Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-13

Staff Special.
WESTON, w. VA, August 12.-
Agents Stub No. 1925 is the most dam
aging evidence yet adducede against DR..
w. E. Stathers, in the investigation,
which is being conducted by the hos
pital board.
1t is virtually incontrovertable proof
that Harriet Green bought an inter-
changeable mileage book from Balti-
more & Ohio agent Henderson, at Graf
ton, May 6, 1898, and signed her name
in evidence.
Two witnesses identified DR.. Stath-
ers as the man who met the Green girl
at Grafton on that date. Agent Hen
derson saw the two walk toward pull
man sleeper in which DR.. Stathers
had previously bought double lower
berth.
The colored porter at the Ward Hotel
swore that the girl registered there as
Harriet Green, and that he carried a
note from the Ward House to the Cen
trail Hotel, but he did not know who it
was for, as he could not read. The mis-
sing link in the chain of evidence was
spouse TO telegram from counsel for
the prosecution, came
THE FOLLOWING REPLY:
GRAFTON, w. VA, August II.
"W. E. Stathers registered for sup
per, May 6, 1898. (Signed),
"W. F. JARVIS,
CLERK Central Hotel"
The evidence to-day was Of a rather
salacious character as forecasted in the
Register. Fillmore Howell, the burly
colored porter at the Ward House and
Thos. L. Henderson, assistant Baltimore
& Ohio ticket agent at Grafton, con-
fronted Dr. Stathers and Miss Green
before the board and these identified
them as being in Grafton on May 6,
1898.
Their evidence was not shaken under
the searching crosS-examination. The
appearance of the two parties was more
firmly fixed upon their minds by the
discovery of the fact that Miss Green
had an alias, which naturally aroused
their suspicion and led to a comparison
of notes
Howell testified that he was ap-
preached by a man whom he identified
as G. l.. Topping, clerk at the hospital,
who wanted him to make an affidavit
which he declined to do. Topping
said that witness could get a job up
there" which he understood to mean
the Weston hospital.
When Clerk Topping was placed on
the stand, he
ADMITTED GOING TO GRAFTON
to see Howell. He had been sent by
DR.. Stathers. The superintendent ex-
PLANTATION was that false report was in
circulation that he and Miss Green
went to st. Louis together, and he
thought Howell would make affidavit
that he put Miss Green on an east
bound train. Dr. Stathers authorized
him to say to Howell that if he could
secure the proper endorsements he
would appoint him to a position at the
hospital. Howell declined to make the
affidavit
Agent Henderson said that he saw
Miss Green and Or. Stathers together
in the waiting room. He did not re-
member seeing the doctor before or
since until to-day. The woman bought
a mileage ticket about two hours be-
fore he saw the two together.
What name did she sign?" was
asked.
Miss Maud Stathers."
"Did she say where she was going?"
''She said she wanted a ticket on
which she could go to st. Louis"
Ibid she engage a sleeping car
berth?"
mo; but DR.. Stathers engaged a
double lower berth on the west-bound
train
Miss Grace Bussey, Of Jarvisville,
was another important witness. She
testified that DR.. Stathers
PLACED HIS ARM ABOUT HER
on one occasion, and said he was going
10 send her to Wheeling where he
"sent all mis- pretty girls" He told her
she ought to look upon him as a father,
as her father and himself were fellow
Masons. She declined to accompany
him. on a trip to Pittsburg. He said
it made no difference what a girl did.
so the world did not know it, and that
"a girl should not confine herself to
one man."
Miss Emma Snyder, an attendant.
corroborated Mrs. Sommervlle regard
ing the statement that DIR. Stathers
asked her to sign retracting her aft
dayit.
Miss Alice Custer. an attendant, tes-