurred during the past few
days, there Is a growing belief that
beautiful young woman has been foully
done to death, and that at the present
moment her corpse is in the st. Law
renee. Shortly before 1 'clock Sunday
morning a laborer on one of the steam
ships in the port, who had knocked off
work at midnight, was making his way
off the wharf TO the city. at the head of
the ferry wharf is an electric light, and
as the laborer neared this ne saw man
and woman approaching. He took more
than ordinary notice of the couple, and
as they passed IN full blaze Of the light
he got a good look at the pair. The
woman, according to his description,
was young and beautiful. She wore a
black dress and white and black jacket.
She was evidently in trouble and was
crying bitterly. The man was of medi-
um size, with heavy, dark moustache.
He had the woman grasped tightly
by the arm, and was speaking
in low, angry tones. Both were
quickly lost in the darkness, going in
the direction of Island wharf. He
reached the dyke promenade when he
met fellow laborer. A few moments
later they were startled by hearing wo-
man s voice screaming in agony:
''Oh, don It, don't; for God s sake,
help!''
Then all was still. The cry for help
appeared to come from the river, and
both men started on run in the direc-
ton of the sound, but on reaching the
wharf they could neither see nor hear
any one. Coming back they met one of
the river police, and TO their questions
he said few minutes before they met he
had seen a low-sized man almost running
along the railway track on the wharf,
but the officer had not heard the woman
scream.
Ia the early morning d hack contain
ing a woman and man of middle age
drove up TO Lyons drug store, corner of
Blewry and Craigs. street. The man
aIighted and entered, the store.
He said his name was
also Lyons, and he had only
arrived that morning from New York,
having lived several years in that city
and Chicago. He asked if the druggist
could tell him of still another Mr.. Lyons
who had once kept hotel in Montreal,
adding that many years ago he had re-
sided in Montreal himself and that he
was then connected with the academy of
music in New York, and he had, come
back to the city to start gigantic
amusement enterprise. He added that
he only remembered two people in
Montreal with whom he had been init
mate and they were man who he had
asked for and Mr.. DurOcher. He was
told that Lyons, the hotel-keeper, had
left the city several years ago, but that
the Richelieu hotel was kept by Mr..
Durocher, who might possibly be his
other friend. While escOrting him to
the door the druggist saw the woman
waiting in the hack The same evening
the woman came to the drug store and
told Mr.. Ly ons her husband had deserted
her. She said she was in great difficulty
and asked to be directed to the Woman s
Christian temperance union building.
She never reached the union building,
and although diIigent search has been
made no trace of the woman or her COM
manion can be found. Undoubtedly the
woman supposed to have been drowned
off the wharf is the one who called at the
drug store. Evidently she either COM
mittec suicide to end her troubles or is
victim of murder.