The Cairo bulletin., 1906-12-16
STARTLED LOVERS TELL OF SEE.
ING SEQUEL TO DARK DAY
TON, OHIO, TRAGEDY.
VICTIMS ARM UPLIFTED
And II is Believed She Was Killed and
Later Carried to the Secluded
Spot Where She Was Found
An Uncanny Story.


of notoriety, long suppressed or kept
secret, is coming to the fore that will
cause Dayton TO gasp, notwithstand
ing the fact that the town Is weary
worn with excitement caused by the
Gilman murder and other crimes
The scramble for the reward, as well
as the credit for having brought to
Justice the slayer or slayers of Dona
Gilman, has added phase Of selfish
baseness to the situation deeply de.
plored by a percentage of the citi.
zens here.
A woman, or girl rather. who was
passing with her lover on Wednesday
night November 81 ar about /
O'Clock in the neighborhood where
Dona Gilman's body was found, has
consented TO tell what she knows to
The authorities at the proper time.
This recital will cause some faces
TO blanch. for according to her state
ment, she and her escort heard whis-
pers in the dark and thinking they
were being pursued by Tintown me-
grOes, who have the worst reputation
turned to look in the direction form
which they heard the sibilant sounds
and witnessed spectacle which they
did not give a deal of consideration,
but which after the murder appealed
70 them as being most significant.
They saw figures carrying a form
which they thought might be that of
n big dog. the darkness preventing
them from seeing only the blurred
silhouette as it moved along slowly.
Ran Away in Fear
The couple ran not knowing what
was going on, and got away from the
neighborhood as quickly as possible
The couple agreed next evening after
the news of the murder came out that
they would say nothing, at least for
time, not desiring TO be made con
spicuous by their testimony. Finally
they concluded that some innocent |
person might be made to suffer and |
rather than see anything of the kind |
occur will take the stand and testify |
when they are called
Another fact which will have much |
70 do with determining certain details |
over which there Is at present doubt |
az difference is that forolady, Mies t
Haas of he Cash Register companys |
bindery department, stated today at |
her place of employment. that Dcna |
Gilman did not carry home with her
,E
novel of any kind.
The book. Iole, originally believed
10 have been the volume in which a
letter from Stanley Anderson, of
10 Miss Gilman reposed in. is
IN The library of the National Cash
Register company, nor did she carry
the novel Maurne, BY Ella Wheeler
Wilcox but that it was a sketch book
belonging to her sister Fayne, and
that she and Louise Sheenhan who
works in the same department and
lives al l05 Green street, were look
ing at II before they went out of the
works for home.
Dona. she said. carried this sketch
book under her arm. Miss Sheehan
says that she was on the car with
bona until if pa sed the place where
Curtis is alleged to have boarded il
aud that there was only one man on
he car. This was not Curtis, she in
lists.
Forearm Uplifted.
Evidence was brought out today
81 .n |
forearm stood up in the air
Physicians insist that this condition
,ould not we'll exist had she died int
he position in which her body was
uund. A prominent local physician,
Who was present at the second in
luest and autopsy, will insist that, I'M
the limbs of the dead body
viii assume a lax position while The
lesh still pliahle. and if the fore 1
rm was found in the position
.laimed after rigor morris mas set
n the body had been changed in its |.
position between The time of death
nd its discovery.
Testimony is at hand showing that ,
ghen found an advanced state of de-
had taken place in the
,ody. Evidence will be brought to
ear upon the point as to whether J
n ihe cool outdoor air and rain this /
ondition has been advanced. 1t will
hen be shown that the body in
eality was inside some building and ,
vas heated
Al the preliminary hearing today
r the case of David Curtis. held for :
he murder ON his confession of guilt
lis prosecutors scored a point In dig
ing up two. witnes-es-R. f. Mars. .
manager Of CushwoTm Bros. the ad-
ertising firm, for whom Curtis u
worked and their 14-yearlold office "
ol. Alfred Ofmeyer. who testified b
hat Curtis had a long black raincoat Q
.hich he wore On the eve Of NOvem-
er 20. upon leaving the Office about D
O'Clock. This is the coat Curtis y
IaImed he had placed in the wood 8
he'd Of his foster parents after he c
al committed the murder, but which h
is foster parents claimed was locked "
Detective Mcbride and his assist
nts had never been able TO account q
8r the disappearance Of this coat. Z,
Is location meant greater strength v