The Indianapolis journal., 1895-04-15
F'rom Sundays Second Edition.)
Girl Murdered in a chhrch.


SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.-A Sunday
school teacher with her scholars, on enter
ing Emanuel Baptist church, to-day, to ar ar
body of a young girl frightfuliy mutilated
in the pastors study adjoining the main
auditorium Her clothing was torn and ols-
heyeled, and she had evidently been out
ragged before she was killed or else her.
on the the part M OF OF her baffied assaiiants Her
body was coyered with blood and wounds.
The wallis of the study We're bespattered.
table near her feet as she lay dead. A cut
ON her wrist had severed the arteries and
terdons. She was stabbed in each breast
and over the heart was flesh wound in
which was sticking part of a broken blade.
The assailant had :, evidently possessed ,;sI All
weapon, which was afterwards found. was
a siiver-handled table knife, used the previ-
so dull that the victims dress had to be
opened at the breast, TO enable the blade
The body has been identified as that of
Minnie williams, a domestic residing In
Alameda, but a member of Emanuel Church
of age and remarkably pretty. She left
her EMPLOYERS residence in Alameda YES
tsrday af5erI9or to vsa attend des.nvai All II
night with friends and assisting in the
decorations. She wore her best frock and
carried an older dress to wear while work.
ing. When the entertainment closed hst
evening she is presumed TO have entered
a closet adjoining the study to change her
gone turned out the lights and left the
church. The girl had an excellent repu-
than those at the church. She had two
male friends dental student whom she
had not seen lately ana nspa agneai har snd
whom her friends suspect of the murder
This student, whose home is in Beviant,
wrote her yesterday, asking her TO meet
him in San Francisco last night. Miss Will
liams was suspicious and refused, but SAID
she would be at the festival in the church,
10, -,tlI can md
They met at the festival and no one saw
either OF them leave the church at its
A curious coincidence in connection with
the murder is the fact that MISS Wlliiams
was close friend OF MISS biancne Lamonl,
missing for ten days. Mrs. Noble Miss La
mont's aunt was the first to discover the
dead body of Miss Williams in the church.
Mrs Noble to-day received through the
mails paper in which were wrapped three
rings worn by her missing niece the night
name of Theodore Durant the. young dental
student who made the appointment with
The police nave as yet made no arrest, and
the double mystery is puzzling the whole
81 ar first Stated. Her parents had separated,
and, as her mother could not support ner,
the girl was living with friends who kindly
gave her home until she could secure en-
ployment.
.NeIlie Bly, Married.
NEW YORK April 13.-The Morning Ad-
vertiser saws Nellie Bly,, who is one of the
best know newspaper women in thescountry,
is no longer Miss Eliza beth Cochran. She is
now Mrs Robert Seaman. Her husband is
one of the directors of the Merchants Ex-
change National Bank, and a multi-inlll1on-
aire. He lives at No. 15 West Ihirty-seyenfn
street and is nearly seventy years Old. In
business and financial circles he is quite as
we'll known as his wife is TO the devotees
of the Sunday newSpap perS. The reports OF
theirs marriage which came from Chicago.
were quite correct. 1t occurred on April
g. at the recfory of the Church of the
Epiphany in Ashland avenue, of that city.
the ceremony. The contracting parties had
met at dinner in the AUDITORIUM Hotel
two weeks before and conceived an instant
attachment.
Mrs Seaman was interviewed last night
nv "a reporter and said: Il cannot deny
the rllrpor 1 mas married to MIR. seaman
in Chicago He left the following Gay for
New York. Owing to my business affairs,
and to his we both desired to keep 1t secret
for a time 1t is his wish as soon as ar
rangements are completed to make formal
announcement of the wedding. sickness IN
my own family also caused US TO delay It's
publica ton
Miss Cochran began newspaper work on
the Pittsburg Dispatch when she was fif-
teen years old. She has been engaged in
similar work in New York for about eight
years. and has become famous for the
sensational character of her contributions
to newspaper literature One of her first
exploits was tp feign insanity and get her
self inearcerafed in the BlackwelIs Island
Asylum for the purpose of describing her
experiences. Her trip around the world in
seventy-two days in 1890 gave her consider
able notoriety.