The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

AND REASON ALOUD"
Dorison was wandering about the office
oil his hotel in an aimless manner, mex
presslbly bored by his compulsory inaction.
When he saw Cathcart his face lighted up
and he greeted the old man effusively.
How long am 1 to remain a prisoner
herel" be asked.
mo longer" replied Cathcart. 1.-THE
shadow has been removed and you are free
TO come and go at your will. Come and dine
with me. | want to talk over the events Of
the day with you.n
AS much pleased as X be had been re-
leased from actual imprisonment, Dorison
accompanied the old detective 10 a quiet
restaurant in University place, where they
could secure themselves against Interrupt
ton. While they dined Cathcart detailed
20 the young man the occurrences OF the
day.
The recital consumed the time of the din
ner. When the coffee and cigars We're
broght, Cathcart said:
Now | want TO reason and reason aloud
II you discover q flaw in my argument put
your finger upon it at once, else 90 not in
terrupt me-. Now to begin A woman
named Parish, who has a 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 De-
lsmour, rents the psrlor floor of house in
Blocker street and opens costumer's
business.
'Interence: 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 daughter is
found dead. stabbed in the neck In such a
manner as TO sever the curotid artery. On
the same night in her own house in Six
teenth street, Mrs. Parish, alias Madame
Balfour, is found dead under similar cir
cumstances-stRbbed in such a manner as
to sever the carotid artery.
'In ierence: The two murders were
committed by the same hand; the methods
of taxing life is the same; the murdered
women bore the relation of mother and
daughter. To suppose that these two.
bearing to each other the relation they did,
were killed by different persons for differ
ent reasons, is TO admit the existence of a
coincidence without parallel in the history
of crime
Inference second: The murder was
committed by a man who has some know
ledge of anatomy and some surgical skill,
as is argued by the precision with which
those arteries were 10 I'D and cut
"a young man whose attention is at
tracted to the possibility of wrong doing in
the Blocker street house, forces his way
into the room occupied as q costumer's
place, and finds in the fingers of the muir
dered Girl torn scrap of paper, and on the
floor near by another torn scrap, both COW
cred 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
Bll the appearance of something having
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 the murdered woman: hence
the motive of the crime.
This young man also discovers the Dor
trait 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 Dori-
son, dead eight years, was connected with
the woman Parish and her daughter.
Query, howa Not at present clear or as
certainable.
Inquiry ELECTED these two facts: The
two women live quiet, regular and proper
lives; are constant in attendance rpou
church and their duties; they have no init,
mate friends, few callers and no social rela-
tions; at stated intervals q young man. tail.
Bill, WIN DIONu udlI, WuUSS 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 period
to influence her after life; on two occasions
she is known to be in great distress-once
eight years ago, when she refused to ex-
plain the cause, but Immediately dresses in
mourning, and the daughter withdraws
from all association with young people; the
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minister for advice, the mother thinks bet
ter of il and says she will meet this trouble
as she has met her other troubles, alone.
Reuben Dorison died eight wears ago. CO.
incidental with the appearance of Mrs.
Parish in mourning. Inquiry also elicits
that when the minister's wife is, in the
presence of Mrs. Parish, condemning q
woman for irregularity of life, Mrs. Parish
cries cut in protest, saying that the con-
domination OF the woman rings in her ears
IS a condemn alton of herself
difference: There was something-a
fault, misfortune or q crime in the life of
the mother, with which the caller at stated
Intervals, and presumably Reuben Dorison,
is connected.
"Irquiry also elicits the fact that the
daughter, who has no association with
young people, is seen on three different &C.
casions walking in Union square, evidently
greatly toubled, with a young man, tall
and slim, Of fast appearance, dressed in ex-
IRENE fashion.
Inference: The caller at stated inter
walls and the walker in Union square are
one and the same.
"Near the body OF the mother was found
q mans glove, the form of which shows it
was worn by man with q large hand
prominent knuckles and joints, whose
thumb was disproportionately long This
glove was cut and made to fit only the
hand that wore IL, an indication that the
wearer was a man exceedingly particular
as TO his personal appearance and nice as
to his apparel.
Inference: First, as the walker in
Union square was noticeable because of his
fne dress, and as the wearer of the glove
was, as it indicates, careful as TO his sp-
pearance, the wearer of the glove, the
walker IN Union square and the caller at
stated intervals were one ana the same.
Second, as the glove was found close to the
BODY OF the mother after her death, and as
one caller on the family was the incident
OF month, this wearer of the glove was
the murderer OF the mother. Third, if of
the mother, then of the daughter.
''One more point: Inasmuch as after the
TWO women engaged in the costumiug bust
ness II was the habit of the mother TO re-
turn home before the daughter. and the
daughter to return at e, and as the servant
left Mrs. Parish alone at s, there is reason
TO believe that the daughter was murdered
ia st and the mother after.
NOW, as to a theory. Mrs. Parish had
been connected with some event, the secret
OF which she jealousy guarded, in her
early life, which was criminal. She had
documents relating to this event, posses
sion Of which she shared with her daugh-
ter These documents either implicated a
young man who called upon her at stated
intervals, or which, being in his hands,
weuld prove of such value that to possess
them he could bring himself to commit
murder With these events Reubsn Dori-