The herald., 1893-11-22
HIS BODY IN A CELLAR.
A Queer Story Being Ilyesti'
gated by the Police.
What May be Found in q Saloon
Cellar.
A Former Santa Ana Minister Said ts
Have Been Robbed and Murdered
in the Heart of the Oity-A
Girls wild Statements.

A most A6tonfsh1ng story OF mystic
terious murder was reported to the
police day before yesterday, which ID
now being investigated.
The manner in which the story came
into their possession forms weiredly
fascinating romance, and should the as.
sertions be substantiated it will make
one of the most thrilling chapters of the
criminal record OF this city.
As told in the police Office the tale
seems incredible, but there was su ch
circumstantiality of detail that it was
enough to stagger the coolest heads.
A few years ago there was Young
girl who lived in Santa Ana. She had
an unhappy marriage and drifted to
Los Angeles, where she joined the ranks
of women into whose mode of life one
cannot inquire to closely without find-
ing much irregularity.
She lived first in one place and then
another and occupied relationships more
or less intimate with men. She had not
been long enough in the life she had
adopted to lose all the better instincts
of the respectable lineage from which
she eprang, and never dropped into the
lowest ranks of the half world.
She is at present living in the city in
aslodging house in the business heart OF
town.
For some time she has been in de.
pressed spirits and in various ways has
exhibited such q state of nervousness
and misery that it could not but be OBJ.
served.
Only few days ago she seemed to
m AXE up her mind to relieve herself of
what had been preying upon her mind.
The revelation she made, q little at
one time and little more at another,
was horrifying.
Along in the early spring she was
living in a lodging house which was
above a saloon. She had rooms there
and there were men who called upon
her.
In Santa Ana there had lived at one
time an elderly Methodist minister,
with whom she and her family had in
innate acquaintance. A few years ago
he removed to the northern portion
of the state, it ia said. to Humboldt
county.
He happened to be in Los Angeles
during the spring, as the glrl relates.
In some manner he learned of the life
she was leading and came to see her in
the lodging house. He reasoned with
her about her life and gave her advice,
endeavoring to persuade her to return
to her family.
While there the girl became sick with
cramps and he volunteered to call a
physician. She told him that her
trouble was not Herioue. and that if he
would get her some medicine, patent
decoction, it would relieve her.
The
store, procured the medicine and
brought it to the roomo
She had just taken dose of it, when
the door opened and two mon and
girl appeared. They came in. She was
lying in her bed. and saw at once that
something terrible was about to hap
pen.
the old man was attacked by those
who entered, and she saw another man
yet standing outside the door.
There was struggle and the minister
was struck down. She believes he was
stabbed.
She jumped screaming from her bed
the hall, but was told to shut her mouth
or she would be injured Frightened to
death, she obeyed.
The girl solemnly asserts that her
family's old friend was struck down and
robbed, and that the wounds he received
caused his death.
She further asserts that the body was
taken by his murderers in the middle OF
the night, after they saw he had been
killed, and buried in the cellar under
meath the saloon, and that it ia there at
the present time, in the center of the
business part of the city.
The story told is also to the effect that
that one OF the partners in the saloon ia
at this day wearing the watch taken
from the body of the old clergyman.
After the murder the girl found in the
room some blood by the lounge and
called the attention OF the housekeeper
to it. She also spoke of it TO one of the
proprietors, and he told her that was
nothing.
Later, she says, she saw an advertise.
ment in one of the city papers. inserted
by the wife of the minister, asking for
information as to his whereabouts. ard
stating that he had mysteriously disap.
peared.
The friends of the girl cay that abe IL
not addicted to the use of morphine or
opium, and believe that there is soma.
thing in her statements. 1t is also said
that she has been threatened with death
If she tells what she knows.
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