The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-05-03
HER STORY PROVEN FALSE.
Police Of1cialS' Impressions Of Jessie Miller
Verified.
WHATClPT. ANGLE GOT IN THE COUNTRY,
The Girl Walked From One Station TO An
other on the Richmond and Allegheny
Railroad and Gave Another Name.

| Police station, greeted q INES reporter yes
| terday evening.
He had Just returned from tripup the
Richmond and Allegheny road IN search OF
information which would throw some light
on the mystery around the life and history OF
Jessie Miller. the fair-but alas the false
| Young woman who Is now III at the aims
| house. ,1
! Eeina a woman. of course, all she said has
| been accepted as undoubtedly true by ali
except the hard-hearted" police, who are
| trained TO believe that every statement must
be verified before being accepted.
These preservers Of the peace have doubted
from the first the story which this comely but
unfortunate creature has repeated WIN SO
much precision each time. but the doctors ana
| those who have waited at her Ded slde from
day TO day have accepted her statement. ana
her lady-iike demeanOr and Tehned ana cul-
tured appearance have won their sympathy
Notwithstanding. however, the straightness
| of her story and her prepossessng appearance,
! the police now assert that there Is something
crooked, and they have proven that she has
failed TO tell the truth.
CAPTAIN Angle SAYS she may be crazy, but
! that with it all she IS certainly sharp woman
and that her story is well woven. but her OBJ
! iect in thus deceivng he IS unable TO discern.
The Captain aud Policeman Walton went
up yesterday morning to Lee Station to work
| up a clue.
| The brakeman on the train which arrived
| in Richmond Monday evening on that ROAD
told him that a woman answering the deScrip-
! ton of Jessie Miller had gotten on that even
| ing at Lee.
Captain Angle had been there but few
! minutes before he found that Joseph Burton.
her alleged husband, was not in it." and the
| Captain even doubts the existence OF that IN
J dividual.
! Captain Angle learned from the station
agent at Lee that she had walked to that sta
ton and he traced her steps as far as irwin,
which is nine miles above.
| He is certain that she walked that far, and
saws be is inclined 10 believe she came atOot
alt the way from Clifton Forge, as woman
answering her description was recently seen
both there and in Lynchburg. though he
could not blame her, he says, for walking out
of that town.
While on her way down she met two negro
girls aud persuaded them TO walk 10 Lee with
her.
She told them that she was going 90 Rich
mond to visit her brother, and amused them
by dancing and singing while walking down
| the road.
When she reached Lee she took seat in
! the depot and was hail-fellOw-well-met with
| her sable companions. and laughed and
danced 80 much that she excited the suspl-
cion Of those who saw her.
10 write 10 her, and promised to do Likewise
! il was then remembered that neither had the
| address of the other, and she wrote IN a mis-
| cradle chirography on piece OF yellow paper
| her address and the address Of the negro girl.
Her own she gave as Jessie Bell Hopper,
| City syleum."
This Slip of paper is now in the possession
| of Captain Angle and 1t corresponds ex-
actlv with the slip of paper found in her
pocket, on which was written Mary Lou
Turner"
One would naturally suppose from looking
| at the handwriting and style OF Autobiography
| that the negro girl had acted as scribe on the
| oc6as0n, but the station agent asserts that he
| saw Jessie Chat much OF the name seems to
| be correct write it herself
When she left she bid her companions an
affecuOnate adleu.
She asked the station agent for ticket to
| Richmond and paid him seventy-hve cents
| for it, saying at the same time that 1t was the
| lost cent she had.
The ageut told the brakeman on the train to
look olt for her as he thought she WAS zee
BILE"
young white woman, who corresponds
| with the description given OF Jesse. was IN
| the drugstore Of DR.. ". H. Scott, corner OF
| Seventeenth and Franklin streets, Monday
evening about o'clock, and she was accom-
| panied by negro woman.
| The white woman asked Mr.. Roland H.
Childrey the address of Mr.. John NJ Saun-
ders, and he gave II as 1917 east Marshall
street. The two women then left the store.
No call has been made upon Mr. Saunders,
| nor does he know anything about the unknown
| woman 1T the almShOuse.
Councilman Charles +. Brauer was one Of
| the persons who happened 20 be in the drug
store at the time the two women called.
He remembers distinctly that II was about
| O'Clock. as he was on his way to the meeting
Of the Street Committee, which was to be held
| half an hour later.
| MIR. Brauer saws he took good look at the
white woman and thinks he can identify her.
She had an exceedingly pleasant face Mr..
Brauer says, and was very lady-hke IN her
manners. He remembers her asking the
address Of Mr.. Saunders and Mr. Chudrey
furnishing the same.
Mr.. Childrey does not know the name Of
| the negro woman. but says he could identity
| her II he saw her again.
If il was Jessie who was in SCOTS the ques-
ton arises. where did the negro woman take
her. and was Jessie drugged and afterwards
turned into the streets
Ii was about -four hours after the two per-
sons were in the drug store before Officer
Walton found Miss Miller at the corner Of
Fourth and Main streets. apparently in q do
mented condition, and took her 10 the Aims
house.
The doctors at the almshouse reported the
condition Of the Young woman as greatly i'm
proved last evening.
Her mind, they say, now seems perfectly
clear and she Is stronger physically. They
think she will recover.
While some light has been thrown on the
case. the mystery Is not yet solved. j. she
crazy? or what can DO her object IN thus CON-
ing TO Richmond?