Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-01

The Supposed Victim Was Seen to Drive
 or Alone, and It Was Known That She
 Had Money-who Did She Meet and Who
 Killed Here-Is She Mrs. shineer
 PROVIDENCE, Oct 1.-The victim of the Scituate murder has been positively identified, the police say, but they refuse to divulge her name, because, as they al- lege, 1t 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 the woman has by no means solved the mystery of her death, for the motive has not yet been shown, and her peculiar actions when she was last seen alive indicate that there is m interesting story yet to be revealed.
 Late Saturday night a young man noti- fled the police that the murdered woman's clothing correspondcd 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 a car riage sent to 1s7 Pine street at ? o'clock Thursday afternoon. Tho woman had q big roll of money in her hands when she ordered the carriage, and she paid the hire-S3-in advance.
 When She Was Last Seen.
 
 while the driver was debating with him. self whether to leave the horse opposite 1855 or lS9 the same woman accosted him and said she had made a mistake in the mum Der and asked him to tie the horse in front of 197 instead of 1s7. She said that her mother was not quite ready to go out to ride.
 That was the last time the woman was seen alive. Late Thursday evening the hn~ .l .r-Eu Scituate, but there was no driver in the { carriage A boy drove the horse to the city, and being allowed a free rein it made straight for its owners stable. On Friday blood stains were found on the carriage cushion, and there were big splashes of mud on the foot rug. the cush- ion and even the top of tho buggy show ing that the horse had at some time dur ing the ride been driven at great speed. The hostlers in cleaning the mud from the interior of the carriage noticed that 1t clung tenaciously to the cloth, and a closer inspection showed a 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 Scituate woods, the stable keeper re- ported these facts to the police, and this IlN" uuNNAailsu IutO Luc one last night by tho young man who identi fled the body.
 Blood Spots In the Carriage. Those brown splashes in the carriage | were blood. One was a foot in diameter and the other was nearly as large The blood stains were spattered all over the | left side of the buggy. 1t was clear from the fact that the bullet wound was in the left side that the woman sat on the right side of the buggy, while her mur- derer sat on the loft side.
 Other evidence found located the scene of the shooting very near the spot where tho body was found. Several persons in that portion of the village heard pistol | shots late Thursday night. Charles Hop kins, who lives at a crossroad quarter | of a milo away, who was one of them, | said the shots apparently came from an | open lot opposite his house. The fence | bars opening to the lot were down Friday morning, and as evidence of the fact that | they had not been taken down by a coun- | tryman they were found in tho lot quite a distance from the opening, where they had been thrown by the person who re- | moved them. \ countryman, 1t Is as sumcd, would not have done that. She Heard the shots.
 Mrs. Caroline Randall, a colorod resi- dent in that locality. was awakened by the shooting, and she reached the window in time to see a top buggy driven in the direction in which the body was alter | ward found In that same lot was found | the stick with which the murderer had pounded the face of his victim to a pulp in order to defeat identification. The | woods in which the body was found offer. ed the first place of concealment. That Is all that can be learned from the police
 It is surmised that tho woman Is Mrs Lucy Shiffee of Pittsburg. a hair dresser who came horc to secure a divorce Mrs Shiffee told a druggist named Luther al Olneyville that she was going to drive to Foster to see her aged father and to sc cure witnesses for her divorce case. Il Is claimed that the murdered woman an s@ers perfectly the description of Mrs Shiffee, and she has not been heard from since she started to get a team Thursday morning.
 Where the woman and her muriereI mot or where they spent the afternoon from tho time she left Olneyville until sh, was shot at the Scituate crossroads, if | should prove to be Mrs Shiffee, is as ye only to be conjectured.