The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-06-08


ssCIerical Looking" Man who could
tell the story of the Glarksburg Girls
seIf-destructi0n il he would be
brought to the front--the Coroner's
/ Jury found verdict Of suicide.
Another mystery has been added
to the Minnie Holmes mystery. As
was suspected there is man in
the case but there was no reason for
her committing suicide from fear OF
disgrace if we are to believe the pa
pers The man in the case is IA GER
tain Charley White who staid with
her at the merchants hotel in Pitts
burg the night before she drowned
herself. The story Of the inquest was
held ON Tuesday afternoon and as
told by the Pittsburg News is as
follows:
The inquest into the death of Min
ME Holmes, the young Clarksburg,
w. Va, girl who disappeared from
the steamboat Nellie Hudson on the
morning of May 10, and whose body
was found in the Monongahela river
was held to-day. The verdict was
suicide by drowning There are
some important developments in the
case which were not made public at
the inquest. They are concerning
the movements of the girl after her
arrival in the city.
1t has been printed that Miss
Holmes arrived here from Car
michaels, Pa, where she had been
visiting on May Is. She stayed on
the boat all night The next morn
ing she registered at the Central
hotel and took breakfast with one
Charles White. He registered as
"Chas. White, City, After break
fast they went out and returned for
dinner White paid for both meals.
Neither he nor the woman had "a
room at the hotel.
Now comes the development that
might help partly to explain the
mystery of the girls suicide. On
the evening of May II man de
scribed as clerical looking gen
tlemana called at the Merchants ho-
tel, on Water street, and asked for
a room for himself and wife. He said
he wanted a nice, quiet back room,
and was satisfied with the one the
clerk showed him. His wife, he
said, as he went out, was at the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad station.
Presently he returned with well
dressed young woman The couple
lad satchel along They were en-
inently respectable looking They
took supper, stayed all night, ate
breakfas and dinner, paid their bill
and departed on the afternoon OF
May Is, saying they were to take
boat.
There are various theories as to
the identity Of the clerical-looking
stranger. 1t is known that he does
not live in Pittsburg or Allegheny.
This Charles White evidently car
ries fountain pen or indelible pen
Gil. The signature, "Chas. White,
city," was written on the Central
hotel register with either fountain
pen or indelible pencil of a faint
blush inland the signature "Chas.
White and wife, city, at the Mer-
chants hotel was written with the
same kind of instrument and is in
the same handwriting. The descrip-
ton of Minnie Holmes and Charles
White, who took breakfast and din
ner at the Central hotel, tallies ex-
actly with the description given 10y
the clerk at the Merchants hotel OF
the Charles White and wife who
stopped there the night of May II.
At the inquest this morning the
result of the post-mortem examina-
ton by DR.. j. G. McCandless was
read. No marks of violence were
found on the body. He also stated
that there was nothing to indicate
that the girl had taken her life
through fear of disgrace. No at
tempt had been made by the coro-
ner to obtain the mysterious tele
gram, which the dead girl sent tc
some one just few hours before
jumping from the Nellie Hudson
into the river.