Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-08-04
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Cicero Cases Companion Said TO Have
rs~en rocnted IN Cahadss

Cicero Cases Companion snio 90 hsso
Been Located In Cahadss
The New York World claims to have es-
tabItshed the identity OF the female com.
RAMON of Cicero Harrison Case. the. old
man who disappeared mysteriously from
the deck of the Old Dominion Line
steamer Guyandotte while on as way
from Norfolk TO New York Juno 10Th.
IL will be remenn bered by the DfsPArcH
readers that the woman registered In Nor.
folk and travelled under the name OK
Mrs. Oliver. daughter Of Cicero Hsfri-
con. who dropped bis last name while on
the trip. MRS. Oliver" is said to be the
wife of Malcolm Beaton. Burlington. Ont,
Can.
The World SAYS:
The story of Mrs. Oliver is extraordi-
nary, When confronted by q Word re-
porter at her home. in Burlington. Can.
she denied her connection with the Cicero
Harrison mystery. The World then sent
10 Burlington the same reporter who bad
talked with her as Mrs. Oliver" on board
the Guvandotte on July 1st and be posi-
lively identified the woman.
Mrs. Elizabeth Beaton's connection with
Cicero Harrison Case forms an interesting
story, covering period OF hye or SIX
wears. when she ard Der family occupied q
house on the farm of old mau Case. who
then lived in burlington.
The old man. accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Catharine Wallace. ana his grand
daughter. lett Burlington for the sunny
South. where he thought he had extern
sive interests in gold-mine. on October
8th last They went to Norfolk, Va, ana
settled in Brambleton Ward, suburb OF
that city.
Before they had been in Norfolk many
days strange woman appeared IN that
CITY aad stopped &C the boarding-house OF
Mrs. WI liam Smith. on east Main street.
The next day she located Case, but instead
of chilling on him sent him note appoint
ing a time and place for an interview. The
old man called TO see her, and the follow
ing day the two left the city together tor
trip 70 North Carolina. AT least this Is
what the old man told the daughter. He
did not, however. tell her that he was
going with woman, and until the present
time Mrs. Wallace is ignorant of the identl-
ty of the woman who led her father TO his
death.
After an absence of two weeks the man
returned alone. He was greatly excited.
and was for several days thereafter very
SICK. While this then unknown woman
was in Norfolk (where she was known as
Mrs. Thompson, of Michigan y N.s.
Elizabeth Beaton was absent from Bur-
lington ION a visit" as she told her neigh
bors, Ito her son at Marquette, Mich
Mrs. Beaton's next absence from Bur-
lington was about the middle of January
last when she went to visit her bro
Their" at Bav Clty. Mich. taking her baby
with her. Mrs. Thompson, OF Michi-
gan" again visited Norfolk on January
goth, and communicated with the old
man through one Charles Culpepper, a
young grocery clerk. At that time she
had with her baby. which she told
Mrs. Smith was - months old. On
this visit Mrs. Thompson" spent some
time in the nelghbOrhood of Norfolk, not
leaving until tuesday. February 14th, the
day before Ash Wednesday, when she
went to Claremont, Va, a town on the
historic james river, accompanied by
Cicero Harrison Case. They stopped at
the house of Mrs. Erickson, under the
name of Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson" The
baby was with them during all this time.
Between the goth and 30th of February
Mrs. Beaton returned to Burlington.
bringing with her the dead body OF her in
FAINT, which she claimed had died in Michi-
gan. This aroused suspicion and II was
suspected that the woman had found the
child in her way and had got rid OF IT..
The baby, boy, was In robust health
when she left Claremont with 1t.
Mrs. BeatUn's next disappearance from
Burlington was on June 10th last, when
she said that she was going to Toronto to
visit relatives. She remained away until
July 4th, when she returned with new
red-leather trunk and was fitted out. as
one of her nelghbors said, in tine STYLE"