The Brussels Post, 1894-10-26, Page 1A 1'1I
Vol, 22 No. 16,
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1894
W. K. KERR, Prop,
TERRIBLE MURDER,
JESSIE KEITH OU'I11443CD 4.ND
KILLED.
The Body Mutilated be Jack the napper
$tyle.—Chnttelle, now In et.rattord
Jail, add to be the murdeeee.
With the sun brightly shining in all
his meridian glory, with thopoouliar quiet
an laza of Indian Summer casting its
mellowness over the landscape, and tem-
pering the atmosphere, with the woods
clothed in all the indescribablebeantiss of
the Canadian autumn time, and sending
forth the peouliarly delicate odor of ripen.
ing nut and frostbitten leaf, little Jessie
Keith, the comely belle of Elms, toweship,
was oruelly done to dewth on Friday,
within sight of her father's door, while
bravely fighting for her virtue with one of
the most inhuman monsters ever known
in the annals of Canadian crime.
Early Friday morning, after assisting
leer mother and elder sister with the
household duties, and looking after the
feeding of the barnyard fowls, the in-
nocent little victim started out for Lis-
towel, about two miles, or maybe a little
lees, distant, to post a couple of letters
and bring home some groceries and the
weekly mail,
GOING ex WAY OF VIZ RAILWAY TRAGIC,
which outs morose the corner of her
father's farm. She had made the trip
hundreds of times before, sometimes ao.
compelled by other members of the
family or a friend who might happen
, along ; at other time alone. She had
made it so often after darlmess had settled
over the earth that no thought of danger
entered the trusting girl's mind now when'
the sin was nearing the meridian, and she
seemed particularly light-hearted and
mer_y when she fondly kissed her mother
good-bye and promised to be home by
noon. She was in the robust health and
vigo': so peculiar to the country girls of
Canada, and it was not long until she was
in L'etowel. 00 her way she passed three
sciatica men who were working about e
quarter of a mile from, and within eight
of, her home, and stopped for a moment to
0m mom 100D MORNING,
and exchange a few common place greet-
ings. Then she passed on, the rough but
kindly railwaymen remarking as she went
tripping out of sight at her bright and
cherry spirits, none of them dreaming that
within three short hours her young life
blood would be spilled onthe ties at the
very spot where they were working, and
clot the grass and stain the old fashioned
rail fence immediately opposite on the
East side. She was not long in complet-
ing her duties in the town, and was start-
ing homeward wben she met an old chum,
Miss Edith Lephardt, and she remained a
little while longer to have a chat: The
two had gone to the Collegiate Institute
together, and theyhad a good many mat-
ters of mutual interest totalk over.
Edith accompanied Jessie down Mill
street to where it is intersected by the
railroad, and when they were yet some
distance from the latter the section man
went by on the 'jigger." That meant
that
was NEARLY TWELVE.. O'CLOCK,
and Miss .Keith, remembering her promise
torher mother, quickened her step con-
siderably and cleft her companion at the
track. She must have made good time,
for her father was only putting in his
horses for dinner when Mrs. Keith looked
° out of her dining -room window and saw'
Jessie coming, still- some distance np the
track. She and her elder daughter were
hastening to gat the dinner ready for the
good old farmer, and paid no attention to
the girl coming down the traok until
everything- was steaming, on bhe table.
Sufficient time had elapsedforher to have
covered the distance intervening between
where her mother sighted her and her
home. But on looking again
N0- arson WAS IN SIGHT.
The mother was positive she had' seen
her, but now that sho haul not arrived she
was easily persuaded that she must have
been mistaken. The family sat down and -
had their noonday meal without her,
thinking that she had been unavoidably.
detained in the town. The farmer re-
tm:ned to his ploughing in the field ad-
joining the very bush and within a very
few rads of where the body -Wes subse-
quently found.
Meanwhile the section men had return.
ed to: their work, and had only started
when one of thein discovered a lot of pot
barley scattered between the rails. He
called the attention of his fellow -workers
to the fact, and they decided that it had
been dropped from a passing train. A
few moments later some
BLOOD STAINS WE110 FOUND
on the ties and then quite a largo patch of
it. Somebody had been struck by a loco-
motive, they thought, and began a searoh
for the body. On the grass Weide the
track a lob more blood was found, so
• muoh that ib had clotted the grass in
eoveral places. Then the men were sure
that an aeoidont had occurred, but didn't
know just how to account for the ,where-
abouts of the supposed victim,. They
resumed their work, but had only done so
when one of them saw a couple of papers
lying -a few feet further down the- track.
