The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
Most Mysterious Murder Mystery in Philadelphas History

~ Travelled up the state in search NJ
Miss Gray. BY certain humorous And
vet grotesQne coincidence. the hand E
organs at that time were grinding Out
Dolly Gray" by the ream. and =, L
Donaghy came 10 the little stree,
where the Dolly Gray of another colo,
lived, two street-pianos, on either end
of the thorOughtare. struck uD Good,
bye, Dolly Gray, I'm going to leave
yOn,' with vehemence that threat.
ened to turn an unusually affectip, /
tragedy into roaring farce. Dolly
however. who weighed 300 pound,
calmly washed her hands OF StirHny
and declined to assist in proving hi,
alibi.
On the very day of lvory's arres,
Donaghy had taken him to the scens
of the murder. The street where tia
body was found was little-traveled
thoroughfare and the footprints wher
the men had escaped by leaping tho
little iron fence were still visible In
the soft earth. The right shoe was TO-
moved from Ivory's foot and the heel
and toe fitted to d nicely into the foot
prints in the railroad yard. The marks
were there as clearly as though they
had been stenciled
In the meantime evidence was Pill.
ing up in other directions. Mrs Mar
Boyle, who was employed as a wait
ress in a restaurant near Thirty-second
and Market streets, testified that she
had served all three of the men on
!, the day of the crime This was import
ant as establishing the fact that they
were together. But this was not all
, A gardener, named Lutz, said that
earlier in the evening all three OF the
negroes had surrounded him at point
five or six blocks from where the
White crime was committed. They
, did not use violence toward him, sim
ply, as he put it, acted suspiciously.'
, He managed to elude them, however
, and thought no more OF the incident
, until he read of the arrest Of the ne
, groes in connection with the murdel
of Prof. White.
! Within three weeks after the muf
. der Ivory broke down and confesse'
f everything. He said that Perry, Stir
p ing and himself had met at the Bu
+ falo Bill show that afternoon and, CON
d pairing notes, had resolved to &c
, money at any cost. They crossed th
\. Girard avenue bridge and went al0n
If the river drive until they came
Thirty second street. They had intent
@ ed aSsaulting LutZ, the gardener bL
l when he ran away they were too i
If dolent to follow him. They lit
d dreamed that the man had nearly
n thousand dollars in his possession,
n. he might have been the victim instes
g. of the unfortunate professor Final
W Stirling picked up the iron bar me-
n the Powelton Avenue station. Tht
" resolved that he should assault U
a. first prosperous-looking man tn'
N met. Several persons were permitt'
IN to pass unmolested. At last IN
10 White was seen coming along U
,p dark street. Stirling turned TO
I'd others:
in There's a guy looks as If he D
an money"
m They agreed with him, and
Of three black hearted scOundrels
adj lowed the unsuspecting teacher. Al
he favorable opportunity Stirling let
ar. iron bar come down with crash
No the skull of Roy Wilson White. ]
man sank to the sidewalk WIN
nd groan. The big brute continued us
he the iron bar until the face OF the
"a, tim was unrecognizable. Then U
M. went through his clothes and go
as few dollars in money, a ring. an'
nd gold watch. The assassins went Y
nearby lot and divided the things.
as watch was Perry's share OF the
Perry corroborated the confess
.re of every detail. Stirling denied II v
,al the last but weakened within
no shadow of the scaffold. All three '
nd HANGED
he Their arrest and conviction va
ms big accomplishment Most people :
rp the credit to James l. Donaghy.
md smiles, shakes his head and say
,ep was simply good team work Oh
the part of the police.
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