The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-05-10

ferry boat and she's at the morgue
this morning."
Bully" he returned. Keen IN
you'll get lots OF clues. and remember
one will be right"
II was not until noon. however. that
anything concrete developed. In the
TWO hours between, had interviewed
seven more people ! had followed
the depressing last hours OF the coal
baron widow. and jumped with her.
mentally. into the black river that
night. / had learned OF a small fair.
lsh-halred girl who had tried TO buy
cyanide OF potassium at three drug
stores on the same street. and OF a
tail, light woman who had taken a
room TOT three days at a hotel and
was apparently demented.
At twelve. however, my reward
came. Two men walked in. almost AZ
the same time; one was a motorman
In his official clothes. brass buttons
and patches around the pockets. The
other was a taxicab driver. Both had
the uncertain gait OF men who by
occupation are unused TO anything
stationary under them. and each eyed
the other suspiciously.
The motorman claimed priority by
a nose. so / took him first into nv
private Office. His story. shorn OF
his own opinions at the time and
later. was as follows:
On the night in question. Thursday
or the week before. he took his car
out OF the barn for the eleven O'Clock
run. Barney Was his conductor. They
went from the barn. AZ Hays street.
down town. and then started out for
! Nynton. The controller blew out.
and two or three things went wrong:
all told they lost forty minutes They
got 10 WyntOn at five minutes after
Two. their time there was one.
I twenty-five.
The car went 10 the bad again az
[ WyntOn. and he and Barney tiukered
with u until tWo-fOrty They got IL
t In shape TO go back 10 the barn.
but that was ALL Just as they were
ready 20 start. passenger got on. "A
I woman, alone; "A small woman with
/ a brown veil. She wore a black dress
or suit-he was vague about every.
| thing but the color. and ne noticed
I her especially because she was
/ hdgety and excited Half block
/ farther a man boarded the car and
sat across from the woman Barnev
said afterWard that the man tried
/ twiceNto speak 10 the woman. but she
/ looked away each time. No. he hadn't
heard what he said
The man got out when the car
went into the barn. but the woman
stayed on. Tie and Barney got an.
other car and took 60 OUT. and tho
woman went with them. She made "a
/ complete round trip this time. going
out to Wynfon and back 10 the end
OF the Tine down town. 10 was lust
I daylight when She got on 40 last. at
First and uay streets
Asked if be- had thought ~ the
time That the yelled woman was
young or old. hc said he had Thought
She was probably middle aged Very
I young or very old women would NOT
put in Tho night riding in street
car. Yes. he had had men who rode
around "a couple 90 times az nirhf
mostly to sober un before they went
home But he never saw a woman
DO DO before
took his name and address and
/ thanked bin. The chauffeur came
I next and his story was equally per
fnont
Dn tho niEnt NJ The previous Thurs
DAY DO had been engaged to take "a
sick woman from n down town hotel
f0 ri house az HeIiWood The w0mnn's
. husband was with her. and they went
B slowly fo avoid ioltinE ft was atei
I twelve when DO drove away from the
house and started home ~ corner
hn did not know fho names az fhf
sironfa a woman hailed the cab and
asked hIm f boz belonged in fleetwood
or was going f0 che city She had
missed tho last train When be told
Der Dol Haa g0Iug into town ahf
l promptly cng1red him. and showed
h.m whore t0 vaff Tor her. q narrou
road m fho main street
waited on hour Do finished
before aho came. D dropped 40 eieor
or D world have gone without her
. About halfpnaf one ahc came along
and gentleman with her uo uui
Dor In me cab. and . took her fo me
CITY. Whom ] saw in tho paper that
a iadv had disappeared from Heu
wood That nieht know right on that
Dr. VAS my party.
] Would you know the man agaInT