Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-30
HER MIND NOW CLEAR
JESSIE MILLER ADHERES TO HER
STORY AND GIVES MORE DETAILS.
Her Marriage and Early History--Thc
Right Mrs. Saunders Not Found
Visited, But Not Identified.

The young womans mind is now perfectly
clear, but ~ such differentiation is competent
her memory is returning slowly. Her reasoning
faculties and powor 20 grasp any question put 70
her are entirely restored, but the cloud that
hung over the events Of the last week and
which seemed also to have obscured much OF the
more distant partls lifting by degrees only.
She ls stil az tho almshOuse, and just here 10
may be remarked that she Is receiving every
attention and comfort that that institution can
afford, and seems already to be favortte with
officials and such inmates as have been called
upon 10 render her service.
Yesterday the pallOr that was 40 marked in her
face the previous night had disappeared, her
eyes had assumed softer expression, and her
whole appearance tended 20 confirm her state
ment that she was quite young
ANOTHER TALK WITH HER
Late in the afternoon Officer Walton, who took
charge Of the unfortunate woman Monday night
when he found her wandering about the streets
and has shown a deep Interest In the case,
over an hour. Her demeenor during this con-
versatioD enhanced the favorable impression she
made on Tuesday, both as regards her lady-like
| instincts and her correct English. Indeed, as
seen In the evening light she Is a fresh, pretty
young woman, and she speaks with a soft, musi-
cal tone that is very attractive Although she
had been interviewed several times during the
morning and telling her story over and over
| again was naturally wearisome 20 her, she mani
/ Tested no impatience that was not consistent
with good breeding.
HER LIES HIsToRY.
| Taking what she said to the DISPATCH reporter
Tuesday night with her further revelations 70
| him yesterday Jessie Miller's story IL this: Shs
| was born in Indiana, and will be eighteen yenrs
old her next birthday. She was sent 70 convent
three three 'e years ago % against belf fathers wishes
/ Burton claimed 70 be detective, but she was
| Of the opinion that he was an actor,
| playing in "Ten Nights In Bar-Room." He
| was q disspated man, and she had frequently
| prayed for him in bar-rooms, but their relations
were Of the most affectonate character. They
| started from Independence, Kan, several days
ago 10 visit a Mrs. Saunders In Richmond. Saun-
ders was a telegraph operator whom she bad
| known in Independence. The understanding
was that Burton was 10 visit the Saunders fami-
| ly with her.
| THE PHILADELPHIA WIFE.
| just before they reached Richmond Burton,
she said, told her that he was going ON 20 Phila-
| delphia 70 zee his wife aud children. She thought
! no was Joking and putting her head upon his
shoulder remarked that he had his wife with
| him, but had no children, When she realized
that he was in earnest she was greatly shocked.
Upon being questioned as 10 the effect OF the
| wine or medicine Burton had given her she de-
| clared that Immediately after taking II every
| thing seemed 10 grow dark before her ana her
narration Of happenings sfter this. viewed In the
| light Of what Is positively known, would certainly
| seem 10 show that she was laboring under some
| sort Of mental alteration.
| She insists that che got of OF the train at n
| shed and walked some distance TO the lower de-
/ pot, her husband remaining on the train and
telling her that he would meet her at the latter
place. Then she went, she says, up the hiil
| little piece TO a drugstore and got the address
| 1917 east Marshall, which she had when officer
Walton took her to the station-house
| KNEW THR ROUTE WELL.
That Jessie Miller came into Richmond on
| tho Richmond and Allegheny railroad does not
| seem 10 admit OF doubt. Yesterday morning
| without any suggestion she described Gladstone,
| the demonstration, and spoke Of having heard
| the conductor call out Lynchbnrg and Rock Cas-
| tie, and yesterday evening spoke OF travelling
| for miles along the river. She also asked lhe
| reporter where the Natural Bridge was, saying
| she remembered the station, but did not see tho
| bridge. Ofncer Walton then called over seyeral
i more stations on the Richmond and AleChahy
road, some Of which she said she thought she re-
membercd.
Upon her recollection Of the stations and in
| sistance that she walked from one depot 10
another the theory was brought up that she had
! gotten of the train at the companys shops ana
! walked 20 the Eighth-Street station. But this II
initiated against by the statement OF Oondnotor
| w. L. Harris. who brought in the Clifton Forge
| 0:3O p. NJ train Monday, that he did not stop at
the shops, but passed them running at the rate
Of six miles an hour. Further, the conductor IS
| positive that there was only one lady on the
| train from Clifton Forge that day and she an
elderly one, and that no lady took dinner at
| Gladstone, Jessie Miller's ayerment that she
| dned there TO the contrary Notwithstanding
HHMAY BE MISTAKEN.
