Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-11-22

Dorison was wandering about the Of
! fee OF his hotel in an aimless manner,
| inexpressibly bored by his compulsory
! inact.on. When he saw Cathcart his
face lighted up and he greeted the old
man effusively.
Chow long am to remain prisoner
here?" he asked.
mo longer" replied Cathcart. "The
shadow has been removed and you are
free to come and go at your will. Come
and dine with me. l want to talk over
the events of the day with you.
As much pleased as il he had been re-
leased from actual imprisonment, Dori-
son accompanied the Old detective to a
quiet restaurant in University place,
where they could secure themselves
against interruption. While they dined
Cathcart detailed to the young man the
occurrences of the day.
The recital consumed the time OF the
dinner. When the coffee and cigars
were brought, Cathcart said:
''Now, I want to reason, and reason
aloud. II you discover a flaw in my ar
gument put your finger upon it at once,
else do not interrupt me. Now, to be-
gin: A woman named Parish, who has
daughter, living In Sixteenth street for
twenty years in the same house, which
she owns, having no occupation, and
subSisting on her money, suddenly
changes her mode Of life, and, under
the assumed name Of Madame Delamour,
rents the parlor floor of a house in
Blocker street and opens a costumer's
business.
difference: A change has taken place
in her financial affairs, necessitating the
earning of an income after twenty years
of comparative independence.
1.-The business is opened one day, and
on the night Of the next day the daugh-
ter is found dead, stabbed in the neck
in such manner as TO sever the carotid
artery. On the same night, in her own
house in Sixteenth street, Mrs. Parish,
alias Madame Delamour, is found dead,
under similar circumstances-Stab
in such q manner as to sever the carotid
artery.
Inference: The two murders were
committed by the same hand; the meth
DDS of taking life are the same; the
murdered women bore the relation of
mother and daughter. To suppose that
these two, bearing to each other the re-
lation they did, were killed by different
persons for different reasons is to admit
the existence of coincidence without
parallel in the history OF crime.
Inference second: The murder was
committed by man who has some
knowledge of anatomy and some surgi-
cal skill, as is argued by the precision
with which these arteries were found
and cut.
"A young man, whose attention is at
tracted to the possibility of wrongdoing
in the Blocker street house, forces his
way into the room occupied as a cos
tuners place, and finds in the fingers of
the murdered girl torn scrap of paper,
and on the floor near by another torn
scrap, both covered by writing in the
same hand, the scraps suggesting that
they were torn from letters wrested
from the hands OF the girl. The police
discovered that the dress of Mrs. Parish
is violently torn in the breast, with all
the appearance OF something having
been dragged from it. Valuables and
money on the person are not taken.
Inference: The murderer desired to
possess himself Of certain documents or
papers held by be murdered woman:
hence the motive of the crime.
''This young man also discovers the
portrait and ring of Reuben Dorison in
the room, and determines the writing on
the torn scraps of paper to be in the
hand of Reuben DoriSon.
Inference: In some way Reuben
Dorison, dead eight years, was con-
nected with the woman Parish and her
daughter. Query: how? Not at pres
ent clear or ascertainable.
Inquiry ELECTS these facts: The two
women live quiet, regular and proper
] lives; are constant in attendance upon
church and their duties: they have no
intimate friends, few callers and no So
cial relations, at stated intervals q
| young man, tall, slim, with brown hair,
whose visits leave the mother sad and
the daughter in tears, calls upon them;
by her own admission the mother in her
younger days had passed through pc
riod Of great sorrow, sorrow 90 great as
to influence her after life, on two occa-
sions she is known to be In great distress
once eight years ago. when she refused
to explain the cause, but Immediately