He picked these up, and founds them to
bear the name of Wm. Keith. Then it
dawned on them that may be it was
nom 00000'5 sten BLOOD
that was scattered so freely around where
they were working. One of them crossed
over to the field where Jossio's father was
ploughing, and after handing him the
papere told him what they had seen on the
track. The old man looked at the papers
In a puzzled way for a moment, and then
hie face beanie livid and teare ruebed to
his eyes as he remembered hie wife'e re-
mark abort seeing a little red dress com-
ing down the track before dinner, and
coupled it With the grim fade just related
to him.. He Was sure that some harm had
conte to his felt young daughter,: and
started out with the aeotion man [who, by
the wiry, were Foreman Richard Stratton
and Laborers Richard 7orbesand Samuel
Strain] to discover, if possible, what it
wee. He found the eviileneee of a tragedy
en the track as the railway men; :had de,
scribed, it bo him,
truisms wee' TSB 0/0050
Which Jessie had been sunt for, theweekly
lnienors whioll sho ked been expected to
bring had been tonna there, but whore
was Jassie ? The farmer asked himself
this question over and over again, and he
eighed as though his heart Would break,.
while the tare ran down his cheeks and
onto the long clerk beard, already begin,
tying to burn with the Irate o£ age, me
fresh evidences of r, terrible and murder,
Pini assault were discovered. The blood
stains on the grass were examined more
closely, end were traood a little nearer
the Keith homestead, and opposite a
freshly -ploughed field, bank of which was
a bosh, more or lose swampy, and cover-
ing something less than tan acres. It is
an a farm owned by John Shanks, of
Listowel, and tenanted by lldward Han-
nat. On the rail fence here there who
found morn blood marks, and it was quite
apparent that the girl had either climbed
00e1, or been lifted over. Once over there
was no doubt whial was the case, for the
FOOTPRINTS 01 A NAN WEARING RDApr
were plainly visible, hoadingfor the bush
These tracks were oioeely followed, and
about in the middle of the field, beside the
large manta were the prints of a pair of
feminine shoes. Tho weight had evident-
ly been too much for the fellow, and he
had rested hie burden therefor a moment.
The footprints were followed tothe edge
of the wood, but here the boggy nature
of the ground and the thiok undergrowth
combined to hide them. The party en-
tered the bush, and began a search, being
joined a short time after by Oharlee Dow-
ing, who had come in from the other side
bo do a little shooting. The latter was
the first to come on any trace of the mie-
sing girl, when he found a silk tie which
she had worn around her neck, stained
with blood. There was little doubt now
what the fate of Jessie Keith was, and if
there was any ib was quickly dispelled a
minute or two after, when Foremen
Stratton stepped upon what was apparent-
ly en old log covered thickly with beauti-
ful green moss.Its springiness attracted
his attention, and be knocked a little of
the moss aside with his foot, and a ghast-
ly sight
hast-lysight met his gaze.
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of the light-hearted little girl who had
passed him said his companions on the
railroad track earlier in the day, and the
brave man's tears fell on the ground with
the father's as he remembered her cheery
exclamations and saw the latter's sorrow.
The remainder of the moss covering the
corpse was taken off, and the awful death
that the poor girl had suffered was made
apparent. Not a atitah of clothes was
left on the body, and the only thing that
the cruel murderer had left to cover her
nudity from the busy little red squirrels
or tapping woodpeckers which abound in
the woods of the county of Perth, and,
perchance, a passing huntsman, was the.
moss which he had gathered with so
much care, apparently, from the decaying
loge beside which the body was found.
The villain could not have chosen a more
picturesque or appropriate spot in the
wood es a resting place for what remain-
ed of his innocent victim. At her head
grew a young maple, while on either side
and' et her feet were the decayed remains
of three or four former monarchs of the
forest. Overhanging this was a healthy
young cedar, the branches of which
formed
A CANOPY FOR T01 NATURAL COFFIN.
How suggestive thisof the old nursery
fable of the Babes in the Woods 1 Her
body had been nut and hacked in a most
brutal and dastardly manner, A sharp.
knife or other keen -edged instrument had
been drawn across her throat close up to
the chin, opening it from ear to ear ;
another out had been made over the.
bowels and np above the stomach, and at
right angles with this was another terri-
ble gash, exposing the intestines. There
were other leaser gashes on the lower part
of the body, while on her sorehead was a
great lump, which had evidently been
raised by a blow from some heavy evidently.
b. Not far from where the co.pee
lay was found the blood-stained _petticoat
of the girl, the lower part of et being
fairly maturated with the vital fluid, but
the whereabouts of the remainder of the
clothes could not be discovered until late
on Saturday afternoon. Then they were
unearthed in a parbionlarly dense thicket
not very far from where the moss -covered
body had been found, by dog belonging
to William Tatham.'
