Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-06-01
WHITE CAN TELL.
He Knows the cause of Minnie
Holmes Suicide.

But he is a mystery als0--trace of Him
and the Girl found Mt two hotels-A
''Clerieal Looking" Man who could
tell the story of the CIarksburg Girls
self-destrueti0n If he would be
brought to the front--the CorOner's
Jury found n verdict of suicide.
Another mystery has been added
to the Minnie Holmes mystery. AS
was suspected there is a man in
the case but there was no reason for
her comm ting suicide from fear of
disgrace if we are to believe the pa
pers. The man in the case is a 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 a clerical looking gen
tleman' called at the Merchants ho-
tel, on Water street, and asked for
room for himself and WIFE He said
he wanted 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 q Ohio railroad station
Presently he returned with a well
dressed young woman. The couple
had satchel along They were en-
inently respectable looking. They
took supper, stayed all night, ate
breakfast 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 indelble 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 finland 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 by
the clerk at the Merchants hotel of
the Charles White and wife who
stopped there the night of May IL.
At the inquest this morning the
result of the post-mortcm examina-
ton by Dir. 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 to
some one just a few hours before
jumping from the Nellie Hudson
into the river.
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