The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-23
TlIE rEpLER's RrAsoNs.

The perigrinating tradesmau did not
report to the police, he stated, because
he was peddling without q license and
was afraid the officers would hold him
on that charge.
AS soon as Mr.. Jennings, Lizzle's
counsel. saw the letter, which was post
marked Waltham, he tclegraphed to tho
mayor Of that city asking II q peddler
named Robinsky lived at that place.
The answer was that no such person no.
sided there, but that one answering to
that name occasionally came therefrom
Boston. Later information zane from
Deaham that q person named Robinsky
received letters from the Dedham post.
Office. The misty l%etterwriter vas never
found, however; oil the most tangible OF
all the letter clues went the way OF the
others thnt we're had at that time.
Capt. A. U. Taylor, United States
army, now stationed at Fort Warren,
Boston harbor, but who was at tho time
OF the Borden butchery doing duty at
the recruiting station at Lowell, IL posi-
tive that the stranger alleged TO have
been een by the poddler was no myth
and that he applied for enlistment at
the station Two days after the murder.
On the morning of Saturday, August
6, 1892, u man called at the station and
asked that he might enlist. Captain
Taylor took him into the examining
room; he was Invested OF all his cloth.
ing and underwent tho required OK
animation, all right. lie passed tho
examination but MS he gave evidence OF
being under tho influence Of intoxicants,
he was, rs provided'by tho laws govern.
ing enlistments, rejected. The captain
had the various measurements In a
book, which, whom afterward con-
Quilted, confirmed the captains later
suspicious.
The peddler'O letter was not published
until August 20, Upon reading it in
the papers tho captain compared tho
descriptions and they were identical.
The tim shoes, with their ill,concCaled
dark spots, he remembered particular.
", and he also recalled that tho appli.
cant had, upon being questioned, stated
that he had walked from Fall River.
Tho mans face was distigured by an
abrasion which Capt. Taylor thought
was tho result Of q collision with a
fence, or was consequent from q blow
from q club. The moro tho captain
thought Of tho matter the more
thoroughly convinced he felt that tho
man was tho stranger referred to in tho
pcddlUr's letter.
Through the courtesy Of Capt, Loring,
OF the government boat RoqolutO, u ro-
portor was enabled TO soc Capt TAYLOR
at tho fort He told tho story rs Given
above, and added: "The only differ.
onco between Robinaky's description Of
the stranger and that Of the applicant,
who gnvU q name which l do not recall,
is my man wore n black hat instead OF
a brown one. l rOgard this ne not intor.
forinp with my belief that tho men
were ono and tho same. l intended 70
communicate this information to ok.
Gov. Robinson, but have been engaged
40 buSily that | have neglected IT,
"Tho dark spots or tho tan Shoes,
tho blucking that was daubed and not
laid evenly on thom. tho abrasion on
tho face, which was such q wound that
might havo resulted from scaling such
n fence a. tho ono In tho rear Of tho
Borden house, all lead mo to believe
that Robinsky did sec tho bloody and
mysterious stranger, aud II no did | DO.
liovo there Is n connection between that
stranger and tho tragedy"