The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-06-08
A TERRIBLE SOLUTION.
The Minnie Holmes mystery is
Solved and Morgantcwp
man is Implicated.

The Charles White who was with her
was formerly of this place and was
Later pastor of the Holmes church at
Clarksburg-He Is married man and
has a wife and child He has Con-
fessed to his Sin and and has left
Clarksburg-He is now Here-The fam
lily are among the best respected peo-
pie in the Town-He has always
Borne the best Of regulations his act
has given his Friends great distress
Details OF the sad affair-First no.
tice OF the Scandal made public by a
Fairmont newspaper.
The Minnie Holmes mystery is
a mystery no longer. The man who
was with her and who spent the ia
tai night with her in Pittsburg is a
Morgantown boy and one of whom
the town has been justly proud. He
is Rev. Charles White, of Clarks-
burg, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, of that place. Miss Holmes
was a member of his flock and it was
there that the beginning of the af-
fair which has ended the life of one
of the participants, blasted the life
of another and broken up a happy
home begun. To say;that the affair is
a great shock to the people ofMorgan-
town is putting it mildly.
1t was whispered when the papers
told of Rev. Charles White being
connected with the suicide that it
was not the minister at Clarksburg
Later events have shown this proph-
ecy to have been correct The re-
greet that is felt over it is too deep
for expression.
The man who is thus connected
with the suicide is in Morgaatown
and is at his home on Sunnyside.
His parents are among the most re-
spected and prominent people of the
town and the sympathy of all is ex-
tended to them in this terrible blow
to their hopes for their son.
Since his graduation from the
University with the highest honors
and taking long course at Prince
ton followed by a successful grad
uation Charles has been pastor of
the church at Clarksburg. Here he
made grand success of his work.
He was almost worshipped by the
congregation and was one of the
most popular and we'll liked minis
tiers in the State.
Speaking of the affair and the way
it is seen up there the Fairmont Elk
positor says:
At Clarksburg last night when he
was confronted by number of the
leading men of bis congregation,
Rev. White at first denied that he
had been in Pittsburg at all, but be-
ing pressed in the matter he ac-
knowledged that he had met the
girl there by appointment and that
they were together at the hotel He
had telegraphed her that he would
be there
Alter making the confession White
fled. No one knows where he has
gone, not even his young wife. He
was told that he would be shot if he
remained in the town, and he de-
parted a ruined man, deserving all
the censure that he will receive. So
far as is known, this is the first pub
lished account of the connection in
the matter of the young pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Clarks-
burg.
Chas. White graduated from the
university at Morgantown few years
ago. He stood high in his class and
has become preacher of ability. His
parents and sisters live in Nor
gantown, and they are eminently
respectable, refined, Christian people.
There were four brothers in the fam
lily, three of them Presbyterian
preachers and the other a civil engi-
neer, all of them graduates of the
University. Charles was by all means
the brightest member of the family
and was pushed forward more than
the others. He is about thirty years
old. Miss Holmes was the organist
in the church of which he was the
pastor, and in this way their ae-
became intimate. He
was married some little time ago to
Miss Ella Patton, of Clarksburg, and
they have one child, babe in arms.