The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-29

well posted IN the case.
During the afternoon half a dozen
of his business friends called, and he
was taken down to Captain Miller's
room on the fifth floor. For two hours
he talked about coal lands, coal stocks
and coal prospects to these people,
signed a number of letters and tele-
grams and transacted two days busi-
ness. He was much improved in health
and spirits, and talked very coolly. On
his way back to his cell he was asked
if he would say anything for publica-
tion.
Il am not guilty." he replied firmly.
"And he will not be be held" added
Lawyer Moore.
They would say nothing else.
The love letters from the North Caro-
lima girl which she sent to Langdon,
addressed to Pcstc ffice Box 118, and
which the police have possession of,
are being given much consideration
by the authorities. They are couched
in extravagartly affectionate terms
and are all typewriter. The girl
is a stenographer in the Office of the
Langdon & Henzey Coal Mining Com
pany Of North Carolina, and her father
is DOOk-kGED6I III TIC IOliSCA H. itS
Gently she has been in Raleigh.
Detective Geyer left for Greensboro,
North Carolina, on the Southern Rail-
way limited, which left Broad Street
station at 6:55 o'clock Wednesday
night. He reached Greensboro at 8:45
Thursday morning, but it is not known
where he went from there. Raleigh is
ON the same railroad. He telegraphed
his safe arrival to Superintendent Lin
den, but that is all. 1t is said that
Ciever expects to find in the office of
the coal company which Langdon con-
trolls a motive for the murder of the
McGrath girl.
Detective Geyer got to Greensboro
Thurgelay morning. He intended to
come to Raleigh, and go from here to
Cumnock. But in Greensboro he found
the name of the young lady who wrote
the affectionate letters to Langdon
The Greensboro Record says:
Detective Geyer's visit to Cumnock
was to ascertain the name Of a young
lady living there who signed herself
Katie X. W.
"Mr. Geyer stated yesterday that all
these letters were signed Katie *.
W." and he was on his way to Cum
mock to find out, but he made the dis
coyery here before he left yesterday
at noon.
"He found a Greensboro gentleman
who knew her well and also her con-
nection with the coal mining company
at Cumnoek Her name is here given
for the first time Katie W. Waite.
"Mr. Geyer said he intended to see
her if she was on the top side of the
ground and when he did he was sure
he would discover enough about the
whole matter to make it plain sailing.
He was fortified with her letters to
Langdon in his pocket and said when
confronted with all he had to draw on
her he was satisfied she could not hold
out longer for he is satisfied she holds
the key to the situation,' though Of
course she is not supposed to be i'm
any way implicated"
The News and Observer told of the
young lady at Cumnock some days ago,
but did not give her name.
That Langdon was engaged to the
young lady who wrote the letters found
in his post-office box, is hardly doubted.
Langdon is said to have been rep
resented as a widower, in North Caro-
lima.
The young lady is not believed to be
in any way connected with the crime.
And if she was engaged to Langdon,
it is believed that he grossly deceived
her.