The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-06

known persons and covering the four
years Immediately preceding his death.
His relations with his wife had always
been of the most amiable and trustful
kind. None of the servants knew of
his ever having quarreled with her.
Mrs. Prineveau looked after all his per-
sonal comforts, was continually solicit
tous about his health, accompanied
him everywhere, and bore the reputa-
ton of being a discreet domestic
woman with an obvious affection for
man who was twenty years her senior.
There was in his house on Fifth ave-
nue. a servant who had been with
them for five years-her name was
Rose Kenny, and she testified that
about q week before the murder Mr.
Prineveau had been visited at night
by the nephew Clarkson, whom she had
let in, and who was seen by Mr.. Prime
veau in the library, a small room in
the wing at the rear of the house.
From appearance she thought the man
had been drinking. He wore rough
and soiled overcoat and an imitation
astrakan cap pulled over his face.
He stayed over half an hour in the
library, and she heard him from the
front parlOr speaking in loud and
angry tones. She admitted that she
had listened, and swore that she heard
him say: "Then look out for yourself,
for you will not live to accomplish it,"
To which the old man in soft voice
made some kind of appealing reply.
This was about ten o'clock at night,
and Mrs. Prineveau, who had gone to
concert at Steinway hall with a
party of friends, had not returned.
She came back at ten minutes of eleven,
and, upon making inquiries of the
maid, Rosy, learned these facts and
showed good deal of Indignation be-
cause Mr. Prineveau had been subjected
to the annoyance of a worthless and
reckless scapegrace.
Mrs. Prineveau herself corroborated
this statement explicitly, but could
give very little information about the
habits or antecendents of Clarkson, ex-
cept that she had learned incidentally
from her husband that he was n drunk
ard with wife and two children, and,
owing TO his dissOlute habits, had
never been able to take care of himself
or his family.
II was also learned that on the after
noon of the 1ith of March Clarkson had
been seen by the coachman hanging
| about the house, and the hall boy, who
had been sent on an orrand, encoun-
| tered him on the corner and was there
| held In conversation by him, Clarkson
asking him. among other things if Mr.
| Prineveau did not take drive usually
In the afternoons.
These bits of testimony led to the
police efforts to find Clarltson. Mr.
| Prineveau was buried in the Trinity
cemetry on the 18th. His funeral was
attended by many old New Workers,
and public attendtion was turned to the
efforts made by Mrs. Prineveau to dis
cover the perpetrator Of the crime.
on the 2ist Clarksons wife and chill
dren were found In u miserable lodging
place In Variok street. But Clarkson
had disappeared His wife promptly
acknowledged that he had come home
| late on the afternoon of the 18th, had
hurriedly changed his clothes and gone
| out She had not seen him or heard of
| him since. But she strenuously denied
that he had committed crime. and
refused to be influenced by any of the
damaging circumstances.
Here the affair threatened to end, as
so many Others of It's kind have ended,
in idle curiosity, police inefIlciency and
ultimate forgetflness. But on the
23d Clarkson was discovered In hid
ing in Troy. He was brought here
and lodged in the city prison, and then