Telegram-herald., 1891-02-03
A FIEND NCARNATE
TIE vietim ef the Dimondals Mys-
texy Idsntiiied - .
GIRL TAIfsFRoY THE STATE SCHOOL


LAsssss, Mich. Feb 2.--The hor-
ribls mystery surrounding the death OF
the lfyear-old girl found ia the Grand
river, near DsmoadAle last Friday night
has been pierced by the first glsam
OF light this evening.
All day crowds OF the morbidly curl
ous locked 10 the scene Of the all abb
sorbing lcp.c OF conversation from the
four points Of the compass and then
back TO the improvised morgae where
the siiled saa CHASTITY face OF the
cruelty murdered girl lad awaiting
the eye OF one who could iden-
tiiy 10. The peculiarly brutal
circumstances. the desolatc surround
,ngs Of the little village. the low means
of startled. horrifed women. the awful
silence observed by the men. all con-
tribated TO feeling of detestation Tor
the cowardly perpesrator OF tho das-
tsrdly cs,ne, that needed but the
siightest proyocatlon 10 burst out into q
flame of ungovernable fury leading TO
a Wild outbreak To wreak vengeance on
the bead OF the mlsereant.
just as night fell. the rumor was
started that the girl had been iden-
tined, and instantly every ear was
on the alert 10 catch the
slightest detail. IL appears that
superintendent Newkirk of the
state school at Coldwater heard that
the girls body had been found and I'M
mediately telegraphed County Agent
Eaton TO investigate and report to him
the PARTICULARS. This the county agent
did. Newklrk reached Lansing tonight
aud was Immediately beset by crowd
OF reporters eager To obtain any light
he might shed on the mystery. He
stated that last Thursday gray-haired
man, aged about 55 years, called at the
school and asked to select child for
adoption. lie represented that he was
q weli-to-do farmer whose home con-
tanned no children and wanted q little
girl and would give her good home.
tie was allowed TO take girl and de-
parted. The superintendent believes
tho dead giri is the one the
cid gentleman took away, and
Mt late hour departed for
the hamlet of Dimvndale to settle the
question.
As soon as this story became known
the people became greatly excited and
parties of four, SIX and dozen began
to scour the country in search OF the
aged villain. He will be hung to the
nearest tree ifdiscovered. as no sherlff's
posse could withstand the public clamor
form the fiend's instant death. SEN
sational developments are hourly ex-
pected, the people, including the men,
bers OF the legislature awaiting with
breathless anxiety. news from Dimon-
dale.
What lends additional strength to the
theory that the girl is the victim of ar
old leecher's lust and inhuman crime is
the fact that two railway men asserted
before the facts above stated were
known. that on Thursday man of
about SO years boarded tine Lake Sho-e
train atJonesville. He wore long gray
whlskers and black suit and derby.
With HIM was little girl, whose de-
sCrIpt.on would answer very well for
that of the murdered gIrl, and in
deed the brakeman OF the tram
asserts positively that It tallies ex-
actlv with IL. lie left the train
at Dlmoudalc accompanied by the
child, and nothing has been seen or
heard of the PAIR since. The utmost
endeavOrs of the officers and detectives
have failed to get trace of him after ne
left the train az Dlmondale, and who
he was, whittier bound. and what were
his santecedents are also unknown.