Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-06-24
A YOUNG SCHEMER.
He Wanted Some of
SearIes' Money.
BIG SENSATION COLLAPSES
BY the Investigation Of Lawrence Pc
lice Into the Story of Louise Haley.

LAWRENCE, Mass, June 24.-The police
are no longer at sea over the sensational
story told by l4-year-old Louise Haley OF
Methuen. They set the young CONAN
down for something more than ro-
mancer, as in the light OF events that
have inst been unearthed. Louise Haley
appears TO the officers as cunning ad-
venturess, fertile In discourse and energy.
but lacking The finish that would come
with fuller years
In short, Louis Haley is believed now by
the police to be the one main mover In
plan to secure money from Methuen's
millionaire, Edward +. Searles.
The officers were sceptical from the FIRST
OF the girls story. Now they believe 1t
was fabrication from beginning to end.
The Story In Brief
that the girl told was that she accidentally
overheard two men plotting to carry off
the body of Mrs. Mark Hopkins-Searles.
The body rests in the tomb, and the girls
story was that she was in the near vicinity
when she saw and heard two men In the
shadow OF the massive stone wall, and,
being discovered, was fired at by one Of
the men, the pistol ball passing through
her umbrella.
A few days later she was met on a side
street by the men, abducted, taken off in
herdic and drugged After the men had
threatened 10 kill her for baking their
plan TO secure fortune, they despoiled
her of her flowing hair, maltreated and
bruised her. and left her on the river bank,
three miles or more from her home. That
was the substance of the remarkable story
told the police.
City Marshal Sheehan and Inspector
Libby have worked steadily on the case
and
This is What They Find.
The family Of Frank T.. Haley reside in
a cosy cottage on Chase street, just over
the line IN Methuen. 1t is brand new
residence and has been occupied only
month.
1t was built by Mr.. F. f. Chase, who ON
May % sold it to the Haleys. They paid
him 500 down, agreeing to pay him the
rest, some 5000 or more, by June 90 They
had no money aside from the $780, but
Mrs. Haley said they would have the re-
quired 5000 by June %.
Meanwhile occurred the story of the
girl. Then, from the family itself, came
the story that Mr.. Searles SO deeply APP
preciated the work of the girl, and so felt
for the indignities she had undergone that
he intended to lift the burden from the
A Present Of the House.
Last night, having heard this story, the
owner of the house, Mr.. Chase, went to
the Haley honse and demanded the money
due June %, the time for payment. Mrs.
Haley told him It would be all right, and
that Mr. Searles would see that the money
was paid.
Police Inspector Libby by this time felt
copvincnI fbat tho nirlis oforv haI n daaN
motive, so he went to the Searles mansion.
Here he met Private Secretary Bell and
that gentlemen told him that Mr..
Searles had neither promised to buy the
house nor intended to.
Making his way to the Haley house, the
Inspector told Mr.. Haley, Louise and two
other daughters just what the police be-
lieved.
Indignant DeniaIs Followed,
and Louise even said that she had seen
her two abductors on the street that very
day. They denied ever buying the prop.
crty, denied ever saying that Mr.. Searles
was TO pay for it, and roundly berated the
newspapers for presuming to say that the
girls story was false.
Inspector Libby told them, however,
that he had seen the deed, the written
promise to pay by June 90, and had heard
from tue owner of the property, Mr..
Chase. that Mrs. Haley told him only
few minutes before that Mr.. Searles
would pay the bill. In the face of all
this Louise clung to her kidnapping story.
The police will waste no more time on
the ctEe. They believe the girl invented
the whole matter; that she did 1t in order
to touch the feelings of the millionaire,
and touch his pocket as well as his heart.
The officers believe the girls hair was
cut off, either by herself or some knowing
party.
Meanwhile Mr.. Chase will get his prop
erty back, Mr.. Searles will keep his
money. and the sensation will be remem-
bered as one of the strangest that has ever
happened in Lawrence