The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-03-21
An AWFUL MURDER.
Capt. F. W. Dawson. Editor of the Charleston
News and Courier is FOully Murdered by Dir.
T. b. Mellow.

Capt. +. W. Dawson. Editor of the Charleston
News and Courier is FOully Murdered by Dir.
T. b. Mellow.
CHARLESTON, s. c., March 12-Capt +. ".
Dawson, editor of the News and Courier,
and agent of the associated press il this
city. was murdered this afternoon about
$3.50 o'clock by T. L. Mellow, a physician of
tBis city, who is married and has several
children, The evidence in the case is
very meager, but it has been learned that
Capt. Dawson was murdered because of an
attempt on his part to save the honor of a
servant girl in his employ The murder was
committed about 3:45 D. M, but was not
discovered for three hours wards,
when the murderer surrendered himse f.
The body of the murdered man had in the
meantime lain IN the office of the
murderer, not one hundred wards from ms
own residence. CIpL Dawson left the News
and Courier office about $3.50 p. IN. and was
never seen alive again. It appears that
he had suspicious that his maid servant
who had charge of his children, VS.
not behaving herself properly. LIST
week he asked the chief of police to detail 4
detective to shadow the girl stating that he
did not desire his children to be entrusted to
girl who was not strictly honest The de-
tective accordingly Swallowed the young
woman. On Monday morning he saw her
get on Rutledge street car, where she was
soon after
JOINED BY DR. M'poW,
the murderer The detective followed the
pair for several hours and stt5;!>itted a re-
port in writing to the chief of police, wiz
communicated it's details to Capt Dawson
this morning. The murdered mans face
II
found in his hcarC. 1t is supposed that he
went to Dr. McDow's to remonstratn
with him, married man and the father of
several children, against seducing his maid
servant, and thai Dr.. Mellow shot him afte!
the TWO had been engaged in a controversy
After the murder, Mellow disapp jared TIL
$50 D. IN, when he appeared at the
police station and surrendered hmse f.
WcDow is said TO he the only doctor
in the city who is net a member OF the S: at
medical society, and has an unsavOry repu-
tation. He married, some years ego, TIE
daughter of c. C.':Aherns, llch re ired
grocer, and it il known that the police have
been asked to shadow him several tim s
The city is in a terrible state of excitement
All the evidence adduced thus far shows
that the murder was
ONE OF TIE MOST DIABOLICAL.
in the annals OF Crima. Capt Dawson was
shot while sitting down. The shot was ia
tai one. After numbering his victim Dr. Nc
Dow left HIM lying on the floor, locked his
office door and went out to conner grocery
shop. There il evidence that he tried to
bury the corpse of his victim, but that
in the meantime suspicious had got out,
and finally, three hours after he had
killed Capt. Dawson, he surrendered himself
to the police authorities. The murderer has
the reputation of Ueing q rake, and il is said
that be is known in almost every house of
prostitution in the city. Tee body of the MUIR
dered ma II has been aiken to his eSdence, but
the coroner, after impaneling n jury, h Is ad-
journed the inquest until tomorrow. The
murderer was hurried to the Jail us soon as
he surrendered himself, and for the present
is safe from Iynching, rs the Ill is well
nigh impregnable. The entire COM
munity is incensel. The city counc
had Just met tonight when the news of the
murder was telephoned. upon which the
council at once adjourned: Capt. Dawson
was gentlemen held in the highest respect
by persons of all classes and conditions and
prominent citizens declare tina! his killing
must have been q deliberate and outrageous
murder.
Mr.. and Mrs, Henney, late of Kansas
City, who were alleged to have abducted
little Lucy Spellman, were arragned at
Chicago. Officer Dudley, of the humane
society, read to the court n dispatch from
Kansas City, which said that there would
be no prosecution against the Henneys.
Upon this representation Mr.. and Mrs Hen
ney was discharged from custody. Little
Eucy, who is nineteen months old, will he
taken back to her mother.
J.. Great excitement exists in the Low err
california gold mining camps, and tn ousands