A SMALL EMBER RUNS ACROSS ,0130 WOOD
diagonally, and although there is consider-
able water carried through it in the early
Spring, it is dry now:. exeunt in one spot
where there is about a barrel of water.
While hunting for the oloting, Sam.' B.
Stevenson ammo across this, and some lumpy
white eubatanoes on its surface attracted hie
notice, Ho wont a little closer and found.
that the water was decidedly bloody and the
lumps were pieces of fab. On either side of
the water were the feotpriute of a man's shoe
whish tallied exactly with 'those' in the
ploughed field. Tho monster had evidently
washed himself in this pool, but. where did
such lumps of fat come from 0 Several of
them were as large as tbo upper half of a
man's Anger. The murderer would hardly
have carried them that far—twenty-Ave or
thirty yards—ou his hands, and it was sug-
gested that they might have thing to his
knife, But the nyeto y iu this respect Wee
cleared away when the post remove exam..
;nation was made revealing the feat that the
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GANG BAD1ERN nBMovian.
The lumps of fat were such. as.wouldad-
here to these organs and he had evidently
not only walked hie hands in the pool but
these as well. The brute is believed to have
ravished the girl before he hacked lier to
death, and at a spot tenor fifteen fact from
where her retains Weto discovered.Here
is a slight clearing, and where is evideuoe of
a terrible struggle, the girl fighting with the
desperation of a pare -minded girl 050 her
virtue and then for her life. The marks of
her body eau plainly be dieeereed on the
ground and the latter is literally saturated
With blood Where iblaid, It Watt here that
the knife woe used with such terrible effect
and from whore the body Was oarriad to the
natural coffin described above. After its
ending ab thio place it wasreocvered with
the mole, and eubeBquently with aenow-
white sheet, Here it remained until itwas
viewed 11y the ooroner'e jury, after Which it
was removed 50 the home and was first seen
by her distracted mother.
The body wag found a little before three
p clock on 1Priday afternoon, and the news of
the murder
0000000.0) race segmental
through the community, Chief of pollee
Muskoka on .a 8110014120Wood
a performing
and
Constable IIOb Wood was performing hie
duties. The latter took eherge Of the ease,
placing Watehere over the comae in the
woods with it had been Viewed by the
coroner and his jury. Hundreds of men had
by this time been attracted to the epob, and
when the evening express stopped at the
0Ono555fon to let Coroner 0, P. Rankin,
Crown Attorney Idingbon and some other
omalale off, a great many of the meak0 of the
tragedy had been obliterated, What a
pathetically weird eight met these ofiioiale as
they entered the weed. Several lanborue
were burning dimly, their flickering light
only nervingto add to the ghastliness of the
scene alreay presented b y
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A jury was empanelled on the spot, and
Were shown the remains andwawa pointe
(Recovered in oonnoobion with the struggle,
after which they adjouned to Mr. Keittr's
house and the body was brought in ou a
Weedier, The evidence of the father and
mother and Charles Gowingwas taken,
after Which the inquest was adjourned for a
week, Nothing WILE told to lead the die,
0overy of the murderer,
Mr, Keith related the story of the section
men coming •to rim whore he was working
in the field, just melt has been told above,
endthen to1dof the searoh for the girl,
There were footprints almost all the way
from the fano° to the bush, where all trace
of them were lost. According to h15 story
there were both small and large footprints,
To was In another part of the bush when
the body Was found by Biehard Stratton.
He also told of finding
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in two places in the bush,
Mtg. Keith, the poor girl's mother, told of
havingsent her daughter to Listowel at ten
o'clock in the morning, and gave a complete
description of her daughters clothing. She
wore a red -dress, a navy blue jacket, with
two large buttons at the throat, n black felt
sailor's hat with two bands of velvet around
the crown and a bow at cue side. Shewore
blank gloves, a pair of fine low shoes and
blank stockings. She had on also the usual
underwear, all of which was white. The
necktie found by Chaa. Gowfngshe identified
ashaving been worn by her daughter. 01
.Was a white silk with red flowers, This tie,
the mother deolerad, was fastened on in
ouch a way that it •would 1255 fall off; if
=mat have required some fore° to remove it.
