The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-27

This was done, clarence "a Pned
80, ~ tba deed so made, which deeds are
sill in existence.
Ahout this time, Holmes narrates'
,.jeS Williams was taken i'll, suffering
froy,, acute mania and was removed 10
the PRESBYTERIAN hospital, near the Ciy,
horne avenue car limits, beng ehrolleu
as Mrs. Williams, as her aliInehl was
such that it was prudent 1or neF ~ pass
as a married woman
,J;nnia Williams condition was
brought about. so Holmes says, she tolu
him. by a prominent Boston business
man. head of a firm dealing IN surgical
instruments, with whose wife sne VS.
tied at their home in Somervlile Inns
man had acquired an influence over hei
which she was unable to resist pelray
ed her. and she me thin frequently al d
hotel near his place OF business, oiSan
ing her engagement to marry an nom
est clerk. When she grew better anu
returned 10 his house, her sister, Nan
ME Williams. came from Texas TO Visit
her. Returning one evening carry III
Ju,v from a day in the city, ne was
greeted by cry from Minnie Williams
in the parlor: rs that you MY Eou'
1 thought you would never come. NAH
ME is dead -,
M
ing her sisters head in her arms, rock
ing hack and forth and moaning, mucn
as mother would over child he
found that Mamie had been dead LOT
hours and laid her body upon the ped
in his own room, find0g no mark OF
violence, but a slight discoIoratlon on
one of her temples. According TO the
story written by Holmes Minnie VIII
Jams had been away the proceeding
IaIr had olGnfh uneX-
pectedly detained by business all night.
Then Minnie Williams returned nome
I 1T morning she noticed that MS peu
had not been occupied during the nlSht;
This is what Holmes writes: And
with only one thought in her dlSordereu
mind. she had rushed into the ADJOINING
room where her SiStr sat, ana IN voice
which only the very few VINO have been
Intimately acquainted with Miss Will
Jams can appreciate. had said: You
devil. you have stolen my husband
from me- At the sametime she struck
her sister with a small footstool, caus-
ing her to fall to the floor where with
hardly a struggle, she ceased to
breathe"
AT first Minnie thought her sister had
only tainted and tried to revive her,
then she found her efforts unseless. ana
remained in the position in which he
what to do. Holmes story OF what was
done follows:
eve clothed Mamie in light dress
she had liked to wear, and taking
large trunk she had brought with her
from Texas, / placed her in it. L went
TO a stable and obtained a covered con-
veyance, and upon my return L engaS-
ed man to accompany me to the house
and help me place the trunk in the car
IN tina Ep side and
waited until night, thus appearing TO
parties noticing me, If any, that L was
awaiting the return of some belated
boating party.
Then | procured boat at some dis
lance and took it near my waiting place
and later, with considerable trouble, 1
placed the trunk in the craft and pro-
ceeded about one mile from the shore.
There in the darkness passed beyond
the sight of this world into the ever
gasping depths of Lake Michigan all
that was mortal of this beautiful Chris
tan girl. Coming toward the shore L
thought it wise to depoSite the trunk up
on another and more remote portion of
the beach. ! did this, and after return
ing the boat, drove away, and later
came back for the trunk.
1.-The housekeeping was broken up,
and very shortly thereafter Mr.. Hatch
where she remained in a private insti-
tuition until later in the summer. The
cause that produced her unsound men,
tai condition had been removed. We
kept Nannie's things several weeks. I'M
til l could obtain time TO dispose of
them, when L assorted some of them
and gavet hem to PietZel. telling him
that they were some that Miss Williams
had sent to his children. All the others
were burned in the large stove in the
third story office, and this I plainly told
the Philadelphia authorities in the fall
of 1894, and all the subsequent excite
ment occurred as a direct result of a
visit made there by their representa-
tives in notification of my story. An
other trunk, was not taken from the eX-
press company'S, owing 10 mistake in
charges, though Miss Williams suppos-
ed this also had been disposed of, and
was the one later returned to Fort
Worth. The last / ever saw of Miss
Williams was in Detroit last fall, and
my belief is that she is still alive and
WELL