Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-03-16
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By FERGUS W. HUiIE

the interests Of Justice. to reveal It why, !
don't know but we all have our little faults.
and from an aIniabie. though mistaken.
sense OF shall I say dutys-vou refuse to de
liver up the man whose ccHardly crime 50
nearlv cost you your life'
After your departure from Melbourne
every one said The nanson cab tragedy is
1t an end, and the murderer will never be
discovered ventured to Disagree with the
wiseacre~ who made such remark. and
asked myself Who was tins woman who died
| al Mother Gutter~iIesF Receiving no salts
factory answer from myself determined TO
I find out and TOOK stepe accordingly In the
first plare learned from Roger Moreland.
who. IL you remember was witness against
you At the trial that Whyte and Rnsanna
Moore had come out to Sidney in the John
Elder about year ago as Mr. and Mrs.
Whyte | need hardly say that they did not
think IL ueestful' to go through the formaity
OF marriage as slich a tie might have heen
found inconvenient on some future occasion
Moreland knew nothing about Rosanra
Moore. and advised me TO give up the search,
as coming from a city like London, II would
be difficult to find anv one who knew her
there Notwithstanding this. telegraphed
home To friend of mine who In o bit Of an
amateur detective Find out the name and
all about the woman who left England in the
John Elder on the 2lst day Of August, 49,, as
the wife OF Oliver Whyte Mirabile dictu,
he found out all about her. and knowing. as
you do what maelstrom of humanity Lon
don is. Won must admit my friend was clever
II appears. however. that the task | set him
TO do was easer than he expected, for the so
called Mrs Wbvte was rather a notorious
individual IN her own way She was a bur
.esaue actress at the Frivoity theatre in Lon
don. and. being very handsome woman, had
been photographed innumerable times Con.
seouentIy when she very toolishly went with
Wbyte to choose a berth on hoard the boat,
she was recognized 10y the clerk in the Office
as RnSanna Moore. better known as Musette
Of the Frivolity Why she ran away with
Whyte l cannot tell you With reference to
men understanding women, ! refer you to
f,alzac's remark anent the same Perhaps Mu-
sette got weary OF st Johns Wood and cham
payne slppers, and longed for the purer air of
her native land Abl YOU open your eyes at this
latter statement-yon are surprised-no, on
second thoughts you are not because she told
you herself that she was native Of Sydney.
and had gone home in 1858, after a trium-
phant career OF acting in Melbourne And
public and the fesh pots of Egypt You
know this also She ran away with a rich
young squatter. with more money than
morals who happened tu be In Melbourne at
the time She seems to have had weakness
for rnnning away But why she chose
Whyte TO go with this time puzzles me He
was not rich. not particularly good looking.
had no position. and bad temper How do
know all these traits Of Mr. Whyte's char
acter, morally and socially' Easily enough.
my omniscient friend found them all out.
Mr. Oliver WHITE was the son Of London
tailor. and his father. being well OFF. retired
into private life. and ultimately went the
way Of all flesh His son. finding himself
with a capital income and pretty taste for
amusement. cut the shop OF his late lamented
parent. found out that his family had come
over with the Conoueror-Glanville de
Whyte helped to sew the Bayeux tapestry,
suppo<e-and graduated at the Frivolty
theatre as masher In common with the
other gilded youth Of the day. he worshiped
at the gas lit shrine OF Musette, and the god.
dess pleased with his incense. left her other
admirers in the lurch. and ran away with for
tunate Mr. Whyte AS far as this goes there Is
nothing to show why the murder was com
mitted Men do not perpetrate crimes for
the sake of light O. loves like Musette. unless
indeed some wretched youth emhezzles money
TO buy his divinity jewelry The career Of
Musette In London was simply that Of a
clever member Of the demi- monde, and, as
far as l can learn, no one was so much in
love with her as to commit crime for her
sake So far so good; the motive of the
crime must be found in Australia. Whyte
had spent nearly all his money In England,
and consequently Musette and her lover ar
rived in Sydney with comparatively little
cash. However. with an Epicurean like
philosophy they enjoyed themselves on what
little they had. and then came to Melbourne,
where they stayed at a second rate hotel
Musette, may tell you, had one special vice,
common one--drink She loved champagne,
and drank a good deal of it Consequently,
ON arriving In Melbourne. and finding that .
new generation had arisen which knew not
Joseph-l mean Musette--she drowned her
sorrow in the flowing bowl, and went out
after quarrel with MIR Whyte to view Mel.
bourne by night--a familiar aspect to her, no
Doubt What took her to Little Bourke street
/ don't know Perhaps she got lost; perhaps
Il had been favorite walk Of hers In the old
days. at all events she was found dead drunk
In that unsavory locality by Sal Rawlina
know this is 60, because Sal told me 80 her.
self Sal acted the part OF the good Samar-
itan. took her to the squalid den she called
home. and there Rosanna Moore fell danger.
ously i'll Whyte, who had missed her, found
out where she was and that she was too i'll to
be removed presume he was rather glad
to get rid Of such an encumbrance, 90 went
back to his lodgings at St Kilda, which,
judging from the landlady's story, he must
have occupied for some time, while Rosanna
Moore was drinking herself to death in q
quiet hotel Still he does not break OF his
connection with the dying woman; but one
right Is murdered in a hanson cab,
and that same night Rosanna Moore
dies So. from all appearance, every.
thing is ended; not 90, for before dying
Rosanna sends for Brian Fitzgerald at his
club, and reveals to him secret which he
locks up in his own heart. The writer Of this
letter has a thoory--a fanciful one, II you
will-that the secret told to Brian Fitzgerald
contains the mystery of Oliver Whyte's
death Now then, have not found out a
l. l.