AZ.
| there Is room 20 assume that he Is mistaken
| Because-hrst, the boy has been found Dy Cap
| tain Angle, who on Monday evening conducted
Jessie from the Eighth-street depot to Phlilpss
| drugstore, on the corner OF Main ana Elghth
! streets. He says that when she accosted hlm
she was standing at the foot OF the steps
| leading over the Allegheny track TO the
| Byrd-Street station, and was crying, ana
| hjs statement as TO what happened In the
drugstore tallies with hers, except that she does
not remember that he asked her for cents ana
| she replied that she did not have cent ~,
| Second. The gentleman In the drugstore dld
| give her the address 1217 from an old Directory
| The young woman said that she did not speak
| 10 a soul on the train, but that her husoahu
| talked with the brakeman, she thinks u was
| who told him he must go forward TO smoke. Tho
| conversation between these two occurred at the
| end Of the car.
| THIS IS PROBABLY RIGHT.
The only way 70 explain her notion that she
got of the train at one station and walked TO an
| other and that the train kept on from the first,
is this. Upon alighting In her dazed CONDITION at
the shed between Eighth and Ninth streets she
| got completely turned around ana sa" lhe uaih
| backing out for the shops.
| When Jessie was asked II she knew anything
| about her Husbands" relations, she said he
had an unmarried brotherin Philadelph narned
| Charley and that book entitled Handsome
| I of PHILADELPHIA" had been named after MIN,
| tbe "husband." The book, che added was an
" outlaw," and that Burton was In the haDl' OF
| reading such literature Burton, she also stated,
her clothes in his Yallse'
DOES NOT CONTRADICT HERSELF.
DIR. Hobson, the assistant physician at the
| almshouse, who appears 70 nave Waichsu .o tno .
| case very closely not only from medlcal pVnt
| of view, but for the purpose OF gettihg ~ @ tnr
| Sacts In Jessie's Hfe said yesterday that IN her
| various conversations with him he had detected
no contradictions. This has been the e1perlshce %
| ~ the DISPATCH reporter, and while II is pfopa-
| tle that the girl could tell more than she mas
told IL is almost certain that her IneIhoi! wa wa
| not sunicently clear or consecutive yestetuay
| evening TO fully elucidate inc ihSsteiS Inv DIV
| been inclined 80 20 do. ,, =,
| Yesterday morning she was mterNloHeu "
| Cantain Angle and Sergeant Tomllnson anu "
them she stated that she naa r,ep aitr
| and mat an uncle Of hers named blshop nho
died In Atlanta, when Sergeant IomnDsoh esksu t
her II her husband was PinEerlon man a,a,i1e sHe
| sajd "a no hut she knew Pinkerton defective
namad Howard. She resisted all inducements
10 make her give the name OF some t Irieno oi ~
reiatiye who could be communicated Win aho
informed OF her condition
AFRAID or HER "HUsBASD."
To Captain Angle she said that she dla mo-
| w,sb Rnrton 10 know where she was, ana mt
| .a,ad tbat abe was afraid OF him, aIthougl
| Cantain Angle told her that II ne ever ~, m nIs
| bsnds on Burton he would see that no ala ho'
, | harm her. -. ocn.ars and othe,
things she has let drop 70 her attehuhnss % nrso Nv
led 10 the supposition that at one time SUE "'''
| connected with the variety SttbO W
sin1ular fact connected with the Whoe antn .
,s that Jessie at times seems to nave eoniuslon n
| of ideas about Kansas, Independence, 'pas c.
. Kansas CITY, Mo-, and Independence, NO. @ @on'
has NOT wayered In her statement tnat she wa wa
, ma,ried in independence, Kan, but again ma ~
spoken Of Independence ten miles thus sieo .
Ransaa CITY, which answers 10 indepemn,oehsoe n,ss =
l1 Tn,s sneeests the question, Has she lived
nv, niaces and Is the confusion psychological
phase Of tho mystery ,,rober NJ
Yesterday she was ylsl'ea " shaoc, Of oreat
Iaaes, and with all she was the oolect :" Eor
symnathy and interest Some oil her Nisi'oi'
carried with them fruils. o.so or,v serve,
The Saunders element Of the case only a sesyg' 1
90 comnI,cate tho mystery and make II more in
| ,e,esting. Yesterday several clues were 'AA0i
mn and run down, only 10 end In notnins'
THE MRS. SAUNDERS VISITED.
n,sp.TcB reporter learned that Mrs. saun
a.. living al 923 east Marshall street haa 70,
Who had lived In Missouri and thaI .ne h1
, VII had Visited that State This Mrs- oaunuei'
SCI. seen but knew nothing of the girL. p4e.,
"srnther Mrs. Saunders, who lives on rha, ~.
..rast between Broad and Mnrshall, anu wnI , M
son Who is an agent 70, foreRsoghs %sst and nd
n."r sna employed 10 the Western ohiol