Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15

The mysterious crime of Tuesday morn
ing last at the home of Mrs. Ada Gilbert
Dennis on X street shocked the entire city.
The brutality Of the assault ON the sleeping
lady, who was afflicted with deafness, max
ing the murderous work easy for the
assassin who was no doubt acquainted with
her infrmty causes even the coarse 20
shiver and congeals the Blood TO think that
a human being can become so murderously
brutal and so unspeakably deprayed as to
steal upon a sleeping innocent woman and
assault her with some murderous weapon
or instrument That the cause Of the muir.
der-for murder it is in its most horrible
form-was not theft, nor rape, the two most
impelliug motives In the breast Of a male
malefactor or depraved and lustful brute, is
self-evdent Hence the only other impell-
ing passions are REVENGE and JEALOUSY.
Thus theft and rape being eliminated from
the motives of the assassin, he or she, was
alone inspired by jealousy or revenge
Mrs. Dennis was asleep when struck with,
il is alleged, the leg Of a piano stool and the
murderous assailant raiued blow after blow
on the head of the unfortunate woman.
That these blows were not delivered by
muscular arm Is also selfevident as the
victim survived them asj was not killed
outright, as she would have been by the
blows from the arm OF a strong or average
man. Hence the deduction has been ar
rived at that either an eifeminate male or
an VuseNed and maddened female COM
mitted the murderous and cruel assault
The chastity of Mrs. Dennis has been EN-.
phasized by her life of toll and business, as
testified TO by her employees and acquaint.
auces. She had no AaS00S nor even
received male visitors in the evening.
Nor did she keep company with any one on
the outside No male was either courting
or paying his addresses TO the lady This,
from our point of view, reduces the motives
for the murder to the one overpowering
aud nasterful passion of-REvENGE. There
could be no female jealous of her as she
gave no cause for jealousy, unless, indeed,
She were a female DR.. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
But this she could not have been without
some one coming forward and tipping"
the fact OFF to the police Besides, Mrs
Dennis lived such life ia the day time
that such a role would be impossible. And
in the night she was invariably accounted
for as retiring early IL would, as stated,
be impossible for her to slip out at night
and enact the Hyde role, to return in the
carly NAhllANA alAA hnnAAAAN AlNN III INhNl
duties she was called upon TO perform in
the management of her well-paying ellen
tage of ladies' Mrs Dennis employed a
number of women in her dress.makiug
enterprise. Her daily supervision and close
application to this lucrative business has
been attested and proven beyond doubt
Therefore, she was not keeping dates or
company in the day time This fact is
clear. It is equally clear that her nights
were as free from suspicion and that OWN to
hervery neutrality-suspicious. to her rooms would
be overheard in conversation. She had no
such visitors and she could not slip out to
indulge in debauch and preserve her health,
her business and her personal appearance.
Analyze ii as we will and making every
allowance for the weakness of human
nature, and especially Of female human
nature, we must pronounce Mrs Dennis a
hard headed business woman, coldly indif.
ferent to intercourse with the opposite sex
and interested In the business of making
money with her dressmaking establishments
This being the almost certain fact. why
was Mrs Dennis assaulted2 And whom did
she SO mortally offend that he or she en-
deavored TO beat out her brains while She
slept7 Certainly, too, 1t was no male per-
son she thus drove to murder because no
male was known to be her intimate, her
partner IN business, her backcr, her COM
pany or her paramour. The deduction Is
plain as the murderous wounds themselves
that a woman Is the assassin Who is the
woman Thanks TO the stupidity of our
police department that question is now
more difficult TO answer than 1t would have
been If proper methods had been observed
when the murder was first reported In all
cities of the civilized world when occur.
rences of this character are reported TO the
police IL is customary to seal the rooms and
either arrest or place under police super
vision every human being in the house
where the homicide or attempted murder
has been committed. Why this plain, com.
nonsense policy was not adopted either in
this or the Bouine case we are unable TO
answer.
If the Dennis rooms had been sealed up
and everybody excluded but the officers of
the law there might have been a chance
for the sagacious detective to trail the as
sassin from some evidence of her visit in
the condition of the rooms and the disar-
rangement of the articles therein If the
individuals in the house had been placed
incommunicado and separately examined,
the police comd satisfy themselves TO a
certainty whether there was any clue which
could be followed up from their statements.
Whether their statements tailed or cores.
pouded Whether in fact, the murderer
was among themi II is positively criminal
on the part Of the police the manner and
method pursued In this case, as In few
others Of noted character They have aided
the assassin Of Mrs. Dennis in more Sc.
curely coneealing her identity, and it will
now, indeed, be miraculous II she is smoked
out from under cover She is a woman