Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-15

! ny ana Europe, Dul LleE ali suCceeutu
in proving an alibi and establishing be-
yond doubt that they were in no way
connected with the crime One famous
hOuse-breaker surrendered himself to
the authorities OF far western city,
| proclaiming himself the murderer; yet
il subsequently tTanspired that lie did
this solely for the purpose Of securing
free transportation to New York, for on
arriving there with the officers he full
~ established The fact that he had not
been connected with the crime in any
way. and that he was hundreds Of miles
distant from the scene of that horror at
the time Of its preparation. Suspic-
ion continued 10 attach 10 the younger
Nathan. and ne was discarded by the
members Of his family. Inneriting the
greater par, lof his fathers large pro
perry, he plunged az once into via
care er of luxurious pleasure, in which ne
eventually sQuandered his entire patrl-
mony. He recently died abroad IN great
poverty. All hope of ever proving VINO
murdered old Mr.. Nathan, was abandon
ed years ago by everybody. The sus-
pected son testified. and always stuck
10 the story, that ne returned nome at a
late hour on the fatal night, was sum-
moned TO the library by his faher. and
tnat after prOracted interview be IeIl
The old gentleman sill sitting up and
retired TO his bedroom where ne was
s-ill sleeping soundly in The morning
when a member of the family went 10
arouse him with the dreadful news Of The
murder.
By far the larger number Of murders
whose perpetrators are never detec-ed
by the police, are those in which women
play a prominent part either as Inc VIC
inns or the causes of them. il would
require a great deal of space to enumer-
ate all the celebrated cases Of young
women who have been murdered IN tn.s
country within the past four decades
and who are still unayeng d, while
nearly as long as would be the list OF
men. who have been assassinated WIN
in the same period, and whose murderers
have never been brought to justice be-
cause the hushing up Of the Wnole az
| fair was esseTtiI TO the preservation Oh
some womans good name.
1t is now more than fifteen years
since the people OF New Haven, Con-
necticut were Mortified one bright
summer morning at finding, on the
shore where it had been washed up
| by the remOrseless waves, the llleless
| bOdv of Jennie Cramer a siXteen-year-
old girl. celebrated i'm the city OF Films
for her rare personal beauty. She was
the daughter of an honest old German,
who kept a small cigar store. Ii was
generally known that for some time
preyious to her death She had been
receiving the attentions OF James and
Edward AIalley. the sons of one OF New
Ravens weaithiest merchants. she
had last been seen alive with these
Young men. and one Blanche Dugias,
an inmate of a disreputable house III
New York. who for seven days pre-
vious had been sOjOurning in New lia-
ven by invitation of the Malley broth
ers. Suspicion and circumstanual eE-
ideuce Uointed with the force OF posi-
tive conviction TO the case as one OF
murder and not of suicide. The Nal
lev bows and Blanche Duglas were
promptly arrested ana committed TOT
trial on the charge Of numbering Jen-
ME Cramer. get despite the District
Attorneys loud and Oft-repeated dec
laration that he would try all three
together. convict all three together ana
hang all three together the whole
uarfv were eventually acquitted.
Blanche Douglas died in New YORK
some four or five years atterward
! lanes NIalley. to whom suspicion ana
/ circumstantial evidence pointed as lhe
instigator OF the crime, removed TO
Scranton. Pa. where he was elected
coroner q few years later. Edward
NTalley still resides in New Haven.
The case of Jennie Cramer IS very
similar to the equally celebrated one
of Mary Rogers. who, like Jennie, was
an attendant i'm a cigar store and was
murdered i'm New York under very IKE
circumstances away back in the early
forties Like Jennie, too, her muir
derer was never discovered, nor We're
the motive Of her untimely taking on
and the method Of its accomplishment
ever positively determined.
Connecticut as a State seems to be
particularly unfortunate in this mat
fer of undiscovered murderers OF
Young women. Next to that OF Jennie
| Cramer its most celebrated case OF this
kind was the one of Mary Stannard,
for whose destruction by poison a
prominent clergyman-in whose house
She had been employed as a domestic
was tried and acquitted in the face
of very strong circumscantial evidence
AGAINST him. Then there was Rose
Amber. a beautiful country girl,
whose dead body was found near the
roadside one morning and to whose
murderer not the slightest clue was
ever obtained, though the crime was
committed away back in September,
1888.
New Jersey, also, has been the scene
of many such murders. A few years
ago a bad odor was noticed proceeding
| from an unclaimed trunk that had
been sent from Patterson to New
York. On being opened it was found
70 contain the lifeless remains-beau-
| tiful even in death-of Alice BowlsDy,
q Young woman employed in SILK
! factory at Patterson and noted for her
! handsome face and form. no trace
of her murderer or murderers was ever
obtained. but a young man OF Patter-
SON known TO have been on terms OF
close friendship with her, committed
suicide on learning Of the discovery Of
her body
One of the most mysterious OF all
sucb murders was that OF Fora Burns,
a remarkably handsome young WQmau
of nineteen years, near Lincoln, ILL.,,
some nine or ten years ago. she had
been employed for some time as do
nestle in the family of one Carpenter,