Evening journal., 1894-10-01
ScIIyAIE'S MYSTERY.
Police KaoW Who the Murdered
Woman Was, They Say.
BLOOD STAINS TN THE CARRIAGE.
The Supposed Victim was socn 70 Drive
on Alone, ANA Il WAS known That she
Had Money who Did She Meet and who
KILLED nerg-Is She Mrs. shineeg

on Alone, ANA Il was known That sho
Had Money who Did She Meet ana who
KILLED mer2-I She Mrs. shineeg
PRovIDESoE, Oct 1.-The victim Of
the Scitunte murder has been positively
identified the police say but they refuse
to diYulge her name, because, as they al-
lege it might spoil their chances Of cap
turing the murderer They think they
have located him, and they expect to ar
rest him within few hours.
But the Identification Of tho woman
has by no means solved the mystery Of
her death, for tho motive has not yet been
shown, and her peculiar actions when she
was last seen alive indicate that there Is
an interesting story get to be revealed.
i.ate Saturday night young man noti-
fed the police that the murdered woman
clothing oorrospondod with that Of
woman who had boarded with his mother
At about the same time word came from
tho franklin Brothers livery stable that
an unknown woman had ordered car
riage sent to ls7 Pine street at o'clock
Thursday afternoon. The woman had
big roll Of money In her hands when She
ordered the carriage and she paid the
hire-S8-in advance.
When She was last seen.
There ia no such number as 1s7. and
while the driver was debating with him
self whether to leave tho horse opposite
1856 or ls9 the same woman aocosted him
and said she had made a mistake in tho
number and asked him to tic the horse in
1 front Of l97 instead Of 1877. She said that
her mother was not quite ready 60 go ont
to ride
That was tho last time the woman was
seen alive. Late Thursday evening the
horse was found on the outskirts Of North
Scituate, but there was no driver in the
carriage A boy drove tho horse to tho
city and being allowed a free rein itmado
straight for its ownors stable.
On Friday blood stains were found on
the carriage cushion, and there were big
splashos Of mud on the foot rug tho cush
ion and even tho top Of the buggy show
ing that the horse had at some time dur
ing tho ride been driven at great speed
| The hostlers in cleaning the mud from
the interior of the carriage noticed that
it ciung tenaoiously TO the cloth, and
closer Inspection showed dark brown
| substance beneath the dirt Under the
seat was found a shawl, which the wom-
an had been seen to place there when She
started from Pine street
When the mutilated body was found in
the Seituate woods, the stable keeper re-
ported these facts to the police, and this
olew dovetaIled into the ono furnished
last night by the young man who identi-
fled tho body
Blood Spots IA the Carriage.
Those brown splashes in the carriage
were blood. One was q foot in diameter,
and the other was nearly as large The
blood stains were spattered an over tho
left side Of the buggy. It was clear from
the fact that the bullet wound was in
the left side that the woman sat on the
right side of tho buggy, n lille her muir
derer sat on tho loft side
Other evidence found located the scene
Of the shooting very near the spot where
the body wns found. Several persons in
that portion Of the village hgard pistol
shots late Thursday night Charles Hop
kins who lives at a crossroad a quarter
OF a milo away, who was one Of them,
said the shots apparently eamo from an
open lot opposite his house The fence
bars opening to the lot were down Friday
morning ana as evidence Of the fact that
they had not been taken down by couu-
T tryman they were found in tho lot quite a
J distance from the opening, where they
? had boon thrown by the person who re-
J moved them. A countryman, It is as
] sumed, would not have done that
She Heard the shots.
i Mrs. Caroline Randall, colorod resi-
9 dent in that locality was awakened by
tho shooting, ana she reached the window
in time to see a top buggy driven in the
4 / direction in which the body was after
ward found. In that Same lot was found
! tho stick with which the murderer had
pounded the face Of his victim to a pull
a in order to defeat Identification. The
woods in which the body was found offer
cd tho first place OF conoealment Thai
IS an that can be learned from the police
/ 1t is surmised that tho woman is Mrs
, Lucy Shiffoo Of Pittsburg hair dresser
| who came horo to secure a divorce Mrs
Shitioe told q druggist named Luther ri
=, Olnoyvillo that she was going to drive
I, ! TO fostor 20 see her aged father and 60 Sc
euro witnesses fer her divorce case /
2 IS claimed That the murdered woman an
swers perfectly tho description Of Mrs
Shinoe, and sho has not been heard from
4 since she started to got a team Thursda,
il morning.
Whore the woman and her murdere
a met 81 whore they spent the Afternoon
a from the timo she left Olneyyille until sh
d was shot at the Scituate crossroads, if /
h should prove to be Mrs ShiiIee, is as ye