The times., 1899-08-08

Office and get money from my friends to
pay what you owe on the furniture and
piano There is but $3.50 owing the
piano, and you can liquidate that by re-
turning the STOOL which is worth more.
ihen you had better sell the furniture and
! take the children and go away. You can
not i've mere in disgrace. / have disgraced
you | know. but if the other matter had
got out would have been disgraeed any
| way, and discharged and then no one
| would nave given me work and you would
| nave starved. Do not go away at once,
but come and see me at the jail ii they
! VIII permit it. Under no circumstances
bring the children, as it is no place for
them When you go away stay until you
| hear from me. II | am sentenced to a
! life Imprisonment l will have a chance
Tor a pardon, and ii they hang me it viii
be better for you and me after all. Mrs.
| Smell demonstrated with her husband for
! his view of the matter and said she would
have been willing to work had he been
discharged, but Smell answered, That
would not have done The matter is better
as ii stands" Is
] After carefully going over the ground OF
! the murder committed by Smell and after
taking everything into consideration. It
would appear beyond question that the
man went to the Weisenberger home Sun
I day morning for the express purpose OF
killing little Lizzie, as he had threatened
! TO do If the child ever divulged the extent
| OF his relations with her. He knew the
! child had confided in her mother and he
feared the consequences. He also rsa lied
! that his game had been baked and that he
could no longer hope to continue his p ac-
| tices with the child, as she had found a
! "backer.' as he expressed it, in her sister
| Emma. This knowledge came to Smell one
| week ago today when he visited the
/ Weisenberger home. He had been at the
house the previous Friday and after being
refused the custody of the child went
i away.
The Child Tells Her story.
| After he had gone Mrs. Weisenberger
prevailed on Lizzie to give her reason for
not wishing to return. The child dia so
reluctantly and since that time had shown
! great fear. She avoided the house of Smell
! when on her way to work and return and
| complained to her sister Emma that she
feared Smell would kill her. Sat rday
morning, July 80, Smell again came to the
| Weisenberger home and though Mrs. Wei
! senherger knew of the conduct OF the man
/ toward her daughter she did not speak OF
| 1t TO him, fearing the consequences. Lizzie
| saw Smell and ran away from the house to
/ the home of Charles E. Groome, who lives
at e15 Acker Street northeast, and who ems
1 ploys Emma. There after relating her
fears tc her sister, Lizzie said; Kiss me
! goodby, Emma, / am so afraid She then
! walked away a short distance and return
| ing said: Kiss me again. oh, ! am so, SO
AFRAID
Smell did not again visit the Weisen-
berger home until the following Tuesday,
when he again requested that Lizzie be
| allowed to go home with him. He said
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| not do without her. Emma took a hand
in the matter at this juncture and told
Smell she suspected something was wrong
| and that she could not understand his in
| fatraticn for the child. Shells eyes snapped.
Here was the truth He saw at once that
Lizzie had told what he had threatened
! would cost her her life Smell left the
house shortly after this and it is supposed
formed his plans for the death OF the lit
! tie girl.
Since the admission OF Lizzie to her
mother of the conduct of Smell toward her
it came to light that Carrie another sis
ter. had been witness OF an assault COM
mitted on another little girl of the neigh
borhood by Smell, and that the man had
on more than one occasion made proposals
| to other little girls. The sisters, Carrie
and Emma, made that statement to Times
reporter yesterday evening, but said they
/ preferred net to give names as they
| did not want to bring neighbors into dis
! grace or notoriety. The police have the
names and are investigating the truth of
the statement, which came to them from
| other sources. ~
! At the home of the Smells it was impossi-
| bic to get any information last night. Mrs.
! Smell was not at home when a Times re-
porter called, but an offcious young man
with red hairfyoiunteered the information
! that be WAS In charge of the house and
| had nothing to say. He stated that Mrs
| Smell had gone up town to consult Attor-
ney a. A.iBirney. When Mrs Smell re-
turned sheientered through a rear entrance
and asked TO be excluded from all enquir-
| ers. The Eed-headed young man conveyed
/ the message to the reporter and would say
nothing further than that two brothers of
Mr. Smell who lived in Georgia, had been
telegraphed for and would arrive as soon
as possible. He stated that one brother
was county judge and the other clerk
OF court at or near Sandersyille.
Smell Shreyvd and Cunning.
In the northeastern section of the city
there has been current for some time a
story which is generally credited, which
would indicate that Smell was shrewd to a
degree of subtiety yindictiye and though
phlegmatic in temperament, alive to what
was going on about him and willing to wait
long to secure revenge and make that COM
plete The story is TO the effect that Smell
and his wife did not live happily and that
Mrs. Smell was known to be receiving the
attentions of a mounted policeman, whose
beat took him along the Bladensburg road
on which the Smell house was then located.
1t is stated that Smell learned of the at
tentions of the policeman and though he
said nothing, laid plans for the downfall
of the officer and then waited for a fayora-
BILE opportunity TO put them into effect
1t is said that after some time had
elapsed, during which Smell kept g close
watch on the policeman, he finally got the
desired opportunity. After making friends
with the policeman Shell met him when on
duty one night and invited him into his
house to get a drink. The policeman, it
is said accepted the drink and was either
drugged or became intoxicated to such
degree that he was helpless. Smell then.
it is said. went to the stationhouse where
he reported to the sergeant on duty that
his house had been invaded by a drunken
policeman, who was in no condition to
move When the sergeant, IN company
with Smell, arrived at the home OF the lat
ter. the policeman had disappeared and II
subsequently developed that Mrs. Smell,
knowing the officer was in the house, and
suspecting something wrong, had come
downstairs and helped the policeman to
the road, where she gave him into the
care of neighbors. At all events, the game
OF Smell was baked.
It was said by Emma Weisenberger yes
terday evening that Smell had wonderful
influence over Lizzie and also over her
father ''The influence over father was
such" said Miss Emma, that he had in
duced him to leave mother and take my
brother Henry with him In fact, it was