Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-08-16
NEWPORT NEWS. VA, TUESDAY, AUGUST Is, 1898.
II. e. SCIlooLEY IN TROUBLE.
Trick i:icyclist Charged With the Murder
{" Aouns Girl.

Trick i;icyciist Charged with the Murder
fa AounS Girl.
II. c. Schoolcy. the bicyclist who
spent several months in this city last
year, and after being welded to Mrs.
n. b. Edwards. left for parts unknown.
taking over 500 of his wfes money and
several valuable medals belonging to
Mr.. Fred G. Ripper, is under arrest at
Westerly, r. L., on Il charge of muir
der.
y special TO the New York Journal
from Westerly says:
THE arrangement of II. c. Schooley
of san Francisco, here this morning.
charged with assaulling Maria a.
Flynn, disclosed the facts of a senSa-
tional drowning at Ocean Pier, Watch
Hill. late last night. of which the wo-
man mentioned i'll the charge was the
victim.
From the evidence obtained by the
authorities 1t appears that the young
woman. who was employed at the Ocean
House as Il laundress met Schooley by
appointment on the pier last night
AT about 10:I0 O'Clock the attention
OF the guests at the Larl1in House was
attracted toward the pier by a scream,
save me- and Il splash. Those who
heard it rushed out, but before they
could be of assistance the life-saving
crew appeared in their boat ant, the
body OF the girl was soon found. Her
home is believed to be in New York
The life-saving men had been summon
ed by Schooley himself. who made no
attempt To conceal the fact that he
was with Miss Flynn on the pier.
"Schooley is a trick bicycle rider He
was held in $1,000 for trial"
Schooley was Well known in this city
though he lived here but u short time
1T Will be remembered that he gave
several exhibitions Of trick riding and
afterwards managed Mr.. Ilipper's BIZ
lots between the First Nn at l'c and
Citizens and Marine hanks Srhoo1n,.
bcc;i,,,e infatuated with Mrs. N Il IA.
wards. With whom he hoardod ~,
Twenty sixth street. and they werf.
married. Several DAYS !, fter tba ,.ad-
ding Schooley left the CITY ana has nor
since been heard from no. ''''
Recently Mrs. Edwards retained A.
torrey l.. S. Robinson. ana mas insti-
tuted proceedings for a divorce from
The New York World SUNDAY nuh-
lishcd The following sneciaI fron, vs.
terly r. L:
The ALA bsorbing question OF watch
Eill-in fact every resort in Rhode IS
land. for the dead girl was known
We'll at Narraransatt pj,,r last saoson
is whether Maria I71,,nn ,,.ns ,,,,,
dered by the trick bicyclist Scbnolav
and her body Thrown into the water or
whether 10 ,.scnn,. from hin, sha 49, ~.
I'm On
to find out the facts. NM.
THE dead girl bore an eSceIlant ch,r
acter and the World corresnondent
learns frcm a man who vas With
Schooley early in the evening that she
did everything in her power to rid
herself of Schooley's comnany F,,r
thermore the medical examiner sta1as
that she was pure. :
Miss Flynn was twenty-twos.;cars old
and a New York girl Sh.W,Ao s SIM
ployed as a laundress fltsa-t NE. sOc,,a i
House at Watch Fiji When she vas
drowned off the BLOCK Island rIar about
IL O'Clock Thursday night there was
only one other person on the pier; that
was Fl. c. Schooley. the self-styled
champion bicycle rider of the country.
and he was Immediately arrested.
According 10 Schooley's story, he
and the girl sat on the bench under the
shelter at the pier They chatted
awhile, and then the girl resented his
offensive attentions. When he did not
stop she Sprang at him. using her
hands with clawlike ferocity. The nails
cut deep into the flesh. Both hands left
bloody marks on his face. Then she
seized his necktie. tearing it, from his
neck. and also tore his vest omen. She
'.Schooley admitted that his purpose
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