The evening times., 1897-09-10


on the bills Among the papers receipt
for the rent of room at No. SGT East
Main street, Norfolk. for the month ending
June 2S, 1897. was found. This was
signed by Mrs. A. Dyson
A dispatch was at once sent by The Times
to Druggist aaines Il. Scott. and the FOL
lowing repay wss received:
MARX A. @. Gift was a drug clerk
who had lived In Norfolk several years.
He was married. His wife had child by
forrnes marriage. He has father and
usii.f relations In Baltimore. l cfutioyed
him several times as relief clerk aud col
lsctor. n- left here suddenly on August
4 alone. HIS wife has since gone TO faf-
timre. ! think he drank hard at times
JAMES f. SCOTT
Soon another dispatch was sent by The
Times TO Mr.. Scott, asking for descrip-
tion OF Abe man he had employed The
reply follows:
..Cli.t is about 3 feet inches high.
light complexion, hair and eyes very light,
light Elustache, quite fleshy, and did not
lock to he more than twenty-five years old.
! cannot give description of Mrs. Cliff.
u. E. SCOTT
The height OF the man s given as five
feet three inches. The height OF the
sAeic,on, which all Of the Laurel doctors
have Pronounced the skeieton of q woman,
is five feet two or three inches. IL was
found last Sunday o,i u piece OF ground
where, on Sunday, August 8, Prof. hnowl.
ton. Of the Agricultural A Department.
saw a naked nan seated. No weapon was
found. and Gift, being drug clerk. he
knew the use OF poisons and perhaps killed
himself in that way.
Reporters yesterda bunted the road from
the Relay House to Laurel, over which the
German tramp with the red mustache.
stoop shoulders and squint eye, accompa-
MED by the little short haired woman and
the dugs. entered Laurel. Track OF them
was fo,.nd all along the road. They came
from Paltimure and reached Laurel Fri
day, August 6. They were seen by Mer
chants Shaffer Green and Farrell. They
Were seen TO 20 toward keiiogg's woods.
They were seen in Kellogg's wuods on
saturda ~ August z. within leo feet OF
wher. the skeleton was found.
The doctors at Laurel have positively
identified the skeleton as that OF a woman.
Another dispatch from Norfolk states
tat Mark A. q. Gift resided in thatcityu
to the first day of August. when he sud
denly departed.
L. July, 1896, Gift applied for situ
alton to DR.. Mcdonald, who keeps a drug
store on Chapel street, Norfolk, aging
that he was penniIess and that his wife
and ci.id had nothing TO eat. He was
given employment, but short time there
after he went on a spree and was dis
charged
Upon his promiseto refor m. he W as taken
back into the store some months later,
and Remained there until June OF last
year. One day in June 50 wss given
him to make purchases for the store.
lie took the money and also 81 from the
cast drawer. for which he left ticket
and never returned. He did not buy the
goods OF account for the money.
Two or three weeks later he collected
s.. rs from a customer and gave his receipt
for it. bu. never accounted for the funds.
After nis connection with McDonald's
store terminated Gift obtained occasional
employment in Dr. Scotts drug store, on
Church street.
ON Sunday, August I DR.. Scott left him
in charge. Upon his return, late in the
after noon, he found the store wide open,
some So OF Sc. had also disappear ed. Cliff
was seen to board train for Ocean View
the same day, and that wasthe last time he
was seen in Norfolk.
Cliff occupied rooms in a boarding
house kept 10y Mrs. Dyson, on Main street,
and when H. went away he left his wife
and child in destitute circumstances. Mrs
Gifts condition was made known 10 the
pastor IT the First Presbyterian Church,
who visited her.
Sonse ladies connected with the aid So
eiety of the church gave her assistance.
She also received help from the Masons,
il having been learned that her father,
who is dead. belonged to the order.
some weezs age she was provided with
the means to 20 10 Baltimore, where she
formerly lived, and went to her people.
Diiigeat inquiry was made for the name and
address of her Baltimore relatives, with
out result.