NRR M UDD 150 Norus,
in feet the house was too far away from the
acene of the tragedy for her to hear any-
thing, In answer to a juryman, Mrs. Keith
said her daughter had with her a small puree
but only sufficient money to pay the poetage
on the letters and get the barley. She had
no valuables on her.
Chas. Gowiug, tholaat witness examined,
said he had gone into the bush to do some
shooting, and had accidently some upon the
search: party. Re had then be nn to assist
in the search, and found the necktie already
referred to. - The only trace of a tragedy
which he saw in the woods was at a place
about fifty feet' from whore the body was
found. At that place there were evidences
of a hard struggle, and a large quantity of
bloodwas to, he seen. The surface of the
early for 80010 distance around was freshly
torn up. In his tramping . through the
woods Ile
SAW No T0A0F1 OF 000T5:ING.
Mr. Gowing said he had seen a man crossing
Mx.Roll's farm about twelve o'clock. So far•
as he could tell from the distance at which
he saw him the man was about five feet
eight inches high, and was somewhat stoop-
ed. He thought the man wore a black but
and dark clothes. This man was heading
for the bush where the murder took plaoe
and might have met the murdered - girl
where the struggle took plane on the traok.
He did nob think the man carried a valise.
The grime and its details were the one
topic of conversation in and about Listowel
and hundreds of morbidly aurioua men and
women, young and old, tramped from, town
to the. Beene of bhe tragedy. Coufiioting
rumors as to the identity of the brutal
slayer were plentiful, but when simmered
down they all point conclusively to
A BARD -LOOSING TRADIP
who was • seen on the traok a little nearer
Britton about noon. A stout man, about s
ft. 9.in. in height, with a dark, swarthy com-
plexion, about Se years old with a stubby
moustacheturning gray,with very heavy
body and broad sltoniders, with short neck
and somewhat stooped, wearing a rusty blank
coat and old Christie hat, pants somewhat
lighter than coat, carrying a common block
valise, and altogether decidedly hard -look-
ing, had his dinner at James Gray's, whose°
farm i5 just across the second concession' of
Blum from William Keith's. He left there..
shortly before noon, and would have been
at the plane on the brook where the life and
death etuggle first began about the time
Jessie Keith is supposedbo hays arnbyo(1
• there. About one o'clock, at the time when
the section men wore communicating the
finding of the papers and barley to Mr.
Keith, a farmer named Johnston Kidd.
observed
A MAN 00011) 000 or TBR WOODS
where the deed was committed, -ata point
just opposite where the pool of water in
which the fatty lumps were found, and head
toward Listowel. Kidd was ploughing, and
sretch of swabs covered with willows. As
hid considerably fromarthe man by a,
stre
he passed fife farmer the latter saluted him.
"Good day 1" said Mr. Kidd, but the: fellow
diel not appear bo want bo he.
'It's a fine day;' eaid Mr. Kidd again
determining. to make the stranger answer
10110.
Where can 1 get a drink of water 0" the
,tramp asked by wayof reply, onlyparbly
turning his head, but sufficiently to enable
tbo ploughman to identify him again.
!fo was directed to a pump 109.r by at the
home of Mrs Cattail,'anel that lady thinks
she could pick him out of a crowd again..
• Later on a tramp anewerlwg the Dame
description was passed by a drover named
Wm, 'melte, 011 the townline between Wei -
baa and Rima, and he was seen later. on by
o they people.
TEM ONLY DIsORRPANO0
existing between rho description of the man
which had luuoh at Gray's howls+ and started.
up the -track in the direotionJossie Keith.
was coming and the man who was seen to
emerge from the woods' by Johnston Kidd.
was that the former oerriod a blank valise
while bite latter had nothing, All•'Friday
afternoon and until dark Saturday a vigor -
one systematic worth altbe weodswas made
In the hope of ducting this saboholand the
misaing organs of the dead girl. The search
VMS continued Sunday morning, and resulted
in the endingof the satchel In Jahn Bal -
lard's jnet adjolufug.the woods, and but
a short distana° from where he was eocosbod
by Kidd, As fat as oiroumstanoes go this
fully.idantifioe the man who perpetrated the
foul dood, and if naught at least twopporsens
will :be prepared 50 swear positively as to
his identity—Mies Gray and Mr. Kidd. - The
grip contained a woman's bonnet and ekiri,
two 'pair of etookiuggs, on one of which was
the letter.N a pair of shoes and a pair of
men's bveraiis, on wbleh were many blend
doing but net as many,as would be expect.
ed if They Were worn at the the time of the
butchery,
T00 D00TOn'S. arms,
Dr, Watson who made the post mortem
examination in oonjuuction With another
local phyalolnu, said that the eutohery was
not done with any degree of skill, but the
murderer must have had seine knowledge of
anatomy, es he evidently knew the position
of the pubic arch and how to sever ie and
remove the genual organa, •
"My opinion is;' lie said "that the follow
covered the body go oarofully with a view of
keeping it hid until spring, when ib would be
decomposed beyond recognition and the re.
moral of the organs would prevent the dis-
covery of the Bes.'
