Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-11

a. AAFbtA nNHhAAHs AANHt NNAG bAAN bhAN
clues TO the identity Of the twopersous.
The name on the handkerchief was X.
M. Noorz, or Noory. The initial n on
breastpin tho woman wore conhrmod
the suggestion that this was her name.
The name in the rubber letters on the
stamp was Timothy Byrne.
What was the motive for this crime2
AZ the time that these two met it was
either mining or had just stopped. II
was pitch dark, for there are no gas
lamps there, So far as was known no.
body passed along that road that night
except these two The motive can
hardly have been outrage The ezami-
mutton showed that this had not even
been attempted. The motive was not
robbery, for the corpse stin wore the
cheap watch the cheap rings. and
other cheap iewclry one would expect to
find on woman of this kind. The
awful violence used In accomplishing
death indicates that the slayer was in
a furious mood, that he beat and cut
and stabbed her and then ground her
face into the Garth He must have left
the place wi the blood of the woman
spattered on -.s clothes and daubed on
his hands and his shoes. When he did
leave he jumped the fence, crossed the
ploughed field rapidly, dropped the bag
in the copso near the run and then
Then no one knows whore he went.
The police Thought that they had an
easy task. For instance, leaving out
OF consideration the names, here was
a basket Of fresh eggs, These must
have been bought in the neighborhood.
And here was woman of rather for
eign appearance, who must have been
seen by many people. Surely, there
were plenty Of clues. The affair had
only to be announced in the papers to
be cleared up.
They followed up those clcws and a
hundred more. They secured the whole
country. They traced down mnuy
rumors When II was all summed up,
they had not found single human
being who had seen that woman. She
must have entered the lonely rond
somewhere, She must have been in or
around Railway before dark. She
must have bought the eggs, and she
must have been taking them TO some
place not far away. No one carries
nine eggs about in basket on long
journey. Yet until her first footstep
on that road, thoy found not trace OF
her anywhere.
II was the same way with the man.
He entered the scene with the first
track OF his shoe in the middle of the
road He disappeared with his last
track down near the run. Had she
emerged from the center Of the earth
aud had he dropped from the stars they
could not have been more utterly
strange and foreign to part OF the
world in which it would seem they
were walking as though familiar with
It,
1t looks as is they had met by APP
pointnent, II looks as Il they had
known each other before and had come
here because they had something Co
say TO each other, But how could a
passion so stormy be known TO none
but these two2 And what sort Of
lonely outoast was she that no one
ever inquired for her2 Why did not
the person to whom she was taking
the eggs come forward and recognize
her? And how was 1t that all the hue
and cry failed to bring TO light the
bhoodstained man? Who was Timothy
Dyrno and who X, NJ Noor1 or Noory
that they, or at least one OF them, has
not appeared? Did no one in the
world know either one except them
selves2
Then came a score OF idcntHcations,
all Of which proved false sooner or
laier. Several hundred people came
inquring for diferen. missing girls.
thus proving al astonishing state OF
affairs with regard 70 the number Of
missing young girls, but putting no
light upon this case. -Four months
AFTER the finding OF the body this line
appeared h, a New York paper;
'rhe Railway mystery was buried
yesterday"