Evening journal., 1889-07-11
THE M'DOW CASE ECHOES
Charleston Excited Still and
Full Of Rumors.
M'DOW STILL AFTER THE MAID.

Other Sensational Rumors from the Earth
quake city-Mrs Dawson Applies for
Police ProtoctIon--A burning Editorial
in The News and Courier.
CHARLESTON, S. c., July 1.-THE city is
full Of rumors about the Mellow case. II is
understood that most OF the pastors of the
leading churches win on Sunday next preach
on the subject OF the Mellow verdict adul-
terry and murder. AT the meeting which
adopted resolutions denouncing the crime
the pastors Of Methodist Baptist Presby-
terinn, Huguenot Congregational, Lutheran
and Episcopal churches were present Rev
E. T. Horne OF St Johns, the church at
which Mellow worships and at which Mellow
received an ovation on tho Sunday after his
acquittal, was absent
Mrs. Dawson Appeals to the Police.
1t is known that Mrs lawson, the widow
Of Capt Dawson, has had to appeal TO the
police for protection, and a policeman was
stationed on her premises McDows and
Dawson's lots adjoin each other In the rear
Persons ON the rear piazzas Of both houses
can converse, and Mellow can easily get over
the back fence into the Dawson premises.
still After the Swiss Maid.
II is said that Mellow recently endeavored
TO communicate with the Swiss mnid, who
was on the piazza with Capt Dawson's daugh-
ter, and that the maid reported the fact 10
Mrs. Dawson. II is also said that he repeated
the attempt later In the evening, when Mrs.
Dawson appealed to the police for protection.
other Sensational Stories.
Another story is going the rounds TO the
effect that one Of the white jurymen, who has
been intoxicated since the trial, was heard to
boast in barroom that Mr. Mitchell, coun-
sci for the state, might have saved himself
the trouble Of speaking on Saturday as the
jury had made up its verdict on Friday
Still another rumor is TO the effect that the
bruise ON McDow's head, to which his friend,
Dr. Forrest, so feelingly testified as coming
from Dawson's five ounce Malacca cane, can
be accounted for in another way. The story
is that il was received on the morning of the
murder in the house Of one of the doctor's
lady patients, with whom the doctor had
attempted one Of the "little indiscretionsf
which be il so confident his friends win over
look. II il said that the affair leaked out toe
late to be introduced during the trial, but
that the solicitor is IN possession Of the facts
The News and Courier Speaks.
The News and Courier Of this city, which
had preserved silence since the trial Of Nc
Dow for the murder Of Editor Dawson com
menced, is out Ia an editorial on the subject
The article says;
The News aud Courier kept silent after th
murder of Capt Dawson and before the trial 3
bis slayer because II did not intend that Their
should be the slightest ground for the charge tina
it had attempted Ia any way 10 shape the cours
Of public opinion. The News and Courier ha
kept silent since the trial because ID was wei
aware that whatever views II expressed would b.
attributed 70 personal feeling and indvidua
prejudice. Il has preferred TO await the iudg
ment Of the country and 70 set UP against III,
verdict Of the jury in the court Of sessions N,
verdict Of the larger jury Of the country. W,
doubt that the verdict would have been differen
II Capt. DAWSON had been shot in the back in thl
very presence Of the court, and after the frenzy
Of three hours waiting with his silent guest IN,
defendant had. with moisteued towel tenderll
wiped away from the cold, still face the white
wash and mold from the grave in the closet unde
the stairs. We doubt that under the circum
stunces the result would have been different II
IN his confession. Dr. Mellow had admitted hi
shot his victim IA The hack as he was leaving tho
Office In view Of the result Of the trial the de
fendants attorneys might have saved the stat,
the unutterable shame of this judicial truvesty
had they moved 70 quash the Indictment for muir
der upon the ground that there was no statute OF
South Carolina providing that the killing Of f
W. Dawson was punishable oflense