Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-18

Lows well. They used to come up 10
his stand hand in hand like school chill
dren laughing and chatting. D
This continued until the later part
Of 1894. Lillian had grown to be quite
miss now and was beginning to show
some of the spirit of coquetry which she
had inherited She knew positively
nothing of life In the outer world at this
time, however, and was merely indis-
Greet in the uncOnaciOusness Of ignor-
ance While living at Mrs. Colts
boarding house in Thirty-second street
Mr.. Low noticed that his daughter had
exchanged glances with a colored boy
named Wilson, who was employed as
butler in the house. He concluded TO
watch them. Going out one morning he
returned very quickly, shut himself up
in his. own room and awaited develop
ments. He heard his daughter go TO
the speaking tube and engage in some
pleasantly with Wilson. A few mo-
ments later he heard cries from the adj
Joining room and found Wilson holding
Lillian. Mr.. Low struck the boy, and
subsequently slapped his daughter for
her imprudence Wilson is now in the
penitentlary.
After this father and daughter did
not get on well. Lillian chafed under
the restraint imposed by Mr. Low. His
eyes were weak and he inslted on keep
ing the window blinds closed all the
time He would not permit his daugh-
ter to leave his presence except at bed
time The sunlight did not come into
her life. She became dissatisfied.
About this time Lillian fell sick and
was sent to the New York hospital.
When she recovered she went with her
father to live at No. III West Thirty
fourth street. They took their meals
in a neighboring restaurant, and there
is where Mr.. Low casually met Ray
mOnd TToWbridge, a young man who
had for some time been a clerk in the
Office of Low, Hartman & Co. He in
trOduced Trowbridge to Lillian and at
times the trio took their meals at the
same table.
Mr.. Low was tired of this mode Of
living, and was persuaded to board
with Miss A. K. Hanson on Thirty-sec>
ond street. There father and daughter
met DR.. Thomas J Biggs, Henry J.
Champney and d Nine, Rose, of Paris,
whose personality is not clearly brought
out as yet. Lillian became very much
attached to Miss Hanson and to DR..
Biggs and Mr.. Champney. She con-
fessed to her father that she loved
Biggs, but it was plain that her affec-
ton was not reclprocated, although
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Mr.. Low did not like the way things
were going, and much against the
wishes of his daughter he moved. Miss
Hanson, who seems to have eXerted
wonderful influence over the girl, told
her when leaving that if ever she neeGN
ed a friend the Hanson home was open
to her. This, 1t appears, served TO
make the girl dissatisfied
At a preliminary inquest it was
shown that the girl had been assaulted
shortly before her death. Miss Hanson,
Dr.. Biggs and Champney were arrested
on Thursday by order of the coroner
on the strength Of an affidavit made by
Lillian Lows father. In this affidavit
James Hanson, Jr., declared that Miss
Hanson's fiat was shady" that he had
been informed that his daughter had
been seen riding in the park with
young men, finely dressed and that he
believed the Hanson family had sOme-
thing to do with causing her death.
DR.. Biggs admitted that he wrote the
Baby Cuckoo" letter found on the girl,
but said it was written in a spirit Of
fun, and thab,he had written two more
exactly like it TO girl friends. He and
Caampney declared they had no inter-
est in Lillian beyond that Of sympa-
thetic friends. Biggs comes from Glen
dale, O.. and was visiting his family
there when he wrote the letter. He
was secretly divorced in Ohio several
vars ago. He is not a duly registered
physician, but is an assistant of DR..
ChetwOod of the Demilt dispensary in
this city. Champney is general man.
ager of the Bovinine Co.
Two Of the young men mentioned as
having been seen in company with Lii
liam Low are Robert Inman, a nephew
Of the railroad magnate, and Raymond
Trowbridge Both disappeared the day
the body of the girl was found. Inman
returned yesterday and denied a report
that he had entertained Lillian Low
and TrOwbridge in his bachelor apart
ments in Thirty-second street. He said
he had never met the girl. This even
ing Trowbridge came back. He made
statement in which he said he had
not seen Lillian for five months. Capt.
Pickett. of the "tenderloini district,
tripped Trowbridge up on his statement
several times, and he is under surveil-
lance.
The strangest part Of the story is this
statement of Oscar Lipsker, a baker,
who says that on Saturday morning
last he saw DR.. Biggs and Lillian Low
together on Washington Heights, near
the spot where the girls body was
found. Lipsker had a day off and welH
ND to Fort George to enjoy the fresh
air. He NETS Biggs and the girl at
soda fountain. and recognized both by
the newspaper pictures Of them printed
on Thursday. DR.. Biggs has thus far
refused to make detailed statement.
The case will come up for full investi
cation on Tuesday next before the cor
oner.
Yesterday the body Of Lillian Low
was buried in Woodlawn cemetery.
James Lowe. Jr.. applied to his brother
Joseph for permission to bury the body
i'm the Low family lot, but this was re-
fused. and he purchased two lots adj
Joining. The scene at the grave was
pathetic in the extreme. Mr. Low is
free thinker, and so was his daughter.
He decided not to have a funeral SER
vice.
"She always said she did not care
about any fuss at her burial was The
way he put it.