]ruiner had left Irisbowel in the mprethe fo
T010 mama.
Strife and'auger followed the rilnaine
of Jessie Mall be the grave. The Keith
family are Secularisto, and there was 0
most"msec my wrangle at the oometery
as bo w1oet11er any form of Christian
burial service should be repeated beside
the epee grave, Finally, after a painful
scene, Rev. Dr, Gunner, the Congrega-
tional minister of Listowel, preached a
funeral sermon outside the cemetery
gates, The time of the funeral was set
at 2 o'clock, and long before that hour
hundreds of vehicles of every description
had gathered around the Keith home.
etead The fields in the vicinity looked
like a crowded fair ground, and on all the
side lines within a mile horses were
tethered. The visitors, many of them
being friends, while many more were
drawn by curiosity, came from every
point of• the compass and from places as
far distant as Stratford, over 80 miles
away, There Were aerps of bicyclists,
farmers' wagons and buggies and the
more pretensions vehicles of the towns-
people. Within the house were the im-
mediate relatives of the victim, the father
and mother, the daughter Ida Jane and
the sou Wm. Alexander, a boy of nine:
Tnere were three brothers of Mr. Keith—
Alexander, James, George ; and the
father, Samuel MoGoorgs, and three
brothers of .Mie. Keith—John, Samuel
and Alexander McGeorge. They with
others were thechief motuners. The
pallbearers were Walter Jenkling, .R.
Douglas, two men named Johnston, Wm,
Rae and Alexander.
TO PiOTOoitAPl TRH 00015.
The start of the cortege toward the
cemetery near Listowel was somewhat
delayed while Dr. Watson performed
an operation that may aid in clearing
up the mystery as .to the identity' of the
murderer. The eyes, it isbelieved, some-
times bear after death the impression
made upon the retina by the last object
seen in life. The eyes of the dead girl
will be photographed in the hope that
something may be discovered from an
enlargement of the photo. It is believed
that the girl opened her eyes last when
the man bent over .her in the woods in
the act of cutting her throat, for there is
a gash on her lip as if she had tried to
bend down her head and avoid the knife
blow. The development of the photo of
the oyes may, if carefully made, reveal
something of this. While the doctor in-
side was preparing for this operation, W.
G, Hay, as a leader of the Secularists and
an old friend of the -Keiths, took charge
of the ceremony and read to the assembl-
ed thousands outside the proclamation of
the authorities asking for the detention
and arrest of the murderer as described
in the bills sent one He told in detail
where the suspect had been seen =slaked
those from the East and Northeast to
look out for him. A few words he ,said
as to the affliction that had- fallen upon
the family of the murdered girl. When
the present sftrain was over, he feared it
was almost a greater strain than they
could bear, the occasion was one for
showing bhe brotherhood of man. They
should bear one another's burdens and
by kindly words and ants show that they
felt for the family in their grief. It was
about 2:60 when the coffin was carried
out. It byre' the inscription "Jessie.
Keith, died Ootober 19th, aged thirteen
years and ten months." The hearse was
followed by several hundred vehicles, and
the funeral procession was almost two
miles long. When it passed through the
main street of Listowel a great crowd
assembled, and every point of vantage
was occupied. At the cemetery the
throng was equally dense, audit was with
difficulty that the hearse could be forced
through to the open grave.
A PAINFUL MOND.
This was at length done, the coffin was
lowered, and the first spadeful of earth
had been thrown on it, and Mr. Hay had
again thanked the people for their sym-
pathy, as shown by their presence, who.;
Rev. Dr. Gunner, who stood at the foot
of the grave, said :—"God grant the peo-
ple salvation."
Mr. Hay, turning to him, said, with
some heat :—"Yon jest hold your tongue,
new:'.
"I won't," replied the venerable old
man, "and you can't make me." •
"If you don't keep quiet," said Mr.
Hay, "I will have you arres,ed."
"I don't think you. can have me ar-
rested," retorted. the clergyman.
"We will see about that," rejoined Mr.
Hay, Vold I don't want any mo:e words
There the altercation ended, so far as
could be heard, although Dr. Gunner
mid afterwards in the course of life ad.
dress that .the infidel had threatened to
knook his teeth down his throat."
The ceremony over, Messrs. Sallows
ce Alexander, the undertakers, drove off,
and the orowd dispersed from the im-
mediate vicinity of the grave.
The latest development in the Keith
tragedy is the artiest 19 Erin of a envie.
ions ohmmeter who answers to the de-
eoriptlon of the nnudersr. The man
whose name is Alenedm Clbatten°, Was
arrested by Constable Travis, of Erin, on
account of his suspicious actions, and
when eearohed bo had a number of arta
ales of ladies' wearing apparel that may
lead to the detection of the crime. He
threw away n parcel containing a lady's
cashmere waist, but Constable Travis re.
covered ib and he gave what seemed to be
a satisfactory account of how he carie in
possession of it. Should it bo the proper
ty of the owner, of the mita dismissed
valise then the ohain of evidence is
ciont to being the murderer bo justice,
The enspent Wes taken to Stratford on
Tuesday afternoon and while the wibnese.
es as to his identity were of the opinion
that he is the man wanted, there still ap-
pears to be some material evidence lack-
ing in the matter. Chattello's account
of his doing and whereabouts are not con-
sidered sabisfaotory and he will have to
render a -much bettor aeeounb of himself
than be has has yet dorso,
Gevernmsub Detsobive Murray arrived
at Listowel Tuesday and prooesded to
Stratford ' with the witnesses to fully;
Identify the man, who, as before stated, h
has already been lodged in the county
jail there, The valise and ocnt ing will
also be taken, In order' to have its alleged
owner in Alba Craig identify it and the
garments,
Tho prisoner in about 40 years of ago,
Weight; chat 180 hounds, is 6 feet 8fllohes
in height, dark complexion, stout, heavy
eeb, round shouldered, large halide, has a
week's growth of whiskers, turning gray,
dark tweed coat and vest, black Tam
e'Shantsr cap, new laced shoos, with toe
imps,
a0N5TA1LHS. STILL AT wax.
McKay, arrested at Moorefield, and
placed in the look -up at Listowel on Sat-
urday evening last, has been released, and
is said to hays gone to hie brother-in-law
who lives in North 11asthope. Several
other men are held at different places as
the perpetrators of the crime, smelting
identification. Oonetebles and others
are still actively, engaged scouring the
country in search of tramps answering
the description of the person wanted for
the perpstrabion of the moot villainous of
all crimes, and it is hoped and expected
that the guilty one will be found yet.
THE PRISON= IDENTn'ojD,
Mrs. McLeod, of Alla Craig, wenb to
Stratford and identified the clothing and
valise found as here, George MolIwan,
of the same village, swears that he saw
Ohattelle' on Fair day in Alla Craig, and
he .wore women's clothes. The
prisoner acknowledges that be was at
Listowel and is said to have made - a
statement to Detective Murray that
satisfies the detective that he's the
monster wanted. Cbattelle will not be
taken to Listowel. Other proofs are
expected tbrb will conviob the prisoner
without doubt.
luevale:
Mise Eliza Messer is in Hamilton
visiting her brother Doo.
Rev. A. Y. Hartley was in Brussels on
Sabbath preaching in Knox ohuroh.
Rev. Mr. Young, of London. preached
in the Methodist church on Sunday even.
ing.
David and Robert Wilson, of Gerrie,
were visiting at Frank Scott's on Mo-,.
day.ev. and Mrs. Paul, of Brussels were
spending a -few days with their daughter,
Mrs. Joe Pugh.
Charles Walmsley, an old residenb of
Bluevale, was buried in the Bluevale
cemetery on Tuesday, aged 102 years.
i5 orrj, io
Adam Scott, sr., bas moved to the Ed-
mund Brewer farm, where he has rented
a house for the Winter.
Mies Maggie Scott left for Saginaw lash
week owing to the serious illness of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. William Scott.
Tax Collector Mooney commeooee work
next woes. He has a big job before him,
811,760.80 being the total amount on the
roll.
J. McCaul has returned to his home in
St. Catharines. While here he visited
all our neighboring towns and also some
of those in Bruce county, notably Walk-
erton, where
alkerton,where he and Miss Jewel Lynn
took in the Northern exhibition, the lat.
ter noting as judge in the ladies' and art
departments.
1MIAm0010NIAL,—At the residence of
Arthur Draney, Kinlough, Bruce county,
on Wednesday evening, Oot. 10th. his
daughter, Mary A., was married to Geo.
Cookerline, of North Bay, eon of Robert
Cookerline, of this township., Rev. John
Moore performed the marriage ceremony.
The bride was beautifully attired in fawn
colored silk, and was assisted by Miss
Lily Steel, while the groom was support-
ed by Harry Draney. Afterthemarriage
ceremony was over the guests sat down
to a table fairly groaning under the
weight of the beautiful viands prepared
by the hostess. The presents were
numerous and oostly and went to
show the high esteem in which the young
people were held. The guests dispersed
to their homes between twelve and one
o'clock, after having spent a pleasant and
enjoyable evening. We wish the young
couple a long and happy life.
HYoIioNHAL.—The comfortable residence
of John R. Miller, of Morrisbank, was
the scene of a happy event on the evening
of Tuesday, Oct. 1Gtb, when their young•
est daughter, Agnes, was united in mar-
riage to Alex. Gibson, The ceremony
was performed by Rev. A. Y. Hartley, at
6 o'clock, in the presence of a large com-
pany of friends. The bride looked
charming in a dress of cream cashmere,
and was attended by her cousin, Miss
Maggie Miller. The groom was assisted
by hie brother John. After theoeremoay
the guests eat down to a sumptuous re-
past, to which all did ample justice. The
popularity of the bride Was manifested
by the large number of useful and hand-
some presents she received. The newly
wedded couple will take up their abode
at "Maitland Brae," the home of the
groom, at Wroxeter, with the besb wishee
of a Large circle of friends.
GOLDHN BONDS: The home of James
Ireland, 6rd line, was the scene of a
matrimonial alliance last Wednesday
evening, at 5 o'clock, between two well
known and popular young people, in the
persons of Robt. H. Ross, of Wroxeter,
sou of David Ross, Brussels, and Mies
Maggie G. McKay, neige of the hoot and
hostess. Rev. D. Millar, of Brussels,
performed the ceremony in the presence
of about 60 guests. The bride was at -
bonded by her sister, Miss Josie McKay,
of Seaforth, and both were very neatly
and becomingly attired in gray costumes.
They oarried boqusts of natural flowers.
Thos. Roos, of Ohesley, supported his
brother. A sumptuous repast was pro.
viaedand heartily enjoyed, The wed-
ding presents were of a very useful and
valuable character, and bespoke the
popularity of .the oontraeting parties.
After' enjoying a pleasant evening, Mr.
and Mrs. Rose left for their new home at
Wroxeter, followed by many sincerely
expressed wishes for their future hap.
pines° and success in life. Tnn Post
throws au editorial slipper after them,
Lizzie Burr, only daughter of Engineer
Thos. Bnrr,of the G. T. R. Stratford,
ss eloped .with a maohiuist 'named
Stewart Wright,
People We Know.
Aire, Griffith 10 ill,
Barrister Blair Sinaayed in Goderioll.
Miss Maggie McNaughton has been on
the trick list,
ter
MisejnSThsaforth.urso Gcerry 10 'felting her sta-
?no. Lobt and wife were visiting in Isis.
towel last wash,
T, A. Halvkjre ie enjoying a holiday
outing thio week,
Mrs. 3. D. Ronald' is visiting at Chat-
ham and Windsor.
Emma Wilton, of Wingham, fs vieib-
ing relatives in Brussels.
Hugh Williams isbaok from a visit to
relatives at Renton, Mich,
Mise Lizzie Ferguson and Miss Lottie
Bill Sundayed in Teeswater.
Mies Austin, of Toronto, is ,visiting
Mies Mary Ross, William. street.
Mrs.' Jno. Booth and Mro. MoTaggart
were visiting inWinghamlast Week.
W. H. Willie, wife and son, of Sea.
forth, were in Brussels laat Sabbath.
Mies Arrowsmith, of Durham, was
visiting Mrs. W. P. Stewart this week.
Mrs. Cameron and children, of Battle
Oreek, Michigan, are visiting relatives in
Brussels.
Principal Cameron and Robt. McAl-
pine Suudayedin Luokoow. They went
on their wbeels.
W. J. Freeland, music teacher, of
Stratford, is reported to be dying from
Bright's disease.
Rev. R. Paul and wife were visiting
relatives and friends in Bluevale and
vicinity this week.
Mrs. James Smart has moved bask to
Wessels and will reside in her cottage.
North of the railway.
Mrs. T. Stewart, who is 78 years of
age, has been on the sink list and is still
under the dootor's care,
The Misses Code are ill at their home,
at Trowbridge. Typhoid and malarial
fevers are said to bathe canoe.
Mise Rogers, who has been in a Detroit
studio, has been engaged as assistant lin
H. R. Brewer's photo. gallery, Brussels.
J. N. Kendall, G. T. R, Agent, has
bean under the 01105 of an M. D. during
thright e pastnow. week but is getting along all
Thos. Ross' was home from Ohesley
this week attending the marriage of hie
brother Robert to Miss Maggie McKay on
Wednesday.
Jas. Smith has gone to Acton, it is
said, where he bas taken a situation with
H. E. Maddock de Co., in their now store
to be opened in that village.
The Clinton New Era Bays :—Lack
Kennedy has given a contract to S. S.
Cooper for the erection of a new frame
house, on his property on Victoria street.
It is to be a pretty residence, and dame
rumor states that Lack has the promise
of a Seaforth young lady to help him
look after it. The house will be ready
for occupation this Fall.
At the State Fair, held in Guthrie,
Oklahoma, 17, S., Salem Armstrong,
formerly of Brussels, and an old typo of
Tires POST staff, won 2nd prize in the a
mile bioyule race, time 1.10e ; and let in
a 5 mile open event, time 17.43. The
next day he took the 1 mile dash, olub
championship on a heavy break and head
wind, in 5.07, and 3rd in the 8 mile race.
CHUCK CHIMES -
Rev. R. Paul will preach at Blyth next
Sabbath.
Rev. A. E. Griffin has been asked to
become the incumbent of St.. John's
church, Brussels.
The marching orders of Captain Rowe
were countermanded this week and he
will continue in Brussels for a time.
Ray. Jno. Roes and Elder Alex. Stew-
art attended the meeting of Maitland
Presbytery, on Tuesday, at Wiugham.
Melville ohuroh Christian Endeavor is
pushing the preliminary arrangements
for the coming Convention to be held in
Brussels on Nov. 19th.
Next Sabbath will'be the 16th anniver-
sary of Rev. John Rose' pastorate in
Melville church in this place. He was
induoted Oot. 28th, 1879.
Rev. James Allister Murray, pastor of
St. Andrew's ohuroh, London, died at
his residence while the evening service
was being held in the ohuroh last Sab-
bath.
Last Sabbath 815.00 was added to the
Thaokoffering of the previous Sabbath in
the Methodist ohuroh, making the total
8182.76, leaving 817.24 short yet of bhe
amount asked, viz., 8150.00.
The addresses of Rev. Dr. Moffatt on
Upper Canada Treat Society work, de
livered in the Presbyterian and Methodist
churches, Brussels, last Sabbath, were
excellent. The Dr. appears to bo the
right man in the right place.
Dr. Sutherland, general Secretary of
the Methodist ohnroh, has left for Mani-
toba and British Columbia, where he will
Inspect the missions and the various In.
elan schools under the control of the
Methodist body. He will be absent about
six weeks.
Mrs. A. Lowry entertained her Sabbath
school class on Thursday evening of last
week at her home, Turnberry street. On
Friday evening Rev. G. H. Cobblediek's
Young Peoples plass enjoyed a social
time ab the Parsonage. There were
about 40 present.
At an executive meeting of the Metho•
dist Missionary Society on Tuesday it
was decided to allow Rev. Mr. Cassidy
of Toronto, to remain in Canada until
next Summer. Mr. Cadsidy will do
missionary deputation work in the vioini.
ty of Montreal and eastward up to Now
Year's, after which he will return to his
home in London, prior to setting out,
accompanied by Mrs. Cassidy for Japan.
Pasimeann,•-A pro re Hata meeting of
Maitland .Presbytery was held in Wing'.
ham last Tuesday afternoon, wbiah was
largely attended. Rev. R. S. G. Ander-
son, of St. Helens, accepted the all to
Wroxeter and the Presbytery agreed to
translate him. The induction will take
place, at Wroxeter, on Thursday, Non.
15110, at 2 p. tn. 'Rev. Jas. Malcolm, of
Teeswater, willpreside ; Rev. A. MoNab,
of Whitechurch, will preach ; Rev. A.
McKay, of Luoltnow, will address the
pastor, and Rev, Jno. Rose, of Brussels